CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES OR KNOWLEDGE ISLANDS: EXAMINING BUSINESS DISCIPLINES JEAN A. PRATT University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Eau Claire‚ WI 54702 KARINA HAUSER Utah State University Logan‚ UT 84322 CASSIDY R. SUGIMOTO Indiana University - Bloomington Bloomington‚ IN 47405 ABSTRACT Successful knowledge transfer provides benefits to companies and society. Knowledge management across disparate business functions leads to improvement in business processes. Colleges are comprised of different
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A controversial topic has been in the headlines recently; whether corporal punishment should be banned or not. Corporal punishment is a form of physical discipline that inflicts deliberate pain to discipline a child. Doctors have been saying they want a ban on it because of the many long term effects that it can cause. Corporal punishment was popular in the 1950’s‚ with 99% of parents smacking their children. These days‚ only 69% of families in Australia do. Smacking children can cause mental
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without discipline.” “There is no freedom without discipline.” Many people disagree with this statement and tend to identify it as something bad. They identify with it as a restriction or absence of freedom. But in reality‚ this quote encompasses the meaning that discipline defined by rules in society allows individuals to have freedom within their lives. Humans are free to do what they desire. Those who have freedom are also responsible. However‚ if individuals do not understand discipline nor
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Brief Overview 2 Main arguments of discipline and Punish 4 • Power 4 • Prisons as part of civilisation 4 • Punishment 5 • The Body and Soul 5 Evaluation of Discipline and Punish 6 Conclusion 7 Introduction: M. Foucault. 1975. Discipline and Punish: The birth of the prison. New York: Random House Inc. Below is an in depth book review of Discipline and Punish‚ The Birth of the Prison. The author who compiled the analysis on this is Michel Foucault
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Discipline‚ as a verb‚ is defined as training (someone) to obey rules or a code of behavior‚ using punishment to correct disobedience. Using this definition I found two example of discipline in the bible. In the bible we can see the verb disciple being not just spoke but shown to us. In the beginning of the bible it starts out in Genesis where we can see the first example of discipline. This is just the beginning of the lessons of discipline that we are given to learn from. We can see the same verb
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If there are images in this attachment‚ they will not be displayed. Download the original attachment 1. Introduction In order to survive in the rapid changing business environment the organisations need to acquire knowledge and innovate fast enough. This dynamic‚ complex and globally competitive nature of the business requires learning organisations. CEO of British Petroleum Company John Browne (1995) says “Learning is at the heart of a company’s ability to adapt to rapidly changing environment
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of the widely-acclaimed book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990). He can be said to be responsible for the popularity of the concept of a ‘learning organization’ today. Peter Senge argues that not only we humans learn‚ but organizations also. However‚ learning itself may not be enough for the organization to survive in this ever-challenging era. In his book‚ The Fifth Discipline‚ Senge introduced five ‘disciplines’‚ namely systems thinking‚ personal mastery
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of Discipline from his book Freedom and Beyond‚ John Holt states that besides discipline from parents and teachers‚ discipline comes from a child’s environment as well. The author’s purpose is to inform people about kinds of disciplines he states there are according to many years of research based on his experience as a fourteen-year-teacher in grade and high schools. A child may learn from three different kinds of disciplines: Discipline of Nature or of Reality; a child meets this discipline every
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Over the years‚ the social norm for child discipline has become time outs‚ lectures on what is right and wrong‚ or basically any form of punishment that does not include any physical discipline from the parent or guardian. Many people think that physical discipline will have bad effects on children later in life‚ when in actuality physical discipline will make children stronger by teaching them that doing wrong will have actual consequences once they get into the real world‚ because timeouts are
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In the book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison by Michel Foucault Describes how society in general can be compared to a prison due to the ways of discipline. He supports this notion from the chapter “Panopticism” in which he describes different methods of discipline and how they have played an effect in today’s society through three parts: economic‚ political and scientific. He takes us through times in history where we can see types of different discipline in these areas. Foucault begins
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