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Scheller, Robert, and Rajan Parajuli. "Forest Management for Climate Change in New England and the Klamath Ecoregions: Motivations, Practices, and Barriers." Forests 9, no. 10 (October 11, 2018): 626. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f9100626.
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Understanding perceptions and attitudes of forest managers toward climate change and climate adaptive forest management is crucial, as they are expected to implement changes to forest resource management. We assessed the perceptions of forest managers toward climate adaptive forest management practices through a survey of forest managers working in private firms and public agencies in New England and the Klamath ecoregion (northern California and southwestern Oregon). We analyzed the motivations, actions, and potential barriers to action of forest managers toward climate adaptive forest management practices. Results suggest that managing for natural regeneration is the most common climate adaptive forest management approach considered by forest managers in both regions. Lack of information about the best strategies for reducing climate change risks, lack of education and awareness among the clients, and perceived client costs were forest managers’ primary barriers to climate adaptive management. Our findings suggest useful insights toward the policy and program design in climate adaptive forest management for both areas.
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Calver, Mike. "Adaptive Environmental Management: A Practitioner’s Guide." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 1 (2011): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110078a.
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AS Stankey and Allan explain in their concise but informative introduction, “Adaptive management is characterized by both a compelling and intuitive simplicity (we learn by doing) as well as a growing sophisticated and elegant theoretical discourse.” It offers the promise of using policy implementation to improve understanding of natural systems and thereby to direct future changes to policy and practice. The challenge for managers is to identify the operational practicalities that lie between the attractive concept and the theory. The aim of this book is to examine that challenge through case studies of the real-world application of adaptive management in a range of settings, including examples relevant to managers, policy makers and environmental scientists. The approach is not prescriptive, but rather to reflect on experience as a guide to future practice.
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Ahmad, Bilal, Muhammad Imad ud Din Akbar, Mirza Huzaifa Asif, and Naila Nureen. "An investigation of sales managers’ aggressiveness in B2B sales leadership: The sequential mediation model of emotional exhaustion and adaptive selling." Management Science Letters 11, no. 8 (2021): 2243–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5267/j.msl.2021.4.005.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of sales managers’ aggressiveness on ethical sales leadership and salesperson performance in B2B context, taking into consideration the sequential mediation of emotional labor and adaptive selling behavior. Sales managers spend most of their time in solving salesforce-related issues, while empirical studies have largely neglected such factors that can have negative consequences on salesforce-related tasks. In order to overcome this gap in the literature, we draw from conservation of resources (COR) theory to introduce and establish an advanced theoretical paradigm. The authors tested the model through 336 responses from B2B salesperson-manager dyads. The findings of the study reveal that sales managers’ aggressiveness has a negative association with ethical sales leadership. Also, sales managers’ aggressiveness is positively related to emotional exhaustion and negatively related to salesperson performance. Consequently, we found significant serial mediation of ethical sales leadership and adaptive selling behavior between the relationship of sales managers’ aggressiveness and salesperson performance. In last, manager decisiveness is playing as a significant moderator in the study. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are also discussed.
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Gogu, Madalina-Cristina. "Emergency situations, adaptive management and national health strategies." Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues 6, no. 2 (February 22, 2017): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjs.v6i2.1480.
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Terrible natural disasters or dangerous human activities endanger the life and health of the population. The increased frequency of these events prompts the population to exert greater pressure on public managers to rethink, to innovate, and to adapt management in the field of health to the ever-changing environment. The National Health Strategy and the National Strategy for Preventing Emergency Situations are the instruments that manage the life and health of the population in dangerous situations. Managers in the fields of health and emergency situations could develop new ways to manage strategies and public institutions by applying adaptive management in order to better protect the life and health of the population. The aim of this paper consists in presenting that, by applying strategic and adaptive management in the public sector in the fields of health and emergency situations in Romania, public managers can better serve the needs of the citizens.
Keywords: public administration, national health strategy, emergency situations, adaptive management
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KOVAL, Myroslav, and Larysa RUDENKO. "Future manager�s professional communicative interaction training." Scientific Bulletin of Flight Academy. Section: Pedagogical Sciences 10 (2021): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33251/2522-1477-2021-10-27-33.
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Modern dynamic transformations in the state naturally affect the growth of social demands for the quality of management processes in various sectors of the economy. Accordingly, the need to improve future managers� training at higher schools is highlighted. Due to the fact that the profession of a manager belongs to communicative professions, among the requirements for specialists in this field, the ability to communicate effectively is important. The article substantiates the necessity to take into account socio-adaptive, status-role aspects and aspects of self-expression while training future managers for professional communicative interaction; the above-mentioned aspects are considered in the context of their socio-professional adaptation to the professional environment. The social-adaptive aspect reflects the management specialist�s orientation on professional self-improvement by revealing the inner personal potential, the desire for continuous self-development in management activities. The status-role aspect of future managers� preparation for professional communicative interaction combines functional and social contexts of management activities and is focused on the students� readiness to perform efficiently socio-professional roles in the labor environment. The aspect of self-expression is related to the acquisition of self-presentation skills, which, based on self-assessment and self-regulation of a manager during communicative interaction, reflects the level of a manager�s ability to coordinate communicative actions and dependence on the system of internal means of their regulation. Taking these aspects into account while training future managers at higher schools will provide a basis for the implementation of efficient business relations in the labor environment, which will positively affect the process of management specialists� adaptation to professional conditions and improve the quality of management processes in general. Key words: higher school; professional training; future managers; professional adaptation; communicative interaction.
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Tsui, Anne S., and Susan J. Ashford. "Adaptive Self-regulation: A Process View of Managerial Effectiveness." Journal of Management 20, no. 1 (April 1994): 93–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014920639402000105.
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This article describes a set of processes involved in attaining managerial effectiveness. These processes are components of an adaptive self-regulation framework. They involve the active management of constituencies' role expectations and performance opinions through standard-setting, discrepancy-detection, and discrepancy-reduction. These processes serve to enhance constituents' opinions of the manager's effectiveness. Several social and contextual factors that either facilitate or inhibit managers' self-regulation efforts are identified and hypotheses to guide future empirical research are offered.
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Baskerville, G. "Adaptive Management Wood Availability and Habitat Availability." Forestry Chronicle 61, no. 2 (April 1, 1985): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc61171-2.
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Adaptive management uses well-defined feedback loops to design actions and track the effects resulting from actions. The adaptive process maximizes the managers' learning about the system, and is consequently a safe approach to initiating management in complex systems. By its nature adaptive management requires quantitatively explicit hypothesis about system function and structure. This requirement is both the greatest limitation to its use and the greatest benefit. The emerging application of the adaptive approach in the control of wood availability is discussed and comparison is drawn to the control of wildlife habitat availability. Key words: Renewable Resource Management. Management Planning Forest Management Methods.
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Shi, Yun Li. "Water Resources Adaptive Management to Cope with Uncertainty." Advanced Materials Research 955-959 (June 2014): 3166–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.955-959.3166.
