...Knowledge Management. Contemporary Trends and Issues ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Povilas Brilius Baifoteka Ltd, Lithuania, povilas@baifoteka.com Abstract: Organizational Learning (OL) is recognized to have established itself as a discipline. However, it remains unclear what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to easily apply this field, meantime theorists call for more comprehensive understanding of OL. This article focuses on contemporary trends in OL research. It argues and unveils that current OL investigation has made a shift towards holistic and integrative approach in which individual has more powers to make a decision. Article illustrates such contemporary shift of mind by (a) summarizing most important literature in the field (b) providing examples of latest research in OL area. For a smoother analysis, author builds and applies working framework of dichotomies between concepts (dialectical approach). Keywords: organizational learning, contemporary trends, holism. JEL Classification: D800, D830 1. Introduction During the last 50-60 years Organizational Learning (OL) has undoubtedly established itself as a discipline – a number of concepts have been constructed and applied theoretically, numerous schools with distinct models have emerged. However, a question may be posed – to what...
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...The specialist practice nurse is employed as a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Heart Failure (HF) nurse and is based in secondary care. Along with networking with a wide range of health care practitioners providing a seamless service between primary and secondary care her role also involves evidence-based care to clients with chronic heart failure (CHF). CHF is a complex syndrome that results from a structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to function as a pump. This results in the heart not being able to pump enough blood to meet metabolic demands of the body (Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST), 2005). The most common cause of HF is coronary artery disease, hypertension and valvular disease. It is a chronic condition, which may fluctuate, and result in repeated hospital admissions. The incidence and prevalence of heart failure is on the increase and with the current ageing population it is likely to continue along this trend. It is currently the most common cause of hospital admission in clients over the age of 65 years and accounts for 1 - 3 % of the National Health Service’ expenditure, the majority of which is associated with inpatient care (CREST, 2005). The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2010) defined specialist practice as “...the exercising of higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care” and requires that specialist practice nurse is competent in clinical assessment and...
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...There are many ways Abington-Jefferson Hospital (AJH) incorporates holistic practices in a clinical setting and animal-assisted therapy (AAT) or pet therapy is only one conventional method used. However, let’s review the connection between this health system and the core values of American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) Core Values and Standards of Practice. The vision of Abington Hospital is to be the most trusted healthcare partner and the mission is to promote healing, prevent harm and be kind. According to Erickson (2012), AHNA’s Core Value the backbone of Holistic Nursing vitality and interdependence of all things, including consciousness, the nurse as a healer, being available and caring, operating with purpose, and unconditional...
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...medical surgical floor that focuses on orthopedic and bariatric patients. I also have another job as a medication assistant at Austin Community College (ACC). This job allows me to collaborate with a nursing instructor by educating level one nursing students in a hospital setting in medication administration safety, basic nursing skills, critical thinking skills, evidence-based practice, core measures, and providing effective and holistic nursing care. My goals as a nurse is to build a trusting relationship with my patients and promote the patient’s sense of control in order to attain quality, holistic health. These goals are very similar with my ACC students. As I assist in teaching them how to reach their potential as a future nurse, I want us to trust each other, and I want them to be autonomous in researching answers themselves to provide quality care. My nursing care before this class was more focused on evidence-based practice since I did not consciously incorporate theory into my bedside practice. This personal framework paper will review my personal values, beliefs, and nursing philosophy in relation to my bedside nursing practice and medication assistant position. I will describe Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain’s Modeling and Role Modeling Theory (MRMT) and how it applies to the nursing metaparadigm and my nursing practice. I will further compare and contrast the theory of Modeling and Role Modeling to my philosophy and approach to nursing, and describe a situation in...
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...the role of being a nurse and the nursing process. My meaning of patient, nurse, environment and health is the concept or framework for the nursing profession. As nurses we must evaluate each aspect of the concept and implement them in our daily practice. Patient: The patient is a person or an individual with feeling and emotions. The patient, a person, is a holistic being. Person is viewed as holistic being with social, cultural, personal need. During the nursing process the nurse must understand that each patient/person seeking health care have unique needs, abilities and characteristics. Nurse: The nurse act as an advocate for patients and their families. The role of the nurse involves working, cooperatively, with the patient and families to achieve a sense well-being and healing. Nurses role are always base on the context of trustworthy relationship between the patients are identified as a provider of healthcare. Environment: The environment is all encompassing. The environments are conditions that are internal and external to the patient: spiritually, culturally, socially and ethically. Environmental factors are an integral part of nursing process and practice. I don’t think a nurse can adequately assess a patient without assessing the patient environmental factors. Health: Health is a subjectively and objectively concept. Health does not mean an absence of a disease or illness. Health is optimal triad process functions of body, mind, and spirit. You...
