Collaboration Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article: Sommerville, I. (2011). System documentation
One of the most important aspects of developing software systems includes documentation. This is a phase that is overlooked in the software development lifecycle. This is because of the fact that it is not part of the working system. The different stages of the software lifecycle development will depend on proper documentation for these stages to be understood. There is a need to ensure that the procedures and the processes of documenting the system are clearly understood in the design of the project. This will ensure that the software that has been developed will ...

“Want a Yogurt with that Venti Late? Starbucks and Danone to Join Forces” article, written by Stephanie Strom and published at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/business/starbucks-and-danone-joining-forces-to-sell-yogurt.html?ref=global&_r=1& on July 23rd, 2013 discusses about an organizational strategy for increasing two companies’ visibility, market share and profits and this is the reason why I chose it, for elaborating on an organizational behavior concept.
This business strategy comes out of Starbucks’ need of diversifying its line – up of products and services and developing its food offering. With this organizational strategy, the company looks into the future, as it anticipates the market’s trends. The company’s profits ...

Collaboration and Care Coordination in Healthcare: An Analysis Overview

The structure of a bureaucratic healthcare organization can garner improvements in partnerships leading to increased care quality as a result of key collaboration efforts, and coordination. The data indicates that a 30 percent ratio of traditional Medicare payments will gradually tie to value, or quality models, like accountable care organizations. Bundled payments are anticipated as optional choices in this scenario by the end of 2016, as well. Secondly, 50 percent of payments will tie to these models by 2018 especially considering that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of attaching 90 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to ...

Article: “Are You a Collaborative Leader?”

The continued growth of technology, specifically the invention of various social networks and applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Chatter, proved the fact that more and more companies have already started to involve every employee in the process of decision making and discussing company’s major issues with the help of the latest technological innovations. In their article Are You a Collaborative Leader? Herminia Ibarra, Morten T. Hansen focus on the main skills a professional manager should acquire in order to effectively keep their teams connected and foster internal and external communication within the company.

The authors suggest four ...

The servant leadership style tends to be highly effective in healthcare organizations. Adoption of the servant leadership model presupposes establishing a work environment aimed at promoting shared decision making as well as community experience.
It is considered that the term ‘servant leadership’ was proposed by the American philosopher Robert Greenleaf. It is worth noting that this type of leadership requires the deepest level of intuitive perception and understanding, empathy, the ability to look within and around, a sense of community and a stable framework of values (Marquis & Huston, 2012, 52). According to this theory, a person should be focused on helping and ...

I agree that two possible reasons for failure of team collaborations is ego and introvert persons. These two affects the team’s communication which is very essential to have a successful team. With ego and introvert persons, the contributions they may give to the success of the project like their ideas may not be fully blown. They have a tendency that they may not voice out their ideas even if these are good because they may be afraid that other members will not like them.

Building Trust Among Virtual Teams

I agree that trust takes time to establish and reliability and consistency are two helpful characteristics ...

Chapter 1 – Perspectives

The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy
The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy is a consulting practice which aims to help the organizations to optimize their technology investments. Going through the strategy I found that some of the steps can be particularly effective. Segmenting the operational and strategic layers of business will surely help in effective management of resources. Decentralization and private hosting of the website will also help in the daily and easy upgrade to the website. One of the steps which I feel the most important is assessing the present as well as future security threats and being ...

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

Introduction

The article by Xiaowei Cai, Lindsey Higgins, and Marianne McGarry Wolf in the journal International Food and Agribusiness Management Review discussed if social collaboration and technology in higher education benefit women in the agribusiness industry. The authors are discussing how tools used in higher education impacts the student’s confidence and further help them to develop confidence in their careers. The authors have performed the research with a survey of 408 agriculture students. The results of the survey have displayed that in comparison to males, female students had a larger impact on their due to technology and social collaboration, especially in ...