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Water resources managers shall fully consider about the complexity of managed system, especially the uncertainty, which requires adaptive management. This paper describes the connotation, principles, composition and conditions for implementation etc of adaptive management, which emphasizes concepts of uncertainty, surprises and resilence, and is a cycle process of formulating, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, feedback and adjusting policies. Water resources adaptive management requires guarantee of policies, laws, finance and information etc, and has a broad prospect of coping with climate changes and restoring river ecology etc.
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Reschreiter, Rebecca. "New Insights of Profile Oriented Marketing and Adaption Management for a Future-Oriented City Development." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3, no. 2 (2017): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.32.1003.
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The world is changing fast, and cities are facing complex transitions in economic, social and environmental areas. Therefore, the design of city systems will play an essential role in shaping a sustainable, innovative and livable future. Adaptive urban profiling was recently presented as a useful tool for municipals to enhance sustainable city development. It builds upon profile oriented marketing while including elements of adaption management. Thus, city managers can increase their cities attractiveness by providing it with a clear profile that is recognized around the world on the one hand, while flexibly adapting to change if necessary. Only an integrated approach that puts people first can hope to succeed on a global scale. In this paper, an action-oriented model for strengthening and accelerating futureoriented city development is designed in the light of current and future challenges of urbanization. Already existing successful marketing, i.e. profile-oriented marketing, and management models, i.e. adaptive management are adapted from organizations and are sharpened and enriched in their application to cities. The focus lies on the usability of these marketing concepts to increase the sustainability and development quality of urban spaces within city structures. This work addresses city planners and public managers and shall help them prioritize and tackle next innovative and future steps to establish and foster a clearly structured future vision and profile to guarantee a high quality of living and sustainable urban development. A new dynamic profiling model, i.e. the adaptive urban profiling model, shall increase the visibility and uniqueness of competitive sustainable and future-oriented urban structures and provide solutions to optimize the urban living environment.
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Chavez, Deborah J. "Adaptive Management in Outdoor Recreation: Serving Hispanics in Southern California." Western Journal of Applied Forestry 17, no. 3 (July 1, 2002): 129–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wjaf/17.3.129.
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Abstract Traditional management approaches may not be applicable to ethnically diverse visitor populations; consequently, approaches to resource management may need to be changed. One approach, called adaptive management, is a technique that uses scientific information to help formulate management strategies and a process for continually improving management practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs. This article describes the adaptive management process as it was used to serve Hispanic recreation visitors at the Applewhite Picnic Area (AWPA) on the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California. Three studies have been conducted at this site to gather information. AWPA managers used the data to renovate the picnic area and to provide management direction, and managers are currently implementing ideas based on the results of this study; these ideas include adding an art log, adding a sports area, and preventing trespass at the site. West. J. Appl. For. 17(3):129–133.
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Gogu, Madalina-Cristina. "Adaptive management: from ecology to public administration." Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues 6, no. 2 (February 22, 2017): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjs.v6i2.1479.
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Plants, organisms, and the environment in which they live influence one another, and on this relationship depends the survival of a species. Man recently started paying special attention to ecology: this fact has led to the development of adaptive management as an answer to the unpredictable development of the species and has also highlighted the importance of protecting the environment. This paper presents a theoretical and a practical perspective on the adaptive management which is applied in ecosystems and shows the possibilities for implementing adaptive management in public administration, thus transforming it into an adaptive administration with added use of adaptive administration theory. The aim of this work is to approach adaptive management from a historical point of view and to follow its transference from ecology to public administration. The expected result is that public managers will develop new methods to manage public administration for the benefit of the citizens.
Keywords: ecosystems, public administration, adaptive management
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Briggs, David, Mary Cruickshank, and Penny Paliadelis. "Health managers and health reform." Journal of Management & Organization 18, no. 5 (September 2012): 641–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2012.18.5.641.
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AbstractThis qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of parts controlled by bureaucrats and political interests. While the respondents enjoyed their managerial role, they see it as contested between the professions. This study concluded that greater emphasis on the education and training of health managers and their continuing professional development is required if they are to manage increasingly complex, dynamic and changing health systems. In Australia, the health debate continues with the recently announced national health reform agenda. The perceptions of health managers in health reform and change management are important given that they are said to be central to the implementation of health reform and the management of change.
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Radhakrishnan, Abirami, John Stephen Davis, and Dessa David. "Examining the Critical Success Factors in IT Projects." International Journal of Information Technology Project Management 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.290423.
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Many companies experience IT project failures in relatively new areas such as Big Data, Data Science, Enterprise Systems, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, IT security, and IoT. Because of inadequate research in identifying critical success factors for these projects, we conducted a Delphi study employing separate panels for each of two kinds of project implementations, those using a predictive lifecycle approach and those using an adaptive lifecycle approach. We found common critical success factors: user/client involvement, senior management support, effective monitoring and control, effective communication and feedback, good change and configuration management, having a competent project manager, proper project leadership, and excellent vendor performance. Both predictive and adaptive lifecycle IT projects had certain unique critical success factors. The findings provide guidance to IT Project Managers.
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Briggs, David, Mary Cruickshank, and Penny Paliadelis. "Health managers and health reform." Journal of Management & Organization 18, no. 5 (September 2012): 641–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200000584.
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AbstractThis qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of parts controlled by bureaucrats and political interests. While the respondents enjoyed their managerial role, they see it as contested between the professions. This study concluded that greater emphasis on the education and training of health managers and their continuing professional development is required if they are to manage increasingly complex, dynamic and changing health systems. In Australia, the health debate continues with the recently announced national health reform agenda. The perceptions of health managers in health reform and change management are important given that they are said to be central to the implementation of health reform and the management of change.
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McPherson, Blair. "Agile, adaptive leaders." Human Resource Management International Digest 24, no. 2 (March 14, 2016): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/hrmid-11-2015-0171.
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Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate what agile management looks like, why it is increasingly necessary and how it can be developed and supported. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study from a large complex organization (Lancashire County Council) showing how management restructuring increased managers ' spans of responsibility, moving them out of their professional comfort zones, and how in response, the organization identified, supported and developed agile leadership. Findings – Agile, adaptive leaders are able to move quickly and easily from one area of management to another, able to manage a diverse range of complex services and able to quickly and smoothly adapt to a fast-changing business environment. Research limitations/implications – This is a case study from a large complex public sector organization, but the need for agile and adaptive leaders applies equally to the private and not-for-profit sectors. Originality/value – This paper offers insights into the changing role of management across a diverse range of services and provides an example of how organizations can successfully respond.
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Feldman, David L., and Helen M. Ingram. "Making Science Useful to Decision Makers: Climate Forecasts, Water Management, and Knowledge Networks." Weather, Climate, and Society 1, no. 1 (October 1, 2009): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009wcas1007.1.
