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Applying a Complexity Lens to Policy Implementation: How Feedback Loops Help to Understand Systems Change in Integrated Healthcare

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Although a complexity theory lens can help to understand national policy implementation at a local government level, application of this lens often remains at a metaphorical level. We illustrate how complexity concepts, such as adaptation, feedback, emergence and co‐evolution can be used practically in research on policy ...
Andrew Passey, Peter van der Graaf
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Workplace Bullying: A Critical Theory Exploration of Lecturers' Experiences in a Higher Education Context

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Footprint Metaphor

Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis, 2014
Brigitte Nerlich, I. Hellsten
doaj   +1 more source

Visual metaphors promote place bonding in urban marathon participation through emotional involvement and spatial meaning reconstruction: a ZMET-PLS-SEM study. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Wang Y, Song H, Lu J, Wei J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary: Metaphor in nursing research - a tool for meaning-making, reflection and critical engagement. [PDF]

J Res Nurs
Bekaert S.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Are We Learning About the Research‐Practice Gap From HRD Scholars and HRD Scholar‐Practitioners?

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The research‐practice gap (the gap) in HRD remains a significant challenge, hindering the application of academic research to practice and the integration of workplace challenges into research efforts. It is critical for HRD research to address the gap to develop evidence‐based solutions for learning and organizational performance. The purpose
Kelly Moore, Yonjoo Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Child-Directed Speech Is Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Metaphoricity and Concreteness. [PDF]

Open Mind (Camb)
Feurstein L, Comsa IM, Furrer R, Gfeller K, Widmer P, Narayanan S, Stoll S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Thinking Out Loud” and “Pivoting on the Fly”—An Empirical Review and Critical Incident Study of How Physicians Engage in Incidental Learning Amidst Complexity

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores incidental learning among physicians navigating uncertainty during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a constructivist research design, we conducted a literature review of 13 empirical studies on incidental learning in complexity and analyzed critical incident interviews with 12 emergency medicine and intensive care physicians ...
Henriette Lundgren, Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick, Dimitrios Papanagnou, Urvashi Vaid   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

'No Dumping!' Threshold Work in Voluntary Sector Mental Healthcare in Inner-City London. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Brenman N.
europepmc   +1 more source