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Long‐term care and maintenance of book carts in libraries
Authors: Kruse Ted 
Published: October 2009

PurposeBook carts are the most basic piece of library equipment. With simple repairs and maintenance, these sturdy pieces of equipment can have an even longer service life. The purpose of this paper is to provide advise on the long‐term care and maintenance of book carts in librariesDesign/methodology/approachThis paper provides a “how‐to” approach to solving common maintenance issues with book carts.FindingsNew book carts can be expensive but simple, cost‐effective repairs can greatly increase their service life.Originality/valueRepairing book carts is an easy method of reducing library operating costs.
What price preparation?
Authors: Steele Kirstin 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to reflect on the financial advantages and disadvantages of deferring a building renovation project.Design/methodology/approachThis is a viewpoint paper in which the author attempts to see past her department's inconveniences.FindingsPostponing the project is likely to be financially advantageous.Originality/valueIt is hoped that readers whose projects have undergone similar false starts will feel less alone, and it is hoped that readers who have been able to renovate or build libraries will better appreciate their experiences.
Library leadership column
Authors: Fitsimmons Gary 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the part that managing skill sets plays in practicing the performance standard of managing people effectively.Design/methodology/approachThe approach is to differentiate between organizing staff positions around job functions and organizing staff positions around the skills that individuals bring to the positions.FindingsThe findings are that individuals are more productive when they have the chance to use their unique skill sets rather than having to do tasks for which they have little or no skills simply because those tasks are part of a larger function.Originality/valueThe value is in learning how to advance organizational goals through effective use of employee skill sets.
A license to digitally print money
Authors: Maxymuk John 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of the proposed Google Books Settlement for libraries, readers, researchers, authors and publishers.Design/methodology/approachThe broad effects of the settlement for all categories of users are discussed.FindingsThere appears to be much to like about the proposed settlement for all parties, but there are still a number of concerns for libraries regarding preservation, intellectual freedom, pricing and copyright.Originality/valueThe paper provides an overview of a complex subject that all in the information world must confront.
Cultivating donors with effective programming
Authors: Silverman Emily 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide suggestions for developing events to engage donors and prospective donors.Design/methodology/approachThe paper discusses and gives examples of programming to inspire support over time.FindingsThis paper proposes that for some segments of a library's stakeholder base, social gatherings can be effective means to cultivate relationships and build interest in philanthropic support.Originality/valueThe value of this paper is in its suggestions for promoting the library's needs and opportunities through events.
Students' pressure, time management and effective learning
Authors: Sun Hechuan , Yang Xiaolin 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to survey the status quo of the student pressure and the relationship between their daily time management and their learning outcomes in three different types of higher secondary schools at Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province in mainland China.Design/methodology/approachAn investigation was carried out in 14 higher secondary schools (HSS) located in five districts of Shenyang. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used, such as interviews and questionnaires.FindingsThe important findings include: the students pressure sources in three different types of higher secondary schools, the strongest pressure felt by the HSS students in China was the pressure from national college entrance examinations (NCEE), the rank orders of other pressures were pressures from parents, from society, from others, from schools, from teachers. The findings also include the relationship between student time management (time for sleep, time for getting up, time spent at schools, time for doing homework) and the students learning, the tests frequency in different types of HSS, the relationship between the tests frequency and student learning outcomes, etc.Originality/valueTo survey the HSS students' pressure causes, to explore the relationship between their time management and learning outcomes, to find out the effective learning factors and strategies will benefit students, teachers and schools worldwide.
The principle of hiring the best available academics
Authors: Dilger Alexander 
Published: October 2009

PurposeHigher education, including research, depends crucially on the people involved, their talents and human capital. Therefore, a university can improve or at least maintain its standing by hiring only the best available academics. Hiring the absolute best may be too expensive for most and is impossible for all. However, it is not too difficult to recognise the relatively best scholars. The real problem is to act on this knowledge instead of following other objectives. That is why detached decision makers like managers, politicians or academics from other institutions may be in a better position than faculty members with respect to senior hirings. This paper aims to address these issuesDesign/methodology/approachThe argument is explained in detail and historical examples are given.FindingsIt is shown why and how to hire the best available academics. The existence of many deviations from this rule offers opportunities for those who follow it.Research limitations/implicationsBesides some practical problems, the key intellectual problem is to measure or even define quality in academia. The principle holds nevertheless for any kind of academic quality.Practical implicationsUniversities can improve their status by hiring the best available academics.Originality/valueOne simple (formal) principle can structure the recruiting process and thereby change universities for the better.
