Informal Talks Research Articles

INFORMAL TALK. ASWAN HIGH DAM.

"INFORMAL TALK. ASWAN HIGH DAM.." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 36(4), pp. 907–908

A Perspective of Western Canada's Oil and Gas Industry

Introduction Members of the CIM are generally well aware of the importance of Canada's mineral industries to the national economy, but those of you who are involved chiefly with the mining and metallurgical aspects of the industry may not have too much appreciation of the nature and importance of the oil and gas industries. It seemed to me that it would be appropriate this year, when your President is associated with the petroleum industry and when the Petroleum Society of CIM is getting well established, if the President's informal talk to the Branches could include a brief perspective view of the petroleum industry.

Games, an Informal Talk

Games, an Informal Talk

Avoiding Written Grievances: A Successful Program

T HE publicity given to contract negotiations, and the attention focused on strikes, make it easy to overlook the importance of contract administration. Negotiating a contract is a significant part of collective bargaining. But it is the day-to-day administration of a contract that determines how well the objectives of the contract are realized. And it is the day-to-day administration that most influences the development of a constructive relationship between the contracting parties. A key activity in contract administration is grievance handling. By examining the development of grievance machinery in a large, multiplant manufacturing company, we hope to provide insights applicable elsewhere. The company is the International Harvester Company (I-H); the union is the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The operation of their grievance machinery is described; steps taken to alleviate its malfunctioning are discussed, and the impact of a program to avoid written grievances is analyzed. During most of the postwar period the grievance machinery at I-H did not function effectively. Contract administration was characterized by a multitude of written grievances and many heated discussions. The causes lay deep in the history of labor relations at I-H. Union rivalry and contentious issues early created an atmosphere that fostered many grievances. Yet even after union rivalry was eliminated, and many contract issues were solved, the problem continued. Various measures were tried-control was centralized, special agreements were signed, grievance handling procedures were altered-but the machinery continued to function improperly. Hostility generated by twenty years of conflict perpetuated the trouble. But gradually, through informal talks and experimentation, top officials from the company and the union managed to set the stage for a significant departure in the method of handling workers' complaints. In December, 1959, a program of avoiding written grievances by emphasizing oral handling of complaints was inaugurated. This new look' has made possible a quick and informal solution of employee problems. Generally, its impact has been salutary-contentious discussions have ceased; problems are being settled out on the floor; relationships have improved within, and between, union and management; and the tenor of contract negotiations has become more harmonious. However, there is one troublesome possibility, namely, that localized grievance settlements may not conform to central policy. A study of the grievance experience at I-H has wider relevance for two reasons: This company and union faced a problem which is common in labor-management * Assistant professor of industrial relations, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

How the USA and the USSR Look to the Children in a Japanese Community

If world tension is due, at least in part, to mutual misunderstanding and distrust among nations, and if the seeds of distrust and misunderstanding take root in childhood, then education directed toward international understanding may play an important role in achieving world peace. In 1956, UNESCO undertook the sponsorship of a ten-year project to promote mutual understanding of cultural values in the East and the West. This undertaking includes a project of education for international understanding and co-operation, a project in which six schools in Japan are taking part. To evaluate this venture, we questioned about a thousand boys and girls in primary and middle schools in Hiroshima. The children in the primary school are six to twelve years of age. The children in the middle school are twelve to fourteen years of age. Although our questions were not confined to attitudes toward the United States and the Soviet Union, the present report is concerned chiefly with the images of the USA and the USSR held by this group of school children in Hiroshima. Children's images of nations are probably the result of many influences, including mass media, informal talks, formal education, and personal contact with foreigners. Different images may be held by children of different social classes, experiences, localities, scholastic achievement, or in different international situations. Moreover, as

Nursing ward therapy as an alternative for straint.

1. The use of mechanical restraint was virtually eliminated on a psychiatric ward of acutely disturbed, combative patients. 2. This was accomplished in a research setting through successive stages designed to be of educational value to the participants. 3. At first, the nurses tended to substitute chemical sedation for mechanical controls. 4. Through a number of informal talks and formal devices (restraint graphs, obligatory written memoranda for all restraint, etc.), Nursing Ward Therapy techniques were finally substituted for both mechanical and chemical restraint. As a result, the ward nurse perceived herself as shifting from a primarily medical role to the role of a psychiatric nursing specialist. 5. Nursing Ward Therapy is presented as the alternative of choice in handling emergencies in large mental institutions.

