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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' playful behaviors at work. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewed software engineers come from two European and three American companies. The research is based on ethnographical...
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Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to advance a testable model, rooted on well‐established control and self‐regulation theory principles, explaining the causal links between change‐related sensemaking, interpretation, readiness and subsequent behavioural action....
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Numerous past articles, many of which consist of idealised prescriptions for success or the occasional case study or practitioner's contribution, have commented on the role of hospital clinician‐managers. Prior work is circumscribed, however, in that it tends to be normative and a priori (how...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on gender differences in emergency physicians with respect to their attitudes, knowledge, and practices concerning health promotion and disease prevention. Design/methodology/approach – A mail survey of 325 male and 97 female Canadian...
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behaviour, which was fundamental to the structure of nursing itself. Despite the terrible repercussions, physical and …
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. Such lekking behaviour involves inter alia, strutting, puffing out, catching attention via the use of ornamental physical … contemporary settings. It draws on six studies of managerial talk, appearance and behaviour in order to do so. Findings – Within … lekking behaviour of other species, and discusses points of comparison and departure. It shows how male managers display …
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Purpose – Research on patient safety campaigns has mostly concentrated on large-scale multi-organisation efforts, yet locally led improvement is increasingly promoted. The purpose of this paper is to characterise the design and implementation of an internal patient safety campaign at a large...
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mechanisms of influencing patient behaviour are based on two different views of what motivates individuals’ actions. The first …
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Purpose – It is argued that ethical ideology espoused by an individual provides the framework within which individuals contemplate the issues and determine the right way to behave. This paper aims to report the findings of a study designed to examine the ethical orientations of managers....
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