scholarly journals Exploring Role Efficacy as correlate to Organizational Citizenship Behaviour among Female Nurses in a Maternal and Childcare Facility

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naga Siddharth ◽  
Rupal Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Childcare Facility ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Role Efficacy ◽  
Female Nurses

While many studies on Organizational Citizenship Behaviour exist, role efficacy as a correlate to organisational citizenship behaviour offers potential for research. This study is conducted to explore Role Efficacy as a correlate of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour among female nurses in a maternity and child care hospital in the healthcare industry located at Bangalore in India. Role Efficacy is the potential effectiveness of an individual occupying a particular position in an organization, as perceived by the individual. The convenience sample included 31 nurses and supervisors from an organization that caters exclusively to maternity

Effect of Organizational Culture and Organizational Commitment to Employee Performance through Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) as Intervening Variables (Study on Bappeda Litbang Provinsi Bali)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 20997-21013
Author(s):  
Anom Suwibawa ◽  
Anak Agung Putu Agung ◽  
I Ketut Setia Sapta
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Individual

Organizational culture as the values, principles, traditions and ways of working shared by members of the organization and affect the way they act. Organizational commitment has an important role of employee performance. The commitment can be realized if the individual in the organization, running their rights and obligations according to their duties and functions and functions within the organization, because the achievement of organizational goals is the work of all members of the organization that are collective Vipraprastha, Sudja,  & Yuesti (2018). Respondents in this study are Civil Servants (PNS) at least have been working for 2 years. The number of respondents in this study were 86 respondents using Nonprobability technique that is saturated samples or often called total sampling. This research uses SMARTPLS 3 Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. The results of this study indicate that: 1) organizational culture has a positive and significant effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB); 2) Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has positive and significant impact on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB); 3) Organizational Citizenship Behavior employee, 4) organizational culture has a positive effect on the performance of employees, either partially or through Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), 5) Organizational commitment has no effect on employee performance.

Role efficacy: A comprehensive study

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopa Bhardwaj ◽  
Swati Sharma ◽  
Neeti B. Karnick
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Role Integration ◽  
Helping Relationship ◽  
Role Efficacy ◽  
Comprehensive Study

A case study in manufacturing giant attempts to capture how potential effectiveness of a role is psychologically tuned along ten dimensions on which efficacy of an employee is defined. Further, how position, age and tenure of employment interact with role efficacy. A combination of quantitative and qualitative approach is followed, where n=28. Managers are seen as leaders and act like role models for the subordinates. Further, managers are high on helping relationship. Both see an opportunity for personal growth in their role. Self- role integration is lesser in managers than subordinates. Subordinates are found to be more reactive. Confrontation is greater for subordinates than managers. Elders are strong on dimensions common to achievers and youngest seems to have politics. Longer tenures exhibits more helping attitude and more confrontation than with smaller tenures. Thus, the dynamism between position, age and tenure seems to have an effect on role-efficacy.

scholarly journals How Physicians Manage Medical Uncertainty: A Qualitative Study and Conceptual Taxonomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 0272989X2199234
Author(s):  
Paul K. J. Han ◽  
Tania D. Strout ◽  
Caitlin Gutheil ◽  
Carl Germann ◽  
Brian King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Uncertainty Management ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Tolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Medical Uncertainty

Background Medical uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem, but the strategies physicians use to manage it have not been systematically described. Objectives To explore the uncertainty management strategies employed by physicians practicing in acute-care hospital settings and to organize these strategies within a conceptual taxonomy that can guide further efforts to understand and improve physicians’ tolerance of medical uncertainty. Design Qualitative study using individual in-depth interviews. Participants Convenience sample of 22 physicians and trainees (11 attending physicians, 7 residents [postgraduate years 1–3), 4 fourth-year medical students), working within 3 medical specialties (emergency medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine–pediatrics), at a single large US teaching hospital. Measurements Semistructured interviews explored participants’ strategies for managing medical uncertainty and temporal changes in their uncertainty tolerance. Inductive qualitative analysis of audio-recorded interview transcripts was conducted to identify and categorize key themes and to develop a coherent conceptual taxonomy of uncertainty management strategies. Results Participants identified various uncertainty management strategies that differed in their primary focus: 1) ignorance-focused, 2) uncertainty-focused, 3) response-focused, and 4) relationship-focused. Ignorance- and uncertainty-focused strategies were primarily curative (aimed at reducing uncertainty), while response- and relationship-focused strategies were primarily palliative (aimed at ameliorating aversive effects of uncertainty). Several participants described a temporal evolution in their tolerance of uncertainty, which coincided with the development of greater epistemic maturity, humility, flexibility, and openness. Conclusions Physicians and physician-trainees employ a variety of uncertainty management strategies focused on different goals, and their tolerance of uncertainty evolves with the development of several key capacities. More work is needed to understand and improve the management of medical uncertainty by physicians, and a conceptual taxonomy can provide a useful organizing framework for this work.

