Juggling Act Research Articles

Patient care + student supervision = a daunting juggling act

Patient care + student supervision = a daunting juggling act

OPTIMAL DECISION MAKING IN GAMES

Optimal decision-making in games involves navigating a complex web of choices to maximize your outcomes. It's like being a chess grandmaster, anticipating moves, countermoves, and trying to stay several steps ahead. Whether it's choosing a strategy, predicting opponents' actions, or adapting to dynamic situations, the key is to balance risk and reward. It's a mental juggling act, where every decision shapes the game's trajectory. So, think of it as your strategic dance, where each step is a move toward victory. KEYWORD:Decision making system, Game theory, strategies, Adapting.

Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands

In this timely and compelling work, John L. Smith skillfully engages the numerous and diverse factors at play in what he appropriately refers to as the endless war over public lands in the American West. While his focus is ostensibly on Cliven Bundy and his family's contentious relationship with the federal government, Smith uses Bundy to expose how one case about grazing rights—albeit a dramatic and famous one—can represent the complex and often bitter interaction between westerners and Washington, DC over federal land management. In so doing, Smith tackles a bevy of issues, including the rise of conservatism in the West that manifested during the 1980s as the Sagebrush Rebellion, the growing impact that “an age of social-media celebrity, YouTube stardom, citizen journalism” has had in aggravating political divides, and the rise of militias and extremism that have militarized public discourse (xv).Smith knows the topic and his subjects well, which is a significant strength of the book. As a native Nevadan and journalist who covered the Bundy battle with the federal bureaucracy for several years and for various news outlets, Smith demonstrates command of the material and an intimacy with those most closely involved in the story. His familiarity with the Bundy clan presents an opportunity to cover not only the public but also the more personal side of Cliven and his sons, principally through use of interviews and personal testimonies the Bundys used to promote their side of the eventual conflict. Smith also paints vibrant portraits of other people involved in the standoff and in the larger frame of local and federal relations. For instance, he includes an insightful chapter on former Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid.Smith's biography of Reid is an example of the author at his best: he combines a detailed explanation of Reid's upbringing and a familiarity with his hometown with an appreciation for how the senator's early experiences in local politics and his close connection to the Nevada mining industry laid the groundwork for his approach to land use and environmental policy and his power in the Senate. Smith utilizes Reid's story to represent the complex web of negotiation and compromise that public lands management often produces. As the author notes, Reid's “efforts to protect the land would earn him two national awards from the Sierra Club and the Stewart Udall Conservation Award for his work to protect public lands, yet he was also celebrated with a lifetime-achievement award from the Nevada Mining Association and given a place of honor in the American Gaming Hall of Fame—two industries known for their lack of environmental sensibilities” (201). Rather than suggesting that this rather problematical juggling act is unique to Reid, Smith provides examples of others who have tried to navigate public lands issues through a more moderate path, beholden to neither the Bundy-style version of privatization and private use of public resources nor the management style applied by federal bureaucracies such as the Bureau of Land Management. Reid's seeming ambivalence represents the complexity of land use management in much of the West, but Bundy captures headlines and galvanizes those on the extreme end of the spectrum, which has only further muddied the situation and reinforced the sense that the radical right has identified public lands use as a principal arena of combat.Smith covers considerable ground in his mostly thematic chapters with attention to the religious, social, economic, and political histories of Nevada and the Mountain West. While this approach provides several distinct essays that serve as chapters, the work lacks cohesion and focus in spots, which leaves the reader connecting the dots. A more concerted effort to explain ties between the recent rise of militia movements in the West with the expansion of the radical right in the 1970s and 1980s, for example, would lend credence to the historical dynamics at play in the Bundy movement. Moreover, such an array of coverage means that some topics lack depth. The Sagebrush Rebellion, for example, garners several mentions in the book and understanding it is necessary to ground the Bundy resistance in the past, but the roots of the rebellion and its relation to Ronald Reagan only received some twenty pages.In total, though, this is a great introduction to the Bundys and the larger contest over public lands, the rise of radical conservatism, and the volatility of contemporary politics. Smith's familiarity with the subject and his ability to weave together so many different threads work well this readable work on public land use conflicts in the American West. Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens should enjoy a wide academic and public audience.

