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Ice-nucleating macromolecules (INMs) produced by plant pollen can nucleate ice at warm temperatures and may play an important role in weather-
and climate-relevant cloud glaciation. INMs have also proved useful for mammalian cell and tissue model cryopreservation. The high ice nucleation
(IN) activity of some INMs indicates an underlying biological function, either freezing tolerance or bioprecipitation-mediated dispersal. Here, using the largest study of pollen ice nucleation to date, we show that phylogenetic proximity, spermatophyte subdivision, primary growth biome, pollination season, primary pollination method, desiccation tolerance and native growth elevation do not account for the IN activity of INMs released from different plant species' pollen. The results suggest that these macromolecules are produced by plants for a purpose unrelated to ice nucleation and have an incidental ability to nucleate ice. This ability may have been adapted by some species for specific biological purposes, producing exceptional ice
nucleators. Pollen INMs may be more active, widespread in nature, and diverse than previously thought.
"Making Working Relationships Work" emerges at a critical time when the dynamics of workplace relationships are increasingly complex and pivotal to organisational success. This comprehensive guide offers a deep dive into the intricacies of professional interactions, providing readers with a robust set of tools and concepts to navigate and enhance workplace relationships.
Spread across four parts, the book begins with an exploration of the fundamental issues affecting rapport at work, followed by practical strategies to address common relationship challenges. It introduces the TRIPS rapport management framework, an empirically grounded model that enables effective relationship management through understanding Triggers, Reactions, Interactions, People, and Settings.
With its blend of authentic case studies and engaging activities, "Making Working Relationships Work" is not just a book but a transformational journey towards building more collaborative and inclusive workplaces.
Although there are many and varied professional approaches to leadership development, many of those struggle to find an academic base. Also, our current theories of leadership do not shed much light on how leadership is developed. In addition, we know close to none, concerning soft-OR tools to manage developmental components of leadership. Day and Dragoni (2015) call for holistic empirical studies on the developmental perspectives of leadership through designing methodologies that generate an understanding of its underlying mechanisms and processes. Alvesson (2020) calls for studies that consider organisational complexity. Further, we do not have any substantial measure to predict who will become a strong potential leader after a process of development.
This study first uses VSM in a knowledge-sharing intervention to develop the participants' problem-solving, management and leadership skills. It also uses social network analytics to find the most central and most influential individuals in the network of participants (which turned into a community). Using the concept of redundancy of potential command, this study argues that SNA can partially help in predicting the potential leaders in a network or a community through patterns of their higher leading power.
The Viable system model (VSM) is one of the useful soft OR tools advocated for problem structuring and complexity management in organisations. However, literature reviews show that using VSM to deal with the complexity of knowledge sharing has not been explored enough. Knowledge sharing by definition is a process among social agents and therefore research on knowledge sharing requires social network analysis (SNA). Indeed there is a huge volume of studies on SNA and Knowledge sharing. This paper presents a combinative perspective of VSM and SNA in a knowledge-sharing project. Since VSM provides criteria for variety engineering, we performed action research to investigate the level and extent of variety management in a knowledge-sharing project. We reflect on the method and the outcomes of this action research as well as the contributions to domains of knowledge in VSM and complexity management.
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