Knowledge that Transforms

The paper presents some research findings about ‘effective’ head teacher leadership within the Slovene post secondary school context which indicate the dimensions of head teacher leadership processes. The head teachers’ responses to a questionnaire indicating features of knowledge about leadership, which were captured in four interpretative categories, namely ‘being, ’ ‘knowing, ’ ‘acting, ’ and ‘effecting.’ Furthermore, the findings of some case studies gave a funneled perspective on contextually bounded leadership knowledge. The present paper points to dimensions of and to the nature of knowledge about leadership and, moreover, to some dilemmas and questions about the ways in which knowledge about leadership could be understood and learned.

Price-matching guarantees involve a retailer matching the lower price of a competitor for an identical product. In reality, retailers often make such guarantees contingent on the verification of pr...

This paper will discuss a facilitating concept that is derived fro m meta-analysis research on individual studies about reasoning, evaluative, critical, creative, iterat ive, analytical, and synthesis skills. Similar studies (i.e. on contemporary skills in the work place) provide evidence that these skills are essential being competitive, in facing the challenges and the dynamic workp lace environ ments, and in dealing with co mplex and sophisticated technologies. Further, these studies contend that employees who possess these skills are mo re effective and efficient in solving problems, identifying exemp lary performances, avoiding pitfalls, increasing productivity, and identifying opportunities.

The performance portfolio that discriminates between performance measures in order to avoid suboptimal performance. The aim of the study was to study about the impact of organizational mult iplier optimization strategy on creating a sustainable competitive advantage in the obligator managers. The o rganizat ional mu ltip lier optimization therefore cannot be imitated without the interdependences within the cooperating companies. However, that is where path independency ensues. In order to be effect ive, a final demand on co mpetit ive efficient resources is needed, wh ich is the claim for not being substitutable. As seen previously, substitution of strategic relevant resources faces different barriers and difficult ies which originate in o rganizat ional routines. The importance of strategic, long-term policy and organizat ional mu ltip lier optimization is very clear to p lanners. Organizational mu ltiplier managers like to fo llo w a similar and routine organizational mult iplier behavioral pattern. The aim o f the study was to study about the impact of organizational mu ltip lier optimization strategy on creating a sustainable competitive advantage in the obligator managers. The current study was based on empirical approach. This art icle attempts to explain the organizat ional mu ltip lier optimization by obligator managers by patterns of thinking. This paper reviews organizat ional mu ltip lier optimization and organizational mu ltip lier measurement literature. However, this study concluded that the performance of the organization is highly affected by its organizational mult iplier optimizat ion strategy and obligator manager's creativity. In organizations, where an o rganizat ional mu ltip lier optimizat ion exists, the preparation of the organizational mu lt iplier managers may have been driven by external forces.

In this article we implement liquidity in the standard value-at-riskframework. We incorporate bid-ask spread into basic VaR models. Wethen test these models on three foreign markets and on a domesticone. We conclude that liquidity VaR models adequately measure marketrisk. On one hand, the liquidity VaR methodology represents advancementin market risk analysis, but on the other hand, those modelsare not yet robust enough to pass all backtests. Comparing the resultsbetween markets we conclude that the results for the domesticmarket are comparable to those of foreign ones despite their size difference.

Medical device design profession serves a fair effective opportunity for design focused SMEs and freelance designers as a user centered process dealing with design issues densely with human factors and other design issues mainly as utility and function, aesthetics, environmental soundness, personal appeal. Therewithal, good design matters in medical device business especially to serve safe for human use and to gain a competitive advantage over competitor companies in terms of both utilitarian and aesthetic demands. Through the scope of this study, relying upon the recent distillation of focus user experiences and expectations through actual consumer trends; an elaborate analysis on current evaluation criteria is planned to be conducted on the entire product development process of a medical device. Perception related to medical equipment design of SMEs in Turkey, economic situation of design market and current employment situation are obtained with a survey over the Medical Cluster of OSTIM, a prominent organized industrial region and a SME city. In addition to its uniqueness in exposing the whole portrait of a developing industrial region, the study proves that health care industries and medical equipment production sectors have an exclusive attitude by showing considerable effort on implementing recent technologies for discrete aims by progressive approaches, providing a privilege of building up a brand new design context in a quite disorganized medium of interacting but scattered fields.

Competencies of creativity, which are partly intertwined with innovative and entrepreneurial ones, can be encouraged and developed. The purpose of research is to examine whether the appropriate approach establishes a positive classroom climate and consequently, whether the changes occur in the field of creative practice and flexibility of pupils. The study involved 146 pupils of the third triad from 22 Slovenian primary schools who participated for one year in the UPI (creativity, entrepreneurism, innovativeness) or in the entrepreneurial club. For data processing, we used basic statistical methods. Results of quantitative research show a positive impact of entrepreneurial club on the creation of creative classroom climate and consequently on greater creativity and flexibility of the pupils who attend the club.

Lean thinking approach was reported in many papers to be very efficient and straightforward way towards process improvements in terms of p roductivity and value adding act ivities ratio. Also, lean thin king has been imp lemented in many fields other than manufacturing. On other hand, it was also discovered that the system which is working very well in Toyota might not give similar effect ive results in other co mpanies. Current study is trying to find answer to the question of universality o f lean approach. One of the proposals is that lean thinking implementation process in general should be performed the same way in any company. The difference might appear only on certain tools or method implementation in particular co mpany. Such proposal is based on comprehensive literature study and based on examp le of Scan iaco mpany. Study results indicate that every company could approach lean thinking imp lementation framework the same way and no limitat ions are existent.

The element in logistics has always been fundamental to the manufacturing, storage and movement of goods and products. However, some threat and risk had difficult the process. Some important shipments could not or failed to be handed on the particular time. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the type of shipment that was targeted in the case of cargo crime on the road in Malaysia. The methodological approach in this study was through focus group and a structured interview. Fro m the findings in both approaches, the top five targeted ship ments in Malaysia were agreed by the respondents includes, electronic item, pharmaceutical item, petrol, and latex. Lots of journals and articles regarding cargo crime was studied based on European country and United State. However, there is very few written information regarding cargo crime in Malaysia. Therefore, th is study is perhaps one of the first to be carried out as a mediu m of information regarding cargo crime in Malaysia.