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121-447: It is a new discipline that focuses on the study of information and the ways it is created, managed , distributed , and consumed. Since communications is a rapidly changing area, technological progress seems to often outpace the number of available expert practitioners. This creates a demand for skilled communicators. Communication skills are critical in practically all workplaces, and many day-to-day tasks performed at work are related to

242-425: A product or a service. In the 1970s, the management of information largely concerned matters closer to what would now be called data management : punched cards , magnetic tapes and other record-keeping media , involving a life cycle of such formats requiring origination, distribution, backup, maintenance and disposal. At this time the huge potential of information technology began to be recognised: for example

363-519: A Baptist-run institution until 1957, when provincial legislation allowed for the governance of the university to pass from the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, to a privately chartered, publicly funded arrangement. McMaster's Faculty of Theology was spun-off into McMaster Divinity College, a separately-chartered affiliated college of the university. From 1911 to 1938, Brandon College (reincorporated as Brandon University in 1967)

484-495: A broad collection of disciplines, embracing a diversity of rhetorical contexts and situations. Areas of study range from everyday writing at the workplace to pedagogy , from the implications of new media for communicative practices to the theory and instructional design of online learning , and from oral presentations and training to the website design . Iowa State University- http://eserver.org/courses/s05/506/ Information management Information management ( IM )

605-427: A business forwards. Corporate governance , human resource management , product development and marketing will all have an important role to play in strategic ways, and we must not see one domain of activity alone as the sole source of strategic success. On the other hand, corporate governance, human resource management, product development and marketing are all dependent on effective information management, and so in

726-461: A core of enriched uranium fuel moderated and cooled by distilled water . While the MNR's primary purpose is research and the production of medical isotopes , the MNR serves students in nuclear engineering, medical and health physics, and other applied radiation sciences. The university provides a wide range of irradiation, laboratory, and holding facilities, which include a cyclotron , an accelerator,

847-549: A dean. McMaster University is in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario . The main campus is bordered to the north by Cootes Paradise , an extensive natural marshland ; to the east and west by residential neighbourhoods; and to its south by Main Street West , a major transportation artery. Its northern boundaries are a popular destination for walkers who use

968-403: A family business), school classes (which would qualify only if, for example, they had organized themselves to perform a function outside the classroom--for example, to complain about or praise a teacher to a school administrator), and unorganized aggregates (i.e., masses of people). Primarily excluded from the definition of professional communication would be diary entries (discourse directed toward

1089-515: A group, or to an individual operating as a member of the group, with the intent of affecting the group's function, and/or B. discourse directed from a group, or from an individual operating as a member of the group, with the intent of affecting the group's function, where group means an entity intentionally organized and/or run by its members to perform a certain function....Primarily excluded from this definition of group would be families (who would qualify only if, for example, their group affiliation were

1210-408: A level of organisational change management that is notoriously difficult to deliver. As a result of a general organisational reluctance to change, to enable new forms of information management, there might be (for example): a shortfall in the requisite resources, a failure to acknowledge new classes of information and the new procedures that use them, a lack of support from senior management leading to

1331-414: A loss of strategic vision, and even political manoeuvring that undermines the operation of the whole organisation. However, the implementation of new forms of information management should normally lead to operational benefits. In early work, taking an information processing view of organisation design, Jay Galbraith has identified five tactical areas to increase information processing capacity and reduce

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1452-409: A mixture of " insourcing " and " outsourcing ", and the large IT function was transformed into "lean teams" that began to allow some agility in the processes that harness information for business benefit . The scope of senior management interest in information at BP extended from the creation of value through improved business processes , based upon the effective management of information, permitting

1573-634: A model of environmental responsibility. On 21 October 2010, the university signed two accords addressing the issue of climate change: the Talloires Declaration and the University and College Presidents' Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada . The university campus received a B grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card for 2011. The governance of

1694-589: A more recent way of eliciting information from large archival datasets that is becoming interesting to regular businesses that have very large data resources to work with, but it requires advanced multi-processor resources. In 2004, the management system " Information Management Body of Knowledge " was first published on the World Wide Web and set out to show that the required management competencies to derive real benefits from an investment in information are complex and multi-layered. The framework model that

1815-548: A persistent fluidity of external demand, avoiding multifarious and spurious responses to episodic demands that tend to be dealt with individually. McMaster University McMaster University ( McMaster or Mac ) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada. The main McMaster campus is on 121 hectares (300 acres) of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale , adjacent to

1936-482: A single chip storing a whole book , or electronic mail moving messages instantly around the world, remarkable ideas at the time. With the proliferation of information technology and the extending reach of information systems in the 1980s and 1990s, information management took on a new form. Progressive businesses such as BP transformed the vocabulary of what was then " IT management ", so that " systems analysts " became " business analysts ", "monopoly supply" became

2057-475: A small-angle neutron-scattering detector, and wide-angle neutron scattering facilities. The cyclotron is used for the production of fluorine-18 , and is used for research purposes, particularly the development of novel molecular imaging agents. The university's library system is a member of 31 organizations, including the Association of Research Libraries . Around 2.8 million articles were downloaded from