Strategies and challenges of internationalisation in HE
Authors: Maringe Felix 
Published: October 2009

PurposeAlthough internationalisation has become a key strategic element of universities across the world, there is little empirical evidence suggesting the nature and extent of integration of internationalisation into the strategic mission of individual institutions. Little is also known about challenges faced by institutions in their quest to integrate internationalisation into their broad strategic choices. This paper aims to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory study is conducted in six universities in the UK selected from the Russell pre‐1992 group, the post‐1994 group and former colleges of higher education (HE). The study has three distinct but interrelated aims: how internationalisation is conceptualised in the study institutions; the available evidence for its structural integration into the university services and understanding the perceived challenges institutions face in the quest to integrate the idea as a broad strategic element of those institutions.FindingsThere exist a range of distinct barriers working against the full integration of the concept into the institutional cultures. These include: conceptual and structural deficiencies in the organisation of institutional internationalisation; over emphasis on human exchange initiatives over cultural integration efforts and increasing undercurrents of feelings among staff and students of local neglect at the expense of global attention.Originality/valueThe paper creates a sound basis for a more broad‐based study across the HE sector. Specifically, the paper suggests that the increasing cultural diversity in UK HE brought about in part by internationalisation and also by general human migration occasions new thinking and practices in organisational and management terms to address the needs of the “mosaic or cultural melting pot” phenomena characterising the increasingly multicultural HE learning environments.
Linking trust in the principal to school outcomes
Authors: Chughtai Aamir Ali , Buckley Finian 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of faculty's trust in the school principal on three school outcomes, namely, self‐reported in‐role job performance (IRP), organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and learning goal orientation (LGO). Furthermore, this paper aims to highlight the role of organizational identification (OID) and work engagement (Eng) in explaining the linkage between trust in the principal (TIP) and the three outcome variables.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data are collected from 130 high school teachers in Pakistan. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses are used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsThe results of this paper revealed that OID and Eng fully mediated the relationship between TIP and IRP; whereas, they partially mediated the effects of TIP on OCB and LGO.Research limitations/implicationsThe data used in this paper are cross‐sectional and hence causation cannot be determined. Additionally, the data for this paper are collected from a single source, which may create problem of common method variance. Nevertheless, the results of this paper provide ample testimony to the fact that faculty TIP is a key determinant of school effectiveness.Originality/valueThis paper extends the literature by providing insights into two processes through which TIP can affect performance and learning orientation of teachers.
Knowledge management initiatives at a small university
Authors: Gill Avninder 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the knowledge management (KM) challenges faced by the administration of a small university which does not have a mature research culture.Design/methodology/approachThe paper follows both technocratic as well as ecological approaches to develop a sustainable KM. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis has been used to assess the problem environment.FindingsThe paper investigates the main issues faced by a small university to enhance its research reputation and identifies key components of a KM system that can be established to achieve these objectives.Research limitations/implicationsKM is of paramount importance for most organizations and a university is no exception. Although knowledge is constantly being accumulated but it cannot be taken for granted. In the absence of a KM system to facilitate the growth and transfer of knowledge, knowledge base can easily be eroded. This is truer for universities engaged in imparting applied knowledge in business, trades, and technology‐related areas.Originality/valueMost of the reported applications of KM in the education sector are limited to localized applications of information technology (IT). The present paper provides a comprehensive approach for institute‐wide KM by looking at the problem from both the ecological as well as the IT perspective, therefore, providing a more sustainable KM culture. There‐in lies the value of this paper.
