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Monitoring processes through inventory and manufacturing lead time
Authors: Cuatrecasas-Arbós Lluís , Fortuny-Santos Jordi , Ruiz-de-Arbulo-López Patxi , Vintró-Sanchez Carla 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– Since lean manufacturing considers that “Inventory is evil”, the purpose of this paper is to find and quantify the relations between work-in-process inventory (WIP), manufacturing lead time (LT) and the operational variables they depend upon. Such relations provide guidelines and performance indicators in process management.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors develop equations to analyse how, in discrete deterministic serial batch processes, WIP and LT depend on parameters like performance time (of each workstation) and batch size. The authors extend those relations to processes with different lots and the authors create a multiple-lot box score.

Findings
– In this paper, the relations among WIP, LT and the parameters they depend on are derived. Such relations show that when WIP increases, LT increases too, and vice versa, and the parameters they depend on. Finally, these relations provide a framework for WIP reduction and manufacturing LT reduction and agree with the empirical principles of lean manufacturing.

Research limitations/implications
– Quantitative results are only exact for discrete deterministic batch processes without any delays. Expected results might not be achieved in real manufacturing environments. However, qualitative results show the underlying relations amongst variables. Different expressions might be derived for other situations.

Practical implications
– Understanding the relations between manufacturing variables allows operations managers better design, implement and control manufacturing processes. The box score, implemented on a spreadsheet, allows testing the effect of changes in different operational parameters on the manufacturing LT, total machine wait time and total lot queue time.

Originality/value
– The paper presents a discussion about process performance based on the mutual influence between WIP and LT and other variables. The relation is quantified for the discrete deterministic case, complementing the models that exist in the literature. The box score allows mapping more complex processes.
Attitudes towards prisoners who self harm scale: a psychometric evaluation
Authors: Garbutt Kerri , Casey Helen 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to report on the internal consistency, convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Attitudes to Prisoners who Self-Harm scale (APSH). The latter have yet to be examined.

Design/methodology/approach
– Participants were prison staff with prisoner contact (N=97). Internal consistency of the APSH was examined using Cronbach’s α. Convergent validity of the APSH was examined by comparing it to the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale, a reliable and valid measure of healthcare staff attitudes to self-harm. Test-retest reliability was examined by re-administering the APSH one week after initial assessment (n=75).

Findings
– The measure demonstrated adequate levels of internal consistency, convergent validity and test-retest reliability.

Originality/value
– The findings support use of the APSH within custodial settings. It could be used to guide recruitment and training of prison officers that care for prisoners who self-harm and to evaluate the efficacy of their training. This would influence good practice.
To give or not to give professional services to non-paying clients
Authors: McColl-Kennedy Janet R. , Patterson Paul , Brady Michael K. , Cheung Lilliemay , Nguyen Doan 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explicate professionals’ giving backstory, identifying what motivates and hinders professionals’ undertaking of pro bono service activities. Examples are provided of different pro bono giving styles, as professionals struggle to resolve inter-institutional tensions, thus addressing this little understood yet vital form of giving, and meeting an important research priority.Design/methodology/approach– Using a discovery-oriented grounded theory approach, this paper draws on narratives from interviews with 31 professionals to explicate, from the professional’s point of view, the backstory of pro bono service.Findings– The authors provide an integrative institutional logics-based framework for understanding the backstory to professionals’ giving. Three distinct pro bono giving styles are revealed: first, an individual logic (self-centric), an “I” logic; second, an organizational logic (organization-centric), “We” logic; and third, a societal “All” logic (where the greater good to society in general is the dominant logic). The paper concludes with recommendations for how professionals and professional service firms (PSFs) can better align their pro bono giving styles with non-paying not-for-profit clients for multi-party benefit.Originality/value– The originality of this research lies in addressing an important yet little understood form of giving through delving into the backstory to pro bono service. First, the paper theorizes the characteristics of a formerly unarticulated form of giving, distinguishing it from individual-to-individual close consumer gifting, individual to organizational charitable giving, sponsorship, and volunteering. Second, the different inter-institutional logics of pro bono giving are identified, with three main pro bono giving styles uncovered. Third, the authors link professional services theory, theoretical perspectives from giving, and institutional logics theory to develop an integrated framework to explain service professionals’ pro bono activities. Furthermore, a compelling agenda for future research is provided to guide future work.
Healthcare experience quality: an empirical exploration using content analysis techniques
Authors: Ponsignon Frederic , Smart Andi , Williams Mike , Hall Juliet 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to set out to explore how cancer patients and their carers perceive and evaluate the healthcare experience in order to develop and validate a classification framework for experience quality in healthcare.

