the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore the processes that nurse managers use to promote change in their wards. DESIGN Qualitative research. METHODS A grounded theory approach was used. Participants were 23 nurse managers and 17 nurses in Japan. Interviews were conducted between March 2014 - December 2015. Mainly, nurse managers' data was analysed. RESULTS The change process led by the n...

purpose: to examine link between conflict management styles used by university library managers with such demographic attributes such as gender, education, academic vs administrative status, experience, and their full vs. part time involvement with their role as library managers. methodology: data was secured by questioning library managers about their preferred treatment of staff conflicts. th...

Have you ever felt that the search for Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) accuracy is endless? In 2007, the administrators and clinical managers at Professional Healthcare Resources, Inc. (PHRI) looked at the agency’s functional outcome indicators (improvement in bathing, transferring, ambulation/locomotion, and management of medications) and shook our heads. Once again, the outcome...

This study utilized an external logger system for onsite measurements of computer activities of two professional groups-twelve university administrators and twelve computer-aided design (CAD) draftsmen. Computer use of each participant was recorded for 10 consecutive days-an average of 7.9+/-1.8 workdays and 7.8+/-1.5 workdays for administrators and draftsmen, respectively. Quantitative paramet...

The purpose of this study was to find out, the types, causes of conflict and management techniques of resolving conflicts by university administrators. It was a descriptive research design of the survey type which aimed at eliciting information from the university administrators. The administrators include the ViceChancellors, Deputy Vice Chancellors (Academic and Administration) Registrars, Li...

The objective of the University Freedom Act (Hochschulfreiheitsgesetz) in North Rhine-Westphalia is to achieve entrepreneurial universities that are to be steered by their presidents and vice-presidents – in other word, their managers. For this purpose, along with management, leadership is also important. This paper attempts to determine how university managers deal with those tasks. Interviews...

This study aims to understand how individuals cope with a family member entering hospice care, how role dynamics and the formation of meaning reveal insights about the process of death, and how dying relates to the hospice organization, hospice administrators, managers, and supervisors, the patient, and surviving family members. The axioms of symbolic interactionism provide both a useful framew...

The study aims to identify the extent which decision-makers at German Jordanian University take into account gender level of representation and resources, factors that help women reach leadership positions, difficulties they face in work environment, attitudes administrators towards women’s participation decision-making, what are accepted as managers. A descriptive analytical approach was used,...