CRISPR-Cas has a new juggling act: interplay between nuclease and protease.

CRISPR-Cas has a new juggling act: interplay between nuclease and protease.

‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities

In recent years, significant numbers of young middle-class Chinese women have moved abroad to construct an individual ‘biography’ beyond the unequal gendered expectations of the post-reform context. This article reports on a 2019 qualitative study combining interviews and visual analysis of WeChat and Instagram posts to consider how young Chinese women temporarily living in Australia maintain relationships with upper middle class family who have supported their daughters’ overseas ventures. In the wake of sweeping privatization which has encouraged parents to invest in their only children as their ‘only hopes’, online media has allowed parents to be ‘pervasively present’ for distant daughters in these transnational movements. We document participants’ curated self-branding for family on WeChat as a means of managing and negotiating this sometimes interventionist presence. Our participants’ practices reveal a complex juggling act: managing individual desires to optimize the overseas experience but carefully modulating such experience for the parental audience. Post-pandemic follow-up interviews in 2022 also suggest complications in the use of transnational mobility to extend the possibilities of flourishing, with parental pressure to return to a more proximate zone of surveillance in China. Such practices indicate the gendered contradictions young women face: pushed but also desiring to succeed individually in an unequal marketplace, while being further tethered to the family unit.

Continental Divide by Alex Myers

Reviewed by: Continental Divide by Alex Myers Em Williamson (bio) continental divide Alex Myers University of New Orleans Press https://www.uno.edu/unopress/continental-divide 291 pages; Print, $18.95 In his second novel, Continental Divide, Alex Myers puts contemporary masculinity under scrutiny by transporting us away from contemporary settings and back to 1990s rural Wyoming. In doing so, he creates a setting rife with narrative possibility. At once familiar and reimagined by Myers's lush prose, the Wyoming of this novel is used as the locus of American masculinity, peopled by gruff ranchers and barflies and characterized for us as "the land where men were men, or they got the hell out of town." Wyoming, therefore, takes on a paradoxical resonance in the novel. It is at once an oppressive landscape, terrifying in its stasis and its hypermasculinity, and a necessary proving ground for a young man looking to forge an identity. What unfolds on this inauspicious terrain leaves the reader with a satisfying bildungsroman and an unflinching look at the interior life of a young transgender man. On the surface, Continental Divide recounts the coming of age of its protagonist, Ron Bancroft, and finds its introduction just after Ron's somewhat disastrous coming-out as a female-to-male transgender person. Ron is an affable narrator, full of candor and acquisitive urgency, but it is what lies beneath the semiautobiographical surface of this novel that most brings it to life. Myers's novel opens out from Ron and his journey into a meditation on the tensions external forces impose on one's own gender identity. It is about the antic juggling act of self-expression and the struggle to reconcile identity with the outside world. Myers isn't afraid to make this line of inquiry immediately apparent. The novel opens with a to-do list, the third item of which functions as a succinct description of all that follows: "Prove to the world (myself?) that I can live as a guy." The questioning nature of that parenthetical is, of course, the central conflict of the novel, with the desolate Wyoming landscape providing a complex backdrop for Ron's attempt at self-discovery. Upon arrival in the little [End Page 82] town of Cody, Ron secures a menial job at a ranch and encounters the cast of characters that will hinder and assist him as he tries to tick this most pertinent item off his list. Namely, there is the trio of siblings who operate the ranch: Gus, Marc, and Cassie (full names Augustus, Marcus Aurelius, and Cassiopeia, a bit of symbolism that stretches far past the point of cogency). Myers fashions these characters into conduits for the strains of labor, violence, and sex on Ron's gender identity, and each of them reconfigure his perceptions of masculinity as the novel progresses. The men of Cody, Gus and Marc included, are sometimes written to the point of stereotype—they are homophobic, sexist, a little dim-witted. A newcomer to such unabashed machismo, Ron is equal parts intrigued and repulsed by their behavior. He admits to recognizing the patriarchal implications, but cannot resist imbricating their modes of expression with his own and ultimately concludes that "I wanted some of what they had—a bit of the swagger, a share of the ease—but I didn't want the whole package." This clearheaded worldview is typical of Ron, who comes across sometimes as having the confidence of a much older man. For instance, he describes his gender by saying, "I had known my whole life the truth of myself while the world kept telling me I had it wrong." Assured as this sounds, Ron finds himself still vulnerable to Wyoming's newfangled batch of external forces, and the tension of the novel begins when we see him question the utility of his own masculine expressions. Within the turbid waters of these competing modes of gender, Myers offers a deft criticism of contemporary masculinity's seeming inflexibility while never subordinating his novel to polemic treatise. He is sure, though, to offer us a redemptive path forward as well. When Ron embarks on a relationship with Cassie, even as a whole new...