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Abstract Moving from climate science to adaptive action is an immense challenge, especially in highly institutionalized sectors such as water resources. Knowledge networks are valuable strategies to put climate information to use. They overcome barriers to information adoption such as stovepipes, pipelines, and restricted decision space, and they can be responsive to issues of salience and the hurdles of reliability, credibility, and trust. Collaboration and adaptive management efforts among resource managers and forecast producers with differing missions show that mutual learning informed by climate information can occur among scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds and between scientists and water managers. The authors show how, through construction of knowledge networks and their institutionalization through boundary organizations focused on salient problems, climate information can positively affect water resources decision making.
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Nechyporenko, Valentyna, and Valentyna Yastrebova. "DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL READINESS OF EDUCATION MANAGERS FOR SYSTEMIC ORGANIZATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION." Scientific journal of Khortytsia National Academy No. 1 (2019), no. 1 (2019): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.51706/2707-3076-2019-1-12.
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The article analyzes the results of scientific research and innovative educational practice in Ukraine and foreign countries. These results highlight the urgency of the problem related to the development of professional readiness to the systematic organization of inclusive education among education managers. Based on the experience of Khortytsia National Educational Rehabilitation Academy, it was proved that the priority for the development of professional readiness among inclusive education managers is the educational and rehabilitation direction of postgraduate pedagogical education, the possibility to involve leading scientists and experienced practitioners who can demonstrate the inclusive management at work. The article gives arguments for the conceptual statement that an important prerequisite for the success of the inclusive managers’ activity is their professional understanding of the role played by the key specialists of the educational and rehabilitation area of expertise (primary school teachers, assistants of inclusive class teachers, assistants of rehabilitation teachers, tutors of special and inclusive educational institutions, speech therapists, defectologists, social teachers, practical psychologists, consultants of psycho- pedagogical medical institutions, physical therapists, rehabilitation therapists, inclusive education methodologists) in creation of inclusive general education space. The article analyses the content of refresher courses for managers of inclusive educational institutions, which is determined by the priorities of studying the modern theory of educational and rehabilitation management, particularly, advantages, limitations and specifics in the use of basic management approaches: systemic, strategic, program- targeted, adaptive, informational, participative, distributive and network management. Based on the analysis of practical experience, the article highlights possibilities for arranging postgraduate education courses under the "Inclusive Manager" program, which implies the use of interactive consulting forms of advanced training for managers: "Management in the Context of Inclusive Education" training courses, "Management of Inclusive Institution” workshop, organization of work for the "Studio of Inclusive Manager" innovative professional association, providing professional online communication and consulting of participants in the "Successful Head of Inclusive Education” blog.
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Watson, IW, DG Burnside, and AM Holm. "Event-Driven or Continuous; Which Is the Better Model for Managers?" Rangeland Journal 18, no. 2 (1996): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9960351.
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Over the past ten years or so, discussion of vegetation change in rangeland science has emphasised event- driven or episodic processes, occurring on timescales measured in decades or longer. Management recommendations arising from this literature have stressed that management must also be event-driven. This paper cautions against the uncritical acceptance of such a world view into management philosophies. We conclude that for management purposes, appropriate models of change in rangeland systems should include a balance between the effects of infrequent, unpredictable events and the effects of more continuous processes, measured in timescales of years or less. This may involve explicit recognition of multiple timescales in a hierarchical model system. We arrive at these conclusions from a number of perspectives. Firstly, a substantial proportion of total demographic change in shrub populations occurs between events. Secondly, managers are best able to devise appropriate management strategies by a process of adaptive management. This can only be successful if the adaptive cycles have a short return time. Thirdly, it is important that managers think of change as being continuous. Mental models held by managers must acknowledge the value of continuous change. This provides the best opportunity for acquiring knowledge through experience and helps prevent management inertia when faced with an event outside previous experience. Finally, management can take best advantage of a given event by 'conditioning' the resource. This can be thought of as managing within states, say by building up a seedbank, and provides the opportunity to alter the probability of a given event occurring.
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Côté, Marc-André, Daniel Kneeshaw, Luc Bouthillier, and Christian Messier. "Increasing partnerships between scientists and forest managers: Lessons from an ongoing interdisciplinary project in Québec." Forestry Chronicle 77, no. 1 (February 1, 2001): 85–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc77085-1.
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Adaptive management presupposes stronger links between scientists and forest managers in order to adapt research processes and findings to production activities. Partnerships between these two groups are starting to emerge in the forest sector in Quebec. However, local forest managers have not always had the occasion in the past to contribute to research processes. Moreover, scientists have not always had the opportunity to harmonize all their respective research projects at the local level. This research project was thus aimed at establishing a link between local forest managers and scientists in order to direct research projects towards local needs and concerns. The purpose of establishing this contact between local forest managers and scientists was to create opportunities for inter-disciplinary research projects. This experiment demonstrated that the roles and attitudes of scientists and forest managers still need to evolve in order to increase the chances for successful partnerships between these two groups. On the one hand, forest managers need to view research (1) as part of their daily activities and (2) as bringing benefit in the long-term. On the other hand scientists must (1) invest time in understanding what the forest managers are doing and (2) consider forest managers as equal partners with useful knowledge and skills in developing the research questions and protocols. Key words: adaptive management, interdisciplinary research, collaborative learning, sustainable forestry
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Fu, Guangtao, Guangheng Ni, and Chi Zhang. "Recent Advances in Adaptive Catchment Management and Reservoir Operation." Water 11, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11030427.
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This editorial introduces the latest research advances in the special issue on catchment management and reservoir operations. River catchments and reservoirs play a central role in water security, community wellbeing and social-economic prosperity, but their operators and managers are under increasing pressures to meet the challenges from population growth, economic activities and changing climates in many parts of the world. This challenge is tackled from various aspects in the 27 papers included in this special issue. A synthesis of these papers is provided, focusing on four themes: reservoir dynamics and impacts, optimal reservoir operation, climate change impacts, and integrated modelling and management. The contributions are discussed in the broader context of the field and future research directions are identified to achieve sustainable and resilient catchment management.
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Oleksenko, Olena. "Pedagogical Conditions of Training Future Managers of Foreign Economic Activity for Cross-Cultural Communication." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 65 (December 2015): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.65.27.
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The study reveals the pedagogical conditions of training future managers of foreign economic activity for cross-cultural communication. The analysis of the scientific research in this field has shown that the essence of the pedagogical conditions has not been generalized or systemized yet. On the base of the invariable vectors of the pedagogical process, the pedagogical conditions of training future managers of foreign economic activity for cross-cultural communication are outlined. They are: creating multicultural surrounding in the process of training managers for gaining experience in cross-cultural communication (organization); adaptive gradual management of the educational activity with due regards for personal, professional, communicative qualities of future managers of foreign economic activity (management); subject and subject interaction, directed at the optimal management of cross-cultural conflicts (communication).
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Ahearne, Michael, Son K. Lam, and Florian Kraus. "Performance impact of middle managers' adaptive strategy implementation: The role of social capital." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 1 (April 2, 2013): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.2086.
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Hagell, Suzanne, and Christine A. Ribic. "Barriers to climate-adaptive management: A survey of wildlife researchers and managers in Wisconsin." Wildlife Society Bulletin 38, no. 4 (July 21, 2014): 672–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wsb.459.