scholarly journals Nutrition Standards For Infants and Young Children can be Implemented by Family Child Care Home Providers

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2333794X2198955
Author(s):  
Lorrene D. Ritchie ◽  
Victoria Keeton ◽  
Danielle L. Lee ◽  
Klara Gurzo ◽  
Elyse Homel Vitale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Family Child Care ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Nutrition Standards ◽  
Infants And Young Children ◽  
Provider Surveys

The study evaluated an educational intervention with family child care home (FCCH) providers to implement nutrition standards. A convenience sample of licensed California FCCH providers (n = 30) attended a 2-hour, in-person group training in English or Spanish on nutrition standards for infants and children aged 1 to 5 years. Provider surveys and researcher observations during meals/snacks were conducted pre- and 3 months post-intervention. Providers rated the training as excellent (average score of 4.9 on a scale of 1-5). Adherence, assessed by survey and observation and compared over time using paired t-tests, increased from an average of 36% pre-intervention to 44% post-intervention ( P = .06) of providers (n = 12) for infant standards and from 59% to 68% ( P < .001) of providers (n = 30) for child standards. One-third (39%) of providers rated infant standards and 19% of providers rated child standards as difficult to implement. Nutrition standards can be implemented by FCCH providers after an educational intervention; a larger study is warranted with a representative group of providers.

scholarly journals Psychosocial and Diet-Related Lifestyle Clusters in Overweight and Obesity

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 6461
Author(s):  
Débora Godoy-Izquierdo ◽  
Raquel Lara ◽  
Adelaida Ogallar ◽  
Alejandra Rodríguez-Tadeo ◽  
María J. Ramírez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Excess Weight ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Excessive Weight ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Composition Factors ◽  
Overweight Or Obesity

This study explored intraindividual multidimensional profiles integrating psychosocial factors, namely, body image and satisfaction, weight-related self-stigma, positivity, and happiness, and behavioural-lifestyle factors, namely, adherence to a healthy diet, among Spanish adults with overweight or obesity. We further aimed to investigate the association of excess weight (i.e., measured body mass index, BMI) with the abovementioned multidimensional configurations. A convenience sample of 100 adult individuals (60% females) with excessive weight (69% overweight; 31% obesity) was recruited. They completed self-reports regarding the study variables, and their weight and height were measured. With a perspective centered on the individual, a cluster analysis was performed. Three distinct intraindividual psychosocial and diet-related profiles were identified: a group of healthy individuals with excess weight (46%); a group of individuals who were negatively affected by their excessive weight and showed the most distressed profile (18%); and a group of dysfunctional individuals who seemed to be excessively unrealistic and optimistic regarding their excessive weight and unhealthy lifestyles, but were troubled by their weight (36%). Furthermore, individuals in the affected cluster had higher obesity (mean BMI ± SD = 32.1 ± 3.7) than those in the clusters of healthy (28.0 ± 3.0) and dysfunctional individuals (28.1 ± 3.3) (p < 0.05). The results showed that there are specific psychosocial and lifestyle profiles in the adult population with excess weight and that there are relationships among psychological, behavioural, and body-composition factors. For clinical application purposes, it is important to account for the heterogeneity within individuals who are obese and to individualize the interventions, with a focus from weight change to the individual’s overall well-being.

scholarly journals Illuminating the Context and Circumstances of Male Couples Establishing a Sexual Agreement in Their Relationship

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason W. Mitchell ◽  
Ji-Young Lee ◽  
Cory Woodyatt ◽  
José Bauermeister ◽  
Patrick Sullivan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Male Couples ◽  
Relationship Themes ◽  
Prevention Interventions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Factors ◽  
Sexual Exploration ◽  
Skill Building ◽  
The Relationship

A sexual agreement is an explicit mutual understanding made between two partners about which sexual and relational behaviors they agree to engage in within and/or outside of their relationship. Factors that prompt male couples to form a sexual agreement and under what circumstances remain underinvestigated, yet are important considerations for development of couples-based sexual health and HIV prevention interventions. By using thematic analysis with qualitative dyadic data from a convenience sample of 29 HIV-negative male couples, the present study sought to describe the timing and investigate the context and circumstances that led male couples to establish a sexual agreement in their relationship at both the individual and couple levels, and by agreement type. Themes identified for when a sexual agreement was formed included within the first 6 months, and after 6 months in the relationship. Themes related to context and circumstances of couples’ sexual agreement formation were as follows: (a) desire for sexual exploration, (b) arisen circumstances or events with other men, (c) influences from past relationship(s) and/or other couples (i.e., peers), (d) to protect against HIV, and (e) purposeful conversations versus understood. Findings suggest HIV prevention efforts should include skill-building exercises to help improve communication and promote sex positivity within male couples’ relationships.

