Volume 4, Issue 9

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1) Frederick Matthias Alexander and the Bureau of Educational Experiments.
Author Details: Jeroen Staring-Dr Jeroen Staring teaches mathematics at secondary schools in The Netherlands. His 2005 Medical Sciences dissertation describes the life, work and technique of F. Matthias Alexander. In 2013 he successfully defended a second dissertation, on the early history of the NYC Bureau of Educational Experiments.
The author wishes to acknowledge assistance by archivists at Bank Street College of Education and City and Country School (United States), as well as assistance by librarians at Auckland Central Library, Napier Public Library, Wellington’s Alexander Turnbull Library, and Wellington Public Library (New Zealand); and by librarians at Melbourne Public Library, and Trinity College Library, University of Melbourne (Australia).
Abstract:In 1916, three educational reformers founded the Bureau of Educational Experiments. Between 1916 and 1919, the Bureau had no clear direction. On the one hand, they offered a clearinghouse gathering and distributing educational information, issuing bulletins, preparing exhibitions, and maintaining a specialized library. On the other hand, they subsidized, initiated, and conducted a range of educational experiments. Before Bureau members eventually found their direction in 1919, they scored a few successes and had their share of failures. One outstanding failure concerns Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s plan to investigate F. Matthias Alexander’s breathing and habit changing procedures.
Key Words: Evelyn Dewey (1889-1965), Harriet M. Johnson (1867-1934), Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1878-1967), Margaret Naumburg (1890-1983), Caroline Pratt (1867-1954), Ethel Webb (1866-1955), F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), John Dewey (1859-1952), Wesley C. Mitchell (1874-1948), Caleb W. Saleeby (1878-1940), Bureau of Educational Experiments (BEE), Conscious Control, Ovoleo Drug Company, Play School, Public Education Association of the City of New York.
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2) The Decisions to Make (In an Advertising Agency).
Author’s Details: ⁽¹⁾ Dr. Rahul Swami, ICFAI Business School, The ICFAI University, Jaipur (Raj.) ⁽²⁾Dr. Avinash Gupta, ICFAI Business School, the ICFAI University, Jaipur (Raj.)
Abstract: This case is about Mr. Pranay Bharadwaj who with his hard word rose to an entrepreneur and initiated Total Advertising after understanding the advertising trade. In the case author has made an effort to understand the need of customers in the changing times. At the time of this problem Mr. Pranay put emphasis on research parameters to use it as a tool of decision making thus leading to customer satisfaction.
Keywords: Advertising, Entrepreneur, Market Research, Need, Changing times
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3) Professional-family help giving relationships in family support programs.
Author Details: Carl J. Dunst-Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute
Abstract. A multiple case study design was used to test the hypothesis that human services program family resource coordinator practices that were consistent with the intent of family support principles would be associated with parent reported positive family outcomes and practices inconsistent with the intent of family support principles would be associated with parent reported negative family outcomes. Family support principles are belief and value statements about how families should be treated by family resource coordinators. Both pattern matching and replication logic were used to perform quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Results confirmed the predicted relationships between family resource coordinator practices and family outcomes. Implications for improving professional-family relationships in the context of help giving exchanges are described.
Keywords: family support, family resource coordinator practices, family outcomes, multiple case studies, replication logic, pattern matching
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4) Your People Do Not Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care.
Author’s Details: Ashvini Chawla[1], R Sujatha[2]–[1] PhD Scholar, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India [2] Associate Professor, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India
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5) Organizational Theories: A Comparative Analysis of Key perspectives of Rational, Natural and Open System Views of Organization.
Author’s Details: Dr.Sirajul Haque-Associate Professor
Abstract
In the modern society, it is difficult to imagine life without organization. Today, we are living in a global village and many organizations across the globe are involved in producing products and delivering services required by the societies. Organization has become vital to the very fabric of the modern society. Thus the organizations can be defined as platform where the people come together to perform their assigned to fulfill common goals. The organizations are established to bring people together to accomplish collective goals.

Organizational theories have been developed as a result of systematic study of organizations. It has general application to all type of organizations. It provides a way of thinking about organizations and way of managing organizations. Organization theory deals primarily with organization level phenomenon such as organizational change and growth, effective planning, design, development, politics, culture and structure. Organizations are important part of the study and considered vital instruments for accomplishing collective goals in modern societies
In order to understand as to how to structure and designed the organization to accomplish collective goals, it is very important to study the various perspectives on organization.  Richard Scott in his book has described three perspectives on organization i.e rational system, natural system, and open systems perspectives. The research study has discussed the key perspectives and presented a comparative analysis of these three perspectives on organization and concludes with the applications of these perspectives in current scenario of organizations.
Keywords: Organizational theory, Natural System perspective, Rational System Perspective, Open System perspective
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6) Investigating the Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Psychological Capital on the Performance.
Author’s Details: Hossein Moghimi Esfandabadi^[1], Salimeh Abdolvahab², Mahya Taher Akbari³, Alireza Moghimi Esfandabadi^{4 (1)}Master of Social Sciences & Research Assistant at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran ⁽²⁾Master of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran ⁽³⁾Master of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran  ⁽⁴⁾Master of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran
Abstract
The paper aims to explore the effects of entrepreneurial orientation (defined as innovativeness, risk-taking, aggressive competitiveness, proactiveness, autonomy) and psychological capital (defined as optimism, hope, self-efficacy and resilience) on the performance the private insurance companies.  Therefore, Qom’s Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting headquarters has been selected as the statistical population in which the research standardized questionnaire was distributed among its experts and managers to measure entrepreneurial orientation, psychological capital and organizational performance. The obtained data were evaluated using the SPSS software. The results suggest that entrepreneurial orientation and psychological capital exist only at a medium level in the said organization. The improvement of psychological capital will directly influence entrepreneurial orientation and thus indirectly improving the performance. The entrepreneurial orientation also directly improves the performance. Moreover, the aspect of autonomy from the entrepreneurial orientation and the aspect of hope from the psychological capital are in a lower state, comparatively.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation, psychological capital, entrepreneurial orientation, performance, the private insurance companies.
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