Icon, iconography, iconology
Authors: Davison Jane 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the entangling of economic, social and cultural values which circulate in visual branding, reflect business practice and add intangibles to organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe study is placed in the context of the difficulties and shortcomings of accounting for brands. A conceptual framework is constructed, based in critical theory from arts disciplines, notably from the thought of Barthes, Panofsky and Peirce. The icon is a primary denotation or representation. Iconography is a secondary level of coded meaning. Iconology is an interpretation that calls on the unconscious. Intermingling of the icon and the logos is considered. This accounting context and arts framework are used to compare the financial statements of the Bradford & Bingley Bank with its visual branding.FindingsThe financial statements are almost silent regarding brands, in line with regulation. In response to the greater competition that accompanied deregulation and globalisation, the Bank's lending and funding practices become more innovative. The visual framework reveals a changing iconography and iconology where class, detectives, music hall and the bowler‐object may be discerned. An iconology is suggested of dreamlike connotations and magical powers in the collective unconscious. The Bradford & Bingley have actively managed their visual branding to reflect and appeal to a changing society, and a more competitive business environment.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides a model which may be applied to visual aspects of financial reporting and branding. It would benefit from an assessment of readership impact.Practical implicationsThe analysis is of interest to accounting researchers, practitioners, trainees and auditors. It illuminates the ways in which visual branding interacts with business practices and conveys intangible values that are not reflected in the accounts.Originality/valueThe paper augments theoretical and empirical work on visual images in accounting.
Media richness, user trust, and perceptions of corporate social responsibility
Authors: Cho Charles H. , Phillips Jillian R. , Hageman Amy M. , Patten Dennis M. 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether the presentation medium of corporate social and environmental web site disclosure has an impact on user trust in such disclosure, and to examine the effect of media richness on user perception about corporate social and environmental responsibility.Design/methodology/approachThe paper's methodology is a three‐by‐two between‐subjects design experiment, manipulating presentation medium and industry type. Participants viewed social and environmental web site disclosures and completed and communicated their perceptions of trust and the experimental companies' corporate social responsibility.FindingsThe presentation medium richness of social and environmental web site disclosures is positively associated with: trusting intentions, but not trusting beliefs, of web site users; and user perception of corporate social and environmental responsibility.Research limitations/implicationsAs with all controlled experiments, the research design focused on internal validity to maintain control over the task design, manipulation, and measurement of variables. While this required trade‐offs with external validity, the task was designed based on real‐world scenarios to maintain high levels of external validity within the experimental setting.Practical implicationsThe paper provides evidence that corporations could use enhanced web‐based technology to potentially mislead users regarding their performance in the social domain.Originality/valueThe paper extends the visual disclosure literature by examining the richness of the image/visual media, and investigates whether user perceptions are impacted by the variations in its richness.
Ensuring legitimacy through rhetorical changes?
Authors: Laine Matias 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to shed further light on how corporate environmental disclosures are used to respond to institutional pressures stemming from the social context.Design/methodology/approachInterpretive textual analysis is applied to discuss how the environmental disclosures of a leading Finnish chemical company developed during the period 1972‐2005. This discussion is accompanied by an analysis of the social and institutional context in which the company has been operating. The development of the disclosures is reflected against changing social and institutional pressures identified from the perspective of new institutional sociology.FindingsThe results show that during these 34 years there have been major transitions in the rhetoric used by the case company in its environmental disclosures. These transitions coincide with changes in the social and institutional context. It is argued that the case company has adjusted its disclosures to respond to the varying institutional pressures in order to maintain a legitimate position in society.Research limitations/implicationsThe subjective nature of the interpretive approach and the use of a single case limit the generalisability of the results. However, the longitudinal approach is argued to produce valuable insights on how corporate disclosures are used as a communication tool to portray the organisation in a certain light.Originality/valueThe study adds to a growing body of literature using interpretive approaches in deconstructing corporate disclosures. The influence exerted by social and institutional pressures on corporate disclosures is highlighted, further research avenues can therefore be proposed.
