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Yes / This chapter introduces four theoretical approaches to the challenge of multi-professional information sharing in public service delivery. Two of the four approaches are then described in more detail as lenses through which to explore what happens in the practice of integrated children’s services. The two approaches explored in detail are the systems approach and the approach that underpins much of this book: Etienne Wenger’s ‘communities of practice’. The focus of the chapter is on the professionals delivering the services and not primarily on the children, young people or their families who are in receipt of these services. This approach however is in no way antagonistic to the idea that it is the interests of the children and young people that must always come first when redesigning organizations, policies, procedures and guidance for practice in children’s services.

This study, utilizing Preston and Karahanna’s framework for shared vision development and Agency Theory, explores the impact of vision development factors and factors associated with incentive plans on shared vision and alignment. Results of the study confirm the strong relationship between shared vision and alignment, and indicate that having an effective management team is important with respect to developing and maintaining shared vision and alignment within the organization. Several vision development factors such as using the language of the business, participation on the top management team (TMT), and having knowledge of the business impact shared vision through their influence on teamwork. Also, results of this study suggest that participation on the TMT by the CIO/IT leader is more important than the individual’s position in the organizational hierarchy. In addition, attributes associated with incentive plans such as achievable and clear measures, measures linked to organizational goals, measures that align the interests of the individual with those of the organization, regular plan reviews, and using a balanced scorecard approach with respect to incentive plan design positively impact teamwork and shared vision. For practitioners, this highlights the importance of incentive plans as powerful tools that can be used to reinforce shared vision, effective teamwork, and alignment within the organization. Also, the CIO/IT leader needs to be knowledgeable of the business and must fill the role of both a technologist as well as an enterprise leader. This person must be an evangelist communicating the value and benefits of IT to the rest of the organization.

Since their establishment in the 1960s, Universities of Technology in South Africa have been taking pride in providing career-focused qualifications that match the intermediate needs of the economy. In order to provide these career-focused qualifications, these institutions have been focusing on enacting a curriculum framework that emphasizes replication of industrial processes which tended to accentuate routinized, conventional problem-solving. The shift in economic paradigm in the 21st Century and the general dissatisfaction with graduate readiness in the workplace as evident in both local and international literature, framed as employability skills or generic skills, suggest a new impetus being placed on creativity, especially in engineering education. This study attempted to develop final-year undergraduates’ creativity through making visible the key features of a pedagogic practice, by analyzing the existing engineering undergraduate pedagogic practices, and reconceptualizing and testing a pedagogy that could potentially develop undergraduates’ creativity. The reconceptualized pedagogy, enacted as “learnshops”, accentuated teamwork, collaborative inquiry, guided creative problem-solving and the use of case studies to encourage students to seek the higher designs of water, paper and energy technologies within their institution. Design-Based Research (DBR) frames the methodology and methods of data collection and analysis. The research results show that existing engineering undergraduate pedagogic practices remain trapped in the skills training discourse that emphasizes conventional problemsolving in curriculum enactment. Students’ meanings of creativity remain generally eclectic prior and post involvement in the learnshops, although students’ creativity conceptions become more focused on imagination and resourcefulness postlearnshops. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) scores show that students’ creativity increased as a result of exposure to learnshops. Students working in teams of intermediate size to creatively solve given open-ended tasks related to sustainable development were able to achieve cooperation and generate useful ideas with the help of pedagogic interventions implemented during the learnshops. Itinerant membership as an aspect of team formation has little effect on teams’ generation of ideas.

Teamwork and communication in clinical practice improves with simulation using the TeamSTEPPS program. However, there is limited research about simulation efficacy for improving neonatal resuscitation through enhanced communication. Based on a needs assessment and literature review specific to quality improvement strategies for neonatal resuscitation, an enhanced neonatal resuscitation provider (NRP) course was infused with TeamSTEPPS communication strategies, and an NRP case was adopted for simulation training. Also, utilizing clinician feedback, the flow of the resuscitation documentation was revised. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the perceived level of confidence, satisfaction, and communication skills in nurses performing neonatal resuscitation following the implementation of simulation into NRP training. The simulation exercise was guided by the National League for Nursing / Jeffries Simulation Framework (NLN/JFS). A purposeful sample of nurses (N=61) in a tertiary hospital volunteered to participate in the training and simulation exercise. Demographic information was collected and the Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale was used in a nonrandomized descriptive evaluation with a posttest one-group design. The analysis found 49% of the nurses were confident in their resuscitation skills, 50% were satisfied with the simulation experience, and 47% reported communication needed to be improved for an effective resuscitation process. This project contributes to social change by demonstrating enhanced NRP training within a simulated environment results in the integration of communication and teamwork skills essential to improve the process of neonatal resuscitation.

