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Killingsworth, Brenda, Yajiong Xue, and Yongjun Liu. "Factors influencing knowledge sharing among global virtual teams." Team Performance Management 22, no. 5/6 (August 8, 2016): 284–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tpm-10-2015-0042.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine interrelations of the team environment factors of trust and affiliation and the motivation factors of perceived reciprocal benefits and importance of enjoyment to determine how they influence knowledge sharing within loose-linked global virtual teams. Design/methodology/approach The study involved 115 business students from three large universities located in the USA, China and Peru being assigned to global virtual teams of between three and four members in one phase and between four and seven members in a second phase. Students were required to work in virtual teams using telecommunication tools to complete assigned cases. Findings Trust, reciprocal benefits and enjoyment are significantly related to positive attitude toward knowledge sharing. Positive attitude, enjoyment, age, nationality and computer experience are positively related to knowledge sharing behavior. Affiliation is not found to significantly affect positive knowledge sharing attitude. Gender is not related to knowledge sharing behavior. Practical implications Understanding how trust, affiliation and motivation influence positive attitude and knowledge sharing behavior can assist managers in developing intervention strategies that improve team environments to support knowledge sharing behavior. Originality/value This paper contributes to the advancement of theory by extending the current knowledge sharing research to virtual team environments with diverse cultural backgrounds and by considering both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation factors, including the importance of enjoyment in loose-linked environments of global virtual teams.
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LEE, Meng-Hsiu, Ming-Yu YEN, and Louis PERROMAT. "Interaction between the Knowledge Sharing on Innovation Behavior Based on the Viewpoint of Team Diversity: Empirical Research from China." Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala 64 (March 6, 2019): 97–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.33788/rcis.64.8.
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In the rapidly changing and challenging environment, the possession of continuous innovation ability is primary for organizations in high-tech industry, which have to constantly apply innovation to maintain and enhance the effectiveness, create corporate value, and pursue organizational excellence so as to promote the competitive advantage for enterprise growth and survival. For organizations toady, work teams are the basic units to complete tasks. A lot of management activities are mostly preceded with teams, relying on the mutual cooperation among members. Besides, team interaction and communication could effectively enhance team performance and organizational performance. Aiming at supervisors and employees of high-tech industry in Fujian Province, total 520 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 351 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 68%. The research results show that 1.team diversity presents positive and significant effects on knowledge sharing, 2.knowledge sharing shows positive and remarkable effects on innovation behavior, and 3.team diversity reveals positive effects on innovation behavior. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to stimulate team innovation behaviors for high-tech industry applying different value, experience, and professional knowledge of team members.
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Gong, Lin, Xiao Dan Zhang, Bo Tao Fan, Zi Jian Zhang, and Yu Xiao. "Research on Individuation Task Allocating Based on Team Collaboration." Applied Mechanics and Materials 590 (June 2014): 778–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.590.778.
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Team collaboration for project implementation has become the main pattern in modern work. How to allocate tasks to the right team member is the key for project completion. The paper firstly reviewed the related methods and concepts of team collaboration and knowledge sharing. Then the model of knowledge was built. Based on knowledge model, this paper built the model of the task and the team member. According to the knowledge background and project experience of team members, the paper proposed an allocation model which automatically allocated tasks in group work. Finally, a prototype system was developed for practical validation.
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Gross, Steven E., and Dan Duncan. "Case Study." Compensation & Benefits Review 30, no. 6 (November 1998): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088636879803000608.
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Ameri Steel's experience with gainsharing demon-strates the effectiveness of using incentives to improve productivity within an organization. The advantages of gainsharing over profit sharing are two-fold: first, gainsharing distributes operating gains (as opposed to bottom-line profits), and, because it is easier to measure, can be paid out with a greater frequency than profit-sharing awards. The frequency of payouts is vital to the effectiveness of the plan, since there is a more immediate incentive with which to motivate employees. A further advantage of gainsharing is that, rather than basing rewards on total company profits, payouts can be based on the performance of plants, teams, or small work units. This struc-ture encourages employees to work together cohesively in a team environment. Companies with gainsharing programs are thus able to attract team-oriented risk-takers who are not afraid to bet the farm on their performance, while ensuring that excellence is rewarded with frequent and substantial payouts. Indeed, the Ameri Steel gain-sharing plan has helped the company generate an average of 8% annual improvements in productivity in the four years since management adopted this program, while employees have enjoyed average payouts equal to 46% of their base pay.
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Hewson, Edmund, and Gar Wai Chung. "Beyond the VLE: Transforming Online Discussion and Collaboration through Microsoft Teams." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 7, no. 3 (2021): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.73.1004.
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Microsoft Teams is a new collaborative working and digital community platform launched in 2017 as part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of applications. It provides an online space ideally suited for collaboration and streamlining communication for anyone involved in online learning and teaching in Higher Education. In the Distance Learning Unit (DLU) at Leeds Beckett University, Teams has been piloted used as part of a University-wide pilot project to help transform the way we work with both staff and students, both on distance and classroom courses. This presentation will outline the wider context of the Teams pilot in the University and how it is being trialled as a potential replacement for other collaborative platforms. As an early adopter, the Distance Learning Unit has experimented with Teams to improve communication, collaborative working, and sharing of best practice within the team. The presentation will then focus on how these lessons have been applied in working with the Course Team and students on a fully online distance learning course to help boost student engagement, develop a more active learner community, facilitate collaborative working, enhance resource sharing and provide a more accessible, mobile learning experience. The presentation will look at both the challenges and benefits of moving collaboration and communication outside the VLE and present staff and student feedback on their experiences of using Teams instead of other more traditional VLE-based tools and the provision of a safe, collaborative space.
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Vergílio, Maria Silvia Teixeira Giacomasso, Vanessa Pellegrino Toledo, and Eliete Maria Silva. "Workshops as a democratic proposal in order to change the supervision work in nursing." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 71, no. 4 (August 2018): 2050–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0286.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to report the experience of developing workshops as an intervention strategy in an action research, aiming to review the work of supervision in hospital nursing. Method: to report of the experience of planning, developing and evaluating workshops with a psychosocial approach. Three workshops were held, in a reserved place, with the participation of 21 supervisors of a public university hospital. Each workshop was organized with heating, day work, closure with syntheses and consensus. Results: the work provided the exchange of experiences, reflections and proposals for difficulties identified in the work process that distract supervisors from the management of assistance such as communication failure, reworking and lack of definition of assignments in the team. Conclusion: the dynamics of the workshops favored supervisors to propose solutions to the difficulties of their practice in a more democratic and participative way, through dialogical interactions, sharing of the feelings pertinent to the work context and establishing consensus for the completion of the task.
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Salazar, Maritza, and Theresa Lant. "Facilitating Innovation in Interdisciplinary Teams: The Role of Leaders and Integrative Communication." Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 21 (2018): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4011.
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Aim/Purpose: The complexity of scientific problems has spurred the development of transdisciplinary science, in which experts are brought together to collaborate across disciplinary and practice boundaries. These knowledge diverse teams can produce novel solutions, but they often fail to achieve their potential. Background: Leaders have a crucial role to play in enabling effective collaboration among these diverse experts. We propose that a critical predictor of whether a newly formed interdisciplinary team will perform well is the leader’s multidisciplinary breadth of experience, which we define as a leader’s possession of significant experience in multiple areas of research and practice. We suggest that these leaders will have the capability to skillfully manage the interactions within the team. Methodology: We test our prediction in a sample of 52 newly formed interdisciplinary medical research teams. We also observe and examine the communication patterns in a subset of these teams. Contribution: There is a lack of systematic study of the impact leaders have on newly formed interdisciplinary science teams whose members have little or no prior collaborative experience with each other, possess specialized knowledge, and have limited overlapping expertise. This study combines quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the effect of leader multidisciplinary experience on team communication patterns and innovation. Findings: Our study finds that teams are more innovative when their leader has a moderate breadth of multidisciplinary expertise. Exploration of team communication patterns suggests that leaders with moderate multidisciplinary breadth of experience actively stimulated information sharing across expert domains by choosing cross-cutting topics and drew individuals’ attention to the knowledge and approaches of others in the team. Recommendations for Practitioners: Insights from this work can have practical implications regarding how to best select and train leaders to facilitate cross-boundary collaboration in transdisciplinary science. This study elucidates a variety of communication strategies that leaders can to enhance the team innovativeness. Recommendation for Researchers: Further investigation into the underlying psychological states that these communication strategies elicit is needed. Future research should investigate psychological mediators such as knowledge consideration, perspective taking, and cognitive flexibility. Impact on Society: Transdisciplinary science is needed to solve society’s most complex problems. The more insight we gather about factors that can help these knowledge diverse teams to be successful, but more society will benefit. Future Research: More research is needed on team formation, leader experience, and team outcomes in transdisciplinary science teams in a variety of contexts.
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Jin, Ginger Zhe, Benjamin Jones, Susan Feng Lu, and Brian Uzzi. "The Reverse Matthew Effect: Consequences of Retraction in Scientific Teams." Review of Economics and Statistics 101, no. 3 (July 2019): 492–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00780.