Design/methodology/approach
– The empirical work is centred on the systematic analysis of 200 cancer patient stories published on an independent healthcare feedback web site. Using the critical incident method, the authors captured 1,351 experience quality data items. Three judges independently sorted and classified these data items.

Findings
– The authors identify and describe 22 main categories and 51 sub-categories that underlie the experience quality concept in healthcare and present them in a classification framework. The framework is informed through the categorisation of direct, indirect, and independent interactions. It also suggests a relationship between experience quality and satisfaction and loyalty behaviours.

Research limitations/implications
– This study provides researchers with a foundation for the further development and validation of a measurement scale for experience quality in healthcare.

Practical implications
– The framework assists managers and healthcare professionals with the definition, evaluation, and improvement of the quality of the experience of patients and their carers.

Originality/value
– The main contributions of this study lie in: first, a comprehensive classification framework for experience quality in healthcare; second, dimensions that extend existing health service quality models; third, dimensions that contextualise the generic concept of customer experience quality to healthcare.
Service innovation and usage intention: a cross-market analysis
Authors: Chiu Yen-Ting Helena , Hofer Katharina Maria 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate market-contextual variations in consumers’ self-service technology (SST) usage intentions.

Design/methodology/approach
– Applications of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology support the exploration of antecedents of usage intention for SSTs in two market contexts, through a survey among Taiwanese and Austrian college students. The cross-cultural nature of the study suggested the need for factor analyses to evaluate measurement equivalence. A Chow-Test confirmed structural stability, followed by regression analysis and independent samples t-tests to confirm the hypotheses.

Findings
– Substantial differences arise across market contexts that shape usage intentions. In a collectivistic, emerging market context (Taiwan), performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and personal innovativeness significantly influence usage intention. In an individualistic, advanced market context (Austria), only performance expectancy and social influence have significant impacts on usage intention. Personal innovativeness moderates only the relationship between performance expectancy and usage intention.

Practical implications
– The findings suggest that usage intention is subject to the market environment in which the technology is introduced. Consumers are influenced by the local and institutional-cultural environment.

Originality/value
– Globalization has accelerated the launch of retail services innovations. It is imperative to understand consumers’ usage intentions from a global perspective. This study advances SST research by analyzing and comparing adoption behavior in an advanced vs emerging market setting.
Seeking competitive advantage with service infusion: a systematic literature review
Authors: Eloranta Ville , Turunen Taija 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the service infusion literature explains competitive advantage through services. The four strategic management theories – competitive forces, the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, and relational view – are applied in the analysis.Design/methodology/approach– A systematic literature review analyzes the links between the service infusion and strategy literature.Findings– The review reveals that although discussion of service infusion applies strategic management concepts, the stream lacks rigor with respect to construct definition and justification. Additionally, contextual variables are often missing. The result is an over-emphasis of contextually bound measures, such as technology, and focal actors.Research limitations/implications– The growing trends toward social networks, co-specialization, actor dependency and shared resources encourage service infusion scholars to focus on network-related and relational capabilities, co-opetition, open business models, and relational rent extraction. Furthermore, service infusion research would benefit from considering strategy-based theoretical discussions, constructs, and constraints that would improve the scientific rigor, impact and contribution.Originality/value– This paper represents a systematic attempt to link the service infusion literature with strategic management theories and thoroughly analyzes the knowledge gaps and possible misconceptions.
Influence of z/w relation in Chill Block Melt Spinning (CBMS) process and analysis of thickness in ribbons
Authors: Pagnola Marcelo R. , Barone Marcelo , Malmoria Mariano , Sirkin Hugo 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis over own and other authors data related to the process of Chill Block Melt Spinning (CBMS) and propose a model of analysis for interpreting.

Design/methodology/approach
– The methodology used in this work is to present the data analyzed by other authors, organize own data similarly to establish comparison, and established models and propose a possible physical processes interpretation.

