Tactical Framework Research Articles

The Academic Catalyst Group: A Tactical Framework for Working Groups to Enhance Clinician-Educator Academic Career Development.

Working groups have tremendous potential to contribute to the academic career development of early-career clinician-educators. These individuals may find themselves engaged in many different working spaces, including working groups or committees such as those found within specialty societies or professional organizations. Such working groups may be underrecognized opportunities for academic skill building and professional growth because they are often characterized as primarily service-oriented, citizenship, or administrative work. Working groups can use their natural cross-institutional collaborations for mentorship and externalization-2 key building blocks for academic success that frequently represent challenges for early-career clinician-educators. In this article, the authors review common challenges that early-career clinician-educators may encounter during their academic development and propose a 3-step tactical framework, the academic catalyst group, that working group leaders can apply to groups to purposefully enhance professional development for clinician-educators. The framework urges working group leaders and members to conceptualize and develop academic catalyst groups as communities of practice by (1) assembling with intention, (2) mining the mission, and (3) finding an easy win. This framework can inspire working group leaders to align their work with academic career development and ultimately foster career growth for all group members.

Features of the implementation of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising

The article is devoted to the study of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The slogan as an element of the advertising text plays a significant role in influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressee. Slogans implement various speech strategies and tactics to ensure the success of advertising communication. The difficulty of studying this phenomenon lies in a short formulation with great strategic potential and its uncertain relationship with the main text of television advertising. The relevance of this study is related to the importance of the slogan in the advertising text and the prospects for studying speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The article aims to identify the features of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television food advertising. The method of linguistic and pragmatic analysis was used in the work, which makes it possible to identify speech strategies and tactics in the slogan of television advertising of food products and describe the linguistic features of their implementation. The novelty of the research lies in a comprehensive examination of speech strategies and tactics in the slogan, taking into account the main advertising text. As a result of the analysis, corporate slogan, product slogan and festive slogan were highlighted in television advertising. The slogans of television food advertising highlight presentation strategy, convincing strategy, persuading strategy and reminiscent strategy, as well as tactics and techniques within the framework of relevant strategies. The linguistic means of verbalization of techniques used within the framework of appropriate speech strategies and tactics in television advertising of food are described. The correlation of their implementation with the main advertising text has been established. The slogan of a TV advertisement usually implements several strategies and tactics at the same time. The implementation of the convincing strategy in a product slogan is relevant to the main advertising text. The implementation of other strategies in the slogan is not related to the main advertising text.

Strategic Approaches for the Health Science Educator: Understanding Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, and Continuous Process Improvement and Their Impact.

With continued demand for health science institutions to find solutions to deliver on heightened student expectations despite smaller budgets and fewer resources, the utilization of organizational improvement techniques is pervasive. Academic health care leaders are seeking effective modalities to overcome obstacles, modernize, and become more efficient. Three of the commonly used approaches for improvement are strategic planning, strategic thinking, and continuous process improvement (CPI), and these concepts have been used in a variety of forms throughout industry, higher education, and health care. However, their definitions are often not well understood, and their processes are misconstrued in practice. With the increased expectation of health care institutions with undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education to consider strategic processes in organizational improvement, it is important for leadership to understand the differences in these three approaches. In this article, we explain the concepts of strategic planning, strategic thinking, and CPI through an overview of their history, definitions, and the benefits and pitfalls as observed by researchers. Furthermore, we reduce the noise in the existing literature into three concise definitions for each approach. And finally, for those seeking where to begin, we explain one tool in each category recommended for the novice strategist: the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis for strategic planning, the Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics (GOST) framework for strategic thinking, and the Pareto Chart for CPI.

Особенности реализации стратегий косвенной вежливости в рамках коммуникативных стратегий политического медиадискурса (на материале выступления М. Зедера в ток-шоу «Маркус Ланц»)

The article is dedicated to describing the features of implementing the category of indirect politeness in the speech of the German politician Markus Söder. The research objective is to identify the linguistic means of expressing indirect politeness within the framework of communicative strategies and tactics in the political discourse of the German language. The study describes the linguistic means of implementing indirect politeness in political discourse, specifically in political talk shows. The scientific novelty of the research is linked to the continuous development of political discourse, where the specificity of impoliteness under the mask of politeness within the framework of political media discourse is identified for the first time using previously unexplored material in the German language. The research results revealed that all three types of communicative strategies influencing political positioning are almost equally present in the politician's speech. Strategies of indirect politeness were also identified, with the most frequent being the strategies of using tautology and changing the addressee. These results indicate that despite the confrontational nature of political discourse, the politician is still able to maintain politeness, which explains his popularity among voters.