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Teamwork pervades modern production, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. The Matthew effect suggests that communities reward eminent team members for great outcomes at the expense of less eminent team members. We study this phenomenon in reverse, investigating credit sharing after damaging events. Our context is article retractions in the sciences. We find that retractions impose little citation penalty on the prior work of eminent coauthors, but less eminent coauthors experience substantial citation declines, especially when teamed with eminent authors. These findings suggest a reverse Matthew effect for team-produced negative events. A Bayesian model provides a candidate interpretation.
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Edwards, Sarah. "How to encourage collaboration and break down silos in remote teams?" Strategic HR Review 19, no. 4 (June 20, 2020): 157–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/shr-05-2020-0043.
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Purpose One of the issues concerning businesses today, which are reconfiguring the workplace towards more remote working, is avoiding the build-up of “silos” – teams, which operate as sealed off windowless units within the business. These interfere with the creation and maintenance of a one-team culture within your organisation. Design/methodology/approach With everyone working from home, this situation can potentially become even more difficult to address. Teams may meet regularly over digital channels but they likely have less contact with the people in the wider organisation, who they do not work with directly. If you were to map the points of contact in your organisation, you would see that remote working in many organisations is very much reducing them and confining them to within teams. So, in remote teams, there is more of a need than ever for HR professionals and business leaders to work to break down silos to keep the one team culture. Findings Here are some tips from the author’s experience for breaking down silos in remote teams: create opportunities for more relaxed social interactions, focus on the customer experience and share information across the organisation. Originality/value There may be opportunities for these underused skills to be deployed in another area of the business. But if the resource availability is not visible, that is less likely to happen. Equally, if each team does not share what it is doing in an up to date and accessible way, other teams will end up stepping on their toes. So, having a way of sharing accurate, real-time information across the business underpins the effort of working together in a unified and efficient way.
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Lawrence, Joshua, Siwat Chang, Luis Chaves Rodriguez, and Thomas Ouldridge. "Students go through the gears at the iGEM competition for engineering biology." Biochemist 41, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio04103058.
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The annual International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, represents an exciting opportunity for students to experience first-hand the potential of synthetic biology approaches to solve real-world problems. In this article, an iGEM team based at Imperial College London share some of the highlights from their participation in the 2018 iGEM event, including sharing their work at the annual Jamboree in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bossaller, Jenny, Christopher Sean Burns, and Amy VanScoy. "Re-conceiving time in reference and information services work: a qualitative secondary analysis." Journal of Documentation 73, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 2–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-03-2016-0028.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the sociology of time to understand how time is perceived by academic librarians who provide reference and information service (RIS). Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) of two phenomenological studies about the experience of RIS in academic libraries. The authors used QSA to re-analyze the interview transcripts to develop themes related to the perception of time. Findings Three themes about the experience of time in RIS work were identified. Participants experience time as discrete, bounded moments but sometimes experience threads through these moments that provide continuity, time is framed as a commodity that weighs on the value of the profession, and time plays an integral part of participants’ narratives and professional identities. Research limitations/implications Given that the initial consent processes vary across organizations and types of studies, the researchers felt ethically compelled to share only excerpts from each study’s data, rather than the entire data set, with others on the research team. Future qualitative studies should consider the potential for secondary analysis and build data management and sharing plans into the initial study design. Practical implications Most discussions of time in the literature are presented as a metric – time to answer a query, time to conduct a task – The authors offer a more holistic understanding of time and its relationship to professional work. Social implications The methodology taken in this paper makes sense of the experiences of work in RIS for librarians. It identifies commonalities between the experience of time and work for RIS professionals and those of other professionals, such as physicians and software engineers. It suggests revising models for RIS, as well as some professional values. Originality/value This paper contributes a better understanding of time, understudied as a phenomenon that is experienced or perceived, among RISs providers in academic libraries. The use of secondary qualitative analysis is an important methodological contribution to library and information science studies.
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Liu, Shih-Hsiung, and Hsien-Chang Tsai. "Teachers’ Experiences of Collaborating in School Teaching Teams." Asian Social Science 13, no. 2 (January 19, 2017): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v13n2p159.
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Teachers in numerous countries worldwide often confront education reforms in their career, in which, collaborating is considered a feasible approach to changing teachers’ traditional teaching philosophy. This study aims to examine Taiwanese teachers’ experiences of collaborating in school teaching teams. We invited six teachers from different schools for an interview. Afterward, we conducted two sessions of focus-group interviews with 18 participants from various roles in teaching teams as well as various geographical areas. The findings show that information exchanges of education works, uncoordinated processes of collaboration, and discussions not involving pedagogical knowledge are the general experiences on participating in the teaching teams. Certain barriers to teacher collaborations are from inadequate focuses during team discussions and a lack of curriculum leadership. Through experience-sharing, the participants considered that a focus on student learning during discussions and examples of practices for curriculum leadership were the key aspects for successful experiences in teacher collaborations.
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Wagaman, M. Alex, and Ira Sanchez. "Looking through the magnifying glass: A duoethnographic approach to understanding the value and process of participatory action research with LGBTQ youth." Qualitative Social Work 16, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325015595855.
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Participatory action research is a method intended to shift the power of the “researcher” and “researched.” This paper presents the results of a duoethnographic exploration and analysis of experiences working on a participatory action research team. The authors participated in a research team, made up primarily of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer -identified young adults, which studied intra-community bigotry. Duoethnography is a qualitative method that reflects on a shared experience or cultural event from two different viewpoints in order to juxtapose perspectives without attempting to resolve differences or converge into conclusions. Through duoethnography, the authors identified three praxes that offer guidance for qualitative social work researchers. The praxes include negotiating power, engaging in iterative learning and knowledge production, and sharing the burden of vulnerability. These praxes create an opportunity for qualitative researchers to consider the value of participatory action research as a reflective research process that aligns with social work principles of self-awareness and social justice, and to identify participatory and reflexive strategies that can be incorporated into a variety of qualitative methods.
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K.W. Wong, Kelwin, Mohan Kumaraswamy, Gangadhar Mahesh, and Florence Y.Y. Ling. "Building integrated project and asset management teams for sustainable built infrastructure development." Journal of Facilities Management 12, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 187–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfm-05-2013-0025.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relevance of the relationally integrated value networks (RIVANS) concept for integrating project management (PM) and asset management (AM) for total asset management (TAM). The specific objectives are to test the RIVANS for TAM concept postulated by Kumaraswamy (2011) and Kumaraswamy et al. (2012); discover ways to enable PM and AM teams to work in an integrated manner; and recommend strategies and operational measures to promote greater team integration in the industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based in Hong Kong with parallel studies in the UK, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Through a comprehensive questionnaire, a case study on an organization engaged in both design and construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) works, interviews and hosting a workshop (all conducted with experienced industry practitioners and experts), a set of recommendations are derived to guide the industry toward greater team integration. Findings – Early involvement of O&M staff is important for better anticipating obstacles and learning from past experiences, but PM and AM teams generally work independently with limited interaction. Priorities of the stakeholders are often different. Knowledge management is increasingly important, but knowledge sharing is not always a priority. The three focus areas in the set of recommendations developed from Hong Kong are: organizational/management structure, procurement strategies and operational mechanisms; fostering culture of team building and providing additional means of communication; and informal communication tools. Originality/value – There has been little research into the communication, interaction and integration between PM and AM priorities and teams. However, increasing industry emphasis on sustainable buildings, end-user satisfaction and designing for maintainability dictates that PM and AM teams must work closer together, hence the imperative for mapping useful directions to be pursued.
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Gadola, M., and D. Chindamo. "Experiential learning in engineering education: The role of student design competitions and a case study." International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education 47, no. 1 (December 25, 2017): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306419017749580.
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Student competitions can play an important role in education: they promote interest and engagement of the students, as well as of the teachers. In the case of engineering, one of the most challenging contests in Europe is the Motostudent event, joined by the University of Brescia (UniBS) in 2016 for the first time. It is a typical implementation of Kolb’s theory of experiential learning, where engineering theory and application meet in an intensive, ‘hands-on’ team work experience, resulting in a very effective learning process that involves the so-called soft skills as well. The paper aims at briefly reviewing the scope of competitions like the Formula SAE and sharing the authors’ experience in a similar event, the Motostudent contest.
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Harvey, Juliet, and Heather Cameron. "Evaluating the co-production of active ward principles in an inpatient setting: staff developments from using person-centred practice developmen." International Practice Development Journal 11, no. 1 (May 19, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.19043/ipdj.111.008.