Personal development plans (PDPs) are the major part of continuing professional development (CPD) and general practitioner’s appraisal. Together with practice professional development plans (PPDPs), personal development plans (PDPs) provide individual with a future development program and explain how to manage it. While PPDPs are aimed at the development of healthcare services and should have relation to patients’ needs and doctors’ professional development, PDPs should contain description of individual learning plans (Huw, 2010). However, while personal development plans (PDPs) and practice professional development plans (PPDPs) undertaking, there appear some factors that may help or hinder their successful implementation. The main ...

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Ruva, C., McEvoy, C. & Becker Bryant, J. (2007). Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors Applied Cognitive Psychology 21, 45-67.
Is the decision of the jury as objective as it should be? In their article, titled “Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors”, authors Ruva, Mc Evoy & Bryant, discuss the issue of jury impartiality by analyzing the degree to which the access to media information affect the decisions of the jury member and cause them to interpret the evidence either in favor or against the ...

Introduction

Supply chain management is a term that is very common in many businesses enterprises. It is a term that has been subjected to a variety of definition but in its simplest form, supply chain management is a management philosophy whereby manufacturers or service providers utilize various integration and partnership efforts with suppliers to reduce the cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated logistics, supplier integration, integrated purchasing strategy, supply chain management, value chain management, Just-In –Time (JIT) logistics, supply chain synchronization and lean production are some terms that are often mentioned alongside supply chain management. These terms usually represent ...

Transport geography refers to the investigation of the movement of people, goods, and information, and the connection between these factors Rodrigue, Comtois & Slack (2013). As a special branch or specialty in geography, transport geography deals with specification of space on the surface of the earth, particularly the location, substance, form, and effects that transportation ha on processes, land cover, and land use. The aim of transport geography is to detect and describe the transportation of people, goods, and information across the earth (Rodrigue, Comtois & Slack, 2013). Transport geography also seeks to identify and explain the effects of transportation on ...

The rates of medication errors have been on a significant rise in the past few decades in the healthcare sector despite the numerous approaches to combat these errors and their adverse effects. These medication errors result into more than 7, 000 deaths annually as well as other complications which are all preventable. The choice of this article was highly pegged on the realization that medications errors have become a pertinent issue in clinical practice and that nurses despite the population under blame for the increasing rates of errors and near misses can provide an effective solution to this clinical problem. However, ...

Section 1: Summary

The article Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection was published by the IEEE Computer Society during the July-September 2007 period. It was written by Jonathan Reades, Francesco Calabrese, Andres Sevtsuk, and Carlo Ratti. The article looks into a possible modern way of using mobile phone devices to collect spatiotemporal data. This new way of collecting data particularly from the urban areas is a break from the past methods of data collection such as surveys by person or phone. Urban analysis can be conducted using mobile device data gathered using this new method. However, there has been little steps undertaken in ...

In 1961 W.R. Schilling published the article “The H-bomb Decision: How to Decide without Actually Choosing.” That was eleven years after the initial decision by President Harry Truman to explore the possibility of building a thermonuclear bomb. (Schilling 44) Schilling researched the decision to build a hydrogen bomb and concluded that the least that could be decided was decided was decided by Truman (24). His article explains the reasons he reached this conclusion. M. J. Sherwin (1973) published a different view twelve years after Schilling in an article titled “The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Atomic-Energy Policy ...

Chapter 11

Extra Credit Pages 1 – 5
Page 1 Study Guide. Crossword Puzzle.
Across
3. Avoiding
4. relational
7. accommodation
8. compromise
10. aggressive
12. conflict
14. complementary
15. symmetrical

Down

1. lose-lose
3. assertion
5. honesty
6. ritual
7. avoidance
9. parallel
11. intimate
13. indirect

True/False

1. False (In fact gender and culture do have an important impact on the types and styles of conflict. Pages 21, 22, 23)
2. False (In fact conflict will occur if there are enough resources but other ...