The dynamics of the conflict cycle: Why competent staff end up in self-defeating power struggles with troubled students

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Power Struggles ◽  
Competent Staff

Power Struggles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Franquesa
Keyword(s):  
Power Struggles

Motion in Grattius

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. O. Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Power Struggles

This chapter views motion as an important component to this as well as to other didactic poems. The presentation of hunting itself is less astir with lively motion than might have been expected, especially in light of its potential for exciting narrative; rather, verbal networks connect hunting with wider worlds, and a larger ethical and pragmatic vision is conveyed. Humans interact not just with animals but also with the divine and with the forces of disease; hierarchies and power struggles are involved. Yet for all the expansion of the poem’s universe, the purposeful and rational ethos of Grattius’ poem is embedded in its treatment of the primary subject matter.

scholarly journals How medical dominance and interprofessional conflicts undermine patient-centred care in hospitals: historical analysis and multiple embedded case study in Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e006140
Author(s):  
Zakaria Belrhiti ◽  
Sara Van Belle ◽  
Bart Criel
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
Health Managers

BackgroundIn Morocco’s health systems, reforms were accompanied by increased tensions among doctors, nurses and health managers, poor interprofessional collaboration and counterproductive power struggles. However, little attention has focused on the processes underlying these interprofessional conflicts and their nature. Here, we explored the perspective of health workers and managers in four Moroccan hospitals.MethodsWe adopted a multiple embedded case study design and conducted 68 interviews, 8 focus group discussions and 11 group discussions with doctors, nurses, administrators and health managers at different organisational levels. We analysed what health workers (doctors and nurses) and health managers said about their sources of power, perceived roles and relationships with other healthcare professions. For our iterative qualitative data analysis, we coded all data sources using NVivo V.11 software and carried out thematic analysis using the concepts of ‘negotiated order’ and the four worldviews. For context, we used historical analysis to trace the development of medical and nursing professions during the colonial and postcolonial eras in Morocco.ResultsOur findings highlight professional hierarchies that counterbalance the power of formal hierarchies. Interprofessional interactions in Moroccan hospitals are marked by conflicts, power struggles and daily negotiated orders that may not serve the best interests of patients. The results confirm the dominance of medical specialists occupying the top of the professional hierarchy pyramid, as perceived at all levels in the four hospitals. In addition, health managers, lacking institutional backing, resources and decision spaces, often must rely on soft power when dealing with health workers to ensure smooth collaboration in care.ConclusionThe stratified order of care professions creates hierarchical professional boundaries in Moroccan hospitals, leading to partitioning of care and poor interprofessional collaboration. More attention should be placed on empowering health workers in delivering quality care by ensuring smooth interprofessional collaboration.

SCENES FROM DAILY LIFE: THE VIEW FROM NABLUS

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beshara Doumani
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Power Struggles

The picture of everyday life in besieged Nablus that emerges from this essay is one of simultaneous fragmentation and social cohesion: fragmentation in the class and generational tensions, factional power struggles, estrangement between townsmen and camp dwellers; social cohesion in the enduring family and solidarity networks, well-organized grassroots committees, and the unifying impact of Israeli military pressures. While shedding light on the radical cultural, demographic, and structural transformations underway, this closely observed personal narrative also conveys the sense of imprisonment that characterizes this virtually sealed off town subjected to individual and collective punishments, from targeted assassinations to selective curfews and the intentional destruction of infrastructure and architectural patrimony.

scholarly journals Creative Coercion in Post-Katrina New Orleans: a Neighborhood Strategy to Address Conflict in Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Danley
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Neighborhood Associations ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Power Deficit ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Policy Negotiation

The study of relationships within networks has traditionally focused on concepts such as cooperation, collaboration and other forms of partnership (Brown & Keast 2003). The assumption has been that actors in a network have shared vision and are working together. This study tests that idea by using mixed methods and ethnography to examine 15 neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans, and 71 of their relationships within policy networks. Contrary to our typical understanding of networks, neighborhood associations engage not just in partnership, but also in power struggles. When excluded from policy networks, neighborhood associations use creative coercion to ensure their voice is heard. Facing a power deficit, these associations look for informal levers to assert themselves into policy negotiation. The result is creative and coercive measures, such as co-opting elections, bribery, blackmail and what one neighborhood activist calls ‘guerrilla warfare.’ These conflicts force a reconsideration of networks. Networks are not solely homes of collaborative action; they are also the location of sharp power struggles over priorities. 

Numbers 1–20

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baruch A. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Power Struggles ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The People ◽  
Ten Commandments

The Book of Numbers is an account of the young would-be nation of Israel's wanderings in the Wilderness after the magnificent event at Sinai, where Moses speaks with God face-to-face and receives the Ten Commandments. Throughout this time of trial, the people complain, sensing the contrast between the relative security of slavery in Egypt, from which they have fled, and the precarious insecurity of freedom in the Wilderness. Numbers is a book filled with power struggles, raising questions about who speaks for God, along with personal and communal crises of faith and rumors of revolt. Yet despite the people's blindness and rebelliousness, God remains faithful to the promises made to Israel's ancestors--Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and now Moses--and remains at Israel's side, guiding her slowly but surely to the Promised Land. In all, Numbers describes a terrific journey of discipline and dependence upon the God who liberated the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt: a journey to strengthen Israel for the challenge of a new and wondrous land and the battles she will have to fight in order to claim and keep it.

Romanian recovery plan renews state capacity doubts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Capacity ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Recovery Plan ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
State Capture

Significance The plan includes ambitious reforms and investment projects, but the Commission’s critical first reactions highlight questions around the feasibility of some of these reforms and the state’s capacity to implement them. The Commission will approve or reject the plan by September 30. Impacts Power struggles within the National Liberals, the senior coalition party, could weaken government ability to implement planned reforms. Success is important for the junior coalition party coordinating the plan, USR-PLUS, whose appeal relies on its expertise and competence. In several eastern EU states, the RRF could further entrench state capture and clientelistic networks.

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