and instill a love of learning.” Brad Henry “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” Solomon Ortiz “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein If the quotes above are anything to go by, teachers are indeed the backbone of our societies. Teachers are very integral not only to the academic success and well-being of students but are also very important in setting a foundation
Six Sigma is a management system consolidating a “rigorous, focused and highly effective implementation of proven quality principles and techniques. (Pryzdek, Keller & Access Engineering, 2014). The greek letter & in Six Sigma refers to the variablility of defect rates per unit and gives an indicator of how often defect rates are likely to occur. (a high variability indicates less likely to create defects). Six sigma aims to improve the variations of process performances by achieving less than 3
2.6. Organizational Ambidexterity Ambidexterity is a topic of interest to a wide variety of disciplines. Coming from the medieval-Latin ‘ambidexter‘, translating into ‘two right hands‘, it can have three meanings: using both hands with equal ease, being characterized by duplicity or double-dealing, or being unusually skillful or versatile (Merriam-Webster 2009). In strategic management research, ambidexterity has evolved into a major line of inquiry (Gupta et al. 2006; Raisch and Birkinshaw 2008)
group of individuals perceive a theory in a similar manner, this can create a shared understanding. In this way, every theory has the potential to solidify and destabilize our worldview. Solidification suggests filling gaps in the existing body knowledge, and eventually helping to enhance current understandings. Destabilization, however, entails falsifying current notions and challenging our beliefs. The different forms and roles of theories and the extent to which theories achieve these will be