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The practice of teamwork in health industry call centres

Valsecchi, Raffaella; Wise, Sarah; Mueller, Frank; … - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 3, pp. 288-305

tele‐nursing organisations in the UK. Findings – In the two tele‐nursing case studies analysed, teamwork was introduced as …

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Mind the gap : Understanding utilisation of evidence and policy in health care management practice

West, Michael; Gkeredakis, Emmanouil; Swan, Jacky; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 25 (2011) 3, pp. 298-314

Purpose – The paper aims to take a reflective stance on the relationship between policy/evidence and practice, which, the authors argue, is conceptually under‐developed. The paper aims to show that current research perspectives fail to frame evidence and policy in relation to practice....

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A two-regime analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process

Hegde, Sharika J.; Mahmassani, Hani; Smilowitz, Karen - In: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain … 13 (2023) 2, pp. 111-124

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to evaluate and assess the performance of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process that is sensitive to the unique supply-side and demand-side constraints exhibited in the US vaccine rollout. Design/methodology/approach A queuing...

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Institutional context and e-recruitment practices of Danish organizations

B. Holm, Anna - In: Employee Relations 36 (2014) 4, pp. 432-455

Purpose – Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of the external environment on recruitment practices of organizations, and in part it lags behind practice. The purpose of this paper is to rectify this by studying recent changes in recruitment practices of Danish organizations...

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SEEING THE INVISIBLE – SUPPORT STAFF TRAINING IN PRICE WATERHOUSE

Stanford, Naomi - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 25 (1993) 10

Considers the challenges and opportunities faced by the trainers of support staff in a major accounting and management consultancy practice, where, in common with other professional services organizations, support staff have traditionally been considered of lower value to the organization than...

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The Selection of Quality Operative Staff in the Hotel Sector

Dickinson, Anne; Ineson, Elizabeth M. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 5 (1993) 1

Examines the use of two selection techniques, i.e. biodata and personality assessment, which have been found to have high predictive validities when used in other industries, in the context of hotel employee recruitment. In the first phase of a pilot study, Saville and Holdsworth′s Customer...

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A review of human resources management research : The past 10 years and implications for moving forward

Bruce Tracey, J. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 26 (2014) 5, pp. 679-705

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present a review of the human resources (HR) research that has been published over the past ten years in discipline-based and hospitality-specific journals and identify key trends and opportunities for advancing future research....

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The effects of staffing on company performance results: the mediating role of HRM outcomes in the specific contexts

Stor, Marzena - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 73 (2024) 9, pp. 3054-3082

staffing the organization and company performance results and to establish whether there are any identifiable regularity in … research findings show that, with the exception of the HQs in the pandemic period, when staffing had a negative effect on the …. Furthermore, the company's performance results in HRM mediate positively the relationships between staffing and the other three …

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Adoption of environmental management systems and standards in Norwegian education and nursing

Monkerud, Lars C.; Ytterhus, Bjarne - In: Baltic Journal of Management 8 (2013) 2, pp. 124-141

management systems (EMS) and standards in education and nursing in five of the largest Norwegian cities. The relevant standard is … executives in 391 schools and 87 nursing homes. Findings – The study confirms that EMS adoption is driven by resources and … capabilities, rather than simply institutional pressure, and that managers in nursing and education perceive reduced costs and …

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Hedging in nursing and education academic articles

Rabab'ah, Ghaleb - In: Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle … 6 (2013) 3/4, pp. 195-215

Purpose – The study aims to investigate how and why hedges are used in nursing and education academic research articles …/methodology/approach – The realization of hedges in 50 academic articles representing both disciplines, namely education and nursing, was … scrutinized and analyzed. Findings – The study reveals that there are significant differences between the nursing and education …

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