The study takes servant-leadership and attempts to find if there is an equivalent concept in management. Leadership and management have been extensively compared and contrasted in research and theory and while there are divergent views of exactly what each entails, others hold the view that they might be equal and complementary. The research design follows a positivist philosophy. An instrument that measures distinct leader, manager and professional role preferences is used to check the discrete operation of three contexts among a sample of members of the accountancy profession. The instrument is derived from contextualising pre-developed and pre-tested servant-leadership measuring instruments. Items from the role preference map instrument are added together with demographic details to come up with a meta-instrument adapted for the study. After validating it through pilot-testing, the instrument is applied in real-world research. The research was conducted among a sample of professional accountants working in 28 countries across four continents in organisations with over 82,000 employees. Statistical analysis, employing; analysis of variance, correlations, frequencies, significances, means, variances and tests of scale reliability was performed on both the data and the instruments. The research found clear and reliable servant-leadership-type behaviours exhibited across the three discreet roles and contexts of leader, manager and professional. Some professional accountancy courses are delivered across many countries in the world. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is one such professional accountancy body that offers qualifications on a global scale. However, as accountants originate from, and practice in diverse cultures and economies around the world they are trained by institutes like ACCA from a common syllabus that has elements of management as a subject. Servant-leadership is a type of leadership that is theorised to be humanistic and spiritual rather than rational and mechanistic. Management practice on the other hand needs rationality and contains some mechanistic elements in typical management functions like coordinating and controlling. The implication is whether servant-leadership attributes can be exhibited if professional accountants contextualise themselves as leaders, managers or professionals. The study focuses on the profession of accountants and tests the operation of servant-leadership behaviours from the manager, leader and professional contexts using pre-tested servant-leadership scales and applying them in specific leader and manager contexts. This approach is new in its treatment of servant-leadership in this fashion. A further original approach is the use of the accountancy profession. This treatment of instruments from other fields like psychology and sociology is new.

Healthcare professionals are expected to know their role in patient safety. In a rural hospital, they may have different roles along with their professional role. Staff and services are fewer and the community is often part of the hospital. This can influence patient safety culture. Researchers and governing bodies have focused on developing processes to assist healthcare leaders developing their patient safety culture. Researchers and governing bodies have tended to focus on urban hospitals and then implement the same processes in rural hospitals. This strategy has not always been successful. The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities in patient safety culture of health care professionals in rural hospitals. A systematic review, using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) review process, was completed to discover how patient safety culture and rural hospitals are described and measured. Some common elements in the literature were unique characteristics of rural hospitals, leadership, error reporting and the use of patient safety culture surveys. Ethnographic methods were used to explore healthcare professional’s roles in patient safety culture in a rural hospital. Healthcare professionals describe their roles differently than described in the literature. A patient safety culture model was developed from the literature and refined with the study findings. The affinity model was developed based on the study findings from the small rural hospital and the literature. Everything they do is how rural hospital practitioners described their role in patient safety. / Thesis (Ph.D, Nursing) -- Queen's University, 2014-02-20 09:15:25.007

The prevailing approach to managing persons with criminal histories involves community supervision professionals like probation and parole officers partnering with other mental health providers to address clients’ needs. The relationships between individual professionals are seldom researched, though, and the current study aims to address this deficit in the empirical literature. This study utilized interviews about professionals’ perceptions of their work experiences, analyzed open-endedly to identify major themes. Mental health providers’ themes included appreciation and process of collaboration, individual characteristics and roles, characteristics of collaboration, elements of interprofessional relationships, and involvement of the courts. Community supervision professionals discussed issues pertaining to appreciation and process of collaboration, individual characteristics and roles, when conflict occurs, and the lack of basic knowledge about other professionals. Second, these partnerships were examined in light of interprofessional healthcare competencies. Themes identified here resembled healthcare values and ethics competencies and roles and responsibilities competencies; healthcare competencies regarding interprofessional communication and teamwork showed partial congruence with the current themes. Overall, interprofessional collaboration is valued. This research highlights the strengths of this type of interprofessional collaboration and offers suggestions for improving the efficacy of collaboration.

