Cultural Change in a Medical School: A Data-Driven Management of Entropy

Mass News Media and American Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach

“…Examples of material resources associated with the organizational milieu as it pertains to television news production could include newsroom budget (which can fund employees' salaries and procure materials such as computers, and video and broadcasting equipment). Ward, 2010, andBaker et al, 2015. ) Several other points encompassed by the concept of the organization milieu correspond to functional relationships proposed in the mass media field.…”

“…Cultural milieu is defined as the predominant philosophies in the cultural under examination, in addition to governmental policies, the state of technological progress, and market competition (Baker, et al, 2015). An example of cultural practices as they pertain to news media could be the wipe-spread use of various audio-video media as popular sources for news and current events.…”

“…According to Houmanfar, Rodrigues, and Ward's (2010) metacontingency and its recent elaboration (Baker, et al, 2015), the organizational milieu occasions the socio-interlocked behaviors of news personnel, which leads to the aggregate product of news reports/stories/articles/shows for which consumers provide a demand, those consumer practices are measured and interpreted by organizational leaders in the form of feedback. Feedback in turn influences news organization leaders/personnel who self-generate rules which affect both the organizational milieu and how the socio-IBs function in production of a modified aggregate product.…”

“…Houmanfar, Rodrigues and Ward (2010) define cultural milieu as consisting "of the prevailing beliefs within the culture as well as predictions about the future" (p. 87). A further, recent revision separates the organizational milieu from the cultural milieu to more accurately reflect that all components of the metacontingency occur within the broader culture (Baker, et al, 2015). An additional component was inserted into the metacontingency to specify that organizational leaders do not have direct contact with consumer practices but instead have tools, devices, and techniques which they use to measure consumer behavior; this is labeled "feedback" (Baker, et al, 2015).…”

Leadership and Cultural Change: Implications for Behavior Analysis

“…The papers in the issue of JOBM provide definitions and overview of associated characteristics associated with effective leadership (Krapfl, 2015;Geller, 2015) and provide discussion of ways contemporary confluences of organizational leadership, decision-making, and citizenship behavior often unintentionally contribute to the depletion of the world's resources; escalating health, education, and social crises; and community, societal, and cultural struggles to adapt to emerging global shifts (Alavosius, 2015;Houmanfar & Mattaini 2015. Leadership and management practices in this context affect the wellbeing of organizational members in areas of their safety (Bogard, et al, 2015), health, financial security, and job satisfaction (Hantula, 2015; but also entail positive or negative impacts on consumer practices Foxall, 2015) and collective community well-being in education and overarching cultural groups (Geller, 2015;Johnson, 2015;Baker, et al, 2015), obesity, cancer, safe or green driving, energy conservation, diversity-based health care, etc. Foxall 2015;Baker, et al, 2015).…”