In the contemporary organizational environment, the internal public audit allows the management to develop its action capacity, thus ensuring that its strategy is correctly put in practice and the ...effects related to economy, efficiency and effectiveness are the expected ones. The implementation of the internal audit in the military organization represents a continuous and modern action that is part of the general effort to streamline the management of public institutions in Romania. The audit solutions must contribute to strengthening the stability of the military institution and to achieving its objectives, both domestically and internationally, in terms of anticipation and proper risk management, optimal use of the allocated resources and compliance with the existing legal framework.
Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Cornum, Rhonda; Matthews, Michael D; Seligman, Martin E. P
The American psychologist,
01/2011, Volume:
66, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program is designed to increase psychological strength and positive performance and to reduce the incidence of maladaptive responses of the entire U.S. Army. ...Based on the principles of positive psychology, CSF is a historically unique approach to behavioral health in a large (1.1 million members) organization. There are four program elements: (a) the assessment of emotional, social, family, and spiritual fitness; (b) individualized learning modules to improve fitness in these domains; (c) formal resilience training; and (d) training of Army master resilience trainers (MRTs) to instill better thinking skills and resilience in their subordinates. In contrast to traditional approaches, CSF is proactive; rather than waiting to see who has a negative outcome following stress, it provides ways of improving resilience for all members of the Army. CSF aims to move the full spectrum of responses to trauma and adversity-ranging from stress-related disorders to ordinary resilience-toward personal growth. This program may provide a model for implementing similar interventions in other very large institutions.
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El artículo intentará responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿hasta qué punto incidió la estructura orgánica, la doctrina táctica, la capacitación operativa y la dotación armamentística del ejército ...español, tanto las del peninsular como las del desplegado en Marruecos, sobre el desastre de Annual? A tal objeto, se analizarán dichos factores en el contexto de la segunda década del siglo xx, pudiendo llegarse a la conclusión de que efectivamente fueron determinantes en la errónea planificación y desarrollo de la operación dirigida al sometimiento del Rif oriental y para que se produjese el precipitado abandono de aquella posición y el consiguiente desplome de la Comandancia General de Melilla.
Yeniçeri Ocağı’nın tarihini ve kanunlarını incelemek, araştırmak için mümkün mertebe ilk el kaynakların tespit edilip tetkik edilmesi, ocağın tarihî gelişimini ve değişimini takip etmek açısından ...mühimdir. Bu hususta ulaşılacak her kaynak bu amaç doğrultusunda araştırmacılara ışık tutacaktır. Bu eserlerden biri de şimdiye kadar tespit edilememiş olan, TTK (Türk Tarih Kurumu) Kütüphanesi Y/228 katalog numarası ve
Avusturya Seferine Dair Bir Risale
başlığıyla kayıtlı olan Yeniçeri teşkilâtına dair bir risaledir. Müellif veya müstensihini, yazılış tarihini tam olarak tespit edemediğimiz bu risale, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın Avusturya seferine dair kısa bir giriş ile başlamakta, ordunun içinde bulunduğu durumdan hareketle bir takım ocak kanunları, ocağın bünyesindeki iyileştirme ve tamir gibi imar faaliyetleri, muhtelif merasimler, terfi ve azillere dair anlatılar, kışlaların et ihtiyacı, ihtisap ağalığı vb. gibi hususları küçük ve çarpıcı hikâyelerle örneklendirerek anlatmaktadır.
Risalenin bir nüshası, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi’nde Esad Efendi No: 3622’de kayıtlı bir mecmua içerisinde yer almaktadır. İkinci nüsha ise, İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi No: 3293’te kayıtlı bir mecmua içerisinde bulunmaktadır. Bu eser, risalenin bir nüshası olduğu bilinmeksizin çeşitli araştırmalarda kaynak olarak kullanılmıştır. Şimdiye kadar tespit edilemeyen TTK nüshası ise, araştırmacılar tarafından bilinmediği için herhangi bir çalışmada zikredilmemiştir. Biz bu çalışma vesilesiyle, İstanbul Üniversitesi nüshası ve TTK nüshasını tespit ederek bilim âleminin istifadesine sunduk, hem de mevcut nüshaların metin karşılaştırmasını yaparak, risalede değinilen konuları birinci ve ikinci el kaynaklardan faydalanarak detaylı olarak izah etmeye çalıştık.
Purpose
Previous studies show that the implementation of gender equality encounters resistance in military organizations, but it is often invisible or seen as confined to anonymous structures or ...troubled individuals. This paper aims to show how the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) use organizational principles to resist implementing gender equality measures.