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Hychka, Kristen, and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke. "Adaptive Management of Urban Ecosystem Restoration: Learning From Restoration Managers in Rhode Island, USA." Society & Natural Resources 30, no. 11 (May 8, 2017): 1358–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1315653.
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KWASNIAK, ARLENE J. "USE AND ABUSE OF ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT LAW AND PRACTICE: A CANADIAN EXAMPLE AND GENERAL LESSONS." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 12, no. 04 (December 2010): 425–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333210003723.
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Adaptive management theory recognises that we cannot make foolproof predictions of environmental impacts of human interventions into complex ecosystems. It mandates that environmental managers retain the ability to respond to change and inaccurate predictions. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) authorises government to implement adaptive management into project follow-up. A key Canadian court decision has interpreted this to mean that adaptive management enables projects to proceed when mitigation measures are uncertain, that could be used in tempering the significance of impacts, and that it offsets the impact of the precautionary principle. Taking a legal perspective, the paper discusses how adaptive management may benefit environmental assessment, how the CEAA uses it, how a court has misinterpreted its role in the CEAA, and how it relates to the precautionary principle. In closing the paper sets out general lessons from the Canadian experience for the use of adaptive management in environmental assessment generally.
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Abu ELSamen, Amjad, and Mamoun N. Akroush. "How customer orientation enhances salespeople’s performance? A case study from an international market." Benchmarking: An International Journal 25, no. 7 (October 1, 2018): 2460–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bij-05-2017-0101.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of salespeople’s customer orientation on the relationship between sales manager personal characteristics, fellow salespeople’s characteristics, job satisfaction and adaptive selling and salespeople’s performance in the insurance industry in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach A structured and self-administered survey was employed targeting 500 insurance salespeople working at insurance companies operating in Jordan. The final sample size was 320 salespeople representing a response rate of 64 percent. A Confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the research constructs dimensions, unidimensionality, validity and composite reliability. Structural path analysis was also used to test the hypothesized relationships of the research model. Findings The empirical findings indicate that salespeople’s customer orientation fully mediates the effect of fellow salespeople’s characteristics and adaptive selling on salespeople’s performance. Sales managers’ personal characteristics have a direct effect on salespeople’s performance, contrary to job satisfaction that had no effect on salespeople’s performance. Research limitations/implications This paper has examined only five factors that affected directly and indirectly salespeople’s performance; meanwhile other factors may affect their performance, such as salespeople experience, internal marketing and corporate image. Additionally, the fact that paper’s sample consisted only of insurance salespeople working at insurance companies limits its generalization potential to other industries. Practical implications The findings emphasize the importance of fostering good relationships among fellow salespeople’s characteristics and adaptive selling strategies. Further, sales managers’ personal characteristics directly affecting salespeople’s performance signifies the importance to hire managers with the right personal approach. Originality/value This paper represents one of the early attempts that investigate factors affecting salespeople’s performance through the mediating role of customer orientation. Accordingly, the findings shed more light into the strategic role of this construct in enhancing salespeople’s performance. Also, the paper is the first of its kind to build and examine an integrated model of salespeople’s performance in the insurance market of Jordan, which provides valuable empirical evidence concerning the drivers of salespeople’s performance in the insurance industry in Jordan.
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Blomme, Robert J. "Leadership, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Equivocality: The Role of Managers in Emergent Change." Organization Management Journal 9, no. 1 (April 2012): 4–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15416518.2012.666946.
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Birknerová, Zuzana, and Ivan Uher. "Assessment of Management Competencies According to Coherence with Managers’ Personalities." Sustainability 14, no. 1 (December 24, 2021): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14010170.
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The objective of our investigation was to verify a questionnaire’s suitability in identifying managerial competencies concerning managers’ personality characteristics. Methods: For the content validity of the questionnaire assessment of managerial competencies (AMC23), we investigated its coherence with the appraisal of the management style methodology, i.e., managerial grid (MG), with correlation analysis. The existence of statistically significant relationships between the assessment of managerial competencies and managers’ personality characteristics was determined using Pearson’s correlation coefficient concerning the BIG-5 model. Results: In total, 573 managers participated in this study. Our examination concludes that motivational competencies correlated positively with the compromise and cooperative style; performance competencies with the competitive and cooperative style; and social competencies with the cooperative, adaptive, and compromise style. Not least, target competencies positively correlated with the competitive and cooperative style. Further, neuroticism negatively correlated with social managerial competence, extraversion, and openness to experience, which positively correlated with motivational and target competence. Friendliness was positively associated with social competence, and diligentness positively correlated with motivational, performance, and target competence. Conclusion: We determined significant correlations between managerial competencies (AMC23) and managerial style (MG). Our findings might have implications for further investigation and the development of more comprehensive instruments to assess managerial competencies in connection with managers’ personalities. We point out the need for further research to verify, improve, and constitute a model that further elucidates and explains managerial competencies.
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Calver, Mike. "Amphibian Biology, Volume 8." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 1 (2011): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110078.
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AS Stankey and Allan explain in their concise but informative introduction, “Adaptive management is characterized by both a compelling and intuitive simplicity (we learn by doing) as well as a growing sophisticated and elegant theoretical discourse.” It offers the promise of using policy implementation to improve understanding of natural systems and thereby to direct future changes to policy and practice. The challenge for managers is to identify the operational practicalities that lie between the attractive concept and the theory. The aim of this book is to examine that challenge through case studies of the real-world application of adaptive management in a range of settings, including examples relevant to managers, policy makers and environmental scientists. The approach is not prescriptive, but rather to reflect on experience as a guide to future practice.
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Lounsbury, John W., Eric D. Sundstrom, Lucy W. Gibson, James M. Loveland, and Adam W. Drost. "Core personality traits of managers." Journal of Managerial Psychology 31, no. 2 (March 14, 2016): 434–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmp-03-2014-0092.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically compare managers with employees in other occupations on Big Five and narrow personality traits to identify a distinctive personality profile for managers. Design/methodology/approach – An archival data set representing employees in a wide range of business sectors and organizations was utilized to compare trait scores of 9,138 managers with 76,577 non-managerial employees. Profile analysis (PA) with MANOVA and analysis of covariance was used to compare managers and non-managers on Big Five traits Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability; and narrow traits Assertiveness, Optimism, Work Drive, and Customer Service Orientation. Findings – As hypothesized, compared to non-managers, managers had significantly higher scores across nine traits, all of which correlated significantly with managerial career satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – Although job tenure and managerial level are not examined, the findings align with managerial competence models, the Attraction-Selection-Attrition model, and vocational theory and raise questions for research on the adaptive value of these traits for managers’ satisfaction and effectiveness. Practical implications – The results carry practical implications for selection, placement, training, career planning for managers, and particularly for their professional development. Social implications – A distinctive personality profile for managers clarifies the occupational identity of managers, which contributes to public and professional understanding of managers and their roles. Originality/value – This study is original in reporting an empirical, theoretically grounded personality profile of managers that includes both Big Five and narrow traits.
