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Measuring nature experiences: choices and dilemmas.

Business Plan Go Free Uganda

This thesis demonstrates the current situation of Go Free Uganda. According to this recommendations have been formulated to show where the organization can bridge the sales gap. This research makes use of the AIDA model, competitor analysis, Value Proposition Canvas and a Business Model Canvas

Employers have a Duty of Beneficence to Design for Meaningful Work

Artificial intelligence-driven technology increasingly shapes work practices and, accordingly, employees’ opportunities for meaningful work (MW). In our paper, we identify five dimensions of MW: pursuing a purpose, social relationships, exercising skills and self-development, autonomy, self-esteem and recognition. Because MW is an important good, lacking opportunities for MW is a serious disadvantage. Therefore, we need to know to what extent employers have a duty to provide this good to their employees. We hold that employers have a duty of beneficence to design for opportunities for MW when implementing AI-technology in the workplace. We argue that this duty of beneficence is supported by the three major ethical theories, namely, Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. We defend this duty against two objections, including the view that it is incompatible with the shareholder theory of the firm. We then employ the five dimensions of MW as our analytical lens to investigate how AI-based technological innovation in logistic warehouses has an impact, both positively and negatively, on MW, and illustrate that design for MW is feasible. We further support this practical feasibility with the help of insights from organizational psychology. We end by discussing how AI-based technology has an impact both on meaningful work (often seen as an aspirational goal) and decent work (generally seen as a matter of justice). Accordingly, ethical reflection on meaningful and decent work should become more integrated to do justice to how AI-technology inevitably shapes both simultaneously.

A cross-sectional analysis of motivation and decision-making in referrals to lifestyle interventions by primary care general practitioners: a call for guidance

Aim: To explore 1) GPs´ motivation to refer to lifestyle interventions and to investigate the association between GPs’ own lifestyle-behaviors and their referral behavior, and 2) patient indicators in the decision-making process of the GPs’ referral to lifestyle interventions. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 99 Dutch primary care GPs. Their motivation to refer was assessed by beliefs regarding lifestyle interventions. GPs’ referral behaviors were assessed - considering referral and self-reported actual referral - and their own lifestyle behaviors - physical activity, dieting, being overweight). Decision-making regarding referring patients to lifestyle interventions was assessed by imposed patient indicators, spontaneously suggested decisive patient indicators, and by case-based referring (vignettes).Results: A substantial group of GPs was not motivated for referral to lifestyle interventions. GPs’ refer behavior was significantly associated with their perceived subjective norm, behavioral control, and their own physical activity and diet. Most important patient indicators in referral to lifestyle interventions were somatic indicators, and patients’ motivation for lifestyle interventions.Conclusions: GPs motivation and referral behavior might be improved by providing them with tailored resources about evidence based lifestyle interventions, with support from allied health professionals, and with official guidelines for a more objective and systematic screening of patients.

How to prove to be Entrepreneurial? Certificates are not sufficient?!

Normal educational programs do have an exam at the end, where a certificate or diploma can be obtained. All students get the same document, however not all students are equal. Enterprising and entrepreneurial students typically have low scores on tests, but do have experienced a lot of valuable things instead. These ‘things’ are not listed on certificates. From here, the next questions arise:1.    To what extend there is a need to distinguish more on out-put quality?2.    What aspects can be rated / expressed to show employers / investors what a student really distinguishes and can contribute?3.    What would be an appropriate way to present these improvements of applicability? Looked from the employers or investors point of view, some possible solutions emerges. It is not that means are wanted for a given goal, from the stocktaking of one’s means, many goals can be chosen. As a result, an App-store can be created, where Applicable Approvals are ranked on their value for employers or investors. Although this possible answer to the questions; do they apply in other situations / regions as well? Are there better ways to show ones real talents and possibilities? Especially for entrepreneurial students, this article gives some guidelines to them to show to potential investors, stakeholders or employers, who they really are, what they really can and who they really know. This gives them more advantages than just a diploma or certificate. Within the science of entrepreneurship education, the main focus is on the education process itself, or before the start of that process. What will happen after the education process, after a certificate or diploma is achieved, is not often touched. This paper enters this field from the perspective of lectures, trying to help entrepreneurial students, with often low marks, at their start of professional live.

Intervention Framework SmartUp

This comprehensive document shares up-to-date knowledge on Early Warning Signals of business crisis, presents detection and intervention opportunities, and makes a clear case for their beneficial application to SME leadership and overall business resilience.