Design/methodology/approach
The study is a qualitative analysis of discursive strategies in the SAF’s 2013–2018 annual reports to government.
Findings
The organizing principles of instrumentality and distance, while existing in parallel with gender equality efforts, actually pursue logics that prevents the SAF from implementing gender equality. The principle of instrumentality in this context means that gender equality in the SAF is of secondary interest to organizational members. The principle of distancing from the problem includes strategies that alienate female from male officers.
Originality/value
The contribution of this paper is the finding that the use of organizing principles represents conscious organizational resistance to gender equality efforts. This kind of use needs to be revealed and criticized to change military organizations.
Management and nowadays form of leadership are omnipresent topics of debates in the academic, business and, especially, military environments. Moreover, it provokes intense controversy when ...juxtaposed to the subject of performance. Most approaches to the latter focus on its components, systems, processes and less on people. In this respect, it is our firm belief that, in general, an organization’s performance and the performance of the same organizations leaders, in particular, are rendered by the people who are part of it and by the sum of their individual performance. Thus, people make organizations relevant, worth and valuable; they are the ones who keep them in motion.
This article unpacks the phenomenon of identity-based stacking in armed forces to lay the groundwork for a next generation of scholarship, proposing three sets of extensions with examples from ...regimes in Africa and the Middle East. First, we argue that scholars might treat the concept of stacking with greater nuance by considering variation in stacking’s modal forms, incorporating identities beyond ethnicity, considering how the salience of stacking varies within armed forces, and treating the identities on which stacking is based as malleable. Second, we argue for a more attention to the mechanisms through which stacking operates, such that it can involve layering of multiple bases of identity, be used to manipulate and manufacture identity, and be used to induce in-group competition and rivalry. Finally, stacking scholarship should consider more the costs to a leader’s control over policy and distributional matters and emphasize the trade-offs that various forms of stacking generate among regime security imperatives.
IMPORTANCE: Analysis of combat deaths provides invaluable epidemiologic and quality-improvement data for trauma centers and is particularly important under rapidly evolving battlefield conditions. ...OBJECTIVE: To analyze the evolution of injury patterns, early care, and resuscitation among patients who subsequently died in the hospital, before and after implementation of damage control resuscitation (DCR) policies. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: In a review of the Joint Theater Trauma Registry (2002-2011) of US forward combat hospitals, cohorts of patients with vital signs at presentation and subsequent in-hospital death were grouped into 2 time periods: pre-DCR (before 2006) and DCR (2006-2011). MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Injury types and Injury Severity Scores (ISSs), timing and location of death, and initial (24-hour) and total volume of blood products and fluid administered. RESULTS: Of 57 179 soldiers admitted to a forward combat hospital, 2565 (4.5%) subsequently died in the hospital. The majority of patients (74%) were severely injured (ISS > 15), and 80% died within 24 hours of admission. Damage control resuscitation policies were widely implemented by 2006 and resulted in a decrease in mean 24-hour crystalloid infusion volume (6.1-3.2 L) and increased fresh frozen plasma use (3.2-10.1 U) (both P < .05) in this population. The mean packed red blood cells to fresh frozen plasma ratio changed from 2.6:1 during the pre-DCR period to 1.4:1 during the DCR period (P < .01). There was a significant increase in mean ISS between cohorts (pre-DCR ISS = 23 vs DCR ISS = 27; P < .05) and a marked shift in injury patterns favoring more severe head trauma in the DCR cohort. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: There has been a significant shift in resuscitation practices in forward combat hospitals indicating widespread military adoption of DCR. Patients who died in a hospital during the DCR period were more likely to be severely injured and have a severe brain injury, consistent with a decrease in deaths among potentially salvageable patients.
This article reexamines and develops the analytical metaphor of “Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants” in three directions. First, we advance the notion of transmigration by linking it to the explicit ...and implicit “contracts” or agreements struck between the military and individuals and groups within and outside of it. Second, we show that the “management” model of reserve forces is not just an administrative matter but that “negotiating” with reservists involves wider issues that include managing identity, commitment, and the meaning attached to military service. Third, we examine the institutional and political meaning of the reserves at the macro sociological level. The juxtaposition and interplay of two models—transmigration and multiple contracts—allows us to introduce structural elements into the movement of soldiers between the military and civilian society, and add a dynamic dimension to the contents of the implicit contracts that organize reservists’ relations with the state and military.
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