Visiting physicists from abroad

The names below are those of physicists now visiting in the United States as recipients of US government grants under the Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Acts as listed by the Committee on International Exchange of Persons. The Committee has suggested that many may welcome invitations to give lectures or informal talks to college, community, or other groups. Since most of the visitors have only limited resources, it is indicated, any honoraria offered would be helpful. Invitations to lecture may be sent directly to the visitor at the institution in which he is located. For additional information concerning an individual, write to Miss Elizabeth P. Lam, Executive Associate, Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington 25, D.C. The symbols used below indicate present main activity: (L) lecturing; (R) research.

An Informal Talk on Meeting in Geneva

An Informal Talk on Meeting in Geneva

Marxism: A Talk to Students

(This is the transcript of an informal talk made to a group of students during the summer session at Cornell. -P.M.S.). This is in lieu of an office hour, and the reason for it is that quite a few of you may have the same questions in mind as I have been asked in several earlier office hours. They are good questions and I would like to try to answer them as best I can without keeping you too long.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Visiting physicists from abroad

The names below are those of physicists now visiting in the United States as recipients of US government grants under the Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Acts as listed by the Committee on International Exchange of Persons. The Committee has suggested that many may welcome invitations to give lectures or informal talks to college, community, or other groups. Since most of the visitors have only limited resources, it is indicated, any honoraria offered would be helpful. Invitations to lecture may be sent directly to the visitor at the institution in which he is located. For additional information concerning an individual, write to Miss Elizabeth P. Lam, Executive Associate, Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington 25, D.C. The symbols used below indicate present main activity: (L) lecturing; (R) research.

Hitler — Twelve Years After

Twelve years have passed since Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker at Berlin. Since then a number of aides and associates have published their memoirs, but on the whole the literature on Hitler has been surprisingly meager. Some of those who could have told us more about him did not survive him long enough to do so, while few of the survivors were articulate enough to set down their recollections in writing. Nevertheless among recently published reminiscences dealing with the Fuehrer a few do contain data that are new and significant. Taken together with the Proceedings of the Nürnberg Trials and the records of his informal table talks, they cast some additional light on that sinister and elusive figure.

Book Review: Informal Talks on Sunday School Teaching

Book Review: Informal Talks on Sunday School Teaching

Goals of Psychiatric Planning

At a recent meeting of the Board of Consultants to the Architectural Study Project, Dr. Paul Haun, formerly Chief of the Hospital Design Unit, Psychiatry and Neurology Division of the Veterans Administration, was invited to give an informal talk on programming for a new hos#{216}italbuilding. The various points which he raised were enlarged upon during the group discussion which followed. We are publishing the recorded notes from his talk because of their general interest to all who face construction problems. Dr. Haun is the author of “Psychiatric Sections in General Hospitals.”

Some practical effects of a clean food campaign.

The paper is a factual statement of the practical achievements of a planned clean food campaign. Education by active participation by personnel on a competitive basis at school-feeding centres, detailed publicity of such action at education and health committee levels, the taking of the opportunity to give informal talks at catering premises generally and, at the same time, to demon strate by graphite powder-dusting tests on crockery any deficiencies in the cleansing facilities or technique. A rough classification is made of food handlers and caterers according to their financial and social background. The problem of the ignorant and incorrigible type of trader and of the small business man using adapted premises in a built-up area of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the new industrial and commercial caterers and their specialized staffs who have succeeded in providing, either voluntarily or compulsorily, very satisfactory canteens, hostels and kitchens incorporating up-to-date equipment and technical aids is discussed. An opinion is expressed of the justifiable place in the clean food campaign of the new agents for cleansing and sterilization. Attention is drawn to the desirability of sanitary officers taking formal interest in public food markets, licensed premises, and cleaner meat production at abattoirs, and to giving special attention to milk bars and gala and similar social events. The co-operation of the food industry is noted to the extent of substantial financial expenditure and the absence of the questioning of the rights of a local authority or its officials to give effect to any recorded aspect of a clean food campaign.