Findings
– Similarity between own experimental data. with others data reported by other authors, both z/w ratio and the thicknesses of the films produced has been found. This allows us to establish an exponential decay of the parameters studied and possibly link it the Newtonian cooling to which the samples are subjected in its production.

Research limitations/implications
– This work is the first model set up to predict dimensions in design process by CBMS as a function of parameters of the ribbon production process.

Practical implications
– The prediction of the product dimensions, with adjusting the initial parameters, allows to improve the process of ribbon production, this saves tuning time of the machine and provides certainty in the molten material ejection.

Social implications
– The efficient production of magnetic materials lets save efforts in the raw material process preparing in magnetic cores for the energy sector. This, improves production besides benefit society by the final product and the energy savings.

Originality/value
– The value of this paper is to propose a model of analysis that allows standardize production parameters, and could even allow the use of these models in computer programs, process simulators in a more effective manner.
Analysis of gravity and non-homogeneity on Rayleigh wave in anisotropic elastic-viscoelastic half space of higher order
Authors: Kakar Rajneesh 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the propagation of Rayleigh waves in an anisotropic inhomogeneous layer placed over an isotropic gravitational viscoelastic half space of third order.

Design/methodology/approach
– It is considered that the mass density and the elastic coefficients of the layer are space dependent. Dispersion properties of waves are derived with the simple mathematical techniques. Graphs are plotted between phase velocity ‘k’ and wave number ‘c’ for different values of inhomogeneity parameters for a particular model and the effects of inhomogeneity and gravity are studied.

Findings
– The wave analysis indicates that the phase velocity of Rayleigh waves is affected quite remarkably by the presence of inhomogeneity, gravity and strain rates of strain parameters in the half space. The effects of inhomogeneity and depth on the phase velocity are also shown in corresponding figures.

Originality/value
– The results presented in this study may be attractive and useful for mathematicians, seismologists and geologists.
A novel modal calculation method of 1-D phononic crystal band gap
Authors: Li Lei , Liu Qing 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to propose a modal method to calculate the band gaps of one-dimensional (1D) phononic crystals.

Design/methodology/approach
– The phononic crystals have modes with exponential form envelope in the band gaps, however, outside the band gaps the modes are of amplitude modulation periodic form. Thus the start and end frequencies of band gaps can be determined from the existence conditions of periodic modes. So, the band gaps calculation of 1D phononic crystal is transformed into the existence discussion of periodic solution of mode shapes equation. The results are verified by finite element harmonic response analysis.

Findings
– At the start and end frequencies of the band gap, the mode equation have solution with period of lattice constant.

Originality/value
– Compared with the traditional theoretical methods, the proposed modal method has a clearer principle and easier calculation.
The concepts of quality, quality assurance and quality enhancement
Authors: Elassy Noha 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to critically review and discuss different definitions of the concepts of quality, quality assurance (QA) and quality enhancement (QE) in higher education (HE) with presenting critical perspectives of the literature.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper looks at literature concerns with the meaning of quality, QA and QE, regarding HE context. It analysis and critically reviews the different definitions of these key concepts.

Findings
– This paper suggests that the concepts of QA and QE should be dealt as part of a continuum and showed the need for both as an ongoing process in HE institutions.

Originality/value
– The paper provides a unique analysis of the widely cited pieces of research regarding the concept of quality, QA and QE. It contributes to increase the understanding of those key concepts in HE sector, its origin and mean stream view. It outlines the importance of having a clear understanding of these terms and highlights the difficulties of having a unified definition.
Learning from degree-seeking older adult students in a university library
Authors: Aagard Mary C. , Antunez Marilia Y. , Sand Jaime N. 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of library resources and services by degree-seeking older adult students (aged 50 years and over) and it is driven by the role of libraries in serving this often overlooked student population. Older adult students bring many benefits to the life of college campuses; nevertheless, many of these students also face challenges in meeting their information needs in academic libraries.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors surveyed degree-seeking older adult students at a comprehensive metropolitan university in the western USA. Surveys were distributed to 579 students enrolled in the spring semester 2013, 134 students completed the 15-question online survey about the use of the library, information-seeking behaviors and use of other university services.

Findings
– The self-reported findings confirmed that the library meets most of the information needs of this student population. Students commented on satisfaction with the library services, barriers to using the library, areas in need of improvement and use of other university services.