2178-434: A sponsored research income of $ 379.959 million in 2017, McMaster has the seventh largest sponsored research income amongst Canadian universities. In the 2015–2016 academic year, the federal government was the largest source of McMaster's sponsored research income (excluding affiliated hospitals), providing 61.4 per cent of McMaster's research budget, primarily through grants. Corporate research income account for 7.3 per cent of

2299-548: A standardized score relative to the class mean. Due to the overwhelming success and research supporting the use of the PPI as an evaluation tool, it is now used in Canada, US, Europe, and Australia. McMaster University has placed in post-secondary school rankings. In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 90th in the world and fourth in Canada. The 2024 QS World University Rankings ranked

2420-406: A tire, assembling a product, and the like; again, discourse directed toward readers or listeners apart from their group affiliations)....Professional communication...would seem different from discourse involving a single individual apart from a group affiliation communicating with another such person, or a single individual communicating with a large unorganized aggregate of individuals as suggested by

2541-683: A value of $ 98.7 million. The collection includes works by Gustave Courbet , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Walter Sickert and Vincent van Gogh . The museum also boasts the most comprehensive collection of German expressionist and Weimar period prints in Canada. As of August 2022, McMaster has thirteen smoke-free student residences: Bates Residence, Brandon Hall, Edwards Hall, Hedden Hall, Les Prince Hall, Mary E. Keyes Residence, Matthews Hall, McKay Hall, Moulton Hall, Peter George Centre for Living and Learning, Wallingford Hall, Whidden Hall, and Woodstock Hall. McMaster's student residences can accommodate 4,186 students. The latest residence to be built

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2662-444: A variety of stakeholders , including those who are responsible for assuring the quality , accessibility and utility of acquired information; those who are responsible for its safe storage and disposal ; and those who need it for decision making . Stakeholders might have rights to originate, change, distribute or delete information according to organisational information management policies . Information management embraces all

2783-470: A very specialized interest or to several different interests. Professional communication can also be closely tied to organizational communication and corporate training. Those who pursue graduate degrees in communicative research practices can evolve and improve their skill sets in organizing contexts; specifically in business but not limited to academics, scientific and technical studies as well as in nonprofit settings. The study of professional communication

2904-405: A willingness to align technology and business strategies all became necessary. In the transitional period leading up to the strategic view of information management, Venkatraman, a strong advocate of this transition and transformation, proffered a simple arrangement of ideas that succinctly brought together the management of data , information, and knowledge (see the figure) argued that: This

3025-892: Is a practical blend of traditional communication theory , technical writing, rhetorical theory, adult learning theory, and ethics . Carolyn Miller in What's Practical about Technical Writing? refers to professional communication as not simply workplace activity and to writing that concerns "human conduct in those activities that maintain the life of a community." As Nancy Roundy Blyler discusses in her article Research as Ideology in Professional Communication researchers seek to expand professional communication theory to include concerns with praxis and social responsibility. Regarding this social aspect, in "Postmodern Practice: Perspectives and Prospects," Richard C. Freed defines professional communication as A. discourse directed to

3146-421: Is actually information handling and decision making. One crucial factor in information handling and decision making is an individual's ability to process information and to make decisions under limitations that might derive from the context: a person's age, the situational complexity, or a lack of requisite quality in the information that is at hand – all of which is exacerbated by the rapid advance of technology and

3267-484: Is closely related to, and overlaps with, the management of data , systems , technology , processes and – where the availability of information is critical to organisational success – strategy . This broad view of the realm of information management contrasts with the earlier, more traditional view, that the life cycle of managing information is an operational matter that requires specific procedures, organisational capabilities and standards that deal with information as

3388-437: Is commonly believed that good information management is crucial to the smooth working of organisations, and although there is no commonly accepted theory of information management per se , behavioural and organisational theories help. Following the behavioural science theory of management, mainly developed at Carnegie Mellon University and prominently supported by March and Simon, most of what goes on in modern organizations

3509-687: Is drawn from 13 departments in the Faculties of Science, Engineering, and Health Sciences, as well as several Canadian and international universities. Facilities of the BIMR include the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, Centre for Crystal Growth, McMaster Analytical Xray Facility, Electronic and Magnetic Characterization Facility, and the Photonics Research Laboratories. The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy

3630-527: Is headquartered within the park. UNU-INWEH is the only United Nations agency headquartered in Ontario and the only North American host site for a United Nations University, after moving to McMaster Innovation Park on 23 April 2008. The Office of Sustainability, created as the All-modes Commuting & Transportation Office in 2002, is charged with promoting sustainable operations and growth at

3751-447: Is helped shaped by the surrounding culture, the improvements in technology, the background and history as well as the theories in communication. With that said, communication is an essential stepping stone in any field, especially in the workforce, and by strengthening your assets you are better at being able to properly assess and adapt, be distinctive and professional in any situation when presented. Professional communication encompasses