scholarly journals Use of the Maternal Foetal Triage Index- Addressing the Third Delay in Obstetrics: An Observational Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirzarini Vora ◽  
Nandita Maitra ◽  
Priyam Pandya
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Neonatal Outcomes ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
The Third ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Maternal And Neonatal Outcomes ◽  
A Priority

OBJECTIVE: The Maternal Foetal Triage Index (MFTI), a five-tier scale designed by Ruhl et al (2015) has been evaluated in this study for women attending the triage area of a tertiary hospital, to examine the effect on third delay and maternal and neonatal outcomes. DESIGN: Prospective observational study SETTING: The Labour and Delivery Unit of a tertiary care hospital SAMPLE: A convenience sample of 1000 women METHODS: Assessment included maternal history, baseline vital signs and obstetric examination and categorised the woman as per the MFTI scale. Evaluation of the MFTI score was assessed based on predefined maternal and neonatal outcomes within 24h of attendance. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Flow of patients to triage, presenting complaints, Duration of hospital stay, maternal and neonatal outcomes within 24h of admission. RESULTS: A priority wise distribution of subjects based on their clinical diagnosis was found to be statistically significant for anaemia, previous caesarean, postpartum haemorrhage, miscarriage and hypertensive disorders. Sixty seven percent of the subjects belonged to Priority 3-4 and the mean hospital stay duration varied from 8.26±7.68 days for Priority 1 to 3.82±2.74 days for Priority 4 ((p<0.0001). The average time spent in the triage room was 30±17minutes. A priority wise analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes based on OBICU and NICU admissions, mortality and stillbirths was found to be significant. CONCLUSION: The MFTI scale significantly reduced the third delay, which is crucial in a high-volume, low resource setting. This also simplified handover, improved documentation and decreased time to secondary healthcare provider assessment. KEYWORDS:obstetrictriage,acuity,thirddelay,maternalmortality

Going above and beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
Good Congruence ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Role Behaviors

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings For organizational success on a global scale, companies are looking for employees who will perform above and beyond the job description. These extra-role behaviors benefit both the individual and the organization. Good strategic human resource practices (SHRPs) such as reward management (RM) and employee development (ED) can increase the potential for employees performing such organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Employees who have emotional exhaustion (EE) are likely to demonstrate reduced extra-role behaviors. Managers need to ensure there are good SHRPs in place and that employee EE is reduced. Good congruence (Person-Organization fit) is beneficial for increasing OCB. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Abstract 9778: Establishing Inter Rater Reliability of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS)

Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 132 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M Miller
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Early Warning Score ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
National Early Warning Score ◽  
Level Of Agreement

A change in patient condition is a dynamic process which can go unrecognized and result in a failure to rescue. Changes in patients’ vital signs can precede adverse events many hours before critical events such as cardiac arrest or emergent transfer to the Intensive Care Unit occurs. Quantitative assessment tools are used to predict risk and need for additional resources at the bedside. These tools are referred to as Early Warning Scoring Systems. The Royal College of Physicians developed a standardized tool called the National Early Warning Score (NEWS, 2012) that uses a variety of physiologic parameters to assess risk and establish a trigger threshold for summoning additional resources. Purpose: Early warning scoring tools have been found to be reliable and accurate in predicting patient decompensation. However, data from instruments are only as reliable and accurate as the caregiver who obtains and documents the parameters. The purpose of this study was to establish inter rater reliability between the RN and PCA using NEWS. Design, Sample, Setting, Procedures: This study was conducted on the clinical units of a 104 bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) system. These units accept patients directly from Intensive Care Units who require intense services to maintain their trajectory toward recovery. The NEWS provides a way for early detection of patient decompensation which can prevent readmission to acute care and the subsequent financial implications The convenience sample consisted of 22 RNs and 6 PCAs. Consented subjects reviewed an unfolding case study that portrayed a typical patient on the LTCH unit. Subjects were asked to circle the parameter ranges on the NEWS tool that corresponded to physiologic values in the scenario. Findings: Krippendorff’s alpha was utilized to determine the level of agreement among the raters examining the three scenarios. An alpha value of 0.94 was obtained indicating a high level of agreement among the raters. Conclusion: The NEWS can serve as a reliable adjunct to the provision of safe patient care. While it is not the sole source for determining

scholarly journals Employees’ Perceptions of CSR, Work Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Effects of Organizational Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahir Farid ◽  
Sadaf Iqbal ◽  
Jianhong Ma ◽  
Sandra Castro-González ◽  
Amira Khattak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the individual level has emerged as an important field of research. However, a more comprehensive understanding of how CSR affects employee work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is still lacking. Based on social exchange theory, we examine the effects of employees’ perceptions of CSR on OCB and work engagement as well as the mediating mechanism of distributive and procedural justice, based on data collected from 350 employees working in the banking sector of Pakistan. Our study suggests that employees’ perceptions of CSR positively predict OCB and work engagement, and that work engagement is positively related to OCB. Both distributive and procedural justice positively mediate the effects of employees’ perceptions of CSR on OCB and work engagement.

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