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Prudencio, Liana, Ryan Choi, Emily Esplin, Muyang Ge, Natalie Gillard, Jeffrey Haight, Patrick Belmont, and Courtney Flint. "The Impacts of Wildfire Characteristics and Employment on the Adaptive Management Strategies in the Intermountain West." Fire 1, no. 3 (November 30, 2018): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire1030046.
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Widespread development and shifts from rural to urban areas within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) has increased fire risks to local populations, as well as introduced complex and long-term costs and benefits to communities. We use an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how trends in fire characteristics influence adaptive management and economies in the Intermountain Western US (IMW). Specifically, we analyze area burned and fire frequency in the IMW over time, how fires in urban or rural settings influence local economies and whether fire trends and economic impacts influence managers’ perspectives and adaptive decision-making. Our analyses showed some increasing fire trends at multiple levels. Using a non-parametric event study model, we evaluated the effects of fire events in rural and urban areas on county-level private industry employment, finding short- and long-term positive effects of fire on employment at several scales and some short-term negative effects for specific sectors. Through interviewing 20 fire managers, we found that most recognize increasing fire trends and that there are both positive and negative economic effects of fire. We also established that many of the participants are implementing adaptive fire management strategies and we identified key challenges to mitigating increasing fire risk in the IMW.
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Lambin, Xavier, David Burslem, Paul Caplat, Thomas Cornulier, Gabriella Damasceno, Laura Fasola, Alessandra Fidelis, et al. "CONTAIN: Optimising the long-term management of invasive alien species using adaptive management." NeoBiota 59 (August 5, 2020): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.59.52022.
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Invasive Alien Species (IAS) threaten biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services, modify landscapes and impose costs to national economies. Management efforts are underway globally to reduce these impacts, but little attention has been paid to optimising the use of the scarce available resources when IAS are impossible to eradicate, and therefore population reduction and containment of their advance are the only feasible solutions. CONTAIN, a three-year multinational project involving partners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the UK, started in 2019. It develops and tests, via case study examples, a decision-making toolbox for managing different problematic IAS over large spatial extents. Given that vast areas are invaded, spatial prioritisation of management is necessary, often based on sparse data. In turn, these characteristics imply the need to make the best decisions possible under likely heavy uncertainty. Our decision-support toolbox will integrate the following components: (i) the relevant environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts, including their spatial distribution; (ii) the spatio-temporal dynamics of the target IAS (focusing on dispersal and population recovery); (iii) the relationship between the abundance of the IAS and its impacts; (iv) economic methods to estimate both benefits and costs to inform the spatial prioritisation of cost-effective interventions. To ensure that our approach is relevant for different contexts in Latin America, we are working with model species having contrasting modes of dispersal, which have large environmental and/or economic impacts, and for which data already exist (invasive pines, privet, wasps, and American mink). We will also model plausible scenarios for data-poor pine and grass species, which impact local people in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. We seek the most effective strategic management actions supported by empirical data on the species’ population dynamics and dispersal that underpin reinvasion, and on intervention costs in a spatial context. Our toolbox serves to identify key uncertainties driving the systems, and especially to highlight gaps where new data would most effectively reduce uncertainty on the best course of action. The problems we are tackling are complex, and we are embedding them in a process of co-operative adaptive management, so that both researchers and managers continually improve their effectiveness by confronting different models to data. Our project is also building research capacity in Latin America by sharing knowledge/information between countries and disciplines (i.e., biological, social and economic), by training early-career researchers through research visits, through our continuous collaboration with other researchers and by training and engaging stakeholders via workshops. Finally, all these activities will establish an international network of researchers, managers and decision-makers. We expect that our lessons learned will be of use in other regions of the world where complex and inherently context-specific realities shape how societies deal with IAS.
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Kang, Lakhwinder Singh, and Surinder Sharma. "Managerial Skills and Attitude of MBA and Non-MBA Employees." Management and Labour Studies 37, no. 2 (May 2012): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0258042x1203700201.
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The present study is an attempt to assess the perceptions of the hiring managers about the managerial skills and attitude of the MBA employees in comparison to the non-MBA employees. A sample of 100 hiring managers, who have been involved in the placement of MBAs, was taken for the purpose of the study. The hiring managers have been found agreeing that employees with MBA degree are better in ‘communication skills’, ‘decision making’, ‘leadership qualities’, ‘handle job related tasks and responsibilities’, ‘learning’ and ‘adapting to changing situations’ than non-MBA employees. The hiring managers have also been found agreeing that MBA employees ‘demand higher pay’, ‘change jobs more frequently’, ‘are more authoritarian’, ‘have unrealistic expectations’, ‘are more loyal to their careers than to their jobs and organizations’ than non-MBA employees. The discriminant analytical approach has been applied to examine the impact of the ‘profile’ and ‘attributes’ examined in the study which clearly differentiate hiring managers who agree with the good managerial skills of MBAs and negative attitude of MBAs from those who disagree with these. In case of ‘profile’ the managers with MBA qualification and regarding the various attributes of MBAs considered in the present study; ‘MBAs are more adaptive to changing situations’ and ‘MBAs change jobs more frequently than non-MBA employees’ have been found evoking significant differences among hiring managers. The findings of the present study can be useful for various stakeholders like, monitoring agencies and education policy makers, faculty and governing bodies of various management institutes for developing required management skills and attitudes among the students.
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Wiese, Francis K., and R. John Nelson. "Pathways between Climate, Fish, Fisheries, and Management: A Conceptual Integrated Ecosystem Management Approach." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10, no. 3 (February 28, 2022): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse10030338.
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The abundance and distribution of marine fishes is influenced by environmental conditions, predator–prey relationships, multispecies interactions, and direct human impacts, such as fishing. The adaptive response of the system depends on its structure and the pathways that link environmental factors to the taxon in question. The “Star Diagram” is a socio-ecological model of marine ecosystems that depicts the general pathways between climate, fish, and fisheries, and their intersection with climate policy and resource management. We illustrate its use by identifying the key factors, pathways and drivers that influence walleye pollock, crab, and sockeye salmon, under a warming scenario on the eastern Bering Sea shelf. This approach predicts that all three species will see reduced populations under a long-term warming scenario. Going forward, the challenge to managers is to balance the magnitude of the effect of harvest and the adaptability of their management system, with the scale and degree of resilience and the behavioral, physiological, or evolutionary adaptation of the ecosystem and its constituents. The Star Diagram provides a novel conceptual construct that managers can use to visualize and integrate the various aspects of the system into a holistic, socio-ecological management framework.
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Tabiu, Abubakar, Faizuniah Pangil, and Siti Zubaidah Othman. "Does Training, Job Autonomy and Career Planning Predict Employees’ Adaptive Performance?" Global Business Review 21, no. 3 (June 26, 2018): 713–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972150918779159.
