« Awareness » des gestionnaires est un facteur prédictif essentiel d'une coordination réussie. Il a été prouvé que la conscience joue un rôle crucial dans le processus de prise de décision et la performance, en particulier dans les systèmes complexes et dynamiques tels que les soins de santé. La personne avec une plus grande conscience de la situation sera susceptible de prendre des décisions raisonnables. En outre, la connaissance incomplète ou insuffisante peut entraîner une performance médiocre car les acteurs ne parviennent pas à approcher des solutions raisonnables. Le but principal de cette thèse est de développer une définition opérationnelle du concept de conscience dans la gestion des soins de santé. Nous souhaitons déterminer quels comportements, attitudes ou compétences doivent être considérées comme importants pour un responsable de la santé averti. Les résultats de l'étude contribueront à la gestion des soins de santé en identifiant les profils potentiels de ce qu'un responsable pourrait être. Dans notre recherche, nous supposons que le concept de prise de conscience est utile pour décrire les types de comportements de gestion pertinents dans le contexte de la gestion des soins de santé. Le premier chapitre de l'introduction résume les principaux points concernant le contexte et l'objectif de la recherche. Le chapitre deux de la revue de la littérature donne un aperçu du concept de conscience dans les soins de santé et dans certains autres domaines. Le chapitre trois est celui de la méthodologie qui justifie nos méthodes choisies. Nous avons adopté une combinaison de phénoménologie herméneutique et de recherche par sondage dans une approche séquentielle. Le chapitre quatre des résultats est consacré à la présentation de tous les résultats obtenus par des traitements qualitatifs et quantitatifs. Le chapitre cinq de discussion résume les principales conclusions et compare les éléments de notre définition avec ceux d’autres définitions proposées par des spécialistes dans d’autres domaines. / Managers’ awareness is a crucial predictor of successful coordination. Awareness is proven to play a crucial role in the decision‐making process and performance. The major purpose of this thesis Healthcare managers' awareness: an operational definition built on a combination of hermeneutic phenomenology and survey research is to develop an operational definition of the concept of awareness in healthcare management. The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one of introduction summarizes the main points about the background, the research objective and design. Chapter two of literature reviews provides an overview about the concept of awareness in healthcare and in some other domains. Chapter three of research approach and methods justifies our chosen methods. We adopt a combination of hermeneutic phenomenology and survey research in a sequential approach. There is no dominant phase and the role of each phase is clarified. For each phase, there are discussions of corresponding research traditions as well as the rationale for our specific choices. Chapter four of the results is devoted to presenting all the findings obtained by qualitative and quantitative treatments. Each of the two phases provides a specific type of knowledge with regard to the concept of awareness. Qualitative data analysis uncovers key proxies of the concept, including collecting the information, ensuring information verification, analyzing practices and integrative thinking and acting. The quantitative phase aims to facilitate the concept refinement applying exploratory factor analysis. We generate items, which clarify indicators of each proxy to design the survey questionnaire. The survey respondents are managers at some healthcare organizations in Vietnam. The results of exploratory factor analysis report a clear structure of four factors corresponding to the four identified proxies. The impacts of some sociodemographic characteristics on each proxy are also addressed. The results reveal that gender, healthcare management experience and organization type have no impact on the level of awareness. Meanwhile, the level of management might influence health care managers’ level of integrating. Senior managers are more likely to report a greater score in the component of integrating. The chapter five of discussion summarizes key findings and compare the elements of our definition with those of other definitions proposed by scholars in other fields. A discussion using qualitative data as a complement to quantitative findings is also provided. Other content of the chapter fiveis concerned with the strengths and limitations of the study. Finally, recommendations for future studies are also discussed.

Social desirability refers to the need for social approval or acceptance (Toh, Lee, & Hu, 2006). This need results in the oft-observed human tendency to present oneself in the best possible light (Fisher, 1993), a tendency that may entail research participants giving or selecting the responses that they perceive to be most socially acceptable when completing self-report questionnaires. Whether the product of self-deception or deliberate impression management (Toh et al., 2006), the failure of participants to respond truthfully or accurately when completing self-reports can distort research results (Fisher, 1993; Schriesheim, 1979; Toh et al., 2006) and cast doubt on the validity of findings. This workshop will familiarize attendees with information on the causes of social desirability bias and simple techniques to assess and control social desirability bias in survey research.

