...Disrupting the Status Quo The academic distinctions associated with the Ed.D. and Ph.D., such as the distinctions between research & practice, and practice & theory, have resulted from the cultural fields of education and employment, which faced challenges within themselves to impose their power to distinguish and dominate. According to Lane (2000), “Distinctions are the effects of power relations among classes, but they appear in a misrecognized form because their logic is that of distinction” (p.134). They take place, however, in particular cultural fields, which mark and reinforce class relations by establishing differences and positions. Thus, “education signifies a cultural field in which the power of individuals and institutions is largely (but not completely) determined by the cultural capital they own” (Knight, 2004). Between Ed.D. & Ph.D. not many differences can be noticed. Ed.D. students receive the same level of tuition as those in Ph.D. but the tuition is simply not based strictly on research techniques as they are being prepared to promote and challenge social changes not to use research results to achieve a social change.“The EdD can become the degree in which the tension between theory and practice can be put to generative use in the production of knowledge that is valid, useable, and transformative in local, context-bound settings” (Grogan, Donaldson, & Simmons, 2007). Nonetheless, the academic preparation could easily be compared; the only exception...
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...MinuteClinic is a classic disruptive innovator – much more affordable than the status quo, convenient and easy-to-use. While the services offered may represent a small portion of the health care spend, the experience in total represents an opportunity to disrupt consumers’ expectations about how and where health-care services can be delivered. As clinics proliferate and their use increases, PCPs may see reduced demand to treat minor conditions. Losing shorter, simpler visits could have a financial impact on PCPs’ practices. What makes this innovation "disruptive" is that the Minute Clinic business model uses a nurse practitioner in a walk-in office located in convenient, high-traffic stores to diagnose and treat a limited number of routine conditions that make up the bulk of primary care visits, such as ear infections and strep throats. The nurse practitioner can prescribe generic drugs that can be obtained at that same store. The innovation is disrupting where and when consumers seek health care. As a result, many more people may be able to obtain care because it is more affordable and more convenient than the alternative. The competition sought innovative, "disruptive" solutions to health care challenges such as: * Improving access to care * Lowering costs * Promoting greater efficiency * Delivering higher-quality services in ways that empower consumers. Because MinuteClinics are less expensive for many uninsured people than a visit to a doctor’s office...
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...Always adapting Over the past 150 years, Nokia has evolved from a riverside paper mill in south-western Finland to a global telecommunications leader connecting over 1.3 billion people. During that time, we’ve made rubber boots and car tyres. We’ve generated electricity. We’ve even manufactured TVs. Changing with the times, disrupting the status quo – it’s what we’ve always done. And we fully intend to keep doing it. The story so far In 1865, mining engineer Fredrik Idestam sets up his first wood pulp mill at the Tammerkoski Rapids in south-western Finland. A few years later he opens a second mill on the banks of the Nokianvirta river, which inspires him to name his company Nokia Ab in 1871. How apt that Nokia begins by making paper – one of the most influential communications technologies in history. The galoshes revolution OK, so it’s not exactly a revolution. But in 1898, Eduard Polón founds Finnish Rubber Works, which later becomes Nokia’s rubber business, making everything from galoshes to tyres. Nokia rubber boots become a bona fide design classic, still on sale to this day – though we no longer make them. Electronics go boom In 1912, Arvid Wickström sets up Finnish Cable Works, the foundation of Nokia’s cable and electronics business. By the 1960s, Finnish Cable Works – already working closely with Nokia Ab and Finnish Rubber Works – starts branching out into electronics. In 1962, it makes its first electronic device in-house: a pulse analyser for use in nuclear...
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...1. The three primary considerations in designing jobs a.) Job characteristic model - five core job characteristics can impact certain employee psychological states that will impact certain work-related outcomes. .Skill variety - the extent to which the work allows an employee to usea variety of acquired skills .task identity - the extent to which the work allows an employee to use a variety of acquired skills .task significance - the extent to which the employee perceives that his or her work is important and meaningful to those in the organisation or those outside of the org .autonomy - the extent tot which the employee is able to work and determine work procedures at his own discretion, free of supervision .feedback - the extent to which the work allows the employee to gain a sense of how well job responsibilities are being met. b.) 1.)changing demographics and lifestyles of the labor markets 2.) work/life balance - younger employees, are far less loyal to their employees than they were a generation ago. 3.) ensuring that employees have some form of representaion or voice. 4.) unions 5.) workplace safety c.) Sequential interdependence - work that flows from one individual to another, where one individual depends on the timely completion of quality work from another coworker Reciprocal interdependence - Workflow is not linear, but random 2.) a.) outsourcing and offshoring - outsourcing contracting out of some of the org’s noncore work activities...
