Understanding culturally diverse temporal structures in the workplace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation explores the organizational culture of a ski hill nestled in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Conducted through qualitative methods, the study seeks to understand ski hill employees’ perceptions of their work environment, unveiling the temporal structures associated with the organization. The term temporal structure is defined as a patterned organization of time, used by humans to help them manage, comprehend, or coordinate their use of time. Through the insights of five participants, a vivid portrayal of the Kootenay lifestyle emerges, shedding light on how ‘place’ significantly influences an organization’s temporal structure. Drawing from Edward T. Hall’s work, specifically the concepts of monochronic and polychronic cultures, the study categorizes the temporal dynamics inherent in the Kootenay ski hill. Additionally, John J. Ivers’ work on subcultural disparities was also relied on to better understand where temporal structures may emerge. The participants collectively agreed they had never heard any terms associated with temporal structures, yet they all described polychronicity perfectly when sharing their perspectives on their work environments. This study revealed how management and employees in a Canadian organization, situated in a country historically aligned with a monochronic way of life, comprehend and appreciate this supposedly foreign concept that is a polychronic lifestyle. There are numerous avenues one should consider if one wishes to expand upon the findings presented in this dissertation. The strongest opportunity would be to target a large-scale ski hill outside the Kootenays and conduct the same qualitative method in order to determine if ‘place’ influences the temporal structure at play within that organization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".