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Background: In the acute hospital environment deconditioning is a major risk factor, with around 90% of the day spent sitting or lying down. A physiotherapy and occupational therapy Active Wards Special Interest Group was formed to provide peer support and act as a platform for sharing resources and ideas to increase opportunities for physical activity in the inpatient setting. Drawing on the nine principles of Practice Development, a person-centred, participatory approach was adopted. These values promote time and space for the team to grow and develop together, accounting for best evidence, personal and professional experience. The group co-produced a toolbox of resources, active wards principles and formed a group of experts to help others. Aim: To evaluate the experience of staff engaging in this work with the objective of learning from the experience and make recommendations for replication and continuation of the improvement process. Methods: Members of the special interest group and their team leads were invited to complete an online self-reporting questionnaire defining their experiences of participating in the group. Results: Engaging clinicians in improvement through person-centred practice development processes delivers benefits for patients, services and clinicians. Key findings for staff development were identified as significantly improved (response rate of 78%) through i) active learning principles used for meetings, ii) effective and diverse communication strategies, and iii) group cohesion by engaging in a practice-based initiative. Group members and team leads observed personal, professional and service development. Participants made new connections, had a sense of a common vision and felt part of a collaborative process where ideas and feedback were shared. Where changes in patient activity levels had been observed, at least two-thirds of teams attributed this to having a team member in the group. Conclusions and implications for practice: Clinicians require adequate time, space and support to achieve improvements When engaged with active learning and participatory approaches, clinicians make better use of meetings to develop and form principles of practice relevant to their clinical context and patient groups Engaging in person-centred practice development processes enables clinicians to develop transferable skills Practice development methods can be readily replicated for initiating and engaging clinicians in other practice-driven development projects
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Küçük, Duygu Piji, and Bülent Halvaşi. "Team Perceptions of Choir Members." Journal of Education and Training Studies 7, no. 3 (February 26, 2019): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v7i3.4043.
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The success of a choir depends on the integrity, concentration and team logic to be formed within the group under the leadership of the choir conductor. Some dimensions of team perception are considered to be important for choral success such as knowing the aims of the choir, being aware of each other's talent levels, sharing the feeling of success and failure, having trust and responsibility for the group members and the conductor, being willing to work, feeling happy and proud for being a member of the choir. In this study, it is aimed to determine the level of team perception of choir members. In addition, it has been tried to determine whether the team perceptions of choir members have made a difference according to the variables of gender, age, type of graduated school and choir experience. The research group consisted of 246 choir members who are members of Marmara University Polyphonic Choir, MEF University Choir, TRT Istanbul Youth Choir, Kocaeli University Fine Arts Faculty Music Department Choir, Croatia Mato Bucar Choir and Bosnia and Herzegovina Bugojno Choir. The data of the study were collected with Chorus Team Perception Scale and personal information form, consisting of 34 items and 5 sub-dimensions. As a result of the research, it was found that the choir members generally had a high level of team perception. The average score of the choir members in sub-dimensions of the team spirit, chorus and conductor relationship, negative emotions, responsibility and effort, emotional support and collaboration, revealed a high level of team perception. According to the gender variable, a high level of difference was found in favour of female choir members among the total scores of the team members of the choir. It was found that choir members aged 22 years and older had higher choir team perception than choir members in the 14-17 and 18-21 age groups. There was no significant difference between the total score of the team perception and the sub-dimension scores of the choir members according to the type of school they graduated and the choir experience variables.
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Peranzoni, Vaneza Cauduro, Alieze Nascimento da Silva, Carine Nascimento da Silva, and Luana Possamai Menezes. "Center Rondon project and university extension: sharing and knowledge production." International Journal of Innovation Education and Research 7, no. 4 (April 30, 2019): 387–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss4.1420.
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This work explores the experience of team participation the University of Cruz Alta Cruz Alta Rio Grande do Sul, Rondon Project. With goal to integrate the student to reality Brazil, and develop political, economic, and health care activities education for the poor, in January 2012, teachers and students visited the city of Aguiarnópolis, state of Tocantins in Brazil. The project is the intellectual effort of research and understanding of the process history, involving the saga of Brazilian Cândido Mariano Rondon and his legacy to the formation of anthropologists. This study proposes a reflection on Rondon Project while the university democratization of space public, considering it essential to approach institution with society. The Rondon Project is an extension activity that aims to consolidate the sense of social responsibility in university, knowledge on different Brazilian realities and production local collective projects. It is intended, finally, contribute through this study to highlight the importance of alliance between scientific knowledge and empirical in everyone's life citizens, and the contribution of the Rondon Project to provide this exchange of knowledge between students and underserved communities.
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Hanashima, Makoto, Ryota Sato, and Yuichiro Usuda. "The Standardized Disaster-Information Products for Disaster Management: Concept and Formulation." Journal of Disaster Research 12, no. 5 (September 27, 2017): 1015–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2017.p1015.
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The purpose of this paper is to consider the essential concept by which to formulate standardized information that supports effective disaster response. From the experiences of past disasters, we have learned that disaster response organizations could not work effectively without information sharing. In the context of disaster response, the purpose of “information sharing” is to ensure common recognition of the disaster situation being confronted. During the Kumamoto earthquake, we provided a set of disaster information products to disaster response organizations to support their relief activities. Based on the real disaster response experience, we extracted issues of information sharing between various organizations. To resolve these issues, we discuss the concept of information sharing first, and then consider the quality of information that supports disaster response activities by referring to the information needs of emergency support organizations such as the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). We also analyze the Basic Disaster Management Plan published by the Central Disaster Management Council and extract a common disaster-information set for governmental organizations. As a result, we define the “Standard Disaster-information Set” (SDS) that covers most disaster response information needs. Based on the SDS, we formulate intermediate information products for disaster response that provide consistent information of best-effort quality, named the “Standardized Disaster-information Products” (SDIP). By utilizing the SDIP, disaster response organizations are able to consolidate the common recognition of disaster situations without consideration of data availability, update timing, reliability, and so on.
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Willems, Laurent M., Natalia Kurka, Ferdinand Bohmann, Peter Rostek, and Waltraud Pfeilschifter. "Tools for your stroke team: adapting crew-resource management for acute stroke care." Practical Neurology 19, no. 1 (August 10, 2018): 36–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-001966.
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Crew-resource management is an approach to work and training that focuses on non-technical skills and strategies to prevent human error in complex procedures. It was initially termed ‘cockpit-resource management’ and developed for aviation in the 1970s after several severe accidents; it has contributed to a measurable increase in flight safety. In recent years, this approach has been successfully implemented in other high-reliability environments; surgical disciplines have made particular use of crew-resource management strategies and training, with resulting reduced mortality rates. The stepwise implementation of different crew-resource management strategies in stroke care at our tertiary stroke centre has helped to speed up process times significantly, and to improve patient safety and staff satisfaction. Here, we summarise our experience in adapting different crew-resource management tools to acute stroke care, sharing specific tools that have proven valuable in our hands, and we encourage colleagues to implement such strategies in acute stroke care.
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Gabrilove, Janice Lynn, Peter Backeris, Louise Lammers, Anthony Costa, Layla Fattah, Caroline Eden, Jason Rogers, and Kevin Costa. "2527 Mount Sinai health hackathon: Harnessing the power of collaboration to advance experiential team science education." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2, S1 (June 2018): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2018.218.
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Innovation in healthcare is increasingly dependent on technology and teamwork, requiring effective collaboration between disciplines. Through an intensive team-based competition event, Mount Sinai Health Hackathon 2017, aimed to harness the power of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration to foster innovation in the field of cancer. Participants were immersed in an intensive weekend working in teams to develop technology solutions to important problems affecting patients and care providers in the field of cancer. The learning objectives were to enable participants to: Identify cancer-related healthcare problems which lend themselves to technology-based solutions. Delineate key behaviors critical to multidisciplinary team success Identify optimal strategies for communicating in multidisciplinary teams. Engage and inspire participants to apply knowledge of technology to meaningfully impact clinical care and well-being. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The Mount Sinai Health Hackathon is an annual 48-hour team-based competition, using a format adapted from guidelines provided by MIT Hacking Medicine. The 2017 event gathered a total of 87 participants (120 registered), representing 17 organizations from as far away as California, with a diverse range of backgrounds in bioinformatics, software and hardware, product design, business, digital health and clinical practice. The overall participation model included: Phase 0: Health Hackathon 101 summer workshops; Phase 1: pre-Hackathon priming activities using online forums Trello and Slack; Phase 2: a 48-hour onsite hackathon to catalyze innovation through problem sharing, solution pitches, team formation and development of prototype solutions; Phase 3: competitive presentations to judges and prize awards; Phase 4: a suite of post-hackathon support to stimulate continued development of innovations. The event sponsored by ConduITS, was also co-sponsored by Persistent Systems, IBM Watson, Tisch Cancer Institute, Sinai AppLab, Sinai Biodesign and other ISMMS Institutes. Mentors circulated throughout the event to support the teams in the technical, clinical, and business development aspects of their solutions. In total, the 14 teams formed during the Hackathon, created innovations ranging from diagnostic devices, networking apps, artificial intelligence tools, and others. The top 3 teams were each awarded $2500 to support their projects’ future development. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Qualitative and quantitative post-event survey data revealed the Hackathon experience fostered collaborative attitudes and a positive experience for participants, providing insight into the potential benefits of team science. In the post-event survey (n=24) 92% of participants reported that the experience increased their ability to solve problems and 96% made new professional or personal connections. In addition, 96% of respondents would attend future Hackathon events and 75% reported they were likely to continue working on their project after the Hackathon. Qualitative feedback from 1 participant reported it was: “a wonderful event that really highlighted how much interdisciplinary team science can achieve.” Along with intermediate support interactions, including the winning teams participating in a Shark Tank style event with pitches to external entrepreneurs and investors, all teams will be followed up in 6 months time to determine if participants continue to work on projects, file new patents, create new companies, or leverage the new connections made through the Health Hackathon experience. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Our experience indicates that a Health Hackathon is a compelling and productive forum to bring together students, trainees, faculty, and other stakeholders to explore tech-based solutions to problems in cancer and other areas of biomedicine. It is a valuable tool to foster collaboration and transdisciplinary team science and education. Follow-up analysis will determine to what extent the Mount Sinai Health Hackathon is contributing to an ecosystem that encourages professionals and trainees in healthcare and in technology development to work together to address unmet needs in healthcare with innovative technology solutions.