Transformation of the subject composition of criminal proceedings and its influence on the development of criminal tactics

Introduction. The problem of providing scientifically based forensic recommendations to the activities of criminal justice bodies and other participants in criminal proceedings has been of interest to scientists since the very beginning of the emergence of this type of social activity (criminal procedural). At the same time, the development of scientific provisions depends not only on the actual accumulation of knowledge based on the results of conducted research, but also on changes in criminal procedural legislation. This judgment also applies to the definition of vectors for the development of forensic tactics, which is designed to provide scientifically based practical recommendations regarding the most optimal ways of implementing certain procedural actions by participants in criminal proceedings. The purpose of the work, in particular, is to highlight the existing dependence between the change in the subject composition of criminal proceedings and the further development of forensic tactics, the need to expand its knowledge. During the research, a variety of both general scientific and special methods were used: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, comparative method, formal-dogmatic and comparative-legal. Summary of the main results of the study. It has been determined that the problem of developing the tactics of the activities of those subjects of criminal procedural activity that were introduced into criminal proceedings in connection with the adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code of 2012, in particular: the investigating judge, the detective and the investigator, remains relevant and unresolved. Further development of forensic knowledge in this direction will take place within the framework of such sub-fields of forensic tactics as investigative and judicial. Conclusions. The development of criminal procedural legislation, in particular, associated with the emergence of new subjects of criminal procedural activity, leads to the emergence of new vectors for the development of forensic tactics. At present, one of the most promising areas of scientific research should be considered to be the development of the tactics of the detective, inquirer, and investigating judge. Regarding the determination of the place of new scientific provisions in the structure of forensic tactics, in our opinion, it is premature to talk about the possibility of forming new sub-branches of it. The tactics of the detective and inquirer can develop within the framework of investigative tactics, and the tactics of the court judge, respectively, within the tactics of the court. Such a conclusion is connected with the fact that functionally the activity of conditionally new subjects is equal to the activity of the investigator and the court, although they have their own specifics.

Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐19

AbstractThis paper reports on a longitudinal study in the North of England with 13 educators in schools, colleges and universities during two lockdowns. The project was designed to ‘unlock’ education by providing spaces to co‐create new ways of thinking about education in light of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Focus groups were conducted with school and college teachers as well as university staff at the end of the first and second English lockdowns, in summer 2020 and spring 2021. An initial analysis identified issues with expectations and communication between educators and executive management as well as a lack of agency of educators, and how participants framed them as impacting on their identity as educators. Therefore, the framework of tactics of intersubjectivity was adopted to explore how educators discursively positioned themselves and others through constructions of similarity and difference, realness and power, and how their professional identities were affected by the experience of working through the pandemic and by those around them. Whilst educators took opportunities to authenticate their identity and reimagine education, their agency was undermined by top‐down governing involving little successful communication, leading to denaturalising and illegitimising experiences for educators. Executive management were perceived as lacking engagement with staff and understanding of the implications of their decisions on them. The findings call for relationship building and recognition of educators' voice.

An exposition of the constructive research approach: a tactical treatise for addressing methodological and practical issues in organisational research

PurposeThis paper aims to provide an exposition of the constructive research approach (CRA) to show the potential utility of CRA in transcending or mitigating the methodological and practical issues involved in researching organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a literature review, and resulting thematic discussion of methodological and practical issues involves in action research (AR) in organisations through the lens of the CRA approach.FindingsThe paper identifies that CRA has benefits in orientation to a practical outcome grounded in a theoretical domain but with leeway to facilitate creativity, which can also potentially improve the quality of the collaborative relationships. The centrality of the construction within the method provides a “vantage point” to manage the emic (inside) and etic (outside) positionality concerns of action researchers working within organisational settings.Practical implicationsCRA has multiple practical benefits for action researchers and their collaborators in terms of time, risk and collaborative commitment.Originality/valueThe paper develops a useful tactical framework for discussing the practical and methodological issues when considering AR in organisations and highlights how CRA can be used in wider organisational scholarship outside its roots in management accounting.

