Traditionally, most of social scientifics who study operative/instrumental crisis management has shared the idea that this one does not include only the simple coordination and response to immediate consequences of disasters at their acute moments. It displays characteristics that are more complex and raises to the public authorities and “crisis managers” more exigencies than the simple reactiv...

Extended Citation: Professor Steven Prawer is Australia’s foremost authority on the Physics of diamond and related materials and has brought Australian physics to the forefront in their study and application. For the past two decades he has established a record of innovation and leadership in the field through successful research programs, the creation of world-class infrastructure at the Unive...

software have utterly failed. Instead of developing a body of software that’s getting better and better, he says we’ve been creating programs that are brittle, incomprehensible, and nearly impossible to change. Our e orts to solve this problem with open standards and the free ow of information have been misguided. According to him, we need to ap point a software czar, someone vested with absolu...

Available online 5 August 2011 Leader ethical decision-making has received a great deal of attention in the academic literature. Most research examining ethical leadership has focused on the leader characteristics and subordinate outcomes associated with ethical leadership, but research examining the situational variables influencing leader ethical decision-making is limited. Thus, the purpose ...

So-called ‘slow’ adaptation to technological change is actually a characteristic of major innovations, particularly those requiring significant organisational change. The implementation of ICT to support government sector working is no exception: it is a complex socio-technical practice comprised of interrelated technical, cultural and organisational issues. As part of the “Framework for Multi-...

In this paper we present our work on recognizing high level social constructs such as Leadership and Status from textual conversation using an approach that makes use of the background knowledge about social hierarchy and integrates statistical methods and symbolic logic based methods. We use a stratified approach in which we first detect lower level language constructs such as politeness, comm...

BACKGROUND Organisational culture is a key factor in both patient and staff experience of the healthcare services. Patient satisfaction, staff engagement and performance are related to this experience. The department of health in the Western Cape espouses a values-based culture characterised by caring, competence, accountability, integrity, responsiveness and respect. However, transformation of...

AIM This article is a report of a study that identifies organizational characteristics explaining employee solidarity in the long-term care sector. BACKGROUND Employee solidarity reportedly improves organizations' effectiveness and efficiency. Although general research on solidarity in organizations is available, the impact of the organizational context on solidarity in long-term care setting...