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3872-534: Is home to the world's most powerful electron microscope ; the Titan 80–300 cubed microscope has a magnification of 14 million and is used for material, medical, and nanotechnology research. The Biology Greenhouse holds 217 plants in a 780-square-metre (8,400 sq ft) facility, and is used as a teaching and research facility by the Department of Biology. In addition to maintaining its permanent collection,

3993-801: Is housed in the Department of Communication Studies & Multimedia, in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario . JPC is an international journal launched to explore the intersections between public relations practice, communication and new media theory, communications management , as well as digital arts and design. The study of professional communication includes: Other areas of study include global and cross-cultural communication , technical and professional training, marketing and public relations , technical editing, digital literacy , Process Theory of Composition , video production , corporate communication , and publishing . A professional communication program may cater to

4114-620: Is in downtown Kitchener, where it shares facilities with the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo . The campus in St. Catharines is at Brock University 's Niagara Health and Bioscience Research Complex. Approximately 30 medical students in each year of the program attend each campus. Those who apply to McMaster's School of Medicine are asked to rank their site choice (Hamilton, Niagara Region, Waterloo Region) from first to third, or no preference. Offers of admission to

4235-550: Is often referred to as the DIKAR model: Data, Information, Knowledge, Action and Result, it gives a strong clue as to the layers involved in aligning technology and organisational strategies, and it can be seen as a pivotal moment in changing attitudes to information management. The recognition that information management is an investment that must deliver meaningful results is important to all modern organisations that depend on information and good decision-making for their success. It

4356-500: Is the appropriate and optimized capture, storage, retrieval, and use of information . It may be personal information management or organizational. Information management for organizations concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal through archiving or deletion and extraction. This cycle of information organisation involves

4477-448: Is the basis for understanding competencies comprises six "knowledge" areas and four "process" areas: The IMBOK is based on the argument that there are six areas of required management competency, two of which ("business process management" and "business information management") are very closely related. Even with full capability and competency within the six knowledge areas, it is argued that things can still go wrong. The problem lies in

4598-672: Is the centre of student life and programming. It has a café, study space, common areas, and several administrative departments, including the CIBC Conference Hall. The MUSC contains the offices of a number of student organizations, including the McMaster Students Union and The Silhouette weekly newspaper as well as other services such as the Campus Health Centre and the campus dentist. The university has over twenty dining outlets throughout

4719-485: Is the least developed area of the main campus, containing only a few buildings, surface parking, and undeveloped land. Security at the university is provided by special constables employed by McMaster University Security Service , a department of the university. The university's campus has gone through continuous development since 1928. The main campus's six original buildings are of Collegiate Gothic architecture, designed by William Lyon Somerville , who also laid out

4840-496: Is the university's policy for a student-centred, problem-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning. During the 1960s the McMaster University Medical School pioneered problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials that have since been adopted by other fields in the Faculty of Health Science, as well as other faculties and programs in the university. The PBL tutorial model has since been adopted into

4961-485: Is used for research, educational, and commercial applications such as neutron radiography, and medical radioisotope production; including 60 per cent of the world's supply of iodine-125 , an isotope used in nuclear medicine to treat prostate cancer. The production of molybdenum-99 has occasionally been moved to the university's reactor, when production at the National Research Universal reactor

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5082-620: Is within the campus of the university. As an affiliated institution, two members of the Divinity College sit on the university's senate, as well as appoint one representative to sit in the university's board of governors. However, the Divinity College operates with its own senate and board of trustees. Although Divinity College has the authority to confer their own degrees, students taking the college's Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies are awarded degrees by McMaster University. Students of Divinity College have access to

5203-630: Is within the former Bank of Montreal Pavilion at Lloyd D. Jackson Square . McMaster had also announced construction of the McMaster Downtown Health Campus in downtown Hamilton had begun in December 2012. The Health Campus is expected to provide teaching spaces, exam rooms and clinical spaces for local residents. The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is on the main campus as well as in two regional campuses at St. Catharines and Kitchener. The Waterloo Regional Campus

5324-700: The DeGroote School of Business , the Faculty of Health Sciences , the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Engineering , the Faculty of Science , and the Faculty of Social Sciences . By enrolment, McMaster's largest faculty in September 2016 was the Faculty of Science, with 7,004 full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students. The Faculty of Humanities was the smallest faculty by enrolment, with 2,729 full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students. The Faculty of Health Sciences holds

5445-506: The Marauders , and are members of U Sports . Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders, Rhodes Scholars , Gates Cambridge Scholars , and Nobel laureates . McMaster University resulted from the outgrowth of educational initiatives undertaken by Baptists as early as the 1830s. The predecessor institution of McMaster was established in 1881 as Toronto Baptist College. Canadian Senator William McMaster,

5566-536: The Royal Botanical Gardens . It operates six academic faculties : the DeGroote School of Business , Engineering , Health Sciences , Humanities, Social Science , and Science . It is a member of the U15 , a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The university bears the name of William McMaster , a prominent Canadian senator and banker who bequeathed C$ 900,000 to its founding. It