Adaptive Multi-Agent Control Strategy in Heterogeneous Countermeasure Environments

In the rapidly changing air combat environment, it is quite difficult for pilots to make speedy and reasonable decisions in a very short period due to lack of experience and the uncertainty of perception situation. Hence, the authors propose an intelligent cognitive tactical strategy framework of air combat on multi-source information in uncertain air combat situations for decision support. A fuzzy inferring tree method is proposed to simulate human intellection. Then, to further improve the accuracy of the reasoning results, a genetic algorithm is introduced to optimize the structure and parameters of fuzzy rules. The simulation results show that the proposed model is reasonable, fast, accurate, repeatable, and fatigue-free, which lays a good foundation for future high-end unmanned combat explorations.

Incapacitated sexual assault among youths: beyond the perpetrator tactics framework

ABSTRACT The issue of incapacitated sexual assault (ISA) among youths has received increased attention among researchers. Still our understanding of the phenomenon is so far limited. Most research to date departs from an underlying ‘perpetrator tactics’ framework in which ISA is understood as acts of deliberate exploitation of vulnerable victims. Our analysis suggests that this framework represents an overly narrow understanding of how ISA happens among youths. Based on analyses of short written descriptions of ISA experiences from a nationally representative survey among 18- and 19-year-olds in Norway, we propose that ISA unfolds through two distinctly different interactional dynamics; either stemming from tumultuous and confusing sexual interactions that defy a clear allocation of culpability or from an assailant’s more or less deliberate tactics. Girls are more at risk and experience both types of ISA assaults, while boys mostly experience tumultuous ‘drunk sex’ situations and more often redefine the situation in a way that masks their victimhood. The separation of the two situational dynamics furthers the understanding of how ISA unfolds and of gendered vulnerabilities for sexual violence linked to youth drinking.

La organización social de los ejércitos en la batalla de Boyacá

Las áreas cercanas al río Teatinos en Tunja (Colombia) son patrimonio nacional debido a que allí sucedió la batalla de Boyacá, que significó el triunfo de la campaña libertadora. La arqueología de la guerra sugiere que esos territorios podrían contener vestigios de las historias desconocidas de quienes lucharon el 7 de agosto de 1819 durante dicha batalla. Este artículo brinda una georreferenciación de estos hechos, con miras a identificar las coordenadas en que podría permanecer enterrada dicha cultura material. Para ello, con base en un marco teórico sobre estrategia y táctica militar, y sobre organización social, se estudiaron fuentes primarias para conocer la distribución de los combatientes en el terreno, y se analizó la simbología militar. Con ello se logran identificar los espacios en que pueden encontrarse vestigios.

Practical Applications of Business Cycle–Related Timing of Alternative Risk Premia Strategies

Practical Applications In Business Cycle–Related Timing of Alternative Risk Premia Strategies, from the Spring 2020 issue of The Journal of Alternative Investments, Bernd Scherer and Matthias Apel relate how they developed a business cycle model to explore its predictive power in a tactical allocation framework. They created an aggregate of economic indicators that identifies economic regimes in order to determine the sensitivities of a host of risk premia strategies across various business cycle phases. Many of these sensitivities, measured as conditional Sharpe ratios, are statistically different from their unconditional, overall risk-adjusted returns. During each regime, a long–short tactical overlay strategy takes a long position in the four alternative risk premia strategies with the highest Sharpe ratios and shorts the four with the lowest. The authors show that the overlay strategy improves the performance of a risk-parity portfolio and provide evidence that the observed return patterns are not a beta-driven result. While their primary interest lies within a universe of investable alternative risk premia strategies, cross-validation tests also applied the model within three additional investment universes: global asset classes, smart betas, and Fama–French risk factors.

Considering the Public Health and Reno Models: Strategic and Tactical Approaches for Dealing with Gambling-Related Harms

Some critics of the Reno model appear to have misinterpreted its fundamental tenets by expressing the belief that the model is incompatible with the public health model. Both the public health and Reno models attempt to influence policies and strategies designed to promote responsible gambling and the reduction of gambling-related harms. In this article, we describe four principles that characterize a public health perspective focusing on gambling and discuss how the Reno model complements the public health approach. Both models encompass principles and guidelines that emphasize the shared responsibilities across multiple stakeholders including governments, industry, community welfare, and individuals. The Reno model represents a tactical framework for responsible gambling complementing the broader population public health approach, each model consistent in attempting to prevent the incidence, reduce the prevalence, and minimize gambling disorders and related harms. Paradoxically, although stakeholders are in agreement about the general principles and objectives, differences are evident in the manner different interventions are chosen and applied in efforts to achieve common goals.