Mastering the solo juggling act: A library manager’s reflections on access services, tenure, and liaising for academic disciplines

Solo tenure-track librarians in academia must discover the key to mastering the fine art of multitasking to execute concepts of seamless user experiences. This article covers notable practices and principles of Solo tenure-track librarians in academia, specifically at the City University of New York, including overseeing a library division, satisfying provisions of the academic triad (excellence in teaching, service, and creative scholarship), and liaising various academic disciplines. Solos appointed to oversee a library division coordinate every aspect of access service (stacks maintenance, facilities management, user experience, etc.) in addition to being director. Directing a specialized library unit accompanies public-facing expectations of access and being an effective advocate and dynamic partner with all stakeholders. The purpose is to highlight the importance and value of Solo librarianship in higher education and their impactful contributions to the student body, faculty, and administrators alike. Though not intended to be exhaustive, the review of library literature serves as a practical guide to others in similar circumstances. The author’s reflections introduce a deeper understanding of supportive organizational structures and the interdependence of building a collaborative team to provide intentional user-focused library services, promote literacy, and efficient operation across all service points.

A juggling act – being a parent/prospective parent and a clinician during Covid-19

In writing this article, we hope to invite others to reflect on their experience of their personal and professional lives and how these have been impacted by Covid-19 and lockdown. It has been an exposing yet helpful experience to write this and we hope that it will open up the conversation for others.

A juggling act: CEO polychronicity and firm innovation

This study examines a unique CEO temporal characteristic—polychronicity (the extent to which CEOs prefer to engage in multiple projects simultaneously and believe that this is the best way of doing things). I propose that CEO polychronicity is a double-edged sword for firm innovation and that this relationship is contingent on the environmental and organizational contexts. Specifically, CEO polychronicity is positively related to firm innovation when firms operate in more dynamic environments, are relatively large and have poor past performance, but is negatively related to firm innovation when firms operate in less dynamic environments, are relatively small and have good past performance. Results based on survey data from 111 Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) largely support my hypotheses. This study makes contributions by being an initial attempt to examine CEO polychronicity and by identifying essential boundary conditions of the effect of CEO polychronicity on firm innovation.

Women's experience of shiftwork in nursing whilst caring for children: A juggling act.

To explore women's experiences of working shiftwork in nursing whilst caring for children. In nursing, almost 90% of Australia's practising nurses and midwives are women. Much of the research undertaken in the shiftwork area uses men as their sample and uses a quantitative methodology to achieve results. Little work has been undertaken that explores the experience of women working shiftwork whilst raising children. Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenological Design. Semistructured interviews were conducted with ten women who cared for children about their experience of shiftwork. Each interview was digitally audio-recorded. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. The interpretation used first Heideggerian phenomenology as a lens and then second research on women's work and gender roles to resituate the experience in context. Reporting rigour has been demonstrated using the COREQ checklist. Two major themes were derived from the data, Being Guilty and Being Juggler. Each is discussed in this paper. This study adds a qualitative voice to the substantial quantitative shiftwork body of literature. The themes uncovered in this study have thrown light on the nature of work done by women who are nurses, particularly the work related to their home and children. There are opportunities to increase education around the importance of sleep and shiftwork self-care in both preservice and new graduate education to assist nurses to ensure that sleep is a priority whilst working shiftwork.

