Recent discourse on modernizing leadership has often placed strong emphasis on values and ethics. This article elaborates challenges in leadership of large organizations, most notably in regards to appraisals of values-based leadership (VBL). It is proposed that if challenges are not identified, it would lead to unintended consequences, such as insignificant value-statements, inappropriate use ...

The Problem: The image segmentation problem originated from the Gestalt school of psychological research, which focused on the organizational and grouping principles of human vision. Segmentation algorithms divide images into regions based on statistical or aesthetic qualities. Common goals are to encode the image efficiently, to separate foreground figures from background, or to locate the bou...

This study aimed to find out how managers and academicians working in the organization perceived their organization and how they responded to the variations arising from climatic changes in the organization. The data were collected from 146 academicians by Kocaeli University Organizational Climate Questionnaire (KUOCQ) measuring five factors“rules and discipline”, “democracy”, “social and cultu...

In the absence of direct experience with entrepreneurial firms, most financial institutions and advisors who evaluate an initial public offering (IPO) on behalf of their clients must rely on images that convey information about the relevant attributes a legitimate publicly held firm should possess (Pollock & Rindova, 2003). Image is the symbolic representation of an organization (Alvesson, 1990...

During the past six decades, the Toyota Motor Company established a ‘lean’ production and management system (the Toyota Way), which has become an iconic template for a high performing and learning organization. The massive recall crisis of 2009/2010 distorted Toyota’s image of a role model for a lean organization heavily. This case study analyzes retrospectively how the carmaker deviated from t...

The recent discourse on modernizing organizations and leadership has often placed a strong emphasis on values and ethics. This article elaborates on the benefits and challenges in the integration of values into leadership and organizational actions, most notably in regards to appraisals of values-based leadership (VBL). It is proposed that if the critical success factors and the challenges in i...

Nowadays organizations are subject to constant changes. Most of these are imposed by the need to adequate their way of manage to market demands. To plan and perform them it is necessary to understand organization’s current state, only by perceiving it will be possible to correctly analyze its needs. A significant part of this knowledge is in every single person. They should be aware of their ro...

We investigate the role of perceptual organization in long image sequence analysis. Heretofore , the role of perceptual organization in computer vision has mainly been in static 2D image analysis. We exploit organizational principles to track extended 2D structures over time. We also impose organization on the tracks thus generated to extract vital motion information such as the focus of expans...

This research presents two studies conducted to evaluate the Wellbeing Game in two different contexts: In a student sample and in an organizational setting. Study 1 investigated the efficacy of the Wellbeing Game, in terms of its effect of wellbeing, stress, and an image valence test, among 60 university students. The results showed that after playing the Wellbeing Game, students reported a sig...