Determination of Innovative and Risk Taking Behaviors in Nurse Managers

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Nurse empowerment from a middle-management perspective: nurse managers' and assistant nurse managers' workplace empowerment views.

BACKGROUND Researchers have explored empowerment as an important condition for nursing staff but little current research focuses on empowerment from a middle-management perspective. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the empowerment of a middle-management group made up of only nurse managers (NMs) and assistant nurse managers (ANMs) in an acute-care hospital setting. ...

Risk Taking and Optimal Contracts for Money Managers¤

Recent empirical work suggests a strong connection between the incentives money managers are o®ered and their risk-taking behavior. We develop a general model of delegated portfolio management, with the feature that the agent can control the riskiness of the portfolio. This represents a departure from the existing literature on agency theory in that moral hazard is not only e®ort exertion but a...

Evaluation of time management behaviors and its related factors in the senior nurse managers, Kermanshah-Iran.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Time management is an extensive concept that is associated with promoting the performance of managers. The present study was carried out to investigate the time management behaviors along with its related factors among senior nurse mangers. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive-analytical study, 180 senior nurse managers were selected using census method. The instru...

Nurse Managers Stress and Coping

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain insight into nurse managers’ stress experiences and coping strategies in order to better support them. Design: A qualitative exploratory descriptive research design was used in this study. Subject: Fifteen nurse managers participated in this study. Results: Three descriptive themes related to nurse managers’ occupational stress were identified: r...