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Arts, Julie, Angela Baldini, Marian Goodman, Arawana Hayashi, Beth Jandernoa, and Otto Scharmer. "Exploring the Origins of Practice: In Dialogue with Founding Faculty of the Presencing Institute." Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change 1, no. 1 (February 25, 2021): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.47061/jabsc.v1i1.675.
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In September 2020, Julie Arts and Angela Baldini, core team members of the Presencing Institute, brought together four of the founding faculty for a conversation on the origins of some of the institute’s key tools and practices. They sought to articulate the roots of the organization’s work by inquiring into the history of its practices with the people who brought them into being through their experimentation. The group shared how these tools came into being and evolved, and also ‘what the work asked of them’ – touching into the inner experience of holding these practices. What unfolded was a dialogue on the deeper dimensions of practice underlying not only these tools, but the field of awareness-based systems change as a whole. In the end there was a sense that the conversation went to the heart of what the work is really about – and that it is a conversation worth sharing.
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Aplanalp, Benjamin. "RLG field conversation-card program: improving safety leadership at the frontline." APPEA Journal 53, no. 2 (2013): 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj12103.
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After a safety incident at RGL International's client's facility in 2012, the leadership team asked: how do we as leaders in a safety-centric industry interact with frontline workgroups to ensure incident-free operations? How often are we doing this? Where in our facility are we doing this? In response to these questions, the team developed the Field Conversation Card program, which employs simple pocket-sized cards and a visual map of the plant. Data from the cards is recorded daily when supervisors and managers engage workgroups in the field, then overlaid onto a map (aerial view) of the plant. The product is a visual depiction of field safety conversations on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Each morning the map is assessed and the previous day's conversations highlighted to identify key observations, risks, or trends worthy of discussion or action. Field conversations often uncover safety risks and improvement opportunities. They also serve to showcase positive behaviors and successful risk mitigation by frontline workgroups. These positive observations lead to formal recognition and sharing of best practices. The Field Conversation Card program has motivated supervisors more than ever to engage their teams at the frontline. Site leaders now have a better understanding of where and how often these conversations take place. Leaders also have a renewed sense of urgency regarding worker engagement. Each day the management team is sharing relevant, important experiences that come from these simple, but critical field interactions. The result is a work environment where safety leadership is highly visible and quick to respond to ever-changing needs at the frontline.
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Gannon, Julia. "Holding and Sharing Memories: The Significance of Social Work Recording for Birth Record Counselling." Adoption & Fostering 29, no. 4 (December 2005): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590502900408.
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Julia Gannon explores the findings of a study into the recording style and content of adoption files and the influences of these on the birth record counsellor's decision-making process. Her article focuses on the specific information shared or not shared with the adopted adult. It asserts that birth record counselling is one of the few tasks that propel the social worker back into the history of social work practice while simultaneously supporting service users through their search for information about their birth history and adoption. There is an emphasis on assessing how serviceable the recording style and content of adoption files are for adoptees. The research design involved semi-structured interviews with eight social workers currently holding birth record counselling cases. Four of the respondents were employed in local authority adoption teams and four were independent self-employed social workers in the field of adoption. The author's findings suggest that the knowledge birth record counsellors' gain from adoptees about how they experience their files has potential for practical application to social work practice in children and families teams today.
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CHANG, WEN-CHIH, and ZUN-HWA CHIANG. "A STUDY ON HOW TO ELEVATE ORGANISATIONAL CREATIVITY IN TAIWANESE DESIGN ORGANISATION." International Journal of Innovation Management 12, no. 04 (December 2008): 699–723. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919608002151.
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This research focuses on exploring which factors influence organisational creativity the most, and what actions are the most effective to enhance organisational creativity of design companies and departments in Taiwan. The survey showed that the most influential five factors to organisational creativity were in the order of design environment, team climate, group/organisation culture, design process and motive of work. The survey also showed that the most effective ways of improving organisational creativity were in the order of effective knowledge/experience sharing among colleagues, cultivating the designers' world view, accumulations of team design experiences, visiting domestic and foreign design exhibitions and diversified design work experiences. After the data from the questionnaire were further analysed by t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheffé post hoc multiple comparisons, the study also showed that the most effective ways of improving organisational creativity were in the significant difference between the design company and design department. Furthermore, in terms of demographic variables of gender, employees' education, professional training, age and working experiences, the study result also implied that the most effective ways of improving organisational creativity could be different under different situations. With follow-up interview, we also found that due to the differences of business conditions, interviewees also had different perspectives referring to the definitions of good ideas. It drew various degrees of attentions when valuating creativity and improving it in the organisation. Thus, in order to get an effective creative performance, while facing different layout strategies and environments, administrators must adjust these measures to fit into their own need according to the conditions or restrictions of the organisations.
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Slade, Mike. "Management of a High-Performing Mental Health Recovery Research Group." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 8 (April 11, 2021): 4007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084007.
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A personal perspective is given on the processes involved in managing and sustaining a high-performing mental health recovery research group. The broader context of scholarship in the United Kingdom is outlined, in which academic productivity is commodified specifically in relation to peer-reviewed journal papers. Four leadership choices in developing a high-performing research group are discussed: optimal group size; sharing the workload; maintaining a programmatic focus; and performance expectations. Approaches to maximising innovation are identified, including emotional and intellectual engagement of team members, working with diverse stakeholders and convening communities of practice. We use a highly managed approach to publications from inception to acceptance, which is described in detail. The use of these approaches is illustrated in relation to the Recovery Research Team which was formed in 2009. Specific recovery-related issues covered include demonstrating the ability to develop a significant recovery research portfolio (our four current large [>UK£2 m] studies relate to recovery narratives, global mental health peer support work, digital interventions and Recovery Colleges); the positive implications of actively recruiting researchers with mental health lived experience; how performance issues are managed; our approach to involving lived experience co-authors in papers; and our decision to conduct mixed-methods rather than solely qualitative studies.
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Thieurmel, Benoit, and Martin Masson. "Development of an application for accessing and analyzing RDPLF data." Bulletin de la Dialyse à Domicile 3, no. 3 (August 21, 2020): 155–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.25796/bdd.v3i3.57943.
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The collection of information in the database of a medical registry finds its first interest in the possibility for a doctor and a care team to analyze their results and to compare themselves with other teams for the purpose of sharing experience and knowledge. Since 1986, the French Language Peritoneal Dialysis Registry (RDPLF) has collected data from 45,000 patients with renal failure treated at home in French-speaking countries. A partnership has been created between the RDPLF and Datastorm (https://www.datastorm.fr), the expertise and consultancy subsidiary of the ENSAE-ENSAI Group (National Schools of Economics and Statistics) in order to develop an application that allows to carry out simple statistical queries on the RDPLF database, by means of a user-friendly WEB interface. Thus, any doctor or member of the healthcare team can evaluate, without any special statistical skills, results by region and by French-speaking country. Special access also allows any center to compare its own results with those of a reference region. The generated graphics can be used for presentations during team meetings or for work. The application is based on the R software (https://www.r-project.org) and its SHINY visualization interface (https://shiny.rstudio.com). We report on development modalities and its functionalities (based on preselected criteria: incidence rate, prevalence, survival, infection rate, distribution of treatments, nursing aspects). This article describes how both nurses and doctors can easily realize studies with the application. Its bilingual interface also opens it up to English-speaking communities and thus facilitates international communication.
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Lukey, Rebecca, Ben Gray, and Caroline Morris. "‘We’re just seen as people that give out the methadone…’: exploring the role of community pharmacists in the opioid substitution treatment team." Journal of Primary Health Care 12, no. 4 (2020): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc20108.