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...the pen and write the board in protest. In reading the story of the Concord Bookshop it is easy to see that a change was needed for the store to be profitable. It is not known if the board’s decision to change management was the correct one, but it is easy to see that the board grossly underestimated the resistance they would receive. The Board decided to change management and the structure of management without warning or input from present management. If the board would have followed Kurt Lewin’s Change Model the change in management and restructuring would have been better received. First, the Board would “unfreeze” the staff and notify them of the decline in revenue and profits. This would have created dissatisfaction with the status quo (Spector, 2010). With this information the Board could have engaged the staff, and asked for recommendation on improving revenue and becoming more efficient. Once the staff is engaged, whether the Board listened or not, the proposal of restructuring management could be presented. It would be important to let the staff know that this is just a restructuring and it is not the intent of the Board to let any employee go or reduce his/her present salary. This would have created a successful “unfreezing.” At this time, with a successful “unfreezing,”...
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...possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for proper scientific enquiry are antithetical to the demands of the Party, and thus real science has been abolished. Orwell posits a certain level of technological advance—the two-way television screens and the ever-present surveillance equipment, the novel-writing machines,, but not much else. His purpose was not to imagine the details of such technologies, but to present the use to which they are put. Huxley goes considerably further in imagining scientific advance. In his World State...
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...In chapter 28 of Hannah Arendt's ‘The Human Condition’, she discusses the distinctions of power and how it shapes the public realm. Entitled “Power and the Space of Appearance” Arendt also describes the significance of plurality as the modus operandi of thriving political communities by developing the consistency and yearn to break the status quo while creating a new standard in response to human improvement. Furthermore, she categorizes this as a means for Action – one of three segments on her opinion of human conditioning which she passionately identifies as Labour, Work and Action. In terms of power, it is often thought that it is a force which dictates the actions of people while disregarding the participation of the public. However as...
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...He or she is obligated to maintain the status quo of the club, as well as making changes to the club that are deemed necessary. The president also runs the task of booking events and club meetings. The president is expected to constantly communicate with other board members and keep them on task. The president is first in command. Vice President: The vice president is responsible for keeping the president on task, aiding the president in event coordination, gathering feedback from club members, and taking up jobs that other board members are not able to do. The vice president is second in command. Secretary: The secretary is responsible for most of the paperwork that is required for administration. These include weekly meeting reports, event forms, event release and liability forms, etc...
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...In Charles Darwin's essay "Natural Selection" he defines natural selection as the "preservation of favorable variations and the rejections of injurious variations" (191). In other words, natural selection is the process by which nature, over the course of several generations, manipulates the physical characteristics and/or behavior of animals by carefully selecting and passing on the modifications that would allow the individual animal to thrive in their natural habitat; however small the modification, this trait variation in the species would enable the animal to better adapt to its surroundings and increase the chances of survival of the species. Those without the variation would be at a disadvantage and would, eventually, die out. Opposite natural selection is man-made selection in which humans select which traits get passed on to the next generation for their own good and/or purposes. The lottery in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is an example of man-made selection by which a select few control the society of the village. Man-made selections are limited and biased. "Man can act only on external and visible characters" (192) when selecting for his own good (193). Man-made selections are limited and biased because we lack the knowledge and capability to because we are selfish, creatures of habit. They are easily influenced by outside factors.The decisions and selections that man makes are man-made limited and biased because. It was more convenient for the people (in...
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...sociologists is Robert K. Merton, who divided human functions into two types: manifest functions, which are intentional and obvious, and latent functions, which are unintentional and not obvious. The manifest function of attending a church or synagogue, for instance, is to worship as part of a religious community, but its latent function may be to help members learn to discern personal from institutional values. With common sense, manifest functions become easily apparent. Yet this is not necessarily the case for latent functions, which often demand a sociological approach to be revealed. Functionalism has received criticism for neglecting the negative functions of an event such as divorce. Critics also claim that the perspective justifies the status quo and complacency on the part of society's members. Functionalism does not encourage people to take an active role in changing their social environment, even when such change may benefit them. Instead, functionalism sees active social change as undesirable because the various parts of society will compensate naturally for any problems...