Academic motherhood in the United Arab Emirates

Balancing the dual roles of mother and academic can be an intensive juggling act. Often, it is mothers who undertake the majority of domestic work in the household, and who tend to experience greatest consequences of this in the workplace; including stress, pressure and less likelihood of promotion. Research indicates that networks of support provided by families and friends can help alleviate these pressures. Academic parents who work outside of their home countries may not have access to these networks to share the work of raising children, but academics who work in the Arabian Gulf have inexpensive domestic help at their dispensation. The ways in which life as an expatriate affects academic mothers both professionally and personally is explored in this study set in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Interview data was gathered from ten expatriate academic mothers. It was found that, similarly to other studies in this field, mothers undertake the vast majority of coordination of domestic work and childcare in their homes, but that having domestic help enables them to enjoy more time with their families. However, there was no clear indication that having extra help at home enabled the women to partake more readily in their academic work. The majority of the women in this study considered that their lives as academic mothers are made easier by residing in the UAE, despite being far from family. This was in part due to ubiquitous domestic help, but also due to perceptions of the UAE providing a culturally family friendly working environment.

For whom do we write?

For whom do we write?

Of Cedars Across the Sea

Of Cedars Across the Sea Krystal Elkhoury (bio) Lighthouse for the Drowning: Poems Jawdat Fakhreddine Huda Fakhreddine & Jayson Iwen, trans. BOA Editions, Ltd. www.boaeditions.org 128 Pages; Print, $16.00 Translation is a daunting task, and translation of poetry is even more difficult due to its inherent precision, and the risk of cultural nuances getting lost in translation. Despite this, Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen were more than ready to undertake the herculean endeavor of translating the poetry of Jawdat Fakhreddine—Huda's father—from Arabic into English. Huda Fakhreddine and Iwen note in the introduction the hardships that they grappled with over the course of the translation process wherein important choices had to be made regarding words with multiple meanings and potential translations. Huda Fakhreddine and Iwen made deliberate decisions to stay as true to the original as possible, ensuring that the meaning and intent of the poems were not lost, while also expertly adding more subtext through wordplay. After reading the poems in both English and Arabic, I found myself stunned at how Huda Fakhreddine and Iwen have managed to accomplish this delicate juggling act. The introduction provides historical context for the reader as to how Lighthouse for the Drowning and its translation came to be: it was written during a time of political upheaval and eventual civil war within Lebanon which forced Jawdat Fakhreddine into a temporary exile to America. Jawdat Fakhreddine's feelings of isolation and banishment to a foreign land are at the forefront of his poems, which are saturated with the strong desire for remembrance and returning, a return to youth and childhood, a return to an energetic and carefree life, a return to something forgotten and the desire to never forget, a return home to one's roots. There is a yearning for something more that is so visceral and captivating it makes the reader feel every melancholic, depressed, and excited emotion that gripped Fakhreddine at the time of writing. The form of the collection stands as metaphor, with English text on the left and Arabic on the right, and can easily be interpreted as representing the West and the Middle East, respectively. The negative space between the text and translation is significant, and reading the book from beginning to end—left to right—has the reader metaphorically journeying from a foreign Western country, travelling over the bodies of water (negative space) that separate them from their destination in the east, guided home by the beacon of a lighthouse of words. Lighthouse for the Drowning encapsulates the feelings of melancholy and isolation that affects any member of a diaspora and evokes a desire to return home even in those who have never set foot ashore the land of their ancestors. Despite the nuances found in the English and Arabic languages, there is an opportunity for a play on words through translation—in one poem, the word "bahr" is translated as "sea," but can also mean a "meter" in Arabic poetry, as the translators note. In the same poem, "waves" stand in for the names of the Arabic poetic meters. Together, this translation creates a beautiful interplay of imagery where the author likens his spirit to the seas before being overtaken by the waves, like words that overwhelm but are the only thing that can convey the poetry of his spirit. In the second stanza, Fakhreddine states outright that "Poetry is the deepest sea, / distant yet more urgent than surf breaking on rocks." The sea, or meter, of poetry is a raucous entity with powerful meanings that rise and fall in waves that ebb and flow on the shores of a reader's mind. Fakhreddine's poems are an intimate offering of the author's deepest fears, desires, and longings, a retrospective reflection to his roots and a yearning to return to the land of his childhood. Water plays a large role in his collection, a renewing and rejuvenating force, showcasing the power of the sea whose waves climb high to batter at the Ancient Phoenician Wall in Batroun, insisting to be seen, to be read, to be heard. Fakhreddine enshrines his words in the dynamic Lebanese landscape: in the...

Social justice in a tertiary education context: Do we practice what we preach?

