Promoting positive work environments: The role of the clinical mentor

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Leducq ◽  
G. A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Work Environments ◽  
Clinical Mentor ◽  
Positive Work

Psychological and Cultural Components Affecting Rail Worker Culture: A Literature Review

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Placencia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Rail Industry ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Positive Work

Developing and maintaining a healthy work environment is an important consideration to the rail industry. Several theories have been advanced to examine, understand, and influence how workers function and interact within their working environments. These include motivational theories such as Taylor’s Theory of Scientific Management and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, models of moral develop such as developed by Kohlberg and Gilligan, theories of personality types like Myers–Brigg and Keirsey, and the theory of cultural dimensions developed by Hofstede. Positive work environments can contribute to safe and efficient operations, while negative work environments almost inevitably degrade performance and increase the potential for injury and accidents. Therefore understanding and managing these elements properly can greatly contribute to better organizational outcomes. This paper will then examine the underlying role of human behavior as determined by these theories appear to have played in 5 incidents at Metro–North Railroad in 2013–2014.

Auditing the Systems Understanding Aid Project: An Integrative Assignment for Accounting Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Swanger ◽  
Beth H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
External Work ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Independent Auditors ◽  
Course Integration

ABSTRACT Accounting educators strive to prepare graduates for work in their chosen field. Various teaching methods can be employed to best accomplish this goal. One valuable tool is the use of active learning tasks that simulate external work environments. This paper describes the collaboration between an AIS and an Auditing professor who used an integrative task that spanned their two classes over two semesters. The authors had their AIS students complete Arens and Ward's Systems Understanding Aid (SUA) project (Arens & Ward, 2008). The following semester, students in the auditing class audited the records and financials that had been generated by students the previous semester. The project was designed to facilitate course integration and teamwork by having groups of students play the role of corporate accountants, then act as independent auditors.

Emotionele arbeid en positieve werkuitkomsten: De rol van specifieke hulpbronnen in het werk

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan de Jonge ◽  
Maria C.W. Peeters ◽  
Pascale M. Le Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
Positive Work

Emotion work and positive work outcomes: The role of specific job resources Emotion work and positive work outcomes: The role of specific job resources J. de Jonge, M.C.W. Peeters & P.M. Le Blanc, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 19, November 2006, nr. 4, pp. 345-367 This cross-sectional study among 826 health care workers examined the association between emotion work (defined as emotional demands) and positive work outcomes (i.e., creativity, active learning, and job challenge), and the moderating role of job resources on this relation. The hypotheses were tested with multivariate multiple regression analyses (LISREL 8.30), using cross-validation techniques. The results showed indeed that, compared with a non-match, a match between emotional demands and (emotional) resources increased the chance of positive work outcomes. So, to achieve positive work outcomes it seems to be important for job demands in general and for emotional demands in particular, that a correspondence exists between the kind of job resource and the kind of job demands. From a practical point of view, work-related interventions on emotion work should therefore focus on specific, emotional, job resources to stimulate positive work outcomes for health care workers.

The Role of Professional Protocols

2014 ◽  
pp. 106-132
Author(s):  
Kiyomi D. Deards ◽  
Jolie O. Graybill
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Professional Behavior ◽  
The Future ◽  
Positive Work Environment ◽  
Positive Work

The cultivation of professionalism is a necessary part of training the academic and research library leaders of the future. By incorporating professionalism into succession planning efforts, individuals acquire skills that will serve them across institutions as they transition between positions of power. For the purposes of this study, the aspects of professionalism were divided into four main categories: etiquette, professional behavior, personal presentation, and space (how people fill and use it). This chapter examines existing literature and contains the results of a survey of how library employees feel about professional protocols. It argues that the observance of professional protocols can impact student satisfaction as well as create a more positive work environment. Results of the survey indicate that libraries value professionalism with an emphasis on professional behavior.

The role of peer‐to‐peer voice in severe work environments: organisational facilitators and barriers

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-571
Author(s):  
Rebecca Loudoun ◽  
Keith Townsend ◽  
Adrian Wilkinson ◽  
Paula K. Mowbray
Keyword(s):  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

Work reflection during leisure time and employee creativity: The role of psychological capital

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhining Wang ◽  
Lijun Meng ◽  
Shaohan Cai ◽  
Ling (Alice) Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Negative Work ◽  
Positive Work

Abstract This paper explores the relationships among positive and negative work reflection during leisure time, psychological capital, and radical and incremental creativity. We collected data from 500 dyads of employees and their direct supervisors, and employed the structural equation model to test our research hypotheses. The results reveal that positive work reflection during leisure time is positively related to radical and incremental creativity, while negative work reflection during leisure time is negatively related to the two types of creativity. Our findings also suggest that psychological capital mediates the effects of positive and negative work reflection during leisure time on radical and incremental creativity.

Natural Supports in the Workplace: A Reexamination of Supported Employment

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nisbet ◽  
David Hagner
Keyword(s):  
Supported Employment ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Natural Supports ◽  
Job Coaches ◽  
Job Sharing

The purpose of this article is to examine some of the basic premises of supported employment initiatives. In particular, the role of agency-sponsored job coaches in supporting employees with severe disabilities in integrated work environments is discussed. A broader concept of supported employment is proposed, based on studies of the supports and informal interactions characteristic of natural work environments. Alternative support options, entitled the Mentor Option, the Training Consultant Option, the Job Sharing Option, and the Attendant Option, which involve the active participation of supervisors and co-workers, are presented with suggestions for implementation.

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