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Information Technology & People, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-3845

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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Peter Littlejohns, Carol Dumelow and Sian Griffiths

The NHS Executive expects purchasers and providers to base their agreed patterns of care on evidence of clinical effectiveness. If this approach is to be successful it is…

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The NHS Executive expects purchasers and providers to base their agreed patterns of care on evidence of clinical effectiveness. If this approach is to be successful it is necessary to reconcile conflicting published information about effectiveness and local professional opinion. In this study we have identified the type of interactions that occur when purchasers and providers were brought together to discuss how this policy could be implemented locally. Three geographically‐based multidisciplinary workshops were structured around three case studies: coronary artery disease, diabetes, and the management of clinical depression in general practice. The proceedings were transcribed and analysed using content analysis methods. Structured observation techniques were used to examine the interaction between providers and purchasers in the three groups that discussed coronary artery disease. While the overall pattern of interactions between purchasers and providers was similar among the workshops, there were significant differences within them. In two of the workshops providers dominated the discussions on clinical effectiveness, which may affect the purchaser's ability to implement a policy of clinical effectiveness. If a local policy of clinical effectiveness is to be successful there is a need to strengthen purchasers' ability to match the provider's knowledge and enthusiasm.

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Journal of Clinical Effectiveness, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1361-5874

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Publication date: 1 May 1993

Sian Griffiths

Discusses Goal 3 of Opportunity 2000 and questions its feasibilitywithin the framework of contemporary society and its healthorganizations. The possibility of increasing the…

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Discusses Goal 3 of Opportunity 2000 and questions its feasibility within the framework of contemporary society and its health organizations. The possibility of increasing the number of women consultants from 15.5 per cent in 1991 to 20 per cent in 2000 requires substantial changes in selection and training and the commitment of employers to provide a much more flexible working environment. Describes a workshop held by the Regional Health Authority to explore possibilities in the region for achieving Goal 3. Specific issues raised were the differential rates in specific specialties. Surgery is a particular case in point. It may well be that this particular region does not achieve Goal 3, but the question is also raised of its feasibility and/or desirability. The goal may need to be redefined, if it is to be achieved sensibly.

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Journal of Management in Medicine, vol. 7 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-9235

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Publication date: 1 April 2000

Janice Robinson and Siân Griffiths

New public health policies present social services with new opportunities and challenges. A shared public health and social care agenda is emerging around health improvement…

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New public health policies present social services with new opportunities and challenges. A shared public health and social care agenda is emerging around health improvement, social exclusion and regeneration. Early signs of synergy indicate that social services have a key role to play in shaping the public health agenda and in acting as a bridge between the NHS and the wider local authority.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 8 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 March 2000

Siân Evans

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Journal of Management in Medicine, vol. 14 no. 1
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ISSN: 0268-9235

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Publication date: 1 February 1995

Carol Dumelow and Sian Griffiths

A survey of 890 appointment committee members undertaken in SouthThames (West) Regional Health Authority showed that women doctors areless likely to apply for posts in hospital…

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A survey of 890 appointment committee members undertaken in South Thames (West) Regional Health Authority showed that women doctors are less likely to apply for posts in hospital medicine, although if they do apply they stand a better chance of getting appointed. Male respondents perceived role conflict in combining professional and family demands, child‐care arrangements and career breaks to be the main barriers facing female hospital doctors. In contrast female doctors considered organizational culture, career structure and working practices to be the main barriers. Candidates, particularly female candidates, are still being asked questions about their plans to have a family and ability to combine family and professional demands. There is a need to ensure the culture, attitudes and organizational practices within the medical profession are changed if there is to be equity of opportunity and effective use of resources in the future.

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Journal of Management in Medicine, vol. 9 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-9235

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Publication date: 1 March 2011

Daniel Ashton

The aim of this paper is to present qualitative research with higher education games design students to explore situated understandings of work and the negotiation of “work” and…

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The aim of this paper is to present qualitative research with higher education games design students to explore situated understandings of work and the negotiation of “work” and “non‐work” boundaries.

Design/methodology/approach

Situated understandings of work are examined through interviews and focus groups with games design students in the UK and contextualised with interviews with games industry professionals and attendance at industry careers events. The theoretical approach of “occupational devotion” is used to explore work practices and motivations, and “technological action” is then used to draw out the significance of relations with games technologies in this negotiation.

