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Record W266499061

24/7 or Out?

2003· article· en· W266499061 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueResearch-Technology Management · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicOperations Management Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSloganOperations researchManagementBusinessEngineeringLawPolitical sciencePolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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following hypothetical human resources issue has, like so many of its ilk, no correct solution. To help your colleagues deal with such a situation, please tell us how you would resolve it. We'll print as many as space permits. Editor entered the XYZ R&D Laboratories early Monday morning, thoroughly recharged from two weeks fishing in the woods of Northern Canada. He felt ready to take on the world and certainly any problems that XYZ might throw at him. A senior staff scientist at XYZ, Al reported directly to the vice president of research, Evers, and was considered a world-class expert in plastics processing. He carried the responsibility for a considerable research program and, in addition, was highly regarded by XYZ's manufacturing divisions for his ability to solve plastics processing problems. Al's love of the outdoors was well known and that, together with his considerable size, had gained him the nickname, The Bear. divisions were quick to contact him when something didn't go right with a manufacturing process-the slogan in the plastics manufacturing areas being Send for whenever a serious problem arose. first thing Al did upon returning to his laboratory office was to check his voice-mails. With two weeks away and no contact, he anticipated a long list. have 58 messages. Message marked urgent. Al, this is Tom [the VP]. We've been trying to track you down. Major production issues at Lima. See me immediately upon your return. If not sooner! Have You Been? Al went to Tom's office and found him sullen and angry. Where have you been? was Tom's greeting. was on vacation for the last two weeks-the first real one I've had in three years, Al replied. told you when I left that I was going on vacation. knew you were on vacation, Al, but remember, I've instituted a policy with all senior people who report to me, and particularly those of you who have strong relations with the manufacturing divisions, that I expect to be able to contact you 24 hours a day, seven days a week if necessary. With a cell phone and a laptop computer-both of which the company provides you-I don't see any real problem. In this case, the Lima division had to shut down a production line because of a severe quality problem with the output of some of their injection molding machines. They asked for Bear immediately and desperately wanted your help. I tried calling you on your cell phone-no answer-and my e-mails produced no response either. Al responded, Tom, I was aware of your policy, but in the woods I was truly out of reach and there was no way I could have adhered to your policy. I really needed the vacation-my research plus helping with manufacturing has kept me under considerable stress. 24-hour Engineer Tom responded, Get on the phone immediately with the Lima Division people and see what you can do-you've already cost them thousands of dollars because of the delay. And don't feel I'm picking on you-I know of other companies that have similar rules for key people. That's the reason we provide you with cell phones, pagers and laptops. And I just read in Penn Stater (Nov/Dec 2002) that some universities offering online courses are drastically increasing the schedules of their faculty-one professor refers to himself as a '24-hour professor'! Al contacted the appropriate people at Lima and learned they were still running far below capacity because of bad-quality parts being produced by a few of the division's injection molding machines. Before thinking about visiting the division, Al requested data related to the raw materials being used and some measurements from the bad parts being produced be e-mailed to him for study. He also asked a number of questions and suggested these answers and the requested data be sent to him post-haste. Three days went by with Al receiving nothing from the Lima Division. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.688
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.471
GPT teacher head0.554
Teacher spread0.083 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it