Increasing systematic capacity to respond to child and adolescent mental health needs using reciprocal knowledge transfer with parents

Background: Knowledge is recognized as a crucial organizational resource, which it has been suggested, increases in value through use. However, tensions exist between applying generalized scientific and academic knowledge to practice and incorporating local, experiential and tacit understanding in our knowledge base for practice. Knowledge management and transfer are frequently advocated as the means to increase service capacity within existing resource levels. In the NHS knowledge management and transfer tends to adopt a social constructivist approach, which favours the application of scientific evidence to practice, consequently the tacit and experiential knowledge of practitioners and service users is often excluded from formal knowledge-transfer processes. Aim: This paper describes a systematic process that was used to formalize tacit nursing knowledge in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) and link it into the pre-existing scientific and academic literature. Method: The paper goes on to describe how this process was modified and transferred to work with parents of children referred to CAMH services. Findings: The paper illustrates the differing strands of pre-existing scientific and academic knowledge valued by nurses and parents. It highlights how involving service users in identifying scientific and academic knowledge that they find useful can focus attention on strands of pre-existing knowledge previously overlooked by professionals and service providers and thus enhance the value of this knowledge as an organizational resource. The paper also demonstrates how the tacit and experiential knowledge of nurses and services users can be transformed into more formalized knowledge, which can then be incorporated into organizational knowledge-transfer processes

a dynamic model of evolution

El estudio busca proveer evidencia empírica sobre cómo las sedes centrales configuran relaciones y organizan actividades con la red de filiales, así como los mecanismos para crear valor agregado mediante el uso de la estrategia de entrada de la “filial trampolín”. Mediante métodos cualitativos se exploran los determinantes, el desarrollo y la dinámica de la evolución de estas unidades en empresas multinacionales europeas, utilizando a España como filial trampolín para manejar sus operaciones en América Latina. El artículo amplía también la literatura internacional de negocios sobre sedes extra regionales y las ventajas del padrinazgo empresarial dentro de la empresa multinaciona

Technology and restructuring the social field of dairy farming : hybrid capitals, ‘stockmanship’ and automatic milking systems

This paper draws on research exploring robotic and information technologies in livestock agriculture. Using Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) as an example we use the work of Bourdieu to illustrate how technology can be seen as restructuring the practices of dairy farming, the nature of what it is to be a dairy farmer, and the wider field of dairy farming. Approaching technology in this way and by drawing particularly upon the ‘thinking tools’ (Grenfell, 2008) of Pierre Bourdieu, namely field, capital and habitus, the paper critically examines the relevance of Bourdieu’s thought to the study of technology. In the heterogeneous agricultural context of dairy farming, we expand on Bourdieu’s types of capital to define what we have called ‘hybrid’ capital involving human-cow-technology collectives. The concept of hybrid capital expresses how the use of a new technology can shift power relations within the dairy field, affecting human-animal relations and changing the habitus of the stock person. Hybrid capital is produced through a co-investment of stock keepers, cows and technologies, and can become economically and culturally valuable within a rapidly restructuring dairying field when invested in making dairy farming more efficient and changing farmers’ social status and work-life balance. The paper shows how AMS and this emergent hybrid capital is associated with new but contested definitions of what counts as ‘good’ dairy farming practice, and with the emergence of new modes of dairy farmer habitus, within a wider dairy farming field whose contours are being redrawn through the implementation of new robotic and information technologies

IT CHALLENGES IN M&A TRANSACTIONS – THE IT CARVE-OUT VIEW ON DIVESTMENTS

Carve-outs belong to the most disruptive events companies – especially IT departments – are subject to. Yet the impact of these events on the IT alignment of the involved business units is largely unknown. This paper utilizes an alignment model to analyze specific IT-related challenges of divesting a strategic business unit (SBU). Hereby it focuses on the functional alignment between business strategy and IT at SBU level as well as on the organizational alignment between corporate and SBU. Based on five in-depth case studies of carve-outs taken place between 2004 and 2008, IT related challenges could be identified due to interdependent SBU information systems, a lack of IT governance, changing strategic scopes and the inability to preserve competencies. Dynamic capabilities were discovered as possible determinants for carve-out success. Carve-out management teams can utilize the analytical framework to make a SBU carveout ready, to guide IT due diligence and to prioritize IT issues

Potential Added Value of Psychological Capital in Predicting Work Attitudes

Meeting the challenge of effectively managing human resources requires new thinking and approaches. To extend the traditional perspective of economic capital, increasing recognition is being given to human capital and more recently social capital, this article proposes and empirically tests the potential added value that psychological capital may have for employee attitudes of satisfaction and commitment. After first providing the background and theory of PsyCap, this article reports a study of manufacturing employees (N = 74) that found a significant relationship between PsyCap and job satisfaction (r=.373) and organization commitment (r=.313). Importantly, the employees’ PsyCap had a significant added impact over human and social capital on these work attitudes. Future research and practical implications conclude the article

The influence of parents versus peers on Generation Y internet ethical attitudes

We examine the role of parental style versus peer influence on Generation Y's attitudes towards online unethical activities using a survey of a matched parent-child sample. Results suggest that a protective parental style has the greatest impact on Generation Y's online ethical attitudes, while a strict discipline style has no significant influence. Peers are more influential, but not as influential as when there is agreement between parents and their children on a specific activity. Methodologically, the research highlights the necessity to measure family dyads and assess whether or not parents and their children's perceptions are the same

Parent-to-parent support for parents with children who are deaf or hard of hearing: A conceptual framework

Background: Parent-to-parent support for parents with children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) is identified as an important component of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs for children with hearing loss

Developing the scales on evaluation beliefs of student teachers

The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to investigate the validity and the reliability of a newly developed questionnaire named ‘Teacher Evaluation Beliefs’ (TEB). The framework for developing items was provided by the two models. The first model focuses on Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered beliefs about evaluation while the other centers on five dimensions (what/ who/ when/ why/ how). The validity and reliability of the new instrument was investigated using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis study (n=446). Overall results indicate that the two-factor structure is more reasonable than the five-factor one. Further research needs additional items about the latent dimensions “what” ”who” ”when” ”why” “how” for each existing factor based on Student-centered and Teacher-centered approaches