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Mutual Trust (mutual + trust)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	57%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	28%

Selected Abstracts

A Modeling Framework for Supply Chain Simulation: Opportunities for Improved Decision Making,

DECISION SCIENCES, Issue 1 2005
D. J. Van Der Zee
ABSTRACT Owing to its inherent modeling flexibility, simulation is often regarded as the proper means for supporting decision making on supply chain design. The ultimate success of supply chain simulation, however, is determined by a combination of the analyst's skills, the chain members' involvement, and the modeling capabilities of the simulation tool. This combination should provide the basis for a realistic simulation model, which is both transparent and complete. The need for transparency is especially strong for supply chains as they involve (semi)autonomous parties each having their own objectives. Mutual trust and model effectiveness are strongly influenced by the degree of completeness of each party's insight into the key decision variables. Ideally, visual interactive simulation models present an important communicative means for realizing the required overview and insight. Unfortunately, most models strongly focus on physical transactions, leaving key decision variables implicit for some or all of the parties involved. This especially applies to control structures, that is, the managers or systems responsible for control, their activities and their mutual attuning of these activities. Control elements are, for example, dispersed over the model, are not visualized, or form part of the time-indexed scheduling of events. In this article, we propose an alternative approach that explicitly addresses the modeling of control structures. First, we will conduct a literature survey with the aim of listing simulation model qualities essential for supporting successful decision making on supply chain design. Next, we use this insight to define an object-oriented modeling framework that facilitates supply chain simulation in a more realistic manner. This framework is meant to contribute to improved decision making in terms of recognizing and understanding opportunities for improved supply chain design. Finally, the use of the framework is illustrated by a case example concerning a supply chain for chilled salads. [source]

Values, mutual trust and terrorism

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 4 2006
Elliott Jaques
Abstract Elliott Jaques explores what is evil about terrorism and the specific good that this evil destroys. It is essential to formulate the foundations of systems of relationships, justice, and law that can guarantee the global victory of good over evil. The basic glue that allows humanity to live together is global mutual trust that each will not harm the other. To be able to rely upon that bond is the final good. For individuals to decide to break that bond is the essence of evil. One prominent condition that succors and supports the primal evil expressed in terrorism is the experience of circumstances in which some seem to be succeeding unjustly at the expense of others. The war against terrorism requires both that the USA leads a coalition of willing nations against the perpetrators of evil as well as becoming the leader of the people of the world in sustaining the primal good of world-wide mutual trust. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Root values for a global one-world: darwinian biology and social etymology,

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 4 2006
Elliott Jaques
Abstract Global terrorism can harm anyone anywhere. It is imperative that we shift to a commonly shared system of powerful primary values which will determine basic behavior so as to enable us to live together in mutual trust. The untestable belief systems that have created terrorism and other divisive wars must be replaced by a testable science-based, trust-inducing system of values. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Building Capacity Through a Collaborative International Nursing Project

JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 2 2003
Linda Ogilvie
Purpose: To discuss: (a) physical, human, organizational, social, and cultural capital and (b) empowerment as two theoretical foundations for building capacity. Methods. These theoretical notions are examined in an analysis of a joint project between the Department of Nursing, University of Ghana and the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta, Canada. Findings: Capacity for the management of international development projects was enhanced at both sites. Building capacity required mutual trust, tolerance of ambiguity, and a willingness to step into the unknown. [source]

Trust and creativity: understanding the role of trust in creativity-oriented joint developments

R & D MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2009
Francis Bidault
In this article we report on the design, prototyping and results of a research effort aimed at identifying whether and how trust affects the innovativeness of a partnership between two players. The methodology combined an experiment and two questionnaires. The research aimed to increase our understanding of trust and its impact on the innovative outcome of cooperation and to derive some guidance for economic actors, namely R&D managers and executives who intend to build innovation-oriented relationships with their business partners. Specifically, we investigated the effect of trust on partners' creativity and willingness to invest financially in a joint development. Our results show that more trustful partners invest higher amounts in the alliance, while there seems to be an optimum amount of mutual trust between partners who maximize their joint creativity and innovativeness; if the level of mutual trust is below or above this threshold, their joint creativity seems to increase less or even to decrease. Our findings suggest that joint development projects should always include explicit trust development activities at the beginning of the project, and that the amount of trust in the joint team should be monitored to avoid the negative consequences of excessive trust. [source]

Objectivism and Bias on the Study of the Israeli,Palestinian Conflict

ANALYSES OF SOCIAL ISSUES & PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 1 2009
Moises F. Salinas
The author responds to reviews of his book, Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Reviewers argue that you cannot understand the psychology of this conflict from an objective perspective, without taking issues such as historical context and social justice in consideration. The author argues that this detachment is necessary in order to find a solution, since we need to move beyond an orientation to the past that amounts to a culpability paradigm, and into an orientation to the future and a resolution paradigm. Only after you achieve peace and build mutual trust, could the parties be ready to do soul searching and take responsibility for their past actions. [source]