Scholars and practitioners increasingly strive to understand the complexities marking implementations of organizational change programs. Studies on this topic often concentrate on members’ cognition about a planned change, regularly finding that members’ knowledge structures and interpretations either converge or diverge over time. Using interviews, observations, and a unique discourse processi...

This paper will analyze the learning design from the learning designers' and trainers' point of view. Focusing on the training system, we use a threefold model: " ideational " , " functional " and " experienced " dimensions of a training system. In the French public mail company, training for all managers is provided by a department of the Corporate University: the " School of Managers ". How h...

Benchmarking helps in organizational gap analysis by comparing it with some predefined standard bench marks which instead allow process‘s system, capability to increase to the maximum level. Conglomerated with Ontology, it provides a source of precisely defined terms that can create a consensus of shared understanding concerning the domain of discourse pertaining to a certain domain of knowledg...

which has been on the drawing board for some three decades, is the largest inter-basin water transfer planned to date in India or elsewhere. The idea has waxed and waned depending upon the political dispensation at any given point in time. Under the Challenge Program for Water and Food, IWMI undertook a broad strategic exploration of the basic idea of NRLP and its assumptions. This Highlight ex...

This study investigated the undergraduates’ embedment with, and embracement of social networking sites (SNS) with a modified theory of planned behavior (TPB). It is recognized that social influence, perceived behavioral control, enjoyment, as well as embracement and embedment, are pertinent to the discourse. Data was collected from undergraduates in four (4) culturally diverse countries. Hypoth...

The individual and social challenges created by population aging and especially the growing number of people labeled with dementia demand new innovative and comprehensive approaches. A broader integrative biology needs to replace reductionist, overly simplistic biomedical solutions that dominate today's scientific discourse, particularly with regards to cognitive aging. Alzheimer's disease is a...

Resume We outline in this paper the following view of linguistic meanings. Meanings are planned in the course of speech. The plans, we call them discourse plans (DP), combine referential structure, cognitive situation structure and communicative structure. If and when the DP is realizable, it is transformed into a meaning, which from a technical perspective, is a second order typed lambda term....

Noises made before the acoustic onset of speech are typically ignored, yet may reveal aspects of speech production planning and be relevant to discourse turn-taking. We quantify the nature and timing of such noises, using an experimental method designed to elicit naturalistic yet controlled speech initiation data. Speakers listened to speech input, then spoke when prompt material became visible...