The purpose of this study was to examine how people from different professional roles explain why youths become criminals and continue with criminality and which factors contrinute. To answer the purpose of the study five different persons who work with youths were interviewed. Semi-structured interviews were used gather relevant information about the topic. The interviews were recorded and later on transcribed before analyzing. Social learning theory and theories about identity were used in this study. Four themes emerged from the interviews which were; money and status, family relation, peer pressure, belonging and exclusion and social media and music. The study concluded that the themes mentioned above were some of the reasons that could make youths become criminals. Money, feeling of belonging and peer pressure were the most contributing factors. / Syftet med denna studie är att studera hur människor med olika yrkesroller förklarar varför ungdomar blir kriminella och fortsätter med kriminalitet och vilka faktorer som bidrar till detta. För att svara på studiens syfte intervjuades fem olika personer som arbetar med ungdomar. Semistrukturerade intervjuer användes för att samla relevant information om ämnet. Intervjuerna spelades in och transkriberades innan de analyserades. Social inlärningsteori och teorier om identitet användes i denna studie som teoretisk ram. Fem teman uppkom från intervjuerna som var; pengar och status, familjeförhållanden, grupptryck, tillhörighet och utanförskap samt sociala medier och musik. Studien drog slutsatsen att de ovan nämnda teman var några av anledningarna till att ungdomar eventuellt hamnar i kriminella kretsar. Pengar, tillhörighetskänsla och grupptryck var de mest bidragande faktorerna.

Detta arbete utgår ifrån den diskussion som förts i det svenska samhället vad gäller förskollärarnas ansvar som synliggjorts i den reviderade läroplanen samt införandet av lärarlegitimation. Arbetet syftar på att förstå, genom kvalitativa intervjuer, vad fyra verksamma pedagoger inom förskolan har för tankar omkring arbetets huvudfrågor: Samarbete, ledarskap och ansvar, erfarenhet och praktisk kunskap samt teoretisk kunskap. Vidare finns viss historik omkring förskolan och förskollärarens bakgrund. Målet med denna undersökning är att lyfta upp frågan om samverkan mellan praktisk kunskap och teoretisk kunskap och diskutera samarbetet mellan yrkesgrupperna samt stärka betydelsen av att inneha båda dessa kunskaper. I resultatdelen ämnas de fyra intervjuade pedagogernas åsikter framföras och sedan diskuteras i förhållande till begreppen och tidigare forskning. Samtliga pedagoger är och har varit aktiva i förskolan under minst fem år. Genom studien har resultatet pekat allt tydligare på att de två förskollärarna och de två barnskötarna har olika syn på de olika arbetsrollerna. Sammanfattningsvis menar jag att förskollärarna verkar tycka att ansvar och ledarskap till viss del är deras uppgifter men att arbetslaget, innefattande både förskollärare och barnskötare, bör samarbeta och man kan ana att de inte vill ta hela ansvaret själva. Barnskötarna, å andra sidan, eftersöker mer ledarskap av förskollärarna och vill att de tar det ansvar som de har utbildning och får lön för. De två barnskötarna är inte lika strikta i sin linje vad gäller rollfördelningen, den ena barnskötaren uttrycker att många pedagoger på förskolan gör ett bra arbete oavsett teoretisk kunskap. Som resultat vill jag lyfta fram att det alltså är de som saknar akademisk utbildning som lyfter fram att det är den teoretiska kunskapen är avgörande för ansvarsbiten. Detta trots att samtliga fyra pedagoger menar att den praktiska kunskapen är viktig. Slutligen innefattar arbetet förslag på vidare studier inom ämnet: då särskilt, varför tycker förskollärarna och barnskötarna i denna undersökning så olika beroende av egen utbildningsgrad? / This study departs from the discussion in Swedish society concerning preschool teachers’ responsibilities as visualized in the revised curriculum and the introduction of teacher license registration.The study is aimed at understanding, through qualitative interviews, what four active pedagogues involved in pre-school feels about the changes, which are this study’s main issues: the concept of cooperation, leadership and responsibility, experience and practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge. Further, there is some history about kindergarten and preschool teachers’ background. The purpose of this study is to highlight the issue of interaction between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge as well as the cooperation of the people involved in preschool.The results section is dealing with the four pedagogues, who are and have been active in pre-school for at least five years, to be presented and then discussed in relation to the concepts and previous research. The study results have indicated more clearly that the two preschool teachers and the two childminders have different views on the differing roles. In sum I believe that preschool teachers find that responsibility and leadership in some way lies on their shoulders, but they’re pointing more to the team, including both preschool teachers and childcare workers, for cooperation. You can sense that they do not want to take full responsibility themselves. Childcare workers are on the other hand looking for more leadership from the preschool teachers and expect that they should take the responsibility they have been educated and are paid for. The two childcare workers are not as strict in the terms of roles. One of them expresses that many teachers in the preschool are doing a good job regardless of theoretical knowledge. As a result, I would highlight that it is the pedagogues without theoretical knowledge that emphasizes that theoretical knowledge is crucial for the responsibility part, despite the fact that all four teachers believe that practical knowledge is important. Finally, this study includes suggestions for further studies in the subject: on particular, why do preschool teachers and childcare workers in this study feel so different depending on their own level of education?

