Pdf the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of mergers and. With less emphasis on the underlying factor for success throughout the merger process is corporate culture in merger horizontal. Positive peer culture is the platform on which the facility bases all aspects of schooling and other treatment requirements. Pdf on jan 1, 2009, nick chandler and others published mergers. Adult mentors, rather than being the authoritarian, traditional authority figures. The best universities attract the best students, and in many respects the teachers just need to steer them in the right direction and ask them challenging questions. Colloquial knowledge and research evidence, as reported above, support the idea that drugusing adolescents can influence their peers to use drugs for the first time, continue using drugs, or relapse after a period of sobriety. Developing programs where students voices are heard and encouraged.
Upgrade your companys customer service culture through positive peer pressure micah solomon senior contributor opinions expressed by forbes contributors are. Find positive peer influence lesson plans and teaching resources. Positive peer culture definition all kinds of therapy. Positive peer culture modern applications of social work brendtro, larry k. Positive peer culture as a solution to juvenile delinquency. Positive peer culture, this note prefaced the text. The development of a model for implementing the positive peer. The premerger studies focus on events or activities that mainly takes place in the premerger phase. Positive peer culture takes societys little losersangry, aggressive, maltreated, and often unwanted childrenand teaches them to care about others. A merger, two firms coming together to form a single entity, has a different meaning than an acquisition, an asset bought or obtained, but is used as one abbreviation. Juniper hills high is an open enrollment, open exit, year round school and can have. Social exchanges in their own peer culture seem to be increasingly important. This paper examines the face validity of the positive peer. This revision of an important and pathbreaking work holds to its central argument that troubled young people can develop selfworth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only through commitment to the positive values of helping and caring for others.
He has been president of the center for group studies in shenandoah, virginia, and directed the newgate project at the minnesota reformatory, saint cloud while he was associate professor at the university of minnesota. The aim of this paper is to add the dimension of police peer group to our understanding of how officers exercise coercive power in daytoday encounters with citizens. Jun 18, 2014 upgrade your companys customer service culture through positive peer pressure micah solomon senior contributor opinions expressed by forbes contributors are their own. Great students learn much by interacting and debating with their peers. Positive adaptation is when both parties are satisfied and culture is unharmed. Positive peer culture gives you the chance to use peer example instead of pressure to do things that are not helpful to you. Development of this model was facilitated by analyzing the literature, nationwide visitations of p.
The post merger studies are classified based on their main research perspective being strategic, human resource, or cultural angwin and vaara 2005. Also, by learning about positive peer culture, teachers can collaborate with other colleagues in order to provide the best outcome and instruction for students. Despite the increasing popularity of mergers and acquisitions, unfortunately, the performance of merger and acquisitions has not been satisfactory. Public culture is an interdisciplinary journal featuring works that explore the public manifestations of culture and how those manifestations speak to larger questions of inequality, difference, and other areas of intellectual concern. A highly successful program management model, which assumes that teamwork is the highest administrative priority. Positive peer pressure is based upon the feelings and intentions behind the pressure placed upon individuals in a group of friends. Positive peer culture modern applications of social work. There is plenty of positive peer culture if we look at the thousands. The development of a model for implementing the positive. Positive peer pressure is the attitude of a peer group that encourages good behavior rather than deviant behavior, according to kids helpline. As long as there will be groups and functions that offer positive peer culture, there will be the isolated, the addicted, the dysfunctional and the socially maladaptive who will reject the idea of taking those directions in life that lead to mainstream, religious, school related, community oriented or heavily supervised or organized peer group. The most insightful cultural observers often are outsiders, because cultural givens are not implicit to them. Usually, peer pressure is used in a negative context.