From priority to endgame: the Region of Peel Living Tobacco-Free strategy.

Tobacco use presents a tremendous burden on population health and remains the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Building on tobacco control successes to date, public health agencies are increasingly aligning with the international "Tobacco Endgame" initiative targeting decreases in tobacco use to less than 5% by the year 2025. The local implementation of this initiative follows a decade of work at Region of Peel-Public Health (RoP-PH), a local health department in Ontario, Canada, which made "Living Tobacco-Free" (LTF) a strategic priority in 2009 with a tactical framework encompassing Research, Protection, Prevention, and Cessation. This commentary provides an overview of the results observed by this local health department's decision to make LTF a strategic priority and discusses the department's next steps in developing a Theory of Change to systematically align continuing efforts to the call for a "Tobacco Endgame".

A tactical framework for EMR adoption.

Hospitals and other health settings across Canada are transitioning from paper or legacy information systems to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems to improve patient care and service delivery. The literature speaks to benefits of EMR systems, but also challenges, such as adverse patient events and provider workflow interruptions. Theoretical models have been proposed to help understand the complex interaction between health information technologies and the healthcare environment, but a shortcoming is the transition from conceptual models to actual clinical settings. The health ecosystem is filled with human diversity and organizational culture considerations that cannot be separated from technical implementation strategies. This paper analyzes literature on EMR implementation and adoption to develop a tactical framework for EMR adoption. The framework consists of six categories, each with a set of seed questions to consider when leading technology adoption projects.

Artificial Intelligence, Reciprocal Symmetry, and Customer Relationship Management: A Paradigm Shift in Business

This article examines how combining reciprocal symmetry, artificial intelligence (AI), and customer relationship management (CRM) might change corporate paradigms and promote long-term growth. Investigating the convergence of AI and reciprocal symmetry principles within CRM, examining AI's role in fostering customer-centric relationships, and identifying policy implications for responsible AI use in business practices are the main goals of this study. This study's methodology uses a secondary data-based review strategy to synthesize industry reports, academic publications, and current literature to analyze the conceptual framework and real-world applications of AI-driven CRM tactics integrated with the concepts of reciprocal symmetry. Important discoveries show that combining reciprocal symmetry and AI improves personalization, encourages team-based innovation, and puts customers' needs first in CRM. However, to guarantee safe AI adoption in commercial contexts, issues like data privacy consequences and ethical considerations highlight the necessity for explicit regulations and guidelines. The policy implications underscore the significance of formulating legislation that protects consumer rights, encourages ethical AI implementation, and sets benchmarks for AI-powered CRM procedures. The study highlights the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and reciprocal symmetry to drive a paradigm shift in corporate relationships and innovation towards a customer-centric approach.

A Tactical Framework for Market Penetration with a Multidimensional Organization

<p><em>A critical element to the growth opportunities in existing markets and new markets in neighboring sectors is penetration strategies. An entrepreneurial business that is interested in leveraging synergies to grow profitability must understand the dynamic nature of the market so that a suitable strategic posture can be taken. This strategy could be driven by tactical and deliberate action, or another exogenous force. The opportunities are there in many sectors and customers of multinational enterprises (MNE’s) exist almost everywhere. Cross border B2C e-commerce is expected to double by 2022 according to Forrester Research. So, how do MNE’s efficiently penetrate within segments and across geographic markets? Scaling opportunities exist across a multidimensional design (MDD) and the synergy opportunities between sites. This article describes methods and capabilities of market penetration ideally suited for an MDD. These themes emerged in the data when MDD leaders were asked about the roles of each function. In this case study an MNE utilized a multidimensional organization design to reach customers in many parts of the world. The author presents findings from this case and ultimately extracts ten propositions to guide client penetration strategy. Absent these measures, risk of revenue loss is enhanced significantly.</em></p>

Determinants of FDI in developed and developing countries: a quantitative analysis using GMM