Findings

The main finding concerns the continued significance of a fixed field of “work” for students intending to progress from education into “work”. The importance of “work” was identified in how students positioned themselves (occupational devotion) and engaged with games technologies (technological action). This is contrasted with the emphasis on co‐creative relations and broadbrush assertions of blurring boundaries between work and non‐work.

Research limitations/implications

A larger sample of students that ranged across different digital gaming disciplines within higher education (programming; art) would add breadth and further perspectives. Further research would connect student perceptions of the games industry, from attending events such as careers fairs, and the industry promotional discourses and representational strategies. A longitudinal study would be valuable for tracing changes in recruitment strategies and industry and education intersections.

Practical implications

The paper provides insights into how higher education students engage with the games industry and articulates their personal development and employability attributes.

Originality/value

This paper makes a case for research with students as a means to explore boundaries of “work” and “non‐work”. It questions the blurring of “work” and “non‐work”, and provides conceptual pointers, combined with empirical research, that indicate the continued purchase of fixed notions of “work” for workers‐in‐the‐making. This is relevant for scholarly research into the sociology of work, higher education pedagogy, and industry‐education relations.

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Information Technology & People, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-3845

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Publication date: 1 March 2011

Bridget Blodgett and Andrea Tapia

This paper aims to define and articulate the concept of digital protestainment, to address how technologies have enabled boundaries to become more permeable, and in which this…

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This paper aims to define and articulate the concept of digital protestainment, to address how technologies have enabled boundaries to become more permeable, and in which this permeability leads to the engendering of new cultures.

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Two case studies, within Second Life and EVE Online, are examined to see how digital protestainment, through the lens of cultural borderlands, creates a hybridized culture. Recorded interviews and textual analysis of web sites are used to illustrate the concepts of play, work, and blended activities.

Findings

Within virtual environments the process of hybridization is not only increased in size, scope, form, and function. The borderlands process draws in cultural elements through a complex interchange between the online and the offline, in which hybridized cultural bits are carried out into other spaces.

Research limitations/implications

The success of the cases does not represent all digital protest examples and so this study is limited in its ability to generalize to the population of virtual protests. This study limits the realm of digital protestainment to virtual worlds but the concept could be applied to any form of virtual community.

Practical implications

Companies that host these worlds will need to become aware not only of what their audience is but also how that audience will mobilize and the likely outcomes of their mobilization. Virtual worlds offer organizational leaders a new resource for training, support, and recruitment.

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The theoretical concept of cultural borderlands is expanded to the digital environment and introduced as a potentially new and useful tool to internet researchers.

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Information Technology & People, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-3845

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Publication date: 1 January 1994

Women in Management Review Volume 8 No. 7 of this journal contains four articles of interest. In the first, entitled “Women Managers in the Former USSR: A Case of ”Too Much…

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Women in Management Review Volume 8 No. 7 of this journal contains four articles of interest. In the first, entitled “Women Managers in the Former USSR: A Case of ”Too Much Equality?“” Sheila M. Puffer discusses the conditions experienced by women in the former USSR who are aspiring to or are currently occupying managerial positions. Soviet women feel the pressure of two societal forces: they are expected to work as well as to be the primary person responsible for home and family. Many complain: “We have too much equality”. Previews the statistics on women in the labour force in the former USSR, and examines seven factors affecting Soviet women's access to managerial positions: (1) the perception of management as a masculine domain, (2) cultural constraints on women's roles, (3) women's roles in family life, (4) the stage of the country's economic development, (5) social policy, (6) access to higher education and (7) organisational context. Concludes with an assessment of the prospects for Soviet women in managerial positions.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 13 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 1 January 1995

Brian Quinn

Canons have been of interest to librarians dating back to the days when Robert Maynard Hutchins instituted the Great Books program at the University of Chicago. Hutchins did so at…

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Canons have been of interest to librarians dating back to the days when Robert Maynard Hutchins instituted the Great Books program at the University of Chicago. Hutchins did so at the suggestion of the popular philosopher, Mortimer Adler. When Adler later helped to popularize the program with the public, public libraries around the country became the sites for meetings of Great Books discussion groups.

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Collection Building, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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