Telecare has been an approach to care that, internationally, has experienced a generally rapid development during the last ten years. There are many examples of successful pilot projects where ICT applications have been used in the care of elderly: for improved remote consultation with health professionals, to improve the communication and support of the elderly person’s social network, and as intelligent sensors intended to improve the safety of the elderly person. Despite these successes, implementation has been slow. This research project was set up to provide additional knowledge on some of the important questions regarding quality and implementation aspects of the use of ICT application on the care of frail elderly persons. The overall aim of the research project is to illuminate reasoning and experiences of using applications of telecare for frail elderly persons. The research project comprised five studies that were conducted using qualitative research methods. Four of them were carried out within the framework of three telecare projects. Different qualitative research approaches such as content analysis, phenomenological hermeneutics and conversational and discourse analysis were used, in accordance with the research questions of each study. The experiences revealed in the findings of the studies indicate that it is possible to have communication of good quality via videoconferencing with frail elderly persons, even those that have mild or mid-level dementia, provided the conditions are right. Technical limitations of the videoconferencing media in transferring communication cues and the limitations on what the camera can expose place special demands on those communicating with the frail elderly and on the general setting. On the other hand, these limitations on the context of interaction in some situations also seem to be an advantage for demented elderly persons and contribute to increased attention. One example of meaningful remote communication with frail elderly persons was family members’ videophone conversations with their demented relatives when they were placed in nursing homes or homes for respite services. This communication gave new possibilities of being involved in caring for, and of maintaining a relationship with, their demented relative. An introduction of teleconsultations in the care of frail elderly persons will, according to the experiences recorded, affect the professional role and the practical spheres of involved health professionals. The perceptions and experiences of participating health personnel indicate that in order for ICT applications to become valuable assets in the care of frail elderly persons they have to be part of a care alternative that is viewed by all concerned as the best alternative, as a whole, for all affected parties. Further research is needed in order to confirm or refute the findings of this thesis and in order to further broaden our understanding of the use of ICT applications in the care of frail elderly persons. This could facilitate a development of ICT applications suitable for the care of frail elderly persons and their introduction into regular care activities, to the benefit of both the frail elderly persons and their carers.

Conditions for the establishment of family oriented organization are analysed in this Master's work. Half-standardized (N=63) qualitative and quantitative (N=111) surveys were done. For the processing of qualitative data narrative method was chosen and quantitative data was analysed using to the Wilcoxon's test. Also analysis of documents describing the situation of family and professional roles' combination was done. Held hypotheses proved out only partially. Combination of family and professional roles is important only for the members of university which have children themselves and for a few managing persons and it goes in more informal way. There are some cases when both - family and professional interests - are met, but in the most cases it depends on the situation, circumstances and person's relations with the managers.Recommendations for the combination of family and professional roles, as one of the main factors for the creation of family oriented university, are proposed in this Master's work.