Concepts of social justice have strong historical roots, while more contemporary notions of social justice coincide with human rights, equity, fairness and facilitation of social change with lasting impact. In higher education, evident examples of social justice include widened university access facilitating a diverse student body and graduate workforce who can, in turn, contribute to a more just society. University student identity in past eras has been synonymous with social activism. Equally, social work has a mandate to uphold social justice. Yet tertiary students’ own growing material hardships appear to constitute an unacknowledged injustice. While it is understood that tertiary study may mean short-lived poverty, more recent literature suggests that many university students are suffering mounting debt, increased mental health stress and vulnerability to withdrawal. In this article, the authors ponder social justice education by calling on specific results of a 2015 survey of 2320 Australian social work students. Findings revealed that for many students a juggling act of core study requirements, paid work, family commitments and affording necessities impacted their health, wellbeing and study success. Some astute students identified a disconnect between social work’s staunch social justice agenda and its lack of acknowledgement, empathy or action regarding student hardship. The findings have implications for curricula, universities, accrediting bodies and educators who want to facilitate social justice education.

The joys and challenges of academic motherhood

The challenges of the academic mother's juggling act are well documented in academic literature. In addition to the duties which most faculty members are responsible for such as teaching, research, community service and administration duties, it is frequently reported that faculty mothers are also responsible for the majority of childcare organization and domestic housework. Multiple studies have shown that faculty fathers tend not to be nearly as responsible for these aspects of child-rearing. Amidst the challenges though, there are also a number of studies which explore the ways in which women report the sense of joy and fulfilment their work as academic mothers gives them. In this study, twelve women from a higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates are interviewed to explore these themes further. They report ways in which they experience the challenges, but also the joys of their dual roles, and ways in which they felt the roles of academic and mother can be mutually complementary.

Guest Editorial: Special Topic Issue, Soccer

The focus of this special edition of the Strength and Conditioning Journal is what is commonly termed the world's game—football (soccer). This edition has been produced to coincide with the sport's biggest event—the FIFA world cup—where more than 3 billion people tuned into the previous event held in Brazil, and where interest in the game worldwide will be at its peak. Played on every continent, with FIFA figures suggesting 270 million people playing or officiating in the game on a regular basis, and with this participation taking place at many levels, soccer has a special place in the hearts of players and fans. To the casual observer, one of the great appeals of soccer is its simplicity and the minimal requirements in terms of equipment. However, for the strength and conditioning coach, it is far from simple, and soccer presents unique challenges. Effective soccer performance requires a wide range of physical capacities, which vary between playing positions and ultimately on the style of play of the individual and of the tactical requirements of the team. In this way, physical capacities can never be viewed in isolation, but as part of a more holistic development that balances physical development with technical, tactical, and psychological capacities. Critically, these capacities are not independent but instead interact, with, for example, the tactical style deployed by a team dictating the precise physical capacities a player will need to effectively undertake their role on the team. Subsequently, physical capacities need to be tailored to the specific needs of the athlete, requiring that the strength and conditioning coach has an effective knowledge of the game and is aware of the roles the player must undertake on the pitch. Adding to this challenge are the varied logistical challenges a coach faces. Playing seasons have typically been getting ever longer, with the added challenge of postseason competitions (such as this year's world cup) further extending seasons for some players. Subsequently, off-season preparation times are being squeezed, and strategies have to be developed to deal with these scenarios. Add in the fact that, in many countries, players will face 2, or even 3, games in a week period, and it is clear that coaches need to develop strategies to cope with these challenges. Ensuring that players possess and develop the physical capacities to play effectively at their chosen level of play, while guaranteeing that they also have the capacities in the other domains is a constant juggling act and will often require the development of unique strategies built around the precise constraints faced in the individual coach's scenario. It is clear that the key to effective application is the need, not of knowledge per se, but of proprietary knowledge—of what works in the coach's unique environment. This issue has been developed to address these variable needs and to help coaches apply methods that will hopefully help develop this proprietary knowledge. The aim has been to draw on a wide range of sources in developing the issue and to balance theoretical evidence with the evidence of practitioners working at a range of levels in the game, with the objective of providing applied solutions that practitioners can use in their work. We hope that the issue will provide some insight into some approaches being used in the soccer community, which may help readers develop their own solutions to the challenges faced in this wonderful game. As with any game, success depends on a team performance. As guest editors, we would like to thank all the authors for generously sharing their work, the reviewers who have diligently ensured the quality of the submissions, and to Britt Chandler and Jeff Chandler who have patiently and expertly guided us through the process of producing this special edition. We hope you enjoy it.