5687-537: The 2016–2017 academic year, McMaster students received approximately C$ 100,972,910 in Ontario Student Assistance Program loans and C$ 40,061,756 in grants, approximately $ 140,981,009 in total. In the same year students received C$ 10,135,233.65 in bursaries. The university international student exchange agreements with over 100 universities outside Canada, enabling its students to earn credits while studying abroad. The McMaster Model

5808-654: The Biology Greenhouse also grows plants for both short-term research studies. In addition, the university also operates the McMaster Nuclear Reactor , used for nuclear science and engineering research since 1959. The university regularly acquires an operating license for the reactor from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission , with the latest 10-year license issued on 1 July 2014. The swimming pool reactor

5929-569: The City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, and the Government of Canada. In the 2024-25 academic year, the largest source of revenue for the university was tuition fees, followed by operating grants provided by the government. As of 30 April 2023, McMaster's external financial endowment was valued at C$ 589.4 million. The financing of McMaster's scholarships and bursaries takes up 40 per cent of

6050-413: The Divinity College continued under its existing arrangement. In 1974 the divisional structure of the university was dissolved and reorganized again under The McMaster University Act, 1976 and the vice-presidents were replaced by a single vice-president (academic). The Faculties of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences were retained, each under the leadership of

6171-602: The Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning & Discovery, which houses many well-funded research groups in areas of genetics , infectious diseases , and several specific conditions. The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) has been the largest university reactor in the Commonwealth since it began operation and is the second largest research reactor in North America. It is a "pool-type" reactor with

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6292-480: The archives of Bertrand Russell , and of labour unions. The McMaster Museum of Art's (MMA) principal role is to support the academic mission of McMaster University and to contribute to the discourse on art in Canada. The museum has the highest attendance figures for a university-affiliated museum in Canada, with 30,000 visitors in 2016. Established in 1967, the museum houses and exhibits the university's art collection. As of 2015, that collection of 5,971 pieces holds

6413-487: The arts and sciences. In September 2016, 278 undergraduate students were enrolled in the Arts and Science program. The university also jointly administers several undergraduate collaborative programs with Mohawk College , in which 2,697 students are enrolled. The university also awards degrees to graduate students of McMaster Divinity College. The Divinity College was originally the university's Faculty of Theology, before it

6534-501: The campus, including two major residence dining facilities. The university has several vegetarian establishments, such as a completely vegetarian cafe known as Bridges Café and a farmers market stand. The university was voted as the country's most vegan-friendly university through People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for a number of years. Several other dining outlets at McMaster have garnered awards throughout

6655-674: The catalogue of McMaster University Library, while students of the university similarly have access to the Canadian Baptist Archives, managed by the university's library system. The university and the divinity college were incorporated as the same institution in 1887, a result of a merger between two Baptist institutions, the Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock , Ontario, and Toronto Baptist College. McMaster University continued to operate as

6776-455: The chairman of the board-senate committee on long-range planning. The Board also consists of 34 other governors, either appointed or elected by the various members of the university's community, including elected representatives from the student body. While The McMaster University Act, 1976 outlines that the board be only composed of 37 members, the Board also includes 12 honorary members, bringing

6897-631: The curriculums of other medical schools in Canada, and more than 80 per cent of medical schools in the United States. In 1991, McMaster's School of Medicine adopted progress testing , developing the personal progress index (PPI), a system based on progress testing invented concurrently by the University of Missouri-Kansas City 's medical school and the Maastricht University . The PPI is used as an objective method for assessing acquisition and retention of knowledge for students in

7018-491: The dean of adult education, the principal of McMaster Divinity College, and the chairman of the Undergraduate Council. The senate also consists of 51 other members, appointed or elected by the various communities of the university, including elected representatives of the student body. Meetings of the board of governors and the senate are open to the public. The president acts as the chief executive officer of

7139-524: The development of advanced manufacturing and materials, biotechnology, automotive, and nanotechnology. In July 2005 the federal government announced it would relocate CANMET, a federal government materials research laboratory, from its Ottawa centre to Hamilton. This decision helped spearhead the development of the McMaster Innovation Park . The United Nations University -International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

7260-409: The endowments received. Financial Services comprises the following areas: Student Accounts & Cashiers, Financial Accounting and Reporting, and Budgeting Services. The university has been registered as an educational charitable organization in Canada since 1 January 1967. As of 2011, the university is registered primarily as a post-secondary institution, with 70 per cent of the charity dedicated to

7381-583: The field in some way. Examples of professional communication in the workplace could include emails, faxes, meetings, memos, or PowerPoint presentations, all of which may be deemed essential to completing work and achieving goals or quotas. The field is closely related to that of technical communication , though professional communication encompasses a wider variety of skills. Professional communication draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics . Much of professional communication theory