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Despite the importance of adaptive performance towards enhancing organizational effectiveness, the role of organizational human resource management (HRM) practices as predictors of adaptive performance remains unexplored. This study examined the predictive influence of training, career planning and job autonomy on employees’ adaptive performance. The study employed a survey method coupled with stratified sampling technique among 265 local government employees in Nigeria. The partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was performed. The study revealed that training, career planning and job autonomy significantly influence employees’ adaptive performance. The results suggested that greater the attention given to employees’ training, career planning and job autonomy in the organization, higher will be their adaptive performance. It was identified that HRM practices are important predictors of employees’ adaptive performance that managers and practitioners need to consider in promoting higher adaptive behaviours in the organization. Implications of the study and future research on HRM practices and adaptive performance are discussed in this article.
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Fraser, Cynthia, and Robert E. Hite. "An Adaptive Utility Approach for Improved Use of Marketing Models." Journal of Marketing 52, no. 4 (October 1988): 96–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224298805200409.
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A decision-making approach integrating information from managerial experience with that provided by marketing models is proposed. The approach suggests that managers should learn to value more those marketing control variable levels that have been linked to favorable changes in performance in order to make more effective and profitable decisions.
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Kagwanja, Nancy, Dennis Waithaka, Jacinta Nzinga, Benjamin Tsofa, Mwanamvua Boga, Hassan Leli, Christine Mataza, Lucy Gilson, Sassy Molyneux, and Edwine Barasa. "Shocks, stress and everyday health system resilience: experiences from the Kenyan coast." Health Policy and Planning 35, no. 5 (February 26, 2020): 522–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaa002.
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Abstract Health systems are faced with a wide variety of challenges. As complex adaptive systems, they respond differently and sometimes in unexpected ways to these challenges. We set out to examine the challenges experienced by the health system at a sub-national level in Kenya, a country that has recently undergone rapid devolution, using an ‘everyday resilience’ lens. We focussed on chronic stressors, rather than acute shocks in examining the responses and organizational capacities underpinning those responses, with a view to contributing to the understanding of health system resilience. We drew on learning and experiences gained through working with managers using a learning site approach over the years. We also collected in-depth qualitative data through informal observations, reflective meetings and in-depth interviews with middle-level managers (sub-county and hospital) and peripheral facility managers (n = 29). We analysed the data using a framework approach. Health managers reported a wide range of health system stressors related to resource scarcity, lack of clarity in roles and political interference, reduced autonomy and human resource management. The health managers adopted absorptive, adaptive and transformative strategies but with mixed effects on system functioning. Everyday resilience seemed to emerge from strategies enacted by managers drawing on a varying combination of organizational capacities depending on the stressor and context.
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Moores, Len, and Sean Dolter. "Forest management planning in Newfoundland and Labrador: The Western Newfoundland Model Forest contribution." Forestry Chronicle 78, no. 5 (October 1, 2002): 655–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc78655-5.
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The management of forests has dramatically changed in the past few decades. Forest managers no longer can prepare and implement forest management plans in isolation of other resource values and local citizens. Today, the economic, ecological and social values are blended together into sustainable forest management. Finding a balance among these values in Newfoundland and Labrador is done through local district planning teams. The team participants need to understand the principles of sustainable forest management and the overall planning process. A primary focus of the Western Newfoundland Model Forest has been to support planning teams through the development of management tools to enhance management of the Provinces forest ecosystems. The Model forest program will continue to test, document and transfer new and innovative management options to forest managers. Key words: adaptive management, consensus, sustainable forest management, planning teams, public involvement, model forests
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Casanueva, Cristobal, Angeles Gallego, and Maria Angeles Revilla. "Access and mobilization of network resources and competitive advantage in hotels." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 27, no. 6 (August 10, 2015): 1279–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-03-2013-0144.
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Purpose – This paper aims to advance a model that will explain how hotel firms access and mobilize external resources. Hotel operators and firms need to complement their internal resources with external resources, which they can access through their personal and organizational ties, so as to compete and to achieve success. Design/methodology/approach – A framework is proposed, on the basis of the resource-based view and network theory, to explain the process of access and mobilization of available external resources thanks to the professional and social ties of the managers of hotel firms. Findings – This framework distinguishes between access to network resources and their mobilization. This paper introduces network resource mobilization capability as an adaptive capability of managers and employees that can improve hotel firm performance. Previous experience and contextual factors such as the type of property and the management style all influence the nature of this capability. Practical implications – This work proposes a repertory of relevant resources in hotels and the preparation of an instrument to measure access to those resources and their mobilization through social capital. It also proposes the need to develop a new dynamic capability: the capability to mobilize network resources in hotel firms through their managers. Finally, it proposes that social capital is a valuable resource for both hotel firms and their managers. Originality/value – This theoretical approach makes a key distinction between access to and mobilization of network resources, which leads to a better understanding of the potential of the individual social capital of hotel managers. Network resource mobilization capability is introduced as an adaptive capability of managers.
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James, Jeremy J., Brenda S. Smith, Edward A. Vasquez, and Roger L. Sheley. "Principles for Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management." Invasive Plant Science and Management 3, no. 3 (November 2010): 229–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/ipsm-d-09-00027.1.
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AbstractLand managers have long identified a critical need for a practical and effective framework for designing restoration strategies, especially where invasive plants dominate. A holistic, ecologically based, invasive plant management (EBIPM) framework that integrates ecosystem health assessment, knowledge of ecological processes, and adaptive management into a successional management model has recently been proposed. However, well-defined principles that link ecological processes that need to be repaired to tools and strategies available to managers have been slow to emerge, thus greatly limiting the ability of managers to easily apply EBIPM across a range of restoration scenarios. The broad objective of this article is to synthesize current knowledge of the mechanisms and processes that drive plant community succession into ecological principles for EBIPM. Using the core concepts of successional management that identify site availability, species availability, and species performance as three general drivers of plant community change, we detail key principles that link management tools used in EBIPM to the ecological processes predicted to influence the three general causes of succession. Although we acknowledge that identification of principles in ecology has greatly lagged behind other fields and recognize that identification of ecological principles and the conditions in which they hold are still being developed, we demonstrate how current knowledge and future advances can be used to structure a holistic EBIPM framework that can be applied across a range of restoration scenarios.
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Espinosa, Jennifer A., Donna Davis, James Stock, and Lisa Monahan. "Exploring the processing of product returns from a complex adaptive system perspective." International Journal of Logistics Management 30, no. 3 (August 12, 2019): 699–722. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-08-2018-0216.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the processing of product returns at five case companies using a complex adaptive systems (CAS) logic to identify agent interactions, organization, schema, learning and the emergence of adaptations in the reverse supply chain. Design/methodology/approach Using a multiple-case study design, this research applies abductive reasoning to examine data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews and direct researcher observations collected during site visits at case companies. Findings Costly or high-risk returns may require agents to specialize the depth of their mental schema. Processing agents need freedom to interact, self-organize and learn from other agents to generate emergent ideas and adapt. Practical implications Limiting the depth of individual agent schema allows managers to better allocate labor to processing product returns during peak volume. To boost adaptability, managers need to craft a dynamic environment that encourages agents with diverse schema to interact, anticipate, and self-organize to brainstorm new ideas. Managers need to resist the urge to “control” the dynamic environment that ensues. Originality/value This paper builds on existing research that studies the key decision points in the analysis of product returns by exploring how processing-agent behaviors can create adaptability in the reverse supply chain. Additionally, this research follows in the tradition of Choi et al. (2001) and Surana et al. (2005) and proposes the application of CAS to a specific part of the supply chain – the processing of product returns.