Methods, Making, and West African Influences in the Work of Fatimah Tuggar

Methods, Making, and West African Influences in the Work of Fatimah Tuggar

Caring for a Child With an Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury: A Metaphor Analysis

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to examine the metaphors used by mothers to describe their experiences caring for their children with obstetric brachial plexus injuries. Design and MethodsA secondary qualitative data analysis was conducted from the primary data set of a phenomenological study of mothers' experiences caring for their children with obstetric brachial plexus injuries. The type of secondary qualitative data analysis approach used was analytic expansion. Metaphor Identification Procedure was used to analyze the corpus of 132 pages of typed transcription. ResultsThis metaphorical analysis yielded seven metaphors mothers used to describe their experiences caring for their children with obstetric brachial plexus injuries. These metaphors portrayed mothers' lives as involving a heavy weight, a maze, a juggling act, a simmering pot, a dagger to the heart, a rollercoaster, and a constant battle. ConclusionThe seven metaphors helped women express what they could not completely capture using only medical jargon and provide valuable insight for clinicians. Using secondary qualitative data analysis to mine for any metaphors in a primary data set gives researchers another valuable and creative opportunity to discover new knowledge from the data they had previously collected. Practice ImplicationsSpecific interventions can be developed to target each of these seven metaphors to help mothers in their daily care for their children with obstetric brachial plexus injuries.

Inspiration to continue with the endless juggling act

Reflecting on her training to become a health visitor and looking ahead to her new career, Lisa Forbes considers the ways in which mothers—including her own, and the many she has met during her SCPHN course—have motivated and inspired her.

… From the Editor

While leafing through a gift catalog recently, I came across a pair of desk accessories inscribed, “The road to success is always under construction” and “The only constant is change.” Those words neatly reflect the themes expressed in the pages that follow. As Erica Seville, Debbie Van Opstal, and John Vargo explain in their primer on resilience on page 6, managing volatility has become standard operating procedure. They outline seven principles that business leaders can apply to nurture the agility needed to weather unexpected disruptions, and show how they have been used to help a variety of organizations thrive, even in tough times. At FalconStor Software, an international data protection company, big change came in the form of expansion into the public sector. On page 19, Valeh Nazemoff details how a partnership with Acolyst, a government technology consulting firm, led FalconStor to fully exploit its financial, customer, data, and mastermind intelligence to transform its operations and take advantage of the opportunities awaiting in an untapped market. For GDF SUEZ, a French multinational, the creation of communities of practice (CoPs) enabled its leaders to perfect the organizational juggling act of exploring new knowledge while refining existing competencies. As Pierre-Jean Barlatier and Olivier DuPouët explain on page 43, to get the most of such contextual ambidexterity, business leaders must set up a clearly defined system for disseminating the valuable knowledge they capture. Even when state-of-the-art technology is the catalyst for change, the role of the leader is pivotal. On page 29, Kallol Kumar Basu reviews various aspects of leadership and change management and analyzes five case studies in technology transformation to identify the common traits that can best equip managers to successfully spearhead such initiatives. Any kind of change within an enterprise entails an element of risk, and on page 54, a team of researchers—Bahareh Hossein Nezhad Nedaei, Siti Zaleha Abdul Rasid, Saudah Sofian, Rohaida Basiruddin, and Abolfazl Amanollah Nejad Kalkhouran—present a new model for managing it. Their contingency-based framework calls for considering the relationships among the organization's level of decentralization, size, and enterprise resource planning strategies in order to overcome the obstacles to improving overall performance. Rounding out this issue, another team of researchers—Ajay Kumar Behera, Narayan Chandra Nayak, Harish Chandra Das, and Rabindra Narayan Mohapatra—assess the impact of information technology (IT) in 125 firms in the Indian banking and software sectors. Focusing on efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity, their empirical study on page 67 found a significant positive relationship between IT adoption and enhanced organizational performance and a positive relationship between IT application and increased effectiveness and efficiency of service. In other words, change can be good.