Work from home today for a better tomorrow!: How working from home influences work‐family conflict and employees' start of the next workday

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Social support at work and at home: Dual-buffering effects in the work-family conflict process

Using experience-sampling methodology, the present study offers a within-individual test of the buffering model of social support in the daily work-family conflict process. Building on the conceptualization of social support as a volatile resource, we examine how daily fluctuations in social support at work and at home influence the process through which work interferes with family life. A total of 112 employees participated in the study and were asked to respond to daily surveys in the work and home domains. Results showed that social support at work and at home—as volatile resources—buffered the daily work-family conflict process within their respective domains. First, a supportive supervisor mitigated the within-individual effect of workload on emotional exhaustion. Second, a supportive spouse protected the strained employee from the effect of emotional exhaustion on work-family conflict, and spousal support also moderated the indirect effect from workload to work-family conflict through emotional exhaustion. The findings suggest that enacting a dual social support system can effectively reduce the adverse effects of excessive job demands on exhaustion and work-family conflict, but buffering effects are highly dependent on the timely availability of social support

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Eigen verantwoordelijkheid of bescherming tegen verkeerde keuzes? Een kleine opiniepeiling

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Empirical Legal Studies in het juridisch onderwijs: waar staat Nederland en hoe nu verder?

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Similarity bias in credit decisions for entrepreneurs on the brink of bankruptcy

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Feiten van algemene bekendheid en ervaringsregels – een empirisch vervolg

Feiten van algemene bekendheid en ervaringsregels behoeven geen bewijs. De rechter mag ze ambtshalve aan zijn beslissing ten grondslag leggen. Het is echter de vraag of leken dergelijke feiten ook zo ‘algemeen bekend’ vinden en of zij ervaringsregels net zo evident vinden als de rechter. Eerder onderzoek onder rechtenstudenten toonde aan dat dit lang niet altijd het geval is (NTBR 2010/2). Met een uitgebreider onderzoek onder een breder publiek van ‘echte’ leken wisten wij deze uitkomst in grote lijnen te bevestigen. Uit ons onderzoek volgt bovendien dat persoonskenmerken, zoals leeftijd, opleidingsniveau en inkomen, weinig tot geen effect hebben op iemands oordeel over ervaringsregels en feiten van algemene bekendheid. Wij vinden wel aanwijzingen dat er een verband bestaat tussen dit oordeel en iemands ‘persoonlijke wereldvisie’, in het bijzonder ‘autoritarisme’ en ‘economisch liberalisme’, alhoewel de samenhang niet in alle opzichten eenduidig is.Coherent privaatrech

Hindsight bias and outcome bias in judging directors’ liability and the role of free will beliefs

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Cognitive synergy in groups and group-to-individual transfer of decision-making competencies.

P.L. Curşeu was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS—UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0482. Open Access articleIn a field study (148 participants organized in 38 groups) we tested the effect of group synergy and one's position in relation to the collaborative zone of proximal development (CZPD) on the change of individual decision-making competencies. We used two parallel sets of decision tasks reported in previous research to test rationality and we evaluated individual decision-making competencies in the pre-group and post-group conditions as well as group rationality (as an emergent group level phenomenon). We used multilevel modeling to analyze the data and the results showed that members of synergetic groups had a higher cognitive gain as compared to members of non-synergetic groups, while highly rational members (members above the CZPD) had lower cognitive gains compared to less rational group members (members situated below the CZPD). These insights extend the literature on group-to-individual transfer of learning and have important practical implications as they show that group dynamics influence the development of individual decision-making competencies

Benefits and problems of electronic information exchange as perceived by health care professionals: an interview study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Various countries are currently implementing a national electronic patient record (n-EPR). Despite the assumed positive effects of n-EPRs, their overall adoption remains low and meets resistance from health care providers. This study aims to increase our understanding of health care providers' attitude towards the n-EPR, by investigating their perceptions of the benefits and problems of electronic information exchange in health care and the n-EPR in particular.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The study was conducted in three Dutch health care settings: acute care, diabetes care, and ambulatory mental health care. Two health care organisations were included per setting. Between January and June 2010, interviews were conducted with 17 stakeholders working in these organisations. Relevant themes were deduced by means of thematic qualitative analysis.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Health care providers perceived electronic information exchange to promote the efficiency and quality of care. The problems they perceived in electronic information exchange mainly concerned the confidentiality and safety of information exchange and the reliability and quality of patient data. Many problems perceived by health care providers did not specifically apply to the n-EPR, but to electronic information exchange in general.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The implementation of the Dutch n-EPR has mainly followed a top-down approach, thereby neglecting the fact that the perceptions and preferences of its users (health care providers) need to be addressed in order to achieve successful implementation. The results of this study provide valuable suggestions about how to promote health care providers' willingness to adopt electronic information exchange, which can be useful for other countries currently implementing an n-EPR. Apart from providing information about the benefits and usefulness of electronic information exchange, efforts should be focused on minimising the problems as perceived by health care providers. The safety and confidentiality of electronic information exchange can be improved by developing tools to evaluate the legitimacy of access to electronic records, by increasing health care providers' awareness of the need to be careful when using patient data, and by measures to limit access to sensitive patient data. Improving health care providers' recording behaviour is important to improve the reliability and quality of electronically exchanged patient data.</p