Construction and effects of markets in a local authority in New Zealand
Authors: Ochoki Nyamori Robert 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to make intelligible the rationalities and mechanisms through which markets have been proffered as alternatives or complements to traditional welfare‐based provision and the effect of this development on the subjectivity of workers.Design/methodology/approachThe research involved collection of archival data, personal encounters and in‐depth interviews with managers, staff and elected representatives at a local authority in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality is mobilised to interpret these data.FindingsThe paper finds that the mandatory changes required by legislation are associated with efforts to constitute local authority workers as business‐like subjects through disciplinary mechanisms and technologies of the self. While markets have permeated this local authority, with some managers and staff claiming to work in a business‐like manner and transact with each other as customers, these discourses have not vanquished the traditional concern of working for one organisation to serve the community.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the results of this study are not generalisable to other contexts, they show how the introduction of New Public Management in a specific context is associated with a contest between the traditional discourses of community and public service, and the more recent ones of enterprise and customer. The paper illuminates the pathologies associated with these new technologies and how their implementation is often divergent from the rationalities in the name of which they are promoted.Practical implicationsThe paper will contribute to ongoing debate on how best to deliver public goods and services and especially, the limits and potential of markets.Originality/valueThe paper's mobilisation of Foucault's governmentality framework in the study of a local authority case study in a contemporary setting is relatively unusual.
On leaving a job
Authors: Deller‐Evans Kate 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to celebrate the sense of opportunity arising from realising that one is not trapped in a toxic job.Design/methodology/approachSatirical poem.FindingsDeciding to leave a job can be uplifting.Originality/valueAddresses the relief felt when an unhappy employee resolves to leave a job that has turned sour.
No‐one now is at my desk
Authors: Evans Steve 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to raise the issue of transition problems in organisations when employees are taken for granted.Design/methodology/approachSatirical poem.FindingsEmployers need to consider the risk of not dealing adequately with staff grievances.Originality/valueThe paper addresses the negative impact on an employer of staff departure from the perspective of the former employee.
Asian‐Indian physicians' experience with managed care organizations
Authors: Misra Ranjita , Modawal Arvind , Panigrahi Bhagaban 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThere is anecdotal evidence that ethnic minority physicians are underrepresented in managed care contracts. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to determine ethnic Asian‐Indian physician‐managed care organization experience and job satisfaction in the USA by age, gender, region and percent of patients in managed care organizations.Design/methodology/valueA random (nation‐wide) mail survey was conducted of 254 physicians who were American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) members during the period 1998 to 2000. Managed care experience was categorized into physician satisfaction; service quality rating; service limitations; difficulties acquiring and maintaining managed care contracts; and financial impact.FindingsPhysicians in solo and group practice relied heavily on managed care enrolled patients. Limitations providing care to patients was a more serious problem than for those in staff‐model health maintenance organization and hospital/clinic‐based practices. Physician satisfaction was not significantly related to board certification, practice type, region and managed care participation. However, practice staff participating in managed care had the highest number of board‐certified physicians.Research limitations/implicationsThere was a low response rate (37 percent) to data collection using questionnaires.Practical implicationsThe paper underlines ethnic minority physicians' capability to get managed care contracts.Originality/valueThis is the first national study of Asian‐Indian physicians and their managed care organization experience. Asian‐Indian physicians are over‐represented in the medical profession and hence the paper will interest those working and dealing with managed care organizations and their patients.
Patients' views on quality of care and attitudes towards re‐visiting providers
Authors: Wilde‐Larsson Bodil , Larsson Gerry 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between patients' service quality perceptions and their attitudes towards visiting the same healthcare provider again.Design/methodology/approachAll patients visiting one of 121 (public) primary healthcare centres in a Swedish region between January and March 2005, who were 16 years or older and capable of communicating, were invited to participate. Responses were obtained from 22,170 patients (75 per cent response rate). Patients evaluated service quality using the “Quality from the Patient's Perspective” (QPP; modified short version) questionnaire. Potentially confounding variables such as age, sex, educational level, illness and self‐reported health condition were also assessed. Data were analysed through generalised linear mixed effects model analysis and multiple regression analysis respectively, using both individual‐ and organisational‐level (primary healthcare centre) data.FindingsApproximately 10 per cent hesitated about continuing to visit the same care provider. Favourable service quality evaluations made a statistically significant contribution to the odds of reporting no hesitation about re‐visiting the same primary healthcare centre.Originality/valuePatients' care experiences appear to have an effect on post‐care‐episode attitudes (and possibly behaviours). It is suggested that effects on care‐proximal aspects, such as hesitation about visiting the same provider again, could be an important link to more distal phenomena such as general health status.