PODD: Personalized organ donation directive.
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) defines disaster risk management as a "systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster" (UNISDR 2009).
The directive from their organization to "keep a low profile" haunted one of the participants: From the [organization's] side…people agreed it was the right diagnosis, but there was nothing they could do to help me do the right public health action.
Currently, he has done nothing to right the ship and the organization has largely ignored his directive.
The Central Propaganda Department issued a directive to news organizations saying the defiant outburst at Southern Weekend, also known as Southern Weekly, had involved "hostile foreign forces".
He added that Falun Gong followers who managed to get to Iceland earlier this week had "initially refused to comply with police directives on the organization and location of the planned protests".
The wooden hives were delivered to local schools and organizations for decoration with a simple directive: Let your fancy fly as free and wild as the legendary twist-and-buzz "honey dance" of bees that communicates pollen locations.
The news sparked immediate backlash from a number of queer rights organizations, many of which deemed the directive a "license to discriminate".
Hierarchal organizations that display cultures of centralized decision-making and directive leadership seem to inhibit organizational learning and new knowledge formation [ 30, 37].
Properly supported, infrastructure competency allows an organization to maintain agility in responding to strategic directives and tactical changes.
Knowledge integration is the organization, restructuring and interpretation of existing knowledge through "directives, organizational routines, and self-contained task teams" (Alavi and Leidner 2001: 122) to establish a base into new meaningful knowledge and maximize knowledge synergy (Wu and Chen 2014).