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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTIONPeople receiving opioid substitution treatment are a vulnerable population who experience significant health inequities and stigma, but have regular interactions with community pharmacists. Many pharmacists now work collaboratively with other health providers to ensure effective and safe use of medicines, as well as being involved in the prevention and management of chronic health conditions. AIMTo explore the role of New Zealand community pharmacists in the provision of opioid substitution treatment and how they perceive their role as part of the wider opioid substitution treatment team. METHODSSemi-structured video interviews with a purposive sample of 13 diverse pharmacists explored their current practices in providing opioid substitution treatment, and their perceived role in the treatment team. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were coded and analysed using an inductive thematic approach. RESULTSThis study found that pharmacists are providing accessible support to a population with known barriers to accessing health care. However, participants also identified challenges with communication and a perceived lack of understanding of the pharmacist role as barriers to collaboration with the wider opioid substitution treatment team. DISCUSSIONCollaboration within health-care teams has been shown to improve health outcomes, and pharmacists are well placed to provide health-care services as well as offer valuable insight into clients’ mental and physical wellbeing. Improved communication channels that facilitate information sharing, as well as the opioid substitution treatment team’s recognition of a pharmacist’s role, may facilitate collaboration and, in turn, improve the quality of health care provided to this vulnerable population.
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Ghiron, Laura, Eric Ramirez-Ferrero, Rita Badiani, Regina Benevides, Alexis Ntabona, Peter Fajans, and Ruth Simmons. "Promoting Scale-Up Across a Global Project Platform: Lessons from the Evidence to Action Project." Global Implementation Research and Applications 1, no. 2 (May 18, 2021): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43477-021-00013-4.
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AbstractThe USAID-funded flagship family planning service delivery project named Evidence to Action (E2A) worked from 2011 to 2021 to improve family planning and reproductive health for women and girls across seventeen nations in sub-Saharan Africa using a “scaling-up mindset.” The paper discusses three key lessons emerging from the project’s experience with applying ExpandNet’s systematic approach to scale up. The methodology uses ExpandNet/WHO’s scaling-up framework and guidance tools to design and implement pilot or demonstration projects in ways that look ahead to their future scale-up; develop a scaling-up strategy with local stakeholders; and then strategically manage the scaling-up process. The paper describes how a scaling-up mindset was engendered, first within the project’s technical team in Washington and then how they subsequently sought to build capacity at the country level to support scale-up work throughout E2A’s portfolio of activities. The project worked with local multi-stakeholder resource teams, often led by government officials, to equip them to lead the scale-up of family planning and health system strengthening interventions. Examples from project experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda illustrating key concepts are discussed. E2A also established a community of practice on systematic approaches to scale up as a platform for sharing learning across a variety of technical agencies engaged in scale-up work and to create learning opportunities for interacting with thought leaders around critical scale-up issues.
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Chesworth, Elaine, Katie Wyart, and Paul Chrisp. "OP33 Adopting Health Technologies: NICE Approach For Evidence Into Action." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 34, S1 (2018): 13–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462318000910.
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Introduction:Evidence and guidance alone do not change practice. A multitude of factors are influential upon whether a particular health technology is adopted in practice. The adoption team at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) engages with healthcare professionals to develop specifically tailored support for the adoption of NICE health technology assessments (NICE medical technologies, diagnostics and technology appraisal guidance).Methods:The NICE adoption team uses a structured process which involves engagement of healthcare professionals with experience or knowledge of the technology to identify the barriers to adoption. This information is used to populate the topic selection tool which presents the impact of adopting the technology under five headings: care pathway change; finance; difficulty to implement; education; and, patient acceptance. The result indicates which guidance would benefit from adoption support: plan and develop tailored solutions to address barriers to adoption which include a resource impact assessment and targeted communications; quality assure; and, publish tailored resources.Results:Examples of tailored outputs include: adoption resources sharing real world experiences of sites that have adopted the technology; and, NICE pilot projects, where the adoption team work closely with sites to support adoption of the technology at a local level. The team then share learning and results from the project to facilitate: engagement with national planning groups to coordinate wider scale adoption; resource impact assessments which help local cost impact of adoption to be estimated; engagement with general and specialist media; and, influencing national tariff.Conclusions:NICE's processes have evolved to facilitate the development of a wider variety of more tailored resources, to support adoption of NICE health technology assessments guidance into practice. We will continue to engage with healthcare professionals and be responsive in our processes to ensure the packages of adoption support are tailored to need.
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Yeo, Caroline, Laurie Hare-Duke, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Simon Bradstreet, Felicity Callard, Ada Hui, Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley, et al. "The VOICES Typology of Curatorial Decisions in Narrative Collections of the Lived Experiences of Mental Health Service Use, Recovery, or Madness: Qualitative Study." JMIR Mental Health 7, no. 9 (September 18, 2020): e16290. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16290.
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Background Collections of lived experience narratives are increasingly used in health research and medical practice. However, there is limited research with respect to the decision-making processes involved in curating narrative collections and the work that curators do as they build and publish collections. Objective This study aims to develop a typology of curatorial decisions involved in curating narrative collections presenting lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness and to document approaches selected by curators in relation to identified curatorial decisions. Methods A preliminary typology was developed by synthesizing the results of a systematic review with insights gained through an iterative consultation with an experienced curator of multiple recovery narrative collections. The preliminary typology informed the topic guide for semistructured interviews with a maximum variation sample of 30 curators from 7 different countries. All participants had the experience of curating narrative collections of the lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness. A multidisciplinary team conducted thematic analysis through constant comparison. Results The final typology identified 6 themes, collectively referred to as VOICES, which stands for values and motivations, organization, inclusion and exclusion, control and collaboration, ethics and legal, and safety and well-being. A total of 26 subthemes related to curation decisions were identified. Conclusions The VOICES typology identifies the key decisions to consider when curating narrative collections about the lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness. It might be used as a theoretical basis for a good practice resource to support curators in their efforts to balance the challenges and sometimes conflicting imperatives involved in collecting, organizing, and sharing narratives. Future research might seek to document the use of such a tool by curators and hence examine how best to use VOICES to support decision making.
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Martin, Nicola, Damian Elgin Maclean Milton, Joanna Krupa, Sally Brett, Kim Bulman, Danielle Callow, Fiona Copeland, et al. "The sensory school: working with teachers, parents and pupils to create good sensory conditions." Advances in Autism 5, no. 2 (March 21, 2019): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aia-09-2018-0034.
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Purpose An alliance of schools and researchers formed a collaborative community of practice in order to understand and improve the sensory school environment for pupils on the autistic spectrum, and incorporate the findings into school improvement planning. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Representatives of special and mainstream schools in South London and a team of researchers formed the project team, including an autistic researcher. The researchers and a named staff member from each of the schools met regularly over the course of 18 months in order to work on an iterative process to improve the sensory experience pupils had of the school environment. Each school completed sensory audits and observations, and was visited by members of the research team. Parents were involved via meetings with the research team and two conferences were organised to share findings. Findings Useful outcomes included: developing and sharing of good practice between schools; opportunities for parents of autistic pupils to discuss their concerns, particularly with someone with insider perspective; and exploration of creative ways to achieve pupil involvement and the idea that good autism practice has the potential to benefit all pupils. A resource pack was produced for the schools to access. Plans are in place to revisit the initiative in 12 months’ time in order to ascertain whether there have been long-term benefits. Originality/value Projects building communities of practice involving autistic people as core team members are rare, yet feedback from those involved in the project showed this to be a key aspect of shared learning.
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Jin, Ruoyu, Tong Yang, Poorang Piroozfar, Byung-Gyoo Kang, Dariusz Wanatowski, Craig Matthew Hancock, and Llewellyn Tang. "Project-based pedagogy in interdisciplinary building design adopting BIM." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 25, no. 10 (November 19, 2018): 1376–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-07-2017-0119.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a pedagogical practice in the project-based assessment of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) students’ interdisciplinary building design work adopting BIM. This pedagogical practice emphasizes the impacts of BIM, as the digital collaboration platform, on the cross-disciplinary teamwork design through information sharing. This study also focuses on collecting students’ perceptions of building information modeling (BIM) effects in integrated project design. Challenges in BIM adoption from AEC students’ perspective were identified and discussed, and could spark further research needs. Design/methodology/approach Based on a thorough review of previous pedagogical practices of applying BIM in multiple AEC disciplines, this study adopted a case study of the Solar Decathlon (SD) residential building design as the group project for AEC students to deliver the design work and construction planning. In total 13 different teams within the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, each group consisting of final year undergraduate students with backgrounds in architecture, civil engineering, and architectural environmental engineering, worked to deliver the detailed design of the solar-powered residential house meeting pre-specified project objectives in terms of architectural esthetics, structural integrity, energy efficiency, prefabrication construction techniques and other issues such as budget and scheduling. Each team presented the cross-disciplinary design plan with cost estimate and construction scheduling together within group reports. This pedagogical study collected students’ reflective thinking on how BIM affected their design work, and compared their feedback on BIM to that from AEC industry professionals in previous studies. Findings The case study of the SD building project showed the capacity of BIM in enabling interdisciplinary collaboration through information exchange and in enhancing communication across different AEC fields. More sustainable design options were considered in the early architectural design stages through the cross-disciplinary cooperation between architecture and building services engineering. BIM motivated AEC student teams to have a more comprehensive design and construction plan by considering multiple criteria including energy efficiency, budget, and construction activities. Students’ reflections indicated both positive effects of BIM (e.g. facilitating information sharing) as well as challenges for further BIM implementation, for example, such as some architecture students’ resistance to BIM, and the lack of existing family types in the BIM library, etc. Research limitations/implications Some limitations of the current BIM pedagogy were identified through the student group work. For example, students revealed the problem of interoperability between BIM (i.e. Autodesk Revit) and building energy simulation tools. To further integrate the university education and AEC industry practice, future BIM pedagogical work could recruit professionals and project stakeholders in the adopted case studies, for the purpose of providing professional advice on improving the constructability of the BIM-based design from student work. Practical implications To further integrate the university education and AEC industry practice, future BIM pedagogical work could recruit professionals and project stakeholders in the adopted case study, for the purpose of providing professional advice in improving the constructability of the BIM-based design from student work. Originality/value This work provides insights into the information technology applied in the AEC interdisciplinary pedagogy. Students gained the experience of a project-based collaboration and were equipped with BIM capabilities for future employment within the AEC job market. The integrated design approach was embedded throughout the team project process. Overall, this BIM pedagogical practice emphasized the link between academic activities and real-world industrial practice. The pedagogical experience gained in this BIM course could be expanded to future BIM education and research in other themes such as interoperability of building information exchange among different digital tools.
