309 research outputs found
Public Professionals and Policy implementation
Nowadays, public policies often focus on
economic values, such as efficiency and
financial transparency. Public professionals
often resist implementing such policies. We
analyse this using the concept of ârole
conflictsâ. We use a novel approach by
conceptualizing and measuring role conflicts
on the policy level, thereby linking policy
implementation and social psychology research.
We construct and test scales for
policy-client, policy-professional and organizational-
professional role conflicts. Using
survey data, we show that policy-professional
and policy-client role conflicts negatively
influence the willingness of public professionals
to implement policies. In concluding,
we conceptualized and measured three role
conflic
Interprofessional teamwork in primary care: the effect of functional heterogeneity on performance and the role of leadership
This study aimed to unravel the complexity of interprofessional teamwork in primary care teams by testing the relationship between functional heterogeneity and team performance through the mediating role of information elaboration, and the moderating roles of directive leadership and participative leadership. The moderated mediation model was validated using survey data from 1105 professionals and 97 supervisors in 143 Dutch primary care teams. The results confirmed the model and showed a significant negative effect of functional heterogeneity on information elaboration, which in turn had a positive effect on team performance. Both directive and participative leadership moderated the negative effect of functional heterogeneity on information elaboration to the extent that the indirect negative effect of functional heterogeneity on team performance became insignificant under high levels of either directive or participative leadership. The theoretical implications of these findings for the literature on healthcare, team diversity, and leadership, as well as the practical implications for policy makers, educationalists and managers of primary care teams, are discussed
Whatâs in it for others? The relationship between prosocial motivation and commitment to change among youth care professionals.
This study assesses the relationship between prosocial motivation and commitment to change among youth care professionals. We draw on personâenvironment fit theory to propose that this relationship is conditional on employeesâ perceived meaningfulness of the change for society and clients. Our results confirm the expected positive relationship between prosocial motivation and commitment to change. Our analysis suggests that the moderating relationship between prosocial motivation, client meaningfulness and commitment to change should be understood as a substitutive relationship: both prosocial motivation and client meaningfulness are sufficient conditions, but the presence of both is not a necessary condition for commitment to change.The politics and administration of institutional chang
The Effects of Leadership and Job Autonomy on Vitality: Survey and Experimental Evidence
Vitality refers to the experience of having energy available to oneâs self. Vital employees are full of positive energy when they work, and feel mentally and physically strong. Such employees often show higher job performance and lower stress than their less vital colleagues. Despite the importance of vitality, few public administration studies have studied vitality. More generally, by focusing on vitality, we aim to bring a âpositive psychologyâ perspective into the domain of public administration. We analyze whether two important job characteristics (leaderâs task communication and job autonomy) affect vitality. We use a multi-method design. A large-scale survey (N= 1,502) shows tha
Teamwerk in de wijk: een rapportage over het functioneren van wijkteams in vijf gemeentelijke organisaties 2020-2021
The politics and administration of institutional chang
Towards sustainable local welfare systems
Nowadays, many European countries delegate health and social care responsibilities
from the national level to local authorities. In January 2015, the Netherlands similarly
introduced a policy programme authorising municipalities to set their own social welfare
policy. A specific feature of this programme is that it stimulates municipalities to
implement teams wherein professionals from different disciplines are collectively responsible
for a teamâs decisionâmaking. This suggests that teams ideally have (a) high
levels of functional heterogeneity (professionals from different disciplines) and (b) high
levels of team autonomy (collective responsibility and decisionâmaking). Based on the
policy programme, it can be further assumed that (a) information elaboration, (b)
boundary management and (c) team cohesion in teams will improve. In practice, the
majority (87%) of Dutch municipal
Class Position of Immigrant Workers in a Post-Industrial Economy: The Dutch Case
In this paper, the issue of changing labour-market opportunities and the position of members
of minority groups in advanced service economies is addressed, focusing on the Dutch case.
We distinguish between two social hierarchies, one of traditional âfordistâ occupations and
one of post-fordist occupations. Compared to the native Dutch, all immigrant groups are
over-represented at the bottom of the labour market, both in the fordist and in the postindustrial
hierarchy. Increased immigrant labour-market participation in the 1990s was
accompanied by a strong rise in the number of flexible labour contracts. Native Dutch also
work more frequently on flexible labour contracts, but not to the same extent as immigrants.
The lower occupational level of the Surinamese, Antilleans and other non-Western
immigrants employed in post-industrial occupations can be attributed to their low
educational level. This is not true, however, for Turks, Moroccans and other non-Western
immigrants employed in fordist occupations. Their low occupational level can not be
completely explained by their low educational level. The effects of changes in the economic
structure differ for ethnic groups, depending on their past employment, their cultural capital
and the institutional framework in which they have to operate
âTeamwerk in de wijkâ. Overkoepelende rapportage 2021-2022
The politics and administration of institutional chang
Splicing factors control triple-negative breast cancer cell mitosis through SUN2 interaction and sororin intron retention
BackgroundTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer with limited therapeutic opportunities. Recently, splicing factors have gained attention as potential targets for cancer treatment. Here we systematically evaluated the role of RNA splicing factors in TNBC cell proliferation.MethodsIn this study, we performed an RNAi screen targeting 244 individual splicing factors to systematically evaluate their role in TNBC cell proliferation. For top candidates, mechanistic insight was gained using amongst others western blot, PCR, FACS, molecular imaging and cloning. Pulldown followed by mass spectrometry were used to determine protein-protein interactions and patient-derived RNA sequencing data was used relate splicing factor expression levels to proliferation markers.ResultsWe identified nine splicing factors, including SNRPD2, SNRPD3 and NHP2L1, of which depletion inhibited proliferation in two TNBC cell lines by deregulation of sister chromatid cohesion (SCC) via increased sororin intron 1 retention and down-regulation of SMC1, MAU2 and ESPL1. Protein-protein interaction analysis of SNRPD2, SNRPD3 and NHP2L1 identified that seven out of the nine identified splicing factors belong to the same spliceosome complex including novel component SUN2 that was also critical for efficient sororin splicing. Finally, sororin transcript levels are highly correlated to various proliferation markers in BC patients.ConclusionWe systematically determined splicing factors that control proliferation of breast cancer cells through a mechanism that involves effective sororin splicing and thereby appropriate sister chromatid cohesion. Moreover, we identified SUN2 as an important new spliceosome complex interacting protein that is critical in this process. We anticipate that deregulating sororin levels through targeting of the relevant splicing factors might be a potential strategy to treat TNBC.Cancer Signaling networks and Molecular Therapeutic
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