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AbstractThe importance of technological progress is hard to downplay, and it becomes even moreobvious in the times of the crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has been changing the normalflow of everyday life: a lot of countries have closed their borders, unnecessary travel isreduced to minimum, online grocery shopping breaks any possible records, we live withthe feeling of uncertainty what tomorrow may bring...But despite all that, life is goingon. Work processes have not stopped, on the opposite, “home office” has become the newnormal; universities still provide knowledge to students thanks to distance learning. Allkinds of technological tools help us keep different processes running – we areexperiencing a rapid turn to a more digital and sustainable future.Long before the coronavirus and its effect on the mankind in general, the Communicationfor Development programme at Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden) has demonstratedan example of the use of information and communication technologies in practice. Theprogramme has been running for almost 20 years already (September, 2020, marks its20th anniversary), and its distance learning format has been one of the main attractivefactors for students with other commitments, such as family, job, voluntary work, etc.More than that, an innovative and interdisciplinary nature of the programme has made itpossible for people from all around the world, with different backgrounds and lifeschedules, participate in it.On the one hand, it looks like ICT and new media have created a perfect ground for thestudying process. But on the other hand, probably it is quite early to be too optimisticabout it.This paper tries to look deeper into the role that the pedagogical approaches,communication, media and digital channels play for the ComDev students and alumni.The current work also aims at investigating the impact of ComDev on their alumni’s pathsand practical use of the acquired theoretical knowledge in the field of social change.Survey research in the form of an online questionnaire and semi structured interviews areused as a quali-quantitative methodological approach in the body of the paper.I would like to carry out this study as action research for optimization of the learningprocess and finding more efficient ways of promoting social change, that could be helpfulin the future for ComDev.

Remembering negative experiences with extreme heat may promote future protective actions and provide insight to improve heat risk awareness and communication practices. This two-part thesis found 1) that experiencing heat-related health symptoms predicted what Americans would do to protect themselves and others during subsequent heat waves; and 2) that Utah professionals regard heat-related experience as an important factor in how they responded to extreme heat events. In the first study, a US national survey showed that personal experience with heat-related health symptoms was related to the tendency to say that one engaged in different protective behaviors, while other factors like risk perception and temperature were less related to self-reported behaviors. Sociodemographic factors such as age, race, and gender were related to Americans’ reported efforts to check on other people during a heat wave—with African-Americans, women, and older adults being more likely to do so— but did not have much relationship with how people personally protect themselves. The second study found that heat experience was an important factor in how public officials and media broadcasters manage extreme heat situations. Interviews of professionals in Utah revealed that experience with heat impacts influenced public forecasters, practitioners, and media members alike in their heat risk decisions and messaging practices even though official heat risk communication products in Utah were somewhat unfamiliar. This study also found that public forecasters recently changed how they measure extreme heat to better communicate the dangers of dry heat in the Intermountain West. This change will likely cause more official heat alerts to be issued in this region.

Critics of youth sports in the United States have lamented a system that creates issues of access and could be detrimental to the physical and mental health of its young participants. In response to these concerns, USA Hockey, using Long Term Athlete Development Theory (LTAD) as a key theoretical framework, created the American Development Model (ADM) to improve the delivery of youth hockey in the US. While USA Hockey has invested greatly in bringing ADM to scale across its constituents, it is not known to what extent the model is being implemented in its member organizations. Implementation fidelity of a prescribed treatment or curriculum is tied to better outcomes. This study leverages key concepts of program evaluation theory and survey development to produce a valid and reliable survey instrument that can be used to assess the implementation fidelity of ADM at the 12U age group across the nation. A survey instrument was developed through three waves of development. The first wave included local pilot testing and cognitive interviews. The second wave including a regional sample and utilized factor analysis coupled with item analysis to improve the instrument and to create composite scores of key constructs. The third and final wave included a national sample of 214 parents of 12U hockey players. The results of the survey produce psychometric properties indicating good reliability and validity of the instrument including face and content validity, internal reliability, and factor analysis. Analysis of composite scores for each construct of the model identified strong implementation of much of the on-ice components but was lacking in other areas such as physical development and mental skill development. The final ADM scale demonstrated statistically significant positive associations with two subscales of the Athlete Engagement Questionnaire, further validating the study and demonstrating an important association with the delivery model to key outcomes. The study concludes with a discussion of ADM’s implementation fidelity and policy recommendations regarding how the ADM curriculum may be improved given key findings.

This study examined the perceptions of principals, teachers, and support staff at 3 PREPS-identified value added and three PREPS-identified value subtracted elementary schools in Mississippi to determine if there were effective schools practices in the areas of instructional and organizational systems that were unique to either group. The Survey of Instructional and Organizational Effectiveness from the National Study of School Evaluation was used to measure strengths and limitations of the effectiveness of the instructional practices and organizational conditions of each school. Descriptive statistics and comparative analysis were used to analyze responses to the 24-item survey. Results showed there were statistically significant differences between the value added and value subtracted schools for the categories of curriculum, instructional design, assessment, and leadership for school improvement. There were no significant differences in the categories of educational agenda, community-building, and culture of continuous improvement and learning.

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Nonresponse is a growing problem in surveys of college students and the general population. At present, we have a limited understanding of survey nonresponse in college student populations and therefore the extent to which survey results may be biased. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore three facets of nonresponse in surveys of college students in order to strengthen our empirical and conceptual understanding of this phenomenon. This dissertation seeks to contribute to our understanding of who participates in surveys and who does not, how students experience the process of being asked to complete surveys, and whether or not students' perspectives about surveys suggest that college student surveys should be conceptualized as organizational surveys. To begin to answer these questions, I conducted three studies -- a secondary data analysis that examines student characteristics associated with the odds of completing a survey, a "survey on surveys" study that asks students about their experiences with surveys, and a series of focus groups to understand how students made sense of surveys at their institutions. Taken together, these findings provide a basis for a more developed and nuanced understanding of nonresponse in student surveys.

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