This thesis focuses on the comprehensive approach to human health. She attempts to shed more light on this topic, to document current circumstances related to the psychosomatic medicine and the so called holistic medicine, and to clarify the manner of understanding these concepts nowadays. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis constitutes a rough summary of the comprehensive approach to human treatment, a view of fundamental theories of psychosomatic medicine and its current position in the Czech health system. The thesis also includes an outline of applied terms which are connected to the comprehensive approach to human treatment, especially in the specialized literature. The practical part of this diploma thesis monitors the way in which the media use the terms of holistic medicine and psychosomatic medicine. Further, a general understanding of these concepts is demonstrated by the means of a questionnaire survey on a sample of 454 respondents. Moreover, the practical part is completed by interviews with two specialists of the Czech psychosomatic scene. The thesis is concluded by the author's polemic regarding the topic of this diploma thesis itself. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This essay concerns practical knowledge and examines preschool teachers experience of responsibility in preschool. The material is obtained through four interviews with preschool teachers. Data have been analysed with a hermeneutic approach and the discussion is based on reasoning about responsibility. My questions are: How do preschool teachers reason about responsibility concerning their professional role in preschool? How do preschool teachers experience joint responsibility for their childcare colleagues and the work team in the preschool? The results show that preschool teachers develop strategies for taking responsibility, but feel uncertain about childminders’  responsibility in preschool. This results in preschool teachers taking more responsibility for compensating for this uncertainty. / Denna uppsats är en studie i praktisk kunskap och undersöker förskollärares erfarenheter av ansvar i förskolan. Materialet erhålls genom fyra intervjuer med förskollärare. Data har analyserats med en hermeneutisk metod och diskuteras utifrån resonemang kring ansvar. Mina frågor är: Hur erfar förskollärare sin yrkesrolls ansvar i förskolan? Hur erfar förskollärare sina banskötarkollegors och arbetslagets gemensamma ansvar i förskolan? Resultatet visar att förskollärare utarbetat strategier för ansvarstagande men känner en osäkerhet kring vilket ansvar barnskötare har i förskolan. Detta resulterar i att förskollärare tar mer ansvar för att kompensera för denna osäkerhet.

I denna studie är syftet att synliggöra, och på så sätt bidra med mer kunskap kring, vilka uppfattningar vårdnadshavare till barn i förskolan har kring yrkesrollerna barnskötare och förskollärares olika ansvar och innebörder, samt hur dessa relaterar till de mål och riktlinjer kring ansvar och arbetsfördelning som skrivs fram i förskolans läroplan. Fem vårdnadshavare från tre olika kommuner i västra Sverige har deltagit i den kvalitativa studien där metodansatsen är diskursanalys. Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för datainsamling och en diskursanalys vid analysering av materialet. Resultatet visar att det finns en diskurs som handlar om att vårdnadshavare uppfattar att barnskötare innefattas av arbetet med barnen och ansvarar för deras omsorg, och en annan diskurs som handlar om att förskollärare uppfattas som den av rollerna som ansvarar för barnens utbildning och organisering av förskolans verksamhet. Det framkommer även att vårdnadshavarna i studien visar sig ha lite kännedom om hur förskolans läroplan relaterar till yrkesrollernas ansvar och arbetsuppgifter. Den uppgift som förskolans personal har ålagts gällande att upplysa vårdnadshavare om dess innehåll verkar därav inte prioriteras i den dagliga kommunikationen. Detta då studien visar att vårdnadshavares uppfattningar om förskolans yrkesroller skiljer sig åt från hur barnskötare och förskollärare beskrivs utifrån Skolverket (2018), vilket kan ge konsekvenser för samverkan mellan förskola och hem. / The purpose of this study is to visualize what perceptions parents of children in preschool have about the professional role’s childcare workers and preschool teacher’s different responsibilities and meanings, and how these relate to the goals and guidelines regarding responsibility and division of work that are written in the preschool curriculum. Five parents from three different municipalities in western Sweden have participated in the qualitative study where the method approach is a discourse analysis. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used to collect data and a discourse analysis for analyzing the material. The results show that there is a discourse regarding to how parents perceive childcare workers as included in the work with the children and are responsible for their care, and another discourse about how preschool teachers are perceived as those responsible for the children’s education and the organization of the preschool. It also emerges that the parents in the study appear to have little knowledge of how the preschool curriculum relates to the professional role’s responsibilities and tasks. The assignment that are required by the preschool staff as to inform parents about its content, do therefore not seem to be prioritized in the daily communication. This as the study shows that parent’s perceptions of the professional roles in preschool are different from Skolverket’s (2018) description of childcare workers and preschool teachers, which can have consequences for the collaboration between preschool and home.