Employee evaluation of leader-initiated crisis preparation

Crisis prevention plans are usually evaluated based on their effects in terms of preventing or limiting organizational crisis. In this survey-based study, the focus was instead on how such plans influence employees’ reactions in terms of risk perception and well-being. Five different organizations were addressed in the study. Hypothesis 1 tested the assumption that leadership crisis preparation would lead to lower perceived risk among the employees. Hypothesis 2 tested the conjecture that it would also lead to a higher degree of well-being. Both hypotheses were supported. The results and their implications are discussed

Can mindfulness be helpful in team decision-making? A framework for understanding how to mitigate false consensus

Mindfulness has recently attracted a great deal of interest in the field of management. However, even though mindfulness - broadly viewed as a state of active awareness - has been described mainly at the individual level, it may also have important effects at aggregated levels. In this article, we adopt a team-based conceptualization of mindfulness, and develop a framework that represents the powerful effect of team mindfulness on facilitating effective decision-making. We further discuss how a conceptualization of team mindfulness may mitigate the process of false consensus by interacting positively with the following five central team processes: open-mindedness, participation, empowerment, conflict management, and value and ambiguity tolerance. A false consensus constitutes a cognitive bias, leading to the perception of a consensus that does not exist. In essence, we argue that, although a conceptualization of team mindfulness does not guarantee effective decision-making in itself, it may successfully reduce false consensus when coupled with these five team processes. Accordingly, this article contributes to the theory and practice of team decision-making by demonstrating how a conceptualization of team mindfulness can be helpful in the increasingly complex and ambiguous situations faced by contemporary teams

Employee Reactions to Leader-Initiated Crisis Preparation: Core Dimensions

Crisis prevention plans are usually evaluated based on their effects in terms of preventing or limiting organizational crisis. In this survey-based study, the focus was instead on how such plans influence employees’ reactions in terms of risk perception and well-being. Five different organizations were addressed in the study. Hypothesis 1 tested the assumption that leadership crisis preparation would lead to lower perceived risk among the employees. Hypothesis 2 tested the conjecture that it would also lead to a higher degree of well-being. Both hypotheses were supported. The results and their implications are discussed

When Leadership Matters More Than Leaders: Developing a Processual Prespective on Leadership During Organizational Crises

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Hvordan sikre innovasjon ved å samarbeide med en konkurrent? : et ledelsesperspektiv

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Diagnostiserte importerte infeksjonssykdommer ved Infeksjonsmedisinsk avdeling, Oslo universitetssykehus, Ullevål, i 2017, med fokus på reiserelaterte tropiske og seksuelt overførbare infeksjoner og mulighet for forebygging av disse.

Background: Today people travel more than ever putting them at risk of contracting tropical and travel related infectious diseases. The risk of being infected varies with the type of travel and the prophylactic measures taken. Examples of travels include typical tourist travel, backpacking, occupational travel and visiting friends and families in their country of origin. Among men who have sex with men (MSM) there has been an increasing incidence of imported cases of HIV and syphilis in Norway. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify what kind of travel-related tropical and sexually transmitted infections that was diagnosed in the Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Ullevål, Oslo University Hospital, in 2017. Furthermore, we wanted to look at preventive measures of these diseases. Moreover, we wanted to describe the patient characteristics of those infected with the most prevalent infections. Methods: Based on the diagnostic coding system ICD-10 the cases of travel-related infectious diseases at Ullevål in 2017 were identified in the electronical patient file system (DIPS). The choice of diagnoses of tropical infections and sexual transmitted diseases was based on previous reports of imported infections published by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Each case was verified or discarded according to information in patients’ files in DIPS. Results: The most prevalent travel-related infectious diseases at The Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Ullevål, in 2017 were malaria, dengue fever and campylobacteriosis with 13, 10 and 10 registered cases each. Among sexually transmitted diseases HIV and syphilis were most prevalent with 42 and 16 cases, respectively. Quite a few individual cases detected by this method had to be excluded due to discrepancies between the ICD-10 code and the information in the patients’ files. Conclusion: Based on literature and information from patient records we have identified important preventive measures. This includes barrier prophylaxis against insects and chemoprophylaxis for malaria for high-risk groups such as people visiting friends and families in their country of origin. For HIV and syphilis, MSM constitute a high-risk group, and measures aimed directly at these are particularly important including promotion of condom use, pre-exposure prophylaxis, frequent testing, treatment and infection tracking. Many patients were excluded after our review in the electronic patients’ files. This highlights the need for more scrutiny in the registration of diagnostic codes in DIPS and explains the difficulty of correct disease frequency monitoring of infectious diseases

Emosjonsregulering i ledelse på tvers av organisatoriske og nasjonale grenser

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The public sector’s role in Norwegian network cooperation: triple helix or laissezfaire?

The concept of triple helix (TH) cooperation was introduced about two decades ago, as a method of enhancing innovation and value creation. A good networking practice for knowledge-based development should identify the correct balance between business, research and government. The TH model for cooperation embodies an argument for public initiatives in business networks. The purpose of this paper is to test the Public role in TH efforts in Norway. This paper therefore poses the following question: What is the public sector’s role in network development and cooperation in Norway when the initiative is based on the triple helix model? Data from five different business Networks in Norway has been collected and analysed to answer this question. The results indicate that the public engagement in the different networks varied with the life cycle phase of the network and the public sector’s position in the value chain. The balance between the public and private sphere may vary from as little engagement as possible (laissez-faire) to being an equal TH partner

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