Political Significance of Group Discussion

MUCH attention is devoted elsewhere in this volume to the formal discussion of public questions through such media as the platform and the press. And properly so. But it is no disparagement of the political leader and the publicist as molders of opinion to suggest that the informal talk which goes on constantly among private citizens is equally vital to the democratic process. Without it public opinion would be superficial and illusory. Informal discussion below the level of

Economy in Design

Editorial Note.—The following contribution comprises an informal talk given to the Luton Centre of the Institution on 13th June, 1944. It represents an interesting and logical approach to a subject which is often neglected or misunderstood, and as the author of the talk has no immediate opportunity of elaborating it into the form of a full-scale paper, the notes are presented herewith in “talk” form in the hope that they will prove of interest and value.

WHAT IS AN ADEQUATE HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM?*

Journal of School HealthVolume 13, Issue 7 p. 165-173 WHAT IS AN ADEQUATE HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM?* Mayhew Derryberry, Mayhew Derryberry Chief Field Activities in Health Education, U.S.P.H.S.Search for more papers by this author Mayhew Derryberry, Mayhew Derryberry Chief Field Activities in Health Education, U.S.P.H.S.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1943 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.1943.tb04812.x * Informal talk presented at the meeting of the New England Health Education Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, May 15, 1943. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume13, Issue7September 1943Pages 165-173 RelatedInformation

ALLERGY

In arranging the many subheadings and topics which have developed in the study of allergy, one finds that some of these are concerned with the basic cause of trouble, others with the development of sensitiveness, others with the mechanisms by which symptoms result, others with the variety of symptoms, and, finally, still others with those changes which have nothing to do with the cause but represent the result or the effect of the primary disturbance. Last winter I1prepared an informal talk along these lines, and the summary was published later in a small bulletin. The chart presented at that time has proved to be a useful arrangement of the various topics and so is presented again here, with some modification. First of all, this chart separates allergy as a study in immunology sharply from asthma, a study in physiology. It is true that often the two go together,

The Old Book Room

T HE romance of Old World bookstalls where the visitor may finger volumes once owned by the obscure or the great and the literary flavor of bygone English coffeehouses in which men settled the world's problems with spirited conversation are both combined in the twentieth-century teaand-book shop at Rockford College. Known simply as Maddox House, in memory of a well-loved president whose home it was for many years, the building has already become famous beyond the campus limits of this historic old college and has aroused the interest of educators and book lovers throughout the country. Yearly shipments from London have brought into the very heart of this Midwestern campus a miniature Harding's bookstore, lining the walls of the Old Book Room with books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that still bear the signatures or the penciled annotations of forgotten owners. Throughout the year Rockford students and faculty members browse among these volumes, choosing now an old edition which will enrich a personal library, now a volume that will shed important light on a special term paper. Prices are ridiculously low and most of the books still bear English price marks in terms of shillings and pence. Credit for this novel plan which has become an integral part of the Rockford book program goes to Gordon Chalmers, a former president of the college, and to Miss Jean Sharpe, the librarian. Accompanied by Miss Mutschler, dean of the College, Miss Sharpe spent many weeks in England several years ago collecting the nearly one thousand books which were included in the first shipment. At Harding's famous London bookstore, the two faculty members found a staunch ally in Mr. George Wheeler, who has annually assumed the responsibility for selecting additional volumes to be shipped to Rockford College. President Mary Ashby Cheek, who succeeded Mr. Chalmers at Rockford, has been equally enthusiastic about the book center, and its significance in the life of the college continues to grow. A director at Maddox House assists Miss Sharpe in arranging special exhibits of old books and in supervising other phases of the campus book program focusing in this delightful shop. Monthly teas bring members of the faculty and students crowding into Maddox House to hear informal talks

Couriers of Mercy. Friendly Talks to Nurses.

Informal talks with nurses about the motives and qualities of the ideal nurse, her relationships to patients, physicians and others, and her personal and professional problems are the subjects embraced in this work. It places nursing on the basis of a religious devotion to a noble calling.