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...(Finkle 2010). Apple Inc. is currently one of the most successful and innovative technology companies ever. Haven’t incorporated in 1977 and went public in 1980, around 1996, the world believed that Apple Computer one of the best brand in the world was on its deathbed. The company had fallen out of the top 5 in U.S. sales (Linzmayer, O. W. 2004). The first quarter of 1996 Apple reports of losses upward of $740 million. The remainder of the year was up and down with losses (Apple Inc. 1997). It was a critical time for the company, just four months away from acquisition or bankruptcy, and in desperate need of a miracle (Kahney, 2004). But then they came back with a vengeance (Johnson, k. 2012). In fact, they now seem nearly unstoppable, disrupting more and more markets (Boddie, J 2005). They are the only technology company that has been able to...
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...TESLA MOTORS’ DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION Ushnik Dasgupta New York University Global Innovation April 26, 2016 ABSTRACT Tesla Motor’s journey since its foundation in 2003 to being ranked third among the most innovative companies in the world in 2015 according to Fortune (Murray, 2015) and the third most innovative company in the automotive sector in 2016 according to Fast Company (The Most Innovative Companies of 2016: Top Companies by Sector, 2016), demonstrates their ability and determination to upset the status quo and eagerness to disrupt the automotive market by trying to change the global preference towards greener electric vehicles. However, is Tesla’s approach towards this niche market by manufacturing models...
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...the Institutional Revolutionary Party, (PRI). The movement from an authoritarian government system of the PRI to the liberal democracy initiated by the election victory of the National Action Party, (PAN), candidate, Vicente Fox, in 2000, disrupted the status quo. Election gains by PAN Representatives disrupted long standing agreements between the cartels and government officials which led to the increased violence that exists today. This paper will explore the history of the relationship between the cartels and the PRI. The effect of the increased violence from the cartels inhibits the efforts of PAN party officials to establish a lasting democracy. Literature Review Research shows the three distinct stages in the development of a cohesive relationship between drug cartels and government in Mexico and identifies the political and economic conditions that have allowed the drug trade to thrive. Comparing Mexico with Columbia, another narcotics state, provides an additional case study on the subject matter and highlights actions utilized successfully. A review of the current political and military efforts to curtail corruption within the government provides a point of reference to facilitate an informed view of the current status. Research cannot predict the outcome of the battle for establishment of a lasting democracy, but seeks to suggest possible outcomes dependent on future elections and success of current political efforts. The following literature review traces the history...
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...42 Appendix 2: Company Scores Explained 44 Appendix 3: Company Data Center Facilities and Estimates of Power Demand 64 Notes 78 03 4 © Frank van Biemen / EvoSwitch / Greenpeace Greenpeace USA Clicking Clean: How Companies are Creating the Green Internet Executive Summary Executive Summary For the estimated 2.5 billion people around the world who are connected to the internet, it is impossible to imagine life without it. The internet has rewoven the fabric of our daily lives – how we communicate with each other, work and entertain ourselves – and become a foundation of the global economy. Seemingly on a daily basis, new businesses that use the internet as their foundation are disrupting and often replacing long-standing business models and industries. From music and video to communications and...
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...Why is it important to solve? B. The political and economic affect 1. Loss of recreational use 2. Loss of hydroelectricity 3. Possible damages from Flooding 4. Possible political reactions from Indian communities (CNN, 2008) 5. Possible political reaction from the dependent communities This section will look at the possible effect on both the Indian and local communities that use the dam. What the actual ramifications of keeping the dam at low water levels would mean. Also explore the political drama that it could create of nothing is done. C. Possible Solutions 1. Monetary settlement (NY Times, 2009) 2. Relocation of site 3. Building Protective Structure 4. Leaving alone, status quo This section will look at possible solutions. The feasibility of each solution given. Also who would be responsible for the cost? IV. Conclusion: Address the need for mutual respect among different cultures and the importance of compromise during disputes. (CNN, 2013) The Indians and the Dam Struggles with the American Indian are well documented in history. From the time European colonist started to settled in the Americas, to the fierce battles over land in 1800’s and 1900’s, to modern day legal conflicts it seems the United States in one way or another finds itself in some type of clash with its original citizens....
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