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential determinants of FDI, in developed and developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThis paper investigates FDI determinants based on panel data analysis using static and dynamic modeling for 20 countries (11 developed and 9 developing), over the period 2004-2013. For static model estimations, Hausman (1978) test indicates the applicability of fixed effect/random effect, while generalized moments of methods (GMM) (dynamic model) is used to capture endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity.FindingsThe outcome across different countries depicts diverse results. In developed countries, FDI seeks policy-related determinants (GDP growth, trade openness, and freedom index), and in developing country FDI showed positive association for economic determinants (gross fixed capital formulation (GFCF), trade openness, and efficiency variables).Research limitations/implicationsThe destination of FDI is limited to 20 countries in the present paper. The indicator of the institutional environment, namely economic freedom index, used in this paper has received some criticism in calculations.Practical implicationsThe paper enlists recommendations for future FDI policies and may assist government in providing a tactical framework for skill development, thereby increasing manufacturing growth rate. The paper also throws light on vertical and horizontal capital inflows considering resource, strategy, and market-seeking FDI.Social implicationsFDI may bring significant benefits by creating high-quality jobs, introducing modern production and management practices. It highlights how multinational corporations and government contribute to better working conditions in host countries.Originality/valueThe paper uncovers important features like macroeconomic variables, especially country-wise efficiency scores, policy variables, GFCF, and freedom index, for determining FDI inflows in 20 countries using panel data methods and provides a roadmap for developed and developing countries. The study highlights endogeneity and unobserved heteroscedasticity by applying GMM one- and two-step procedure.

Student game-play performance in invasion games following three consecutive hybrid Sport Education seasons

This study was the first to examine game performance according to the tactical structures of invasion games throughout three consecutive model-based units. Twenty-six seventh grade students participated in three Sport Education seasons (basketball, handball, and football) taught through the tactical framework Invasion Games Competence model. Team membership remained the same throughout the three seasons and pre- and post-test game-play of three-a-side games involving the same opponent teams was assessed. Measures included overall game performance and four tactical structures indices: creating scoring opportunities (CSO); setting up an attack (SUA); prevent CSO; and prevent SUA. A 3 (group) × 2 (time) repeated measures analysis of variance tested differences between sports in the five performance measures. Correlations between the four tactical structures and game performance were tested and a hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to examine the predictive weight of the four tactical structures indices on game performance. While there were significant improvements in game performance of handball and football, but not in basketball, the breaking down of performance into tactical structures indices showed improvements in all seasons. The correlations increased across time between tactical structures indices and game performance and the predictive model of game performance extended to include the four tactical structures. Performance improvements were associated with contextual features of extended team membership and consequent attunement of game-play interpersonal dynamics, nature of peer-teaching mediation, and game forms design. Future research should examine the effects on game performance development of student augmented participation in problem-solving processes and asymmetric opposition game forms.

Developing and Maintaining Inclusive Identities: Understanding Student Teaching through de Certeau’s Framework of Tactics and Strategies

ABSTRACTThe article describes how a group of student teachers understood and enacted inclusion in noninclusive school placements during a year-long teaching residency. It examines, within de Certeau’s framework of tactics and strategies, how students made meaning of their placements, their understanding of university practice in relation to inclusion, and their developing teaching identities as inclusive educators. The fissure between university and school praxis, and the student’s relationship to that disconnect, is at the heart of this research. Moreover, the tension between the participants’ pedagogical underpinnings of what constitutes effective teaching practice’ and the ways they experienced their school sites through the adoption of an inclusive ideological framework, informed how participants resisted and negotiated daily interactions within established systems and structures.

More than solutions: Empowering students to think strategically and tactically

Courses: Communication Activism; Public Advocacy; Social Movements; Public Speaking; Persuasion; Argumentation; Public Sphere.Objectives: This semester-long activity helps students implement a solutions–strategies–tactics framework into their advocacy work. More specifically, students learn to (1) designate, research, and assess the causes of significant social/political problems; (2) design long-term strategies and chronologically arrange step-by-step tactics to address those problems; (3) devise different kinds of messages for purposes of influencing public opinion/behavior, mobilizing collective action, organizing communities into political constituencies, and swaying decision makers; and (4) develop skills and competencies for becoming agents—rather than observers—of social change.