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Mallinson, Trudy, Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano, Lisa S. Schwartz, Jeremy Furniss, Tommy Leblanc-Beaudoin, Danielle Lazar, and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski. "Pilot analysis of the Motivation Assessment for Team Readiness, Integration, and Collaboration (MATRICx) using Rasch analysis." Journal of Investigative Medicine 64, no. 7 (July 7, 2016): 1186–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jim-2016-000173.
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Healthcare services and the production of healthcare knowledge are increasingly dependent on highly functioning, multidisciplinary teams, requiring greater awareness of individuals’ readiness to collaborate in translational science teams. Yet, there is no comprehensive tool of individual motivations and threats to collaboration that can guide preparation of individuals for work on well-functioning teams. This prospective pilot study evaluated the preliminary psychometric properties of the Motivation Assessment for Team Readiness, Integration, and Collaboration (MATRICx). We examined 55 items of the MATRICx in a sample of 125 faculty, students and researchers, using contemporary psychometric methods (Rasch analysis). We found that the motivator and threat items formed separate constructs relative to collaboration readiness. Further, respondents who identified themselves as inexperienced at working on collaborative projects defined the motivation construct differently from experienced respondents. These results are consistent with differences in strategic alliances described in the literature—for example, inexperienced respondents reflected features of cooperation and coordination, such as concern with sharing information and compatibility of goals. In contrast, the more experienced respondents were concerned with issues that reflected a collective purpose, more typical of collaborative alliances. While these different types of alliances are usually described as representing varying aspects along a continuum, our findings suggest that collaboration might be better thought of as a qualitatively different state than cooperation or coordination. These results need to be replicated in larger samples, but the findings have implications for the development and design of educational interventions that aim to ready scientists and clinicians for greater interdisciplinary work.
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Wine, Osnat, Jude Spiers, Michael van Manen, Katharina Kovacs Burns, and Alvaro Osornio Vargas. "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, CAPACITY BUILDING AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION DEVELOPMENT FOR RESEARCH ON ADVERSE BIRTH OUTCOMES AND THE ENVIRONMENT." Paediatrics & Child Health 23, suppl_1 (May 18, 2018): e39-e39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxy054.102.
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Abstract BACKGROUND The DoMiNO (Data mining & Neonatal outcomes) project explores the relationship between the environment and adverse birth outcomes. The project applies Integrated Knowledge Translation; a collaborative approach that builds on the participation, expertise and perspectives of interdisciplinary researchers, clinicians and knowledge-users, to ground and enhance the depth and breadth of research and to facilitate knowledge translation. Understanding the components that impact team building processes can contribute to supporting collaborative efforts. OBJECTIVES Based on the DoMiNO project we present major components that contributed to building team capacity for knowledge creation and the development of a knowledge translation plan. DESIGN/METHODS We use this project’s Integrated Knowledge Translation process as a case study in a qualitative evaluation of the ongoing research collaboration (experience and learnings) following team engagement in the research process (e.g., meetings, informal interactions). Participants included all 24 DoMiNO team members. Data were collected through interviews, focus groups, surveys and participant observations, all adding to the cumulative understanding of the collaborative research process and the knowledge translation plan evolution. All data were coded and analyzed using thematic analysis procedures. RESULTS Findings highlight the interrelated components of building capacity to support the research progress, co-production and knowledge translation plan development. These components include commitment, work etiquette, balancing perspectives, power and ownership, as well as communication, transparency, learning/ sharing knowledge and alignment. These contribute to building relationships, trust and capacity. Once those were established and research deliverables were clearer, the main messages and attainable knowledge translation goals were identified. The knowledge translation Several components contribute to capacity building and the development of the KT plan. In this complex context, it is an ongoing iterative process that evolves through time, as the team works and builds capacity. Identifying and supporting the essential components of team development could optimize capacity building. plan was then articulated to identify potential users, audiences, and strategies. CONCLUSION Several components contribute to capacity building and the development of the KT plan. In this complex context, it is an ongoing iterative process that evolves through time, as the team works and builds capacity. Identifying and supporting the essential components of team development could optimize capacity building.
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Irás, Krisztina, and José Jesús Reyes Nuñez. "Work in Team – Improve your GIS Skills. Effectiveness of project work in teaching GIS for foreign students." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-137-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In 2013, the Hungarian Government opened a scholarship programme called Stipendium Hungaricum for foreign students to study in the Hungarian higher education. Within this scholarship, students coming from non-European Union countries complete full studies at both bachelor and master levels in Hungarian universities. Three years ago, the first international students financed by Stipendium Hungaricum arrived to the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University to study cartography and geoinformatics at master level. Since then the success of the programme constantly encourages students to choose our degree program.</p><p>Teaching GIS for “beginners”, i.e. for those who finished their studies in other areas and are new in our field, is not easy for its multidisciplinary nature. Teaching Z generation might be a challenge for modern issues of generation gap. Teaching international students from very different countries is also not easy because of very different professional backgrounds and exercises, studying habits and language skills, in some cases. Teaching GIS for foreign students is a combination of these aspects and led us to develop new methodological and pedagogical approaches in order to reach success both for students and professors.</p><p>On this poster, we present one of our solutions: the “Geoinformatic and Cartographic Project” work. It is a large, complex practical subject for second year students, which needs all the previous studies of the first year and much of individual work and creativity. Students work driven by professors, but mostly individually. The topic is mapping environmental conditions of Vác, a charming small town at the bank of the Danube, 20&thinsp;km to the North from Budapest.</p><p>Students work in pairs. This is comfortable for sharing the tasks not only in the field work but in the lab work too, while they can also show their individual skills. For completing the task they need to do some theoretical research and they have to get familiar with the tools (noise meter, thermometer, solar radiation device, GPS) and specific software (ArcGIS, Qgis; Global Mapper; graphic software eg. OCAD, Corel Draw; Open Layers, etc.). They have to cope with real life situations during data collecting and have to learn timing their work. The semester ends with an oral presentation of the results with data analysis.</p><p>The project has five phases: <i>Phase 1</i>: Preparation; <i>Phase 2</i>: Research; <i>Phase 3</i>: Field work; <i>Phase 4</i>: Lab work; Phase 5: Analysis and documentation</p><p>Results of the geoinformatic work are a complex environmental database with data on temperature, humidity, solar radiation and noise pollution; a series of thematic maps created from the collected data; and an interactive web site where users can consult the thematic maps and read the analysis of the data.</p><p>For the cartographic part of the project, students also prepare a hard copy touristic map of the town. This task needs touristic data collecting (including research, taking notes and pictures in the field work). The result is an independently edited and designed touristic map in the style of a city map.</p><p>In the poster, we would like to present the step-by-step workflow of the Geoinformatic and Cartographic Project (the phases in detail) with the resulting geodatabases, thematic maps and websites. We believe these are the steps that bring the students to the same level of GI knowledge, that facilitate them to work together in a team, and encourages them to lead sub-tasks, opens their imagination and to figure out their own ideas. A project work like this provides professional experience, strengthens problem-solving skills and gives self-confidence for the future GIS experts.</p></p>
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Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam, Norsabrina Aine Mohamad Sabri, Sheila Belayutham, and Abdul Mahamadu. "Exploring behavioural factors for information sharing in BIM projects in the Malaysian construction industry." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 9, no. 1 (March 4, 2019): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-02-2018-0042.