Research limitations/implications
– Survey participants were gathered from one university and a corresponding sample size of 18-24-year-old students were not surveyed. More research is needed to demonstrate how this particular group varies from their traditional aged counterparts.

Practical implications
– This paper can be used as a starting point for future research into the information-seeking behaviors and needs of degree-seeking older adult students to develop greater understanding of this diverse population and their unique strengths and challenges. There is an absence in the literature on this demographic group in academic libraries.

Originality/value
– The article includes recommendations for further study and suggests outreach opportunities directed to older adult students that can also benefit the growing diversity of college students.
Authentic leadership: development of a new three pillar model
Authors: Beddoes-Jones Fiona , Swailes Stephen 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
This paper aims to summarise a new model of authentic leadership derived from research with senior leaders in the UK.

Design/methodology/approach
The model was developed and tested using three independent samples: 140 business leaders, 54 senior military officers with 390 independent raters and 303 business leaders.

Findings
A 15-item, self-report, three-component measure of authentic leadership was obtained from testing across samples. The three components measure an individual’s capacity for self-awareness, self-regulation and ethical behaviour.

Originality/value
The paper contributes to the authentic leadership literature through the creation of a short authentic leadership scale that could be used in leadership research and which simplifies and unifies previous conceptualisations of authentic leadership. The three-pillar model offers guidance to HR practitioners looking to design leadership development interventions.
Effect of atovastatin treatment on porcine circovirus 2 infection in BALB/c mice
Authors: Yang Xin , Ma Teng , Ouyang Hongsheng , Chen Fuwang , Peng Zhiyuan , Li Chun , Ma Yunzhi , Chen Xinrong , Li Boyu , Pang Daxing , Ren Linzhu 
Published: June 2015

SummaryThe HMG‐CoA reductase (HMGCR) pathway is an important metabolic route, which is not only present in almost every organism, but also involves virus infection. It has recently been shown that expression levels of IFN‐responsive genes were significantly increased in HMGCR‐downregulated cells and HMGCR inhibitor‐treated cells. The aim of this study was to determine whether inhibition of HMGCR by atovastatin would significantly affect Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection and immunological reaction in BALB/c mice. The results showed atovastatin significantly stimulated PCV2 replication in vivo. Immunological reaction in atovastatin‐treated mice was also significantly enhanced during PCV2 infection. Atovastatin also enhanced PCV2‐induced illness in mice. The results of this study will provide new insight into the role of atovastatin in PCV2 infection.
Participatory Workplace Wellness Programs: Reward, Penalty, and Regulatory Conflict
Authors: POMERANZ JENNIFER L. 
Published: June 2015

Policy Points:
Workplace wellness programs that provide incentives for completing a health risk assessment are a form of participatory programs.
There are legal and ethical concerns when employers assess penalties for not completing a health risk assessment, raising questions about the voluntariness of such a program.
The Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services’ 2013 regulations for participatory programs and employers’ current practices conflict with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's prevailing interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
ContextIn keeping with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Congress revised the law related to workplace wellness programs. In June 2013, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services passed the final regulations, updating their 2006 regulatory framework. Participatory programs that reward the completion of a health risk assessment are now the most common type of wellness program in the United States. However, legal and ethical concerns emerge when employers utilize incentives that raise questions about the voluntariness of such programs. At issue is that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, employers cannot require health‐related inquiries and exams.MethodsTo analyze the current interpretation of the ADA, I conducted research on both LexisNexis and federal agency websites. The resulting article evaluates the differences in the language of Congress's enabling legislation and the federal departments’ regulations and how they may conflict with the ADA. It also reviews the federal government's authority to address both the legal conflict and ethical concerns related to nonvoluntary participatory programs.FindingsEmployers’ practices and the federal departments’ regulations conflict with the current interpretation of the ADA by permitting employers to penalize employees who do not complete a health risk assessment. The departments’ regulations may be interpreted as conflicting with Congress's legislation, which mentions penalties only for health‐contingent wellness programs. Furthermore, the regulatory protections for employees applicable to health‐contingent wellness programs do not apply to participatory programs.ConclusionsEither Congress or the federal agencies should address the conflict among employers’ practices, the wellness regulations, and the ADA and also consider additional protections for employees. Employers can avoid ethical and legal complications by offering voluntary programs with positive incentives.