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...Health Promotion 1 Literature Review Bressy Thomas Grand Canyon University Health Promotion 2 Health promotion involves motivation and improvement in someone’s health and identifies their potential health problems. From the literature reviews, Health promotion defined in different ways. Literature, Worldviews on Evidence-base nursing, explains health promotion as, Etiologically –driven socio-political-economic determinants of health are addressed. This serves to counter social inaction and social division/inequality. It is an inherently political process…that leads to community coalitions through shared radical consciousness. Health promotion looks to develop and reform social structures…between representative stakeholders in different sectors and agencies. (Whitehead 2004b) Looking after community, looking after their lifestyles and advising them really on their needs and how...
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...Jean Watson: A Review of the Theory of Caring Denise Lakin NUR 403 January 23, 2012 Dr. Candace Cane Jean Watson: A Review of the Theory of Caring Caring is heart of nursing, it is what nursing is about, the motivation behind interventions. Past, present, and future nurses use caring interventions and Watson’s theory of caring to provide a holistic approach complimenting medical care and aiding in patient healing often without realizing it. Patients are admitted to facilities for nursing care. Analysis of the major components of the theory of caring give some background on the theory, as well as practical applications of the theory to professional experience. Ever since the days of Florence Nightingale nurses have used their ability to possess a holistic approach to improve the care of those served; Jean Watson was no different. According to Erci, Sayan, Tortumluoglu, Kilic, Sahin, & Gungorumus (2003), Watson’s theory is considered the framework that combines the art and science of caring and is the foundation of nursing practice that is composed of ten carative factors that can provide a guide to effective interventions. Watson’s theory is the essence of nursing. In today’s healthcare environment where minimization of resources are occurring it is more imperative than ever that we do not lose that healing and caring touch. Theories such as Watson’s can help guide us as we determine the interventions that are appropriate for our patients and help us maintain a...
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...CHAPTER 4 Formative Assessment Question # 4: Identify six purposes and types of questions. Questioning is an essential part of formative assessment. The potential effect of a good question is only fully realized if accompanied by active listening which in turn is an essential prerequisite for the right response, whether in the form of an acknowledgment or further questioning. Even though there are many reasons for asking questions the information we get back will be determined by the type of question we ask. During the teaching process, instructors ask questions for several purposes, such as, to develop interest, involve and motivate students to become actively involved in lessons, to evaluate students’ readiness and check on homework...
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...impact the family and support systems. The treatment of pain and the loss of income due to pain increases the costs for health care, the individual, and the population. Analyzing and clarifying the concept of managing acute pain can increase the healthcare provider’s knowledge of acute pain management, define the concept of managing acute pain, and expand the understanding of the concept of managing acute pain. The aim of this analysis is to clarify the defining attributes of managing acute pain, identify antecedents that influence the perception of pain and the possible consequences of acute pain. Review of Literature To increase the understanding of the concept of managing acute pain, it is important to explore the definitions of pain to gather basic information about managing acute pain. For this analysis pain will be defined from a professional dictionary, and a thorough review of literature from the disciplines of psychology, medicine, and nursing. Definition of Pain from Dictionary Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary (2001) was used to define pain because it delineates pain by...
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... Singer criticized that people nowadays always characterize every speech and action as strategic as if by simply adding that particular word can exalts the importance and quality of the thinking. He also pointed out that strategy is not technology because there will be no competitive advantage gained if strategic visioning led by technology. The reason being is that, it is not an innovation. It is actually a cut-and-paste methods, rather than holistic thinking to guide the process of change, which is a concept-driven innovation. He also put a stand that strategy is not the internet; instead it is only a piece of strategy that adds as another feature to the strategic landscape, not a standalone strategic idea. Singer also argue that strategy should be in the form of modern strategic visions arising from new language to frame action and new management techniques that work horizontally across organizational and national boundaries and not from messaging. It should involved leadership and perceptual skills through the process of experience that can then give people, industries and countries their identity. Singer stressed that strategy has and always will have a human dimension. Therefore, human limitations, informational uncertainties and complexity are built-in structural features of the environment, not annoying problems that better information technology can eliminate. We should not mistakenly identify components of strategy for strategy itself as it can put bad effect...