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Purpose Despite the wave of enthusiasm for building information modelling (BIM) as a platform for information sharing, issues from the context of information-sharing behaviours still exist. The purpose of this paper is to explore the behavioural factors for successful information sharing in BIM projects in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review, a questionnaire was designed containing seven identified behavioural factors and their sub-elements. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey with 42 experienced BIM practitioners. In addition to that qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine construction practitioners in the Malaysian construction industry. Initially, a descriptive statistical analysis was adopted, followed by multivariate analysis that was employed to examine the possible effect of demographic attributes (i.e. nature of organisation and work experience in BIM) on the behavioural factors. Findings The analytical results indicated that communication, accountability and trust were the top three behavioural factors influencing successful information sharing. Additionally, the majority of the behavioural factors on information sharing were found to be not significantly dependent on both, the nature of organisations and the level of BIM experiences. Overall, the success of information sharing in the digital environment (i.e. BIM) depends on organisational behaviour supported by the collaborative constructs. Research limitations/implications Due to the fact that BIM implementation in Malaysia is still in its infancy, this study was limited to local context with small-scale BIM practitioners. Therefore, their views may not represent all BIM-related stakeholders in the industry. Practical implications The success of information sharing in BIM projects is a result of a combination of various factors, and this study provides construction practitioners with information on the behavioural factors, which could assist them in creating collective and collaborative information sharing in a digital environment. Originality/value Despite the fact that this study is country specific, the paper presents a new perspective on the behavioural context of information sharing in BIM projects. The findings further extend the current BIM literature by providing an insight into what it takes for project teams to reinforce their information sharing in the Malaysian digital environment through improvements in behaviours.
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Yaniv, Ziv, Bradley C. Lowekamp, Hans J. Johnson, and Richard Beare. "SimpleITK Image-Analysis Notebooks: a Collaborative Environment for Education and Reproducible Research." Journal of Digital Imaging 31, no. 3 (November 27, 2017): 290–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-017-0037-8.
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Abstract Modern scientific endeavors increasingly require team collaborations to construct and interpret complex computational workflows. This work describes an image-analysis environment that supports the use of computational tools that facilitate reproducible research and support scientists with varying levels of software development skills. The Jupyter notebook web application is the basis of an environment that enables flexible, well-documented, and reproducible workflows via literate programming. Image-analysis software development is made accessible to scientists with varying levels of programming experience via the use of the SimpleITK toolkit, a simplified interface to the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. Additional features of the development environment include user friendly data sharing using online data repositories and a testing framework that facilitates code maintenance. SimpleITK provides a large number of examples illustrating educational and research-oriented image analysis workflows for free download from GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license: github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/SimpleITK-Notebooks.
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Wooldridge, Abigail R., Rod D. Roscoe, Rod D. Roscoe, Shannon C. Roberts, Rupa Valdez, and Abigail R. Wooldridge. "Designing For Diversity: Implications for Research and Practice." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (December 2020): 563–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641128.
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The Diversity Committee of HFES has led sessions at the Annual Meeting for the past three years focused on improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the society as well as providing support to human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) researchers and practitioners who aim to apply HF/E knowledge and principles to improve diversity, equity and inclusion through their work. In this panel, we bring together researchers actively engaged in designing technology and systems by considering issues of diversity, equity and inclusion to share insights and methods. Topics include the thoughtful design of sampling strategies and research approaches, alternative and participatory methods to understand the impact of automation and technology on equity, scoping design problems to be inclusive and equitable through interdisciplinary partnerships, and the application of sociotechnical system design and team science to develop interdisciplinary teams. By sharing our experiences, we hope to prepare others to successfully approach these topics.
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Banagou, Maria, Saša Batistič, Hien Do, and Rob F. Poell. "Relational climates moderate the effect of openness to experience on knowledge hiding: a two-country multi-level study." Journal of Knowledge Management 25, no. 11 (March 24, 2021): 60–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jkm-11-2019-0613.
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Purpose Understanding employee knowledge hiding behavior can serve organizations in better implementing knowledge management practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate how personality and work climate influence knowledge hiding, by examining the respective roles of openness to experience and relational (specifically, communal sharing and market pricing) climates. Design/methodology/approach Multilevel modeling was used with two distinct samples, one from Vietnam with 119 employees in 20 teams and one from The Netherlands with 136 employees in 32 teams. Findings In both samples, the hypothesized direct relationship between openness and knowledge hiding was not found. In the Vietnamese sample, only the moderating effect of market pricing climate was confirmed; in the Dutch sample, only the moderating effect of communal sharing climate was confirmed. The findings of the Vietnamese sample suggest that people with a high sense of openness to experience hide knowledge less under low market pricing climate. In the Dutch sample, people with high openness to experience hide knowledge less under high communal sharing climate. The authors conclude that, in comparison with personality, climate plays a stronger role in predicting knowledge hiding behavior. Research limitations/implications Small sample size and self-reported data might limit the generalizability of this study’s results. Practical implications The paper highlights how organizational context (relational climate) needs to be taken into account in predicting how personality (openness to experience) affects knowledge hiding. Originality/value This paper contributes to a better understanding of the knowledge hiding construct by extending the set of known antecedents and exploring the organizational context in which such phenomena happen.
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Appleby, Joanna, Dr Matthew Shepherd, and Dr Barbara Staniforth. "Speaking the same language: Navigating information-sharing in the youth justice sphere." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 31, no. 1 (April 23, 2019): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol31iss1id537.
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Introduction: Qualitative research was undertaken to explore professionals’ experiences of cross-sector information-sharing about the mental health needs of young people in youth justice residences in Aotearoa New Zealand. Methods: Eight focus groups (N = 36) were conducted across Aotearoa New Zealand. Half of these were with case leaders from each of the four Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children – youth justice residences. The other half were with youth forensic service (YFS) clinicians who provide mental health services in each youth justice residence. Findings: The findings showed positive cross-sector relationships, despite a lack of policy around information-sharing in this context. Themes from case leaders included the practicalities of the residential environment (including restriction on young people’s freedoms and managing group safety), and case leaders’ brokerage role between competing theoretical frameworks in residence. Themes from YFS clinicians included the importance of cross-sector information-sharing for the assessment and discharge phases of mental health input. Overall themes included the impact of relationships on information-sharing, and the importance of including residential care team staff within information-sharing practices. A proposed model of information-sharing in this context has been developed.Conclusions: Effective information-sharing in youth justice residences is imperative to ensure that young people receive appropriate mental health input in residences, and that residence staff are supported to provide the best care for these young people. Social work has an important role within information-sharing practices with use of systems theory, translation of clinical jargon, and advocacy for the needs of young people involved in multiple systems.
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Aczel, Balazs, Marton Kovacs, Tanja van der Lippe, and Barnabas Szaszi. "Researchers working from home: Benefits and challenges." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (March 25, 2021): e0249127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249127.
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The flexibility allowed by the mobilization of technology disintegrated the traditional work-life boundary for most professionals. Whether working from home is the key or impediment to academics’ efficiency and work-life balance became a daunting question for both scientists and their employers. The recent pandemic brought into focus the merits and challenges of working from home on a level of personal experience. Using a convenient sampling, we surveyed 704 academics while working from home and found that the pandemic lockdown decreased the work efficiency for almost half of the researchers but around a quarter of them were more efficient during this time compared to the time before. Based on the gathered personal experience, 70% of the researchers think that in the future they would be similarly or more efficient than before if they could spend more of their work-time at home. They indicated that in the office they are better at sharing thoughts with colleagues, keeping in touch with their team, and collecting data, whereas at home they are better at working on their manuscript, reading the literature, and analyzing their data. Taking well-being also into account, 66% of them would find it ideal to work more from home in the future than they did before the lockdown. These results draw attention to how working from home is becoming a major element of researchers’ life and that we have to learn more about its influencer factors and coping tactics in order to optimize its arrangements.
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Wijedoru, Lalith, Jo Potier, Charlotte Durand, and Nicola Evans. "396 Team Time: an online strategy of storytelling as part of reflective practice to improve staff wellbeing within a paediatric emergency department during the coronavirus pandemic." Emergency Medicine Journal 37, no. 12 (November 23, 2020): 849.2–849. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj-2020-rcemabstracts.49.
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Aims/Objectives/BackgroundTeam Time was developed by the Point of Care Foundation in response to the coronavirus pandemic. It is a 45-minute reflective practice using storytelling. It provides an opportunity for people taking part to share recent experiences of their work in health and social care, focusing on participants’ emotional and social response to their work. Unlike Schwartz Rounds, the audience is restricted in numbers (maximum 30), is drawn from a single department of a healthcare site rather than from across the organisation, is run and facilitated using virtual platforms, and relays stories from the recent (not distant) past.Methods/DesignTwo facilitators already trained in delivering Schwartz Rounds (one PEM consultant from the department plus one Trust clinical psychologist) were given additional specific training for running Team Time in March 2020.Six sessions between April and July 2020 were held. The formats of these sessions were as per guidance set by the Point of Care Foundation (UK).A theme for each session was set in advance, with two storytellers invited and prepared in advance by the two facilitators.Two storytellers related a five minute story each uninterrupted, followed by a facilitated discussion with the audience to share their own experiences and/or resonances to the stories told.Standardised web surveys designed by the Point of Care Foundation designed to collate both quantitative an qualitative feedback were distributed by E-mail to all participants the same day.Results/ConclusionsSurvey respondents n=4085% strongly agreed that Team Time would help them work better with colleagues.90% plan to attend Team Time again.95% would recommend Team Time to colleagues.92.5% felt that the sessions overall were either excellent or exceptional.Qualitative feedback themes included: not feeling alone; the benefits of hearing perspectives of different roles; and the advantages of sharing honest feelings in a boundaried, reflective space.