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7502-402: The figure). Such an information portfolio as this shows how information can be gathered and usefully organised, in four stages: Stage 1 : Taking advantage of public information : recognise and adopt well-structured external schemes of reference data, such as post codes, weather data, GPS positioning data and travel timetables, exemplified in the personal computing press. Stage 2 : Tagging

7623-427: The final analysis our competency to manage information well, on the broad basis that is offered here, can be said to be predominant. Organizations are often confronted with many information management challenges and issues at the operational level , especially when organisational change is engendered. The novelty of new systems architectures and a lack of experience with new styles of information management requires

7744-630: The first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce , bequeathed funds to endow a university, which was incorporated through a merger of Toronto Baptist College and the faculty of theology in Woodstock College, Woodstock, Ontario . The merger was formalized in 1887 when the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College was granted royal assent, with the newly incorporated institution being named McMaster University. In 1887,

7865-525: The fourth best university in Canada. In Maclean's 2023 rankings, McMaster placed fourth in their Medical-Doctoral university category, and fifth in their reputation survey for Canadian universities. McMaster was ranked in spite of having opted out from participation in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006. McMaster also placed in a number of rankings that evaluated the employment prospects of graduates. In QS ' s 2022 graduate employability ranking,

7986-518: The generic concepts of management, including the planning , organizing , structuring, processing , controlling , evaluation and reporting of information activities, all of which is needed in order to meet the needs of those with organisational roles or functions that depend on information. These generic concepts allow the information to be presented to the audience or the correct group of people. After individuals are able to put that information to use, it then gains more value. Information management

8107-538: The globe who work as scholars, educators, and/or practitioners. The readers share a common interest in effective communication in technical workplace and academic contexts. The journal's research falls into three main categories: (1) the communication practices of technical professionals, such as engineers and scientists, (2) the practices of professional communicators who work in technical or business environments, and (3) research-based methods for teaching professional communication. The Journal of Professional Communication

8228-487: The highest graduate enrolment, with 1,144 graduate students. A number of university students are enrolled in interdisciplinary programs, administered by two or more faculties, including 549 graduate students. At the undergraduate level, the Arts and Science program is taught jointly by the six faculties at McMaster. Created in 1981, the program aims to provide a broad-based, liberal education, providing substantial work in both

8349-794: The humanities and social sciences collections, with a wide range of print and digital resources. Innis Library houses content which supports the academic and research interests of the DeGroote School of Business. Thode Library houses academic material of various disciplines of science and engineering, while the Health Science Library houses books pertaining to medical sciences. The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at McMaster University consist of papers of Canadian publishers; British personalities and of Canadian literary figures such as Farley Mowat , Pierre Berton , Matt Cohen , and Marian Engel . It includes

8470-470: The implementation of appropriate information systems (or " applications ") that were operated on IT infrastructure that was outsourced. In this way, information management was no longer a simple job that could be performed by anyone who had nothing else to do, it became highly strategic and a matter for senior management attention. An understanding of the technologies involved, an ability to manage information systems projects and business change well, and

8591-492: The incumbent president of the university. The university president, David H. Farrar , has served the post on an interim basis since 1 July 2019, although his tenure as the official university president did not begin until the following year. David Farrar's tenure will end in 2025, following the announcement of his resignation. A new president has yet to be announced. McMaster University is affiliated with one post-secondary institution, McMaster Divinity College . The seminary

8712-445: The information management literature. In the strategic studies field, it is considered of the highest priority the understanding of the information environment, conceived as the aggregate of individuals, organizations, and systems that collect, process, disseminate, or act on information. This environment consists of three interrelated dimensions which continuously interact with individuals, organizations, and systems. These dimensions are

8833-553: The initial campus plan. They are now flanked by over fifty structures built predominantly from the 1940s to 1960s. The largest facility is the McMaster University Medical Centre , a multi-use research hospital that is home to the second-largest neonatal intensive care unit and the third-largest child and youth mental health unit in the country. It is connected to the Life Sciences building and

8954-407: The institution could no longer secure sufficient funds from denominational sources alone to sustain science research. Since denominational institutions could not receive public funds, the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec decided to reorganize the university, creating two federated colleges. The arts and divinity programs were reconstituted as University College and science was reorganized under

9075-489: The interwar period were limited to just theology and nursing. By the 1940s the McMaster administration was under pressure to modernize and expand the university's programs. During the Second World War and post-war periods the demand for technological expertise, particularly in the sciences, increased. This problem placed a strain on the finances of what was still a denominational Baptist institution. In particular,

9196-608: The library system's electronic journal collection during the 2016 academic year. The university library employs 138 professional, and support staff. The library's resource expenditure for the 2016–2017 academic year was approximately $ 11.5 million, with 81 per cent of the budget allocated to serial and e-resource subscriptions, 9 per cent on hard copy acquisitions, and 10 per cent to membership and collections support. The library system include four libraries housing 1,274,265 paper books and 3,689,973 total resources, including videos, maps, sound recordings, and microfilm. Mills Library houses