This thesis investigates Australian middle management teamwork in private and public sector organisations. The research sought to understand key teamwork variables previously overviewed in the literature, but never synthesised and substantially investigated. The main aim, and value, of the study is to bring greater clarity to business organisation teamwork in Australia by determining the variables that define teamwork, and creating a practical model for teams to manage their development. the research rests on a paradigm of post-positiveness, with a particular emphasis on critical realism.The main data collection methodology employed was a survey instrument. The selected paradigm of critical realism allowed a mixture of exploratory methods, and therefore team member focus group reviews were employed to triangulate and confirm the teamwork concepts extracted from the extant literature review. The results indicate that the research hypotheses were not all supported by the data. In general, the hypotheses logically theorised that people in the same teams in the same organisations shared the same attitude and effectiveness perception of their teams. This model could also be used to gain a first pass understanding of team success potential. It should be of assistance to operational management review team processes and human resource departments trying to decide if team members need specific help in the form of education, team member rotation or team member mix adjustment. The model may also help senior management individuals better understand the process required for successful middle management teamwork. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

<p>The purpose of this study was to survey the occurrence of and obstacles to team training in</p><p>neonatal life support in Swedish hospitals and, accordingly, to compare university hospitals</p><p>with other hospitals. The study included all the managers in 37 pediatric wards who</p><p>participated in telephone interviews with the aid of a questionnaire. The results showed that</p><p>81 % of the Swedish hospitals that have a paediatric ward train the staff in neonatal life</p><p>support. All of the university hospitals and 74 % of the other hospitals are running training in</p><p>some form. The methods of training varied and so did the occurrence of training. All the</p><p>managers thought it was important to train neonatal life support. No statistical significant</p><p>difference occurred between university hospitals and other hospitals concerning the methods</p><p>of training, evaluation of training or in possibilities and obstacles of training. The conclusion</p><p>is that training multidisciplinary teams in neonatal life support is going on in most of the</p><p>Swedish hospitals. The team training in neonatal life support is quite a new method in Sweden</p><p>and several hospitals have started the training this year. One third evaluate their training by</p><p>oral reports, which is twice as often as written reports. A recommendation based on the results</p><p>of this study is that certification for the professionals who are involved in neonatal life support</p><p>should be considered.</p>

<p>The purpose of this study is to get an understanding of how teachers in electricity and electronics use teamwork in school. The study was carried out in two upper secondary schools in the middle of Sweden. The method I use is qualitative interviews. The analysis method I selected is an ad hoc method. Teachers regard the use of teamwork in school today as valuable because society and several occupations today demand co-operation and teamwork. Teachers see the advantages when pupils can exchange ideas with each other and get other opinions. Other aspects to why teachers choose teamwork in school is that poor pupils can get support from others. A problem teachers discover is that good students can be prevented to move forward at a higher pace as result of the teamwork. The importance of group size for teamwork and other positive effects due to the presence of others is also discussed.</p> / <p>Syftet med undersökningen är få en insikt i hur ellärare på gymnasiet jobbar med grupparbete i skolan. Metoden som undersökningen bygger på är kvalitativa intervjuer som gjordes på två olika gymnasieskolor i Mellansverige. Valet av analys metod blev den vanliga ad hoc. Resultatet visar att lärarna ser vikten av grupparbeten och samarbetsträning i skolan idag beroende på att det krävs samarbete inom flera yrkesområden och verksamhetsfält ute i samhället. Lärarna ser också behovet att elever får byta idéer och får andra elevers åsikter i undervisningen. Andra aspekter som lärarna tar upp är att svaga elever får stöttning i grupparbetet, men också att starka elever ibland ser grupparbetet som ett hinder för att gå snabbare fram. Gruppstorlekens betydelse för grupparbetet och de positiva effekter som kan uppstå vid enbart social närvaro mellan personer belyses.</p>

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Diane Gill; submitted to the School of Health and Human Performance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-57).