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The Challenges of Backsourcing

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public sector outsourcing sometimes ends in unexpected termination, forcing authorities to engage in backsourcing. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges posed by unexpected terminations of sourcing contracts in the public sector and analyze how actual practices in these situations diverge from theoretical expectations in the ...
Johan Berlin, Eric Carlström, Magnus Jansson, David Karlsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Autoethnography of My Experiences of Undergoing Fertility Treatment While Working as an Academic

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I provide an autoethnographic account of my experiences of undergoing fertility treatment while working in a higher education institution in the United Kingdom. My autoethnographic reflections are situated in the context of neoliberal academia, characterized by high pressures to perform. Despite the prevalence of infertility and
Samantha Wilkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Work–Life Fragility, Dilemmas, and “Gambling” at the Intersection of Fertility Treatment and Employment

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Infertility is a working age population issue, meaning that many individuals undergoing fertility treatment are also in paid work—having to navigate conflicts between two often “greedy institutions,” which can both bring precarity. Traditional approaches to examining the work–life interface, focusing mainly on temporal issues, fail to account ...
Krystal Wilkinson, Clare Mumford, Michael Carroll   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construct Validity of the Orientation to Life Questionnaire in a General Adult Population in Norway and Its Association with Self‐Reported General and Oral Health

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Individuals' Sense of Coherence (SOC) is measured with the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ‐13). SOC reflects a person's orientation to life and ability to manage stress, which can impact health. The aim of the study was to test the reliability and construct validity of the OLQ‐13, with self‐reported general and oral health as ...
Kine Margrethe Mathisen, Jan‐Are Kolset Johnsen, Gro Eirin Holde, Birgitta Jönsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptions of the Leading of Learning in Supervisory Work: A Qualitative Study Based on a Finnish Technology Organization and a Central Hospital

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The meaning of learning in knowledge‐intensive work for competence development and motivation is significant. Supervisors play a major role as facilitators of learning, making individual‐ and team‐level learning possible in organizations. Supervisors need to implement organizational‐level strategies in practice and enhance employees’ learning ...
Sara Keronen, Soila Lemmetty, Kaija Collin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employer Training Interventions in Supported Employment Workplaces and Their Impact on Hiring Attitudes

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of training interventions in public, institutional or private organizations for promoting positive attitudes among employers towards hiring individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) in supported employment settings. The study included 60 employers, divided into three groups:
Miri Ben‐Amram, Orly Shapira‐Lishchinsky   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Practices During Nursing Handovers in Critical Care: An Anthropological Study. [PDF]

Nurs Crit Care
Parissopoulos S, Timmins F, Mantzorou M, Mpouzika M, Adamakidou T, Papagaroufali E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reflections and unprompted observations by healthcare students of an interprofessional shadowing visit [PDF]

, 2012
Baker, Becky, Hawkes, Gillian, Lindqvist, Susanne Marie, Wright, Anna   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A matheuristic for the traveling salesman problem with positional consistency constraints

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We propose a matheuristic for the traveling salesman problem with positional consistency constraints, where we seek to generate a set of routes with minimum total cost, in which the nodes visited in more than one route (consistent nodes) must occupy the same relative position in all routes.
Luís Gouveia, Ana Paias, Mafalda Ponte
wiley   +1 more source

Postmodernism and Education in Nursing Science: The Case of Clinical Skills. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Nikolaou E, Bellali T, Minasidou E, Kafkia T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source