9317-617: The management and maintenance of the university. The remaining 30 per cent has been dedicated under research. McMaster is a publicly funded research university, and a member of the Universities Canada . McMaster functions on a semester system, operating year-round on academic semesters, fall/winter and spring/summer. In the 2016–2017 academic year, the university had an enrolment of 31,265 students; 26,780 undergraduate students, 4,485 graduate students. Programs, departments, and schools at McMaster are divided among six faculties,

9438-671: The many trails that connect the campus to Royal Botanical Gardens . While the main campus is 152.4 hectares (377 acres), most of the teaching facilities are within the core 12.1 hectares (30 acres). In addition to its main campus in Hamilton, McMaster owns several other properties around Hamilton as well as in Burlington , Kitchener , and St. Catharines, Ontario . In 2017, the university owned and managed 58 buildings, including both on and off campus housing. The buildings at McMaster vary in age—from Hamilton Hall which opened in 1926, to

9559-544: The means to elicit meaning from large volumes of data. Structured data in databases works best when that structure reflects a higher-level information model – an ontology, or an entity-relationship model . Stage 4 : Structuring and archiving: with the large volume of data available from sources such as the social web and from the miniature telemetry systems used in personal health management , new ways to archive and then trawl data for meaningful information. Map-reduce methods, originating from functional programming , are

9680-618: The medical practice. A McMaster research group led by David Sackett and later Gordon Guyatt had been credited for establishing the methodologies used in evidence-based medicine . Research institutes operated by the Faculty of Health Science include the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health , and the Population Health Research Institute . The faculty also operates a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory. Other research institutes operated by

9801-426: The medical program. The PPI is administered at regular intervals to all students in the program, regardless of their level of training, and plots students' scores as they move through the program. Students typically score 20 per cent on their first examination, and increase by five to seven per cent with each successive examination. Students can monitor the changes in their scores and receive formative feedback based on

9922-453: The medical school are made from a rank list irrespective of geographical preference. Subsequent to an applicant's acceptance, registrants to the class are placed based on their preference and geographical background. The offers given out by McMaster are bound to the assigned site. McMaster purchased a large industrial park three kilometres east of its main Hamilton campus in 2005 with the intention of creating an array of research facilities for

10043-424: The migration of ideas and information management value from one area of competency to another. Summarising what Bytheway explains in some detail (and supported by selected secondary references): There are always many ways to see a business, and the information management viewpoint is only one way. Other areas of business activity will also contribute to strategy – it is not only good information management that moves

10164-410: The model of the " economic man ", as advocated in classical theory they proposed " administrative man " as an alternative, based on their argumentation about the cognitive limits of rationality. Additionally they proposed the notion of satisficing , which entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met - another idea that still has currency. In addition to

10285-425: The most research intensive university in the country with an average sponsored research income (external sources of funding) of C$ 434,700 per faculty member in 2017, the highest average in the country, and nearly double the average for universities in the "Medical-Doctoral" category. In the same year, graduate students averaged a sponsored research income of $ 82,800, the highest out of any full-service university. With

10406-587: The move. The lands for the university and new buildings were secured through gifts from graduates. Lands were transferred from Royal Botanical Gardens to establish the campus area. The first academic session on the new Hamilton campus began in 1930. McMaster's property in Toronto was sold to the University of Toronto when McMaster moved to Hamilton in 1930. McMaster Hall is now home to the Royal Conservatory of Music . Professional programs during

10527-416: The need for information processing. The lateral relations concept leads to an organizational form that is different from the simple hierarchy, the " matrix organization ". This brings together the vertical (hierarchical) view of an organisation and the horizontal (product or project) view of the work that it does visible to the outside world. The creation of a matrix organization is one management response to

10648-451: The new kinds of system that it enables, especially as the social web emerges as a phenomenon that business cannot ignore. And yet, well before there was any general recognition of the importance of information management in organisations, March and Simon argued that organizations have to be considered as cooperative systems , with a high level of information processing and a vast need for decision making at various levels. Instead of using

10769-404: The newly incorporated Hamilton College as a separate division capable of receiving provincial grants. Hamilton College was incorporated in 1948 by letters patent under The Companies Act , although it remained only affiliated with the university. The university traditionally focused on undergraduate studies, and did not offer a PhD program until 1949. Through the 1950s increased funding advanced

10890-493: The noise on the World Wide Web : use existing schemes such as post codes and GPS data or more typically by adding “tags”, or construct a formal ontology that provides structure. Shirky provides an overview of these two approaches. Stage 3 : Sifting and analysing: in the wider world the generalised ontologies that are under development extend to hundreds of entities and hundreds of relations between them and provide

11011-411: The organisational factors mentioned by March and Simon, there are other issues that stem from economic and environmental dynamics. There is the cost of collecting and evaluating the information needed to take a decision, including the time and effort required. The transaction cost associated with information processes can be high. In particular, established organizational rules and procedures can prevent