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...Running Head: Management process, linear and nonlinear management, ordinary and extraordinary management, rational management, chaos theory Management - from rational management to chaos theory Submitted to Dr. D. Coleman By JJ de Klerk In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Doctorate in Business Administration Swiss Management University March 3, 2012 1 1. Introduction Developments over the last few decades have led to a new way of thinking in economic and management approaches. The scientific approach to management, which emphasizes the basic management functions of planning, organizing, leadership and control, now seems unable to explain the era of change that characterizes economies and organizations alike. This paper will focus on explaining the rational management model, focusing on ordinary management, and go on to discuss the new approaches such as chaos theory – also called complexity theory - and the need for extraordinary management and innovation. 2. Rational management Management and organization science literature have until recently focused on the objective control of agents and worked on the assumption that interactions can be described in linear terms (Webb, 2005). When difficult decisions have to be made, many managers and strategists rely on the economics view in which profit maximization is the guiding principle. Executives will us the rational model tools described above, and believe that precise solutions should be achieved...
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...Running head: RISK MANAGEMENT AND THEIR INFLUENCES Risk Management and Their Influences on Corporate Governance University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management& technology Executive Summary Implementing a risk management process in line with organizational or business goals and objectives is vital for successfully managing or mitigating risk. Risk identification, analysis, handling, and monitoring should be addressed by all stakeholders. The process should be implemented in accordance with a pre constructed Risk management plan. A well developed risk assessment will make use of the considerable number of assessments, planning, and formal risk identification performed to provide a picture of the composite or overall risk associated with an organization. Also an effective risk mitigation strategy will provide a significant increase in the confidence level that a business or organization will meet its cost, schedule, and performance requirements. Introduction Risk is an important concept that plays a major role in the success of a business and organization. Risk is defined as the exposure to injury or loss. Every decision that we make as human beings contain some form of risk and most of the time the weight of the risk determine whether we will follow through with an action or not. Risk Management is a systematic way to keep those risks in check and a way to limit those risks in impacting the...
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...2008 Submitted to: Dr. Carole-Lynne Le Navenec sound, spirituality and Healing for the family experiencing terminal cancer: a case study of the application of mantras ABSTRACT Given the growing interest in North America for CAM, complementary and/or alternative medicine (diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine) and holistic healthcare, health care professionals within the regulation imposed by their professional organization, have the ability to expand the realm of conventional medicine (medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. [medical doctor] or D.O. [doctor of osteopathy] degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses) to a holistic healthcare system by integrating CAM modalities such as acupressure, guided imagery, humor, massage, meditation, therapeutic touch/healing touch, prayer and arts in general into their profession. This paper explores a CAM and holistic treatment/healing modality, Mantra Therapy, that conforms to three types of CAM as defined by the United States government agency NCCAM (The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine), namely Mind-Body Medicine, Energy Medicine and Whole Medical Systems. For Mantra Therapy to be proven safe and effective and become adopted into the conventional health care system key questions need to be answered, such as whether...
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...FUELING STRATEGIC INNOVATION “Strategic Innovation is the creation of growth strategies, new product categories, services or business models that change the game and generate significant new value for customers and the corporation” (Kotelnikov: 2001). It is a holistic approach consisting of an organized set of practices that motivate imaginative teams to think outside the box and challenge the tyranny of the given (Kao: 1997 in Bonn: 2001). Innovation becomes strategic when it has become a deliberate repeatable process that creates a significant difference in the value delivered to consumers, customers, partners and the corporation. It is also the juncture where an organization can be said to have it as a competitive advantage (Thompson, Strickland& Gamble: 2008). Strategic innovation therefore challenges the organization to break its established business boundaries and mental blocks and to be divergent in its thinking rather than being convergent (Erupting Mind: 2010). As far as Professor Stephen Brown of Ulster University is concerned, marketers place excessive emphasis on researching and customer satisfaction at the expense of development of strategic innovation. The argument holds some merits. First, being strategically innovative will make it possible for marketers to achieve a capability that can be reproduced in better tools assemblage, processing and idea generation than competitors. Second, building capability in strategic innovation will enable the organization to...
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...1 Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring Robyn Waters NUR/403 August 29, 2011 Stephanie Merck JEAN WATSON'S THEORY 2 Abstract Jean Watson, professor, nursing theorist, developed her theory of Transpersonal Caring from her own experiences of nursing and information she received during her higher education years. Her idea was to bring attention to professional nurses. Nursing is becoming more interdisciplinary and involving. Watson's theory is centered to subjective inner healing and a person's experiences. These are achieved by carative factors. Carative factors is the caring process, not the curing process. Watson established ten carative factors. Along with these carative factors, Watson identified seven assumptions. Along with the assumptions, Watson describes the nurse's role. The primary nurse's role is to establish a caring relationship with his or her patient. This can be achieved by caring moments. Moments that transform the patient and nurse connecting them together. Watson classified human needs like Maslow classified his hierarchy needs. As a nurse I contemplate on how I provide my care. I am there to help my patient's meet their human needs. JEAN WATSON'S THEORY 3 Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring ...
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