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REID, SCOTT E., and JEFFREY L. MARION. "Effectiveness of a confinement strategy for reducing campsite impacts in Shenandoah National Park." Environmental Conservation 31, no. 4 (December 2004): 274–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892904001602.
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The expansion and proliferation of backcountry campsites is a persistent problem in many parks and protected areas. Shenandoah National Park (SNP) has one of the highest backcountry overnight use densities in the USA national parks system. SNP managers implemented a multi-option backcountry camping policy in 2000 that included camping containment with established campsites. These actions were intended to reduce the number of campsites and the area of camping disturbance at each site. This paper describes a longitudinal adaptive management assessment of the new campsite policies, applying quantitative measures of campsite conditions to evaluate the efficacy of management interventions. Physical campsite measurements combined with qualitative visitor interviews indicated SNP had successfully reduced the number of campsites and aggregate measures of camping-related disturbance in the Park, while minimizing the use of regulations, site facilities and staff resources. Implications for managers of other protected areas are that an established site camping policy can minimize camping disturbance, including the number and size of campsites, provided managers can sustain rehabilitation efforts to close and restore unneeded campsites. Experiential attributes, such as the potential for solitude, can also be manipulated through control over the selection of established campsites. Integrating resource and social science methods also provided a more holistic perspective on management policy assessments. Adaptive management research provided a timely evaluation of management success while facilitating effective modifications in response to unforeseen challenges. Conclusions regarding the effectiveness of a visitor impact containment strategy involving an established site camping option are offered.
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Cheng, Kun, Shuai Wei, Qiang Fu, Wei Pei, and Tianxiao Li. "Adaptive management of water resources based on an advanced entropy method to quantify agent information." Journal of Hydroinformatics 21, no. 3 (February 21, 2019): 381–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2019.007.
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Abstract Adaptive management is currently an important method to optimize the management of complex water resources systems. Regional water resources adaptive management was conducted based on the advanced theory of a complex system multi-agent model; the state of an agent was tracked and modified by information entropy theory, which was improved by using individual standard deviations. With the goal of optimizing the adaptation of each agent of the region, water resources in the major grain production area of China were managed under the constraints of the total annual available water resources and water use efficiency requirements for 2015 and 2030. By introducing the adaptive water resources management in 2015, the domestic benefits and economic benefits increased by 2.90% and 14.81%, respectively, with respect to observed values. The ecological benefits declined by 3.63%, but ecological water demand was fully satisfied, and the ecological water environment was improved. Given the water use efficiency targets in 2030, applying adaptive management resulted in an increase of domestic, economic, and ecological benefits of 34.29%, 21.14%, and 1.78%, respectively. The results show that the adaptive management method presented can help managers to balance the benefits of various agents to determine the direction of water resources management decisions.
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de Bem, Roberta Moraes, Christianne Coelho de Souza Reinisch Coelho, and Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini. "Knowledge management framework to the university libraries." Library Management 37, no. 4/5 (June 13, 2016): 221–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-01-2016-0005.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a knowledge management framework for university libraries (named GC@BU). The framework consists of three modules: knowledge management coordination; knowledge resources; and learning commons, and uses as theoretical assumptions the design of an university library (developed for the context of the framework), the standards for libraries in higher education of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the characterization of the university library as a complex adaptive system (CAS). Design/methodology/approach – This framework was structured by a literature review and based on models, methodologies and existing frameworks, being afterwards evaluated through focus groups composed of managers of university libraries, resulting in an enhanced version. Findings – After evaluation, the GC@BU framework showed to be easy to apply in the context for which it was created (university libraries). It is noteworthy that in addition to the knowledge management application, the GC@BU reinforces the importance of concerning for the quality and the services, since it uses as a parameter the standards of the ACRL. In addition, the perspective used to characterizing university libraries (as CASs) was well accepted by the tool evaluators. Research limitations/implications – The proposed framework is focussed on university libraries, but its use in other contexts should not be dismissed as long as the manager makes the necessary adjustments for this purpose. Practical implications – Since knowledge management is an intangible element, its application and benefits are not easy to conceive. This tool provides the implementation of knowledge management in university libraries, and knowledge is considered from different approaches (from the user, the collaborator, the library collection). Besides, the tool is arranged so (in modules and verification criteria) as to allow the manager to administer the library as a whole, from the point of view of knowledge management. Originality/value – This study is considered innovative and applicable on the global stage of university libraries, because despite being evaluated by Brazilian managers it uses international standards and has a strong ability to adapt to different contexts.
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Aisyaturrahmi, Aisyaturrahmi, Dian Anita Nuswantara, Dewi Prastiwi, Loggar Bhilawa, and Seri Ayu Masuri Md Daud. "Transparency and Accountability of a Village Fund Management During COVID-19 Crisis." International Journal of Service Management and Sustainability 6, no. 2 (September 28, 2021): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ijsms.v6i2.15580.
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In the face of the super contagious and deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the government has to accelerate planning and make quick decisions to contain the virus and provide necessary assistance to the affected people. Therefore, amid this global health crisis, public fund management procedures may undergo significant modifications. This study considers how urgency is implicated in the village fund management during COVID-19 in Indonesia. A case study of an East Javanese village was conducted between May and August 2020. In-depth interviews with four key managers and eight beneficiaries of the fund yielded interesting findings. Particularly, two key elements formerly practised by the village fund managers, namely transparency and accountability, were largely omitted. Consequently, some of the locals being interviewed claimed that a portion of the funds was misappropriated. Arguably, urgency warrants some adaptation, and hence transparency and accountability may have to be forfeited (to some extent) to expedite the fund allotment. However, our findings imply that opportunistic behaviour may occur among the fund managers. Consistent with the notion of strategic responses to institutional pressure, the urgency of dealing with the crisis fund may prompt the higher authorities to adopt an adaptive regulating style, hence relaxing their coercive pressure, and allowing fund managers to pursue their self-interest.
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Briggs, David, and Godfrey Isouard. "The Language of Health Reform and Health Management: critical issues in the management of health systems." Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 11, no. 3 (October 1, 2016): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v11i3.153.
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Health reform has been a constant feature of most health systems for a number of decades and has often focused on structural change. The lexicon of health reform and health management has also become intertwined with managers reporting that reform has become a constant and that rather than influencing that change they are in fact influenced by it and by its impact on their role, professional development and career.
There is a challenge for health service managers to return to a leadership role in enabling health reform. In doing so will this challenge us to think differently about management?