11132-482: The overall research budget. McMaster has been ranked on several bibliometric university rankings, which uses citation analysis to evaluate the impact a university has on academic publications. In 2019, the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked McMaster 119th in the world, and sixth in Canada. The University Ranking by Academic Performance 2018–19 rankings placed

11253-450: The overall undergraduate population living on campus. Residences provide traditional room and board style, furnished apartment style, and suite-style accommodation. Brandon Hall houses the university's substance-free lifestyle living spaces. The residence system is supervised by Residence Life staff, who provide guidance and help the transition to university life for many first-year students. The McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC)

11374-473: The physical, informational, and cognitive. Venkatraman has provided a simple view of the requisite capabilities of an organisation that wants to manage information well – the DIKAR model (see above). He also worked with others to understand how technology and business strategies could be appropriately aligned in order to identify specific capabilities that are needed. This work was paralleled by other writers in

11495-423: The place of sciences within the institution. In 1950, the university had completed the construction of three academic buildings for the sciences, all designed by local architect William Russell Souter. Public funding was eventually necessary to ensure the humanities and social sciences were given an equal place. Thus, in 1957 the university reorganized once again under The McMaster University Act, 1957 , dissolving

11616-717: The taking of the most appropriate decision, leading to sub-optimum outcomes. This is an issue that has been presented as a major problem with bureaucratic organizations that lose the economies of strategic change because of entrenched attitudes. According to the Carnegie Mellon School an organization's ability to process information is at the core of organizational and managerial competency , and an organization's strategies must be designed to improve information processing capability and as information systems that provide that capability became formalised and automated, competencies were severely tested at many levels. It

11737-665: The term mass communication (Blyler and Thralls, Professional Communication: The Social Perspective , (pp. 197-198). The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is a refereed quarterly journal published since 1957 by the Professional Communication Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The readers represent engineers, technical communicators, scientists, information designers, editors, linguists, translators, managers, business professionals and others from around

11858-684: The timelines and next steps for the university's expansion into Burlington. Construction began on 17 June 2009, and the official opening was on 7 October 2010. The four-story, 8,400-square-metre (90,000 sq ft) building is called the Ron Joyce Centre. The Ron Joyce Centre is home to DeGroote's MBA program and its business management program (both degree and non-degree programs). McMaster has several administrative offices at its Downtown Centre. The McMaster Centre for Continuing Education, which offers certificate and diploma programs as well as personal and professional development programs,

11979-403: The total number of governors to 51. The senate is responsible for the university's academics, including standards for admission into the university and qualifications for degrees, diplomas, and certificates. The senate consists of 15 ex officio positions granted to the chancellor, the president, the vice-presidents of the university, the senior dean of each faculty, the dean of graduate studies,

12100-442: The two colleges. Its property was vested to McMaster and the university became a nondenominational institution eligible for public funding. The historic Baptist connection was continued through McMaster Divinity College , a separately chartered affiliated college of the university. Also in 1957, PhD programs were consolidated in a new Faculty of Graduate Studies. Construction of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor also began in 1957, and

12221-734: The university 126th in the world, and sixth in Canada. McMaster has received accolades for its research strengths, particularly in the field of health sciences. The Faculty of Health Science oversees $ 130 million a year in research, much of it conducted by scientists and physicians who teach in the medical school. The university also operates a brain bank, whose collection includes a portion of Albert Einstein's brain , preserved and held for medical research. Researchers there have identified differences in his brain that may relate to his genius for spatial and mathematical thinking. In addition to traditional forms of research, members of Faculty of Health Sciences have also been credited with developments within

12342-409: The university 189th in the world and sixth in Canada. The 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed McMaster 103th in the world, and fourth in Canada. In U.S. News & World Report 2022–23 global university rankings , the university placed 138th, and fifth in Canada. In 2011, Newsweek had also ranked McMaster as the 15th top university outside of the United States, and

12463-451: The university administration debated the future of the university . The university nearly became federated with the University of Toronto , as had been the case with Trinity College and Victoria College . Instead, in 1927, the university administration decided to move the university to Hamilton. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec secured $ 1.5 million, while the citizens of Hamilton raised an additional $ 500,000 to help finance

12584-711: The university include the Origins Institute , the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute , and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (BIMR). BIMR was created in 1960 by Howard Petch , the institute was named after McMaster alumnus Bertram Brockhouse . The BIMR is an interdisciplinary research organization with the mandate to develop, support, and co-ordinate all materials research related activities at McMaster. Its membership of 123 faculty members

12705-468: The university is conducted through the board of governors and the senate, both of which were established in the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College in 1887. The board is responsible for the university's conduct, management, and control of the university and of its property, revenues, business, and affairs. Ex officio governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, president, and

12826-664: The university ranked 81st in the world, and fourth in Canada. In the Times Higher Education ' s 2022 global employability ranking, McMaster placed 81st in the world, and fifth in Canada. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, when CEOs and chairmen were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, McMaster placed 61st in the world, and fourth in Canada. In 2018, Research Infosource named McMaster as

