This paper describes the design of a real world data acquisition system used by ecologists monitoring the environmental evolution of coastal wetlands. In this paper, we describe how field studies, interviews, low fidelity prototypes and pilot studies both informed and misinformed the design of a data collection tool. To fully expose the process and lessons learned, we first describe our design ...

With the advent of the participative Web, digital document readers gain in expressiveness. Annotations systems enables them to comment, to rephrase, to criticize, etc. passages from any document. IR approaches that considered document contents only nowadays tend to exploit this participative dimension of the Web. Readers’ activity (annotations and related debates) may notably improve IR recall ...

The topics of leadership and culture have attracted substantial interest from both academics and practitioners. This study examines the effects of leadership styles and national culture on affective commitment in samples of the restaurant employees in US. The findings support the primary assumption of this study: restaurant employees’ affective commitment is related to the leadership styles of ...

The paper explores the use of participative methods in an entrepreneurial organisation. It does this through a series of hermeneutic readings of the situation, which develop an increasingly satisfactory understanding of the complexities of the development process. The paper begins by describing the case study site and the market that it operates within before considering the role of corporate c...

The purpose of this paper is to focus first on the literature that links leadership to employee wellbeing within the field of organizational behavior, and then turn the attention to a survey on healthcare professionals’ perceptions of the leadership style in three Italian hospitals. The classification of leader behavior is based on the sharing of decision making between leader and follower in t...

A participative ergonomics approach to reducing injuries associated with manual tasks is widely promoted; however only limited evidence from uncontrolled trials has been available to support the efficacy of such an approach. This paper reports on a randomized and controlled trial of PErforM, a participative ergonomics intervention designed to reduce the risks of injury associated with manual ta...

This study was undertaken to discover working public thoughts about roles of United States women in leadership positions and to test the relationship between managerial leadership styles and organizational effectiveness. A survey of perceptions of leadership roles and effectiveness distributed 700 randomly selected entities from industries in the United States. Findings suggest approximately 50...

Enterprise modelling (EM) is concerned with discovering, structuring and representing domain knowledge pertaining to different aspects of an organization. Participative EM, in particular, is a useful approach to eliciting this knowledge from domain experts with different backgrounds. In related work, tangible modelling – modelling with physical objects – has been identified as beneficial for gr...