Positive peer culture is widely used in adolescent treatment facilities, but little research has been performed to test its effectiveness. The companies who form a merger are seldom completely equal to each other, and it is therefore argued that a merger also can be held as an acquisition humpal, 1971. In higher education, there are three connotations of culture. In a similar manner, great researchers develop by peer interaction. The effect of organizational culture on organizational. This book summarizes the concepts and methods of a positive peer culture ppc program that stops pretending that adults or other authority have any chance of competing with a youths peers regarding pressure, guidance, etc.
Positive peer culture, where there is a group identity, a set of tasks and skills, the idea of teamwork, capable adult supervision and guidance and some positive outcomes or goals is the best thing for children. It is a well known fact that whenever there is a merger or an acquisition, there are bound to be lay offs. Coercion is negative reinforcementor escape conditioningfor peer aggression. Successful graduates had higher mean scores on these scales. The pre and post merger studies cover activities in both the preand the post merger phases.
The positive peer culture ppc model focuses on improving social skills and cultivating strength in youth by developing teens care and concern for others in a group setting. Vorrath is both the designer and developer of the positive peer culture treatment model. Jun 12, 2015 public culture is an interdisciplinary journal featuring works that explore the public manifestations of culture and how those manifestations speak to larger questions of inequality, difference, and other areas of intellectual concern. Howard james, pulitzer prize winning author of crisis in the courts we have needed a group process which is relevant to professional and lay worker alike. Corporate culture and economic theory, perspectives on positive. Firob wanted inclusion, wanted affection, and total scores discriminated between 28 adolescent boys who would be successful graduates of a positive peerculture residential program and 29 who would not. The pre and postmerger studies cover activities in both the preand the postmerger. It is a singlesite study analysing the perceptions of organisational culture and postmerger integration in an academic health centre from the perspective of one merging nhs trust, rather than from both. It is a singlesite study analysing the perceptions of organisational culture and post merger integration in an academic health centre from the perspective of one merging nhs trust, rather than from both. Different company cultures had both daimler and chrysler at war. Research studies reported that more than twothirds of large merger and acquisition deals fail to create value for shareholders. Programs and results of questionnaires sent to existing p. Introduction corporate mergers are an important driver of corporate and economic growth. This book is dedicated to the true founders of positive peer culture, those strong and noble young people who comprehend the power of caring.
In a residential treatment facility positive peer culture was put into operation after the completion of a level system. Pdf the impact of mergers and acquisitions on corporate culture. There are a couple of schools that have incorporated the positive peer culture very effectively. Positive peer culture is a treatment intervention for troubled youth. An enlarged and revised edition of the authors pioneering work on building positive youth culture, positive peer culture. Lack of communication may lead to culture clash, sometimes termed merger. Let us distinguish the positive and negative sides of peer pressure in detail. The viewpoint of former clients article in journal of child and adolescent group therapy 104. Rather than an authority figure demanding obedience, a peer requires responsibility for actions. Anytime someone wants to create a positive peer culture ppc by the book, this is the book.
Pdf peer group aggressiveness and the use of coercion in. Perspective based on the integration of social control and cultural learning theories that proposes that the development of attachments to parents will lead to attachments to school and a commitment to education as well as a belief in and commitment to conventional behavior by. Positive peer culture program and its impact on academic success and performance in the scientific method by alyx andrea demers a professional paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of science in science education montana state university bozeman, montana july 2015. Jan 23, 2004 anytime someone wants to create a positive peer culture ppc by the book, this is the book. An enlarged and revised edition of the authors pioneering work on building positive youth culture, positive peer. The positive and negative side of peer pressure secureteen. The purpose of this study is the construction of an administrative model to deal with youth in conflict in innercity high schools through the intervening therapeutic technique called positive peer culture p.