12947-476: The university to Hamilton was first brought up by a student and Hamilton native in 1909, although the proposal was not seriously considered by the university until two years later. By the 1920s, after previous proposals between various university staff, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to bring McMaster University to Hamilton. As the issue of space at McMaster Hall became more acute,

13068-401: The university under the authority of the board and the senate, and supervises and directs the academic and administrative work of the university and of its teaching and non-teaching staff. The office was created in 1949, with George Gilmour serving as the university's first president. The office of the vice-chancellor, created at the same time as the office of president, has always been held by

13189-539: The university's new Bertrand Russell Archives and Research Centre, which opened 25 June 2018. McMaster's main campus is divided into three main areas: the Core Campus, North Campus and West Campus. The Core Campus has most of the university's academic, research and residential buildings, while the North Campus is made up of the university's athletic precinct and a small amount of surface parking. The West Campus

13310-530: The university. The Office of Sustainability, headed by the Manager of University Sustainability, works with various members of the university population, external community groups, and the government. Along with the other members of the Council of Ontario Universities , McMaster signed a pledge in 2009 known as Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World , with the objective of transforming its campus into

13431-405: The widow of William McMaster, Susan Moulton McMaster , conveyed a former family residence to the university for the purpose of establishing a preparatory school for girls. The Ladies' Department of Woodstock College transferred control of its Ladies' Department to the university, and the building was reopened as Moulton Ladies' College in 1888. The preparatory school operated until 1958, when it

13552-405: The world of consulting, practice, and academia. Bytheway has collected and organised basic tools and techniques for information management in a single volume. At the heart of his view of information management is a portfolio model that takes account of the surging interest in external sources of information and the need to organise un-structured information external so as to make it useful (see

13673-470: The writer), personal correspondence (discourse directed to one or more readers apart from their group affiliations), reportage or belletristic discourse (novels, poems, occasional essays--discourse usually written by individuals and directed to multiple readers not organized as a group), most intraclassroom communications (for example, classroom discourse composed by students for teachers) and some technical communications (for example, instructions--for changing

13794-493: The years for food services. As of 2010 McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business operates a 1.82-hectare (4.5-acre) site in the neighbouring city of Burlington. Consideration for the new building began in 2004, when McMaster University had announced its initial intent to construct a new arts- and technology-intensive campus in partnership with the city of Burlington. In 2009, the City of Burlington, Halton Region, and McMaster University signed an official agreement laying out

13915-574: Was Peter George Centre for Living and Learning (PGCLL), which was completed in Fall 2019. PGCLL can house 500 students and also contains lecture halls, tutorial rooms, and eateries. Les Prince Hall, the second-latest residence to be completed and a large co-ed building, opened in 2006. It was named for a long-time hall master in the residence system who lived with his family on campus until after his retirement in 1980. In September 2010, 50.19 per cent of first-year students lived on campus, with 15.54 per cent of

14036-726: Was an affiliated institution of McMaster. Located in Brandon , Manitoba , the affiliated institution was funded by the Baptist Union of Western Canada . The college ended its affiliation with McMaster in 1938, after Brandon College became a non-denominational institution. The net assets owned by the university as of 6 June 2024 stands at C $ 2,058.7 million. The university had completed the 2024–2025 year with revenues of C$ 1,400.3 million, expenses of $ 1,367.7 million, for an excess in revenue of $ 32.6 million. McMaster's revenue comes from endowment income, gifts, fees, and annual grants from

14157-643: Was closed by the university. The new university, housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto , was sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec as an undergraduate institution for its clergy and adherents. The first courses—initially limited to arts and theology leading to a BA degree—were taught in 1890, and the first degrees were conferred in 1894. As the university grew, McMaster Hall started to become overcrowded. The suggestion to move

14278-795: Was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. It opened in Toronto in 1890. Inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted its relocation in 1930. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec controlled the university until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957. As of 2024, McMaster University has over 32,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 post-graduate students. Alumni and former students reside across Canada and in 143 countries. Its athletic teams are known as

14399-451: Was recognised that organisations needed to be able to learn and adapt in ways that were never so evident before and academics began to organise and publish definitive works concerning the strategic management of information, and information systems. Concurrently, the ideas of business process management and knowledge management although much of the optimistic early thinking about business process redesign has since been discredited in

14520-425: Was reorganized into a separately chartered, affiliated college of the university in 1957. Students may apply for financial aid such as the Ontario Student Assistance Program and Canada Student Loans and Grants through the federal and provincial governments. The financial aid provided may come in the form of loans, grants, bursaries, scholarships, fellowships, debt reduction, interest relief, and work programs. In

14641-634: Was the first university-based research reactor in the Commonwealth when it began operating in 1959. In 1965, with the support of the Ontario government, the university established a medical school and teaching hospital, graduating its first class of physicians in 1972. In 1968 the university was reorganized under an amended act of the McMaster Act into the Divisions of Arts, Science, and Health Sciences, each with its own vice-president, while

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