Resistance is not futile: An experimental analogue of the effects of consultee “resistance” on the consultant’s therapeutic behavior in the consultation process: A replication and extension.

Over the past decade, South African organisations have had to cope with an ever-increasing rate of local and global changes. There have been considerable and ongoing socio-political changes, resulting from new government regulations. Most organisations have experienced some type of downturn, whether due to external business factors or poor internal performance. A typical response to organisational decline is retrenchment. Our study sought to explore employees’ perceptions of the effects of retrenchment on job stress and organisational commitment in a mining company. The study was located within a quantitative research paradigm. Four research hypotheses were posited and data was collected in one region from a sample of 400 surface mining employees, including management, administrators, engineers and artisans. The results showed that the effects of retrenchment did not have a negative impact on job stress (time stress and anxiety). This may be due to the fact that the mining company in question had a planning and consultation process in place for the employees prior to the retrenchment process. The results also showed that job stress (time stress and anxiety) was negatively associated with organisational commitment. To conclude this article we discuss the implications of our findings, outline the limitations of our study and make recommendations for future research.

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Soviet-Chinese-North Korean consultations on armistice during the Korean War

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi47 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽

pp. 274-287

Keyword(s):

Korean War ◽

Prisoners Of War ◽

Consultation Process ◽

Soviet Leadership ◽

The Korean War ◽

Armistice Agreement

The paper highlights the consultation process of Soviet-Chinese-North Korean leaders on the ceasefire issue during the Korean War and their respective positions. The author stresses that the Armistice Agreement, signed in July 1953, was in response to the demands of the Soviet leadership to rush to end the war with Stalin’s death, rather than reflecting the wishes of the communists. The forced repatriation of the prisoners of war demanded by the communists was also frustrated and the war was a tie that almost returned to its pre-war state.

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Submission Under Consultation Process by the European Commission on the Structural Reform of the Banking Sector

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2401156 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Charles James Larkin ◽

Sean Barrett

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Banking Sector ◽

Structural Reform ◽

Consultation Process

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Definitely Maybe: New Governance of Uncertainty and Risk in Patient Group Involvement with UK Guidance on Testing for Lyme Disease

Science Technology and Society ◽

10.1177/0971721820960246 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 097172182096024

Author(s):

Alex Faulkner ◽

Kate Bloor ◽

Vahsti Hale

Keyword(s):

Lyme Disease ◽

Patient Group ◽

New Governance ◽

Difficult Patient ◽

Consultation Process ◽

Diagnostic Uncertainty ◽

Policy Actors ◽

Patient Groups ◽

Evidence Review ◽

The Uk

States that claim responsibility for citizens’ healthcare try to deal with knowledge uncertainties while preserving a duty of care. Production of clinical guidelines in disputed medical conditions or where uncertainty is high, is difficult. Patient groups may advocate non-credentialed evidence, contribute to debates and form alliances with established policy actors. In this context, Lyme disease, especially highly contested ‘chronic’ Lyme disease is a good case with which to examine how official governance institutions are managing diagnostic uncertainty and evidence for tests. The healthcare state has been provoked to develop extensive policy for Lyme disease. In the UK, national Health Technology Assessment agency, NICE, began a consultation process in 2016. NICE and other policy actors are moving towards more participatory modes of decision-making. The article analyses NICE’s recently published guidelines and consultation documents; patient groups’ contributions; observations of consultations and of evidence review processes; and recent Department of Health systematic reviews, including patient group participation. We draw on concepts of participatory governance, patient group activism and guideline involvement. We find an increased level of participation by patient groups in recent policy and evidence review processes, and hence legitimation of them as ‘stakeholders’, alongside a strengthened state position on pre-existing diagnostic and testing standards.

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