Explaining High Performance Among Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective

2022 ◽  
pp. 0734371X2110624
Author(s):  
Surya Prakash Pati ◽  
Ram Kumar Kakani
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
High Performing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Policymaking And Implementation

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers are careerist senior civil servants (SCS) in the world’s largest democracy, holding senior roles of policymaking and implementation. Therefore, identifying exceptionally performing SCS to unravel their “job demands” along with “personal resources” should help with understanding how best to manage these critical human resources. Employing a qualitative approach, we interviewed 11 high performing IAS officers identified through a unique career progression index. Our data analysis revealed that the IAS suffers from the following job demands: difficulty in coordination with other departments and stakeholders, financial inadequacy, and dishonest subordinates or coworkers. This study also found that self-directed learning, personal reputation, empathy, and service orientation are essential personal resources for high-performing SCS. While expanding the list of job demands and personal resources in the public administration context, our research provides a deeper insight into the challenges confronting careerist SCS in lower-middle income developing countries.

Knowledge in the Shrinking Commons

2016 ◽  
pp. 358-379
Author(s):  
Luke Bassuener
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Market Driven

Libraries and Open Access function in a variety of ways to make information freely available to the public, but the current era of market-driven globalization has reshaped the economic environment, and threatens to undermine their principle mission. The defining characteristic of this threat is the treatment of knowledge as a commodity. The idea of open access and the institution of the library exist as sources of self-directed learning and as representatives of the shrinking commons in the face of encroaching market forces. Libraries face challenges of relevance in regard to technology, budgets, privatization, and physical space. Open Access must find ways to define itself coherently—as publishers, researchers, libraries and businesses all try to manipulate the concept to fit their needs. This chapter looks at the shared obstacles and objectives of libraries and the open access movement, and analyzes some of the efforts being made to address current challenges and work toward a future of collaboration and continued relevance.

Promoting self-directed learning using a menu of assessment options: the investment model

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Investment Model ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Science

Undergraduate science students took an Inquiry course in their second (sophomore) year. The course was designed to explore the social life of scientific knowledge. They were given a set of eight assessment options: personal logs, targeted oral examinations, commentaries, mini-lectures, individual explorations, research proposals, book reviews, and problem-solving exercises. Each option had a specific maximum mark (percentage or grade point) associated with it. Students were permitted to select any set of options to obtain their total grade for the course. From the student’s perspective, the course provided a valuable learning experience and enabled them to recognize the complexities involved in the process of generating scientific information and making it useful and relevant to the public. The opportunity given to select their own assessment options enhanced their learning. For me, as the sole instructor managing 51 students, the experience was rewarding.

scholarly journals Information Retrieval, Self Directed Learning and Academic Performance among Facebook Users

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorriati Din ◽  
Shireen Haron
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
International Publishing

Online social networking refers to social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Meetup, Tribe and MySpace. Since the inception, the number of online social networking is being created rapidly with many sophisticated features being developed ever since.  The Facebook has gained much popularity among the public mainly for interactions as well as for exchanging information. This study intends to investigate the information retrieval that occurs in the Facebook platform and if the process of retrieving information on the Facebook support academic performance.  Fifty-nine self-directed adult learners participated in this research. Keywords: Information retrieval; academic performance; self-directed learning; Facebook eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.    

scholarly journals Open-Inquiry Course Design in the Public Policy Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-801
Author(s):  
Andrew Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Open Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metacognitive Reflection ◽  
Students First ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Class Period

ABSTRACTThis article describes a variant of experiential course design—open inquiry—that has learning-how-to-learn (or metacognition about learning) as a primary course goal. In open-inquiry designs, students first choose the problems that they will study during the course. They then co-create each class period as the semester progresses. They recognize deficiencies in their own content knowledge, skills, and learning processes and take actions to remedy them. By reflecting on their successes and failures, students practice the skill of self-directed learning. This process of metacognitive reflection is a crucial skill that they will need when they face novel problems after graduation. In open-inquiry courses, students have produced high-quality work by learning about substantive policy areas that they choose to study, developing the policy skills that they deem important, and growing in their understanding about how they learn effectively.

scholarly journals Media Daring sebagai Self Directed Learning Materi PAI SD Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19

FIKROTUNA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbahul Munir ◽  
Triyo Supriyatno
Keyword(s):  
Learning Theory ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Directed Learning

The purpose of this research is to offer alternative media based on independent learning during the pandemic covid 19. The first objective is to explore information on online network-based media that is widely used in Indonesia as a support for learning; Second, to search a model of self-directed learning theory that has characteristics according to research needs; Third, to provide an overview of the alternative characteristics of online-based learning media offered. The data in this study were taken through google schoolar, semantic scholar, elsevier, researchgate, online seminars via youtube, zoom. The results of this study the most widely used media in Indonesia are Youtube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Classroom. While the theory taken related to self directed learning according to Song and Hill’s, The typology of youtube, facebook, whatsapp, zoom, and google classroom media is found to be opened, closed, open and closed combination for the public. All media have in common can share files in the form of video, word, pdf. Except youtube and zoom. The benefit of Youtube is the flexibility of time and content developed with audio visual, while zooming does not have the flexibility of time, learning can be presented interactively between teachers and students.

scholarly journals Pokémon Day at the Sternberg: Using Pop-Culture to Teach Principles of Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25988
Author(s):  
Edward Shelburne
Keyword(s):  
Close Association ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Interactive Activity

Pop culture has great potential as a tool for communicating science to the public. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History (FHSM) hosted a public, all-ages outreach event utilizing Pokémon to illustrate common principles of evolution and highlighting the confluence of pop-culture and science. Pokémon is a multi-billion dollar multimedia franchise centered on the training and combat of small monsters, called Pokémon, which grow stronger and ‘evolve’ over time as they bond with their trainer. While ‘evolution’ in the Pokémon franchise is more akin to the process of metamorphosis in the real world, with weaker forms transitioning into stronger ones, principles of mutation, adaptation, and descent with modification are regularly evoked within the series. This close association between Pokémon ‘evolution’ and Darwinian evolution provides an invaluable opportunity to use a popular franchise to explain evolutionary principles through basic comparison, as well as clarifying public misperceptions of evolution by drawing attention to inaccuracies portrayed in the franchise. Tables were placed around the Museum where fossils and illustrated graphics highlighted similarities between Pokémon designs and their extinct counterparts, while teaching the principles of adaptation, descent with modification, and island biogeography. Guests were encouraged to use self-directed learning to interact with Museum staff who explained the evolutionary principles outlined at that table and the inferences that can be made regarding the biology and ecology of the organisms the Pokémon represent. A scavenger hunt was also implemented to encourage exploration of the museum; younger guests were tasked with seeking additional Pokémon hidden throughout the museum. This interactive activity rewarded exploration of both event-specific displays and traditional exhibits with a small bag of candy upon completion. Arts-and-crafts related to Pokémon and evolution were available for very young guests. The event took place over five hours on a Saturday; normal admission fees were required. Principles learned from this Pokémon Day event can be used by the FHSM and other institutions to further refine engaging and informative public outreach events in the future, utilizing different pop-culture franchises to teach scientific principles to the public.

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