This article addresses the significant body of research into health reform and health management through the lens of language used in reporting the context and the significant impact that it has had on the management role. It describes what directions that role might take, the qualities required in selecting capable managers and questions the current status quo in the education, training and development of this significant sector of the health system workforce.
It concludes by proposing a way forward that acknowledges that contemporary health reform is shifting the paradigm of healthcare delivery in a way that requires the dominant view of health management to be challenged. This might be achieved by the use of a critical lens on the language of management, a focus on a grounded approach about what managers need to do and an acceptance of variability in that role in adaptive complex contexts.
Abbreviations: DNOP – Distributed Networks of Practice; MDG – Millennium Development Goals; PHC – Primary Healthcare; PHN – Primary Health Network; SDG – Sustainable Development Goals; SEDOH – Social Economic Determinants of Health; SHAPE – Society for Health Administration Programs in Education.
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Whitney, Kristoffer. "It’s about Time: Adaptive Resource Management, Environmental Governance, and Science Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 44, no. 2 (August 21, 2018): 263–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243918794035.
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This article examines adaptive resource management (ARM) as it has been applied to the US horseshoe crab fishery over the past decade. As a critical yet constructive exercise, I have three goals: to suggest how adaptive management, for all its promise, can still be improved; to add a nuanced case study to the literatures on the quantification of nature and environmental decision-making; and to use the example of ARM to make certain temporal aspects of contemporary natural resource management more salient to science and technology studies scholars—that is, to show the ways in which time matters in environmental science, policy, and the analysis thereof. I draw attention to the time-related aspects of adaptive management by developing the notions of temporal orientation and chronological accountability. Temporal orientation refers to the time-based perspectives and epistemological commitments—that is, past-facing empiricism versus future-oriented modeling—that scientists of different types bring to bear on environmental problems. Chronological accountability refers to the missing link in adaptive forms of environmental governance: firm time lines and commitments to reflexively revisit management decisions. The time-related aspects of natural resource management deserve greater attention among both environmental managers and analysts of environmental policy.
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Zador, Stephani G., Kirstin K. Holsman, Kerim Y. Aydin, and Sarah K. Gaichas. "Ecosystem considerations in Alaska: the value of qualitative assessments." ICES Journal of Marine Science 74, no. 1 (August 20, 2016): 421–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw144.
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The application of ecosystem considerations, and in particular ecosystem report cards, in federal groundfish fisheries management in Alaska can be described as an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAFM). Ecosystem information is provided to managers to establish an ecosystem context within which deliberations of fisheries quota occur. Our goal is to make the case for the need for qualitative ecosystem assessments in EAFM, specifically that qualitative synthesis has advantages worthy to keep a permanent place at the fisheries management table. These advantages include flexibility and speed in responding to and synthesizing new information from a variety of sources. First, we use the development of indicator-based ecosystem report cards as an example of adapting ecosystem information to management needs. Second, we review lessons learned and provide suggestions for best practices for applying EAFM to large and diverse fisheries in multiple marine ecosystems. Adapting ecosystem indicator information to better suit the needs of fisheries managers resulted in succinct report cards that summarize ecosystem trends, complementing more detailed ecosystem information to provide context for EAFM. There were several lessons learned in the process of developing the ecosystem report cards. The selection of indicators for each region was influenced by geography, the extent of scientific knowledge/data, and the particular expertise of the selection teams. Optimizing the opportunity to qualitatively incorporate ecosystem information into management decisions requires a good understanding of the management system in question. We found that frequent dialogue with managers and other stakeholders leads to adaptive products. We believe that there will always be a need for qualitative ecosystem assessment because it allows for rapid incorporation of new ideas and data and unexpected events. As we build modelling and predictive capacity, we will still need qualitative synthesis to capture events outside the bounds of current models and to detect impacts of the unexpected.
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Zhang, Jian, Ying Zhang, Yahui Song, and Zhenxing Gong. "The different relations of extrinsic, introjected, identified regulation and intrinsic motivation on employees’ performance." Management Decision 54, no. 10 (November 21, 2016): 2393–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-01-2016-0007.
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Purpose Following self-determination theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of four motivational profiles (external, introjected, identified regulation, and intrinsic motivation) on work performance (interpersonal, adaptive, task, and dedicative performance). The authors also examined the proposed relations with longitudinal data. Design/methodology/approach Participants in Studies 1 and 2 were from several companies in China. Employees completed the questionnaires to measure their work motivation, and managers completed the questionnaires to assess the subordinates’ work performance. Findings In Study 1, the authors found that identified regulation significantly predicted interpersonal performance and adaptive performance. External regulation, introjected regulation, and intrinsic motivation had no significant impacts on interpersonal, adaptive, task, or dedicative performance. In Study 2, the results revealed that identified regulation significantly predicted dedicative and interpersonal performance, but external regulation, introjected regulation, and intrinsic motivation had no significant impacts on the four types of performance. These two studies concluded that only identified regulation strongly predicts work performance. Originality/value The study has contributed to the body of knowledge by clarifying that identified regulation is an important type of motivation in the workplace. Managers might therefore focus on supporting employees for identifying with the organizational goals in order to promote better performance.
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Gese, Eric M., Fred F. Knowlton, Jennifer R. Adams, Karen Beck, Todd K. Fuller, Dennis L. Murray, Todd D. Steury, Michael K. Stoskopf, Will T. Waddell, and Lisette P. Waits. "Managing hybridization of a recovering endangered species: The red wolf Canis rufus as a case study." Current Zoology 61, no. 1 (February 1, 2015): 191–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/czoolo/61.1.191.
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Abstract Hybridization presents a unique challenge for conservation biologists and managers. While hybridization is an important evolutionary process, hybridization is also a threat formany native species. The endangered species recovery effort for the red wolf Canis rufus is a classic system for understanding and addressing the challenges of hybridization. From 1987?1993, 63 red wolves were released from captivity in eastern North Carolina, USA, to establish a free-ranging, non-essential experimental population. By 1999, managers recognized hybridization with invasive coyotes Canis latrans was the single greatest threat to successful recovery, and an adaptive management plan was adopted with innovative approaches for managing the threat of hybridization. Here we review the application and results of the adaptive management efforts from 1993 to 2013 by comparing: (1) the numbers of wolves, coyotes, and hybrids captured, (2) the numbers of territorial social groups with presumed breeding capabilities, (3) the number of red wolf and hybrid litters documented each year and (4) the degree of coyote introgression into the wild red wolf gene pool. We documented substantial increases in the number of known red wolves and red wolf social groups from 1987–2004 followed by a plateau and slight decline by 2013.The number of red wolf litters exceeded hybrid litters each year and the proportion of hybrid litters per year averaged 21%. The genetic composition of the wild red wolf population is estimated to include < 4% coyote ancestry from recent introgression since reintroduction. We conclude that the adaptive management plan was effective at reducing the introgression of coyote genes into the red wolf population, but population recovery of red wolves will require continuation of the current management plan, or alternative approaches, for the foreseeable future. More broadly, we discuss the lessons learned from red wolf adaptive management that could assist other endangered species recovery efforts facing the challenge of minimizing hybridization.