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Jefferson, Andrew M., and Bethany E. Schmidt. "Concealment and revelation as bureaucratic and ethnographic practice: Lessons from Tunisian prisons." Critique of Anthropology 39, no. 2 (April 26, 2019): 155–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275x19842922.
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Drawing on preparatory work for a study of prison life in Tunisia, this article explores the twin practices of concealing and revealing that are common features of bureaucratic and ethnographic practice. Insights from the anthropology of bureaucracy and secrecy are brought into conversation with the experience of prison ethnographers (seasoned and novice) to illuminate the way prisons as peculiar sites of rule-based domination call for a particular hyper-reflexive methodological approach best understood as ‘craft’. The encounter between research team and prison bureaucracy is documented, and its multi-layered quality illustrated with descriptions of interactions in three prisons and at prison headquarters. This hesitant, slowly unfolding, constrained and contingent negotiation of boundaries is characterised as a gradual sharing of secrets where the configuration of our relationship with gatekeepers – with whom we shared and who shared with us – is highly instructive about prison life, bureaucratic practice and ethnography. The article demonstrates the fundamental role of practices of concealment and revelation in human and institutional interaction.
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Jamie, Joanne F. "Macquarie–Yaegl Partnership: Community Capability Strengthening Through Western and Indigenous Science." Australian Journal of Chemistry 74, no. 1 (2021): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ch20248.
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The rich customary knowledge possessed by Indigenous people from around the world has provided intellectually stimulating academic research opportunities and has been a successful avenue for healthcare and drug discovery as well as commercial native foods, flavours, fragrances, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, and agricultural products. When conducted with benefit sharing and reciprocity as core agenda, such research can provide community capability strengthening and immense rewards for both the Indigenous people and the academic research team involved, as well as benefiting potentially many others. This account shares my experiences as a natural products and medicinal chemistry academic, of working with Australian Aboriginal Elders, most notably from Yaegl Country of northern New South Wales, on investigating their bush medicines. Together we have facilitated the recognition and preservation of Yaegl Country customary knowledge and through initiation of a science leadership program, the National Indigenous Science Education Program, we have promoted educational attainment and STEM engagement in Australian Aboriginal youth. While this account is authored as my own personal statement of the Macquarie–Yaegl partnership, I am indebted to the Yaegl Aboriginal Elders and other Australian Aboriginal people I have worked with, and my university, school and community collaborators, my research team and student volunteers, who have all enabled the outcomes described in this account to be realised, and have made the experience so rewarding. I am also thankful to the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for the recognition of the value of this work through the award of a 2019 Royal Australian Chemical Institute Citation.
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Al Fannah, Jehan, Ismail Al Rashdi, Harith Al Harithy, and Qasem Al Salmi. "The experience of tertiary care public hospital in Oman: Lean performance improvement to enhance universal health coverage." Journal of Hospital Administration 8, no. 5 (September 16, 2019): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jha.v8n5p52.
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Healthcare systems at an organizational level need to equip its people with tools that ensure continuous performance improvement to help sustain Universal Health Coverage (UHC). A large tertiary care public hospital in Oman (Royal Hospital [RH]), is sharing its experience in performance improvement using lean methodology. The RH introduced lean performance improvement to improve the efficiency of its administrative and clinical processes. This remarkable change was a cultural shift as it empowered clinical and non-clinical teams to improve the performance of the hospital operations continuously. Hospital leaders need to create opportunities for sustainable UHC at an organizational level. Introducing lean improvement methods at the hospital level leads to better problem definition and resolution. The people who do the work, need to improve the work, and eliminate waste in the processes as a day to day work style.
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Griffin, Angela, Farah Deeba, Taryn Dennison, and Anna Moore. "Perspectives on neuropsychology and clinical care in paediatric and adolescent medicine." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 25, no. 3 (May 5, 2020): 687–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104520915249.
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As a child and adolescent neuropsychology service based within a paediatric psychology team at a large teaching hospital, we meet children and young people across the age range who experience cognitive impairment as a result of long-term health conditions or traumatic brain injury. We have a remit of providing a neuropsychological assessment and report. Typically, a neuropsychology report includes recommendations for home and for school. However, research suggests that their uptake is variable and depends on the understanding and resources of families and school systems. As a stretched service, we have very limited capacity to follow the work through to the extent that we might like. Therefore, we are always seeking effective ways to support the ongoing adaptation and implementation of the assessment recommendations in the child’s various day-to-day contexts. We address both the cognitive functioning and the psychological well-being of the child as a unified whole. Drawing on systemic ideas influences our communications with children, families, schools and the medical teams in ways which help bridge the gap between hospital-based assessment and everyday life. This article describes how we are integrating our systemic and neurodevelopmental perspectives to make the assessment and the findings a meaningful intervention in themselves. We consider ways of sharing neuropsychology findings which promote the child’s psychological well-being in their different contexts: hospital, home, school, community and culture.
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Camfield, Laura. "Rigor and Ethics in the World of Big-team Qualitative Data: Experiences From Research in International Development." American Behavioral Scientist 63, no. 5 (July 5, 2018): 604–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764218784636.
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In the large international projects where many qualitative researchers work, generating qualitative Big Data, data sharing represents the status quo. This is rarely acknowledged, even though the ethical implications are considerable and span both process and product. I argue that big-team qualitative researchers can strengthen claims to rigor in analysis (the product) by drawing on a growing body of knowledge about how to do credible secondary analysis. Since this necessitates a full account of how the research and the analysis are done (the process), I consider the structural disincentives for providing these. Debates around credibility and rigor are not new to qualitative research in international development, but they intensify when new actors such as program evaluators and quantitative researchers use qualitative methods on a large scale. In this context, I look at the utility of guidelines used by these actors to ensure the quality of qualitative research. I ask whether these offer pragmatic suggestions to improve its quality, recognizing the common and hierarchized separation between the generation and interpretation of data, or conversely, whether they set impossible standards and fail to recognize the differences between and respective strengths of qualitative and quantitative research.
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Adewoyin, Omobola Olufunke, Maria Ehioghae, and Joseph Olubunmi Olorunsaye. "Occupational stress among library personnel in public universities in Nigeria." Library and Information Perspectives and Research 2, no. 1 (January 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/lipr.v2i1.1.
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Occupational stress, which is stress experienced by employees at the workplace, is increasingly becoming a challenge. It is often the case that when employees are confronted with work demands and pressures beyond their knowledge and abilities, stress may be the outcome. Due to their role expectations, paraprofessional and professional librarians are susceptible to occupational stress which could lead to a decreasing commitment to the organization. The study adopted a survey research design to investigate occupational stress among paraprofessional and professional librarians in public universities in South-West, Nigeria. Total enumeration was used to cover all professional and paraprofessional librarians in the study area. Out of the 280 copies of questionnaire administered, 268 (95.7%) were retrieved for analysis. The findings revealed that male library personnel experience more stress in public universities than their female counterpart. Specifically, the precursors to stress among library personnel, with high mean scores, include sourcing of funds for career development (x̅=3.79), the quest for promotion (x̅=3.41), excessive workloads (x̅=3.49), and broken interpersonal relationships with management (x̅=3.09). The study, therefore, recommends equity in the sharing of responsibilities between the male and female genders to partly reduce pressure due to excessive workloads. Also, library personnel should have access to research funds to facility upward mobility in their career. In addition, interpersonal relationship workshops should be regularly conducted for allcadres of staff to promote team spirit.
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Zhang, Ni, Michele Teti, Kellie Stanfield, and Shelly Campo. "Sharing for Health: A Study of Chinese Adolescents’ Experiences and Perspectives on Using Social Network Sites to Share Health Information." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 28, no. 4 (November 25, 2016): 423–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659616680268.
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Purpose: This exploratory qualitative study examines Chinese adolescents’ health information sharing habits on social network sites. Method: Ten focus group meetings with 76 adolescents, ages 12 to 17 years, were conducted at community-based organizations in Chicago’s Chinatown. The research team transcribed the recording and analyzed the transcripts using ATLAS.ti. Results: Chinese adolescents are using different social network sites for various topics of health information including food, physical activity, and so on. Adolescents would share useful and/or interesting health information. Many adolescents raised credibility concerns regarding health information and suggested evaluating the information based on self-experience or intuition, word-of-mouth, or information online. Conclusion: The findings shed lights on future intervention using social network sites to promote health among Chinese adolescents in the United States. Implications for Practice: Future interventions should provide adolescents with interesting and culturally sensitive health information and educate them to critically evaluate health information on social network sites.