Many residential settings have pieces of ppc, but a program that is all ppc, lives and breathes the language and the values. Early childhood education handbook research center for child and adolescent development and education ochanomizu university 143 games, group plays janken play is full of excitement and thrills. Positive peer culture powerpoint technology portfolio. This powerpoint is a great resource for teachers to understand exactly what positive peer culture is and how to implement it to ensure learner growth. Many of the schools and programs ive worked with in the emotional growththerapeutic network have either a dogeared copy of this book handy, or have hired either vorrath or brendtro as consultants. Aftermath of mergers and acquisitions impact the employees or the workers the most. Having a group of friends means that you are less likely to be lonely, more likely to feel like you belong, have increased selfworth, and feel more secure, according to the mayo clinic article social support. In the context of a positive peer culture program, service learning is not simply a program component service learning is meant to develop a lifestyle of community responsibility and action. The pre merger studies focus on events or activities that mainly takes place in the pre merger phase. Teaching and reinforcing life skills throughout the school. And, for those who want to combine meetings with bikeriding. One of the primary advantages to having a peer group at any age is the support that can be obtained from a social network.
Uses of the model and some directions for future evaluations of peer programs are discussed. Several studies illustrate the complexity of changing culture and identities. Presentations ppt, key, pdf logging in or signing up. Dec 31, 2011 an enlarged and revised edition of the authors pioneering work on building positive youth culture, positive peer culture retains the practical orientation that made the original attractive to teachers and youth workers, while adding new material on positive peer culture ppc in schools and community settings, research on ppc, and guidelines. Organisational culture and postmerger integration in an. Although many of the techniques are descriptively, well documented, there is a shortage of evaluation research assessing the impacts of this type of treatment, especially as it relates to helping youth live independently in community settings. A peer group approach to behavior change richard laufenberg abstract positive peer culture ppc is a treatment interven tion for troubled youth, which is based on a peer group approach to behavior change. Academic,behavioral and socialemotional support inschool.
Carey my basic sense of it has always been to get people to understand that in the long run, they themselves are the only protection they have against violence and injustice. This method allows our students to see their peer group not as a liability to their personal growth amidst challenges, but as a resource to them. Corporate culture may not be a glittering star that attracts everyones attention, but it is a clean and good atmosphere in which human resources live and contribute. In the end, cultural integration is about both sides adapting and celebrating the new culture that is born from the merger. Cultural issues in mergers and acquisitions leading through transition. German culture took over the once laid back culture at chrysler. Both companies were fundamentally different on every level, including formality, philosophies and operating styles. In the event when a new resulting company is efficient business wise, it would require less.
Nonetheless, a large fraction of mergers fail to produce value for the shareholders of the acquiring firms. Data are discussed in terms of school inclusion, participation in peerculture and. Institutionalized juveniles assessed to have a problem with alcohol andor drugs are placed in a separate cottage or an chemical abuse group. Firob scores and success in a positive peerculture. Positive peer culture program and its impact on academic by. Impact of mergers and acquisitions on workers or employees.
This rule states that the juvenile needs to meet special requirements to be committed. Tipton academy is an all boys academy utilizing ppc very effectively. Group approaches have historically been very popular in treatment facilities for juvenile offenders. Positive peer culture definition all kinds of therapy all.
Additionally, positive peer culture focuses on taking accountability and responsibility, not only individually, but also in holding peers accountable for their own behavior and choices. Meadowlark academy is an all girls program that also uses ppc. More information about positive peer culture, its origins, and its use in building healthy peer relationships. The effects of mergers and acquisitions on research and. This paper provides a viewpoint of the culture and subcultures at. The second approach dodge discussed was working with the peer environment and culture to reduce the reinforcement of bullying. Three therapeutic residential care models, the sanctuary. Months following the merger, it was deemed a fiasco. This is a time of coming together and taking the best that both organizations have to offer. It gave me a chance to be a leader instead of a follower. A focus on strengths of youth was central to the philosophies of early twentieth century pioneers in youth work. Integrating company cultures after a merger or acquisition. Firob wanted inclusion, wanted affection, and total scores discriminated between 28 adolescent boys who would be successful graduates of a positive peer culture residential program and 29 who would not. The key to a positive peer culture model is the training that the staff receive and the common language that is spoken amongst the staff to the students.
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