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Health and safety risks, implications and training in hospitals
Authors: Brinia Vasiliki , Antonaki Eleni 
Published: September 2013

Purpose–This paper was written in order to present research undertaken in several hospital units in Greece, in order to explore: nurses' knowledge on health risk factors associated with their work responsibilities, the ways that these factors interfere with their general condition of health (physically and psychologically) and their views on future training interventions on health and safety (H&S) issues.Design/methodology/approach–The methodological tools used were questionnaires completed by 213 nurses, who were working in various units of three Greek hospitals and structured interviews conducted with ten nurses, which allowed the researchers to explore more thoroughly the respondents' views/feelings on H&S risks, implications and training.Findings–The most frequent hazard identified by nurses was hepatitis (biohazard), latex gloves and antiseptics (chemical hazards). The respondents declared that they consistently apply self-protection measures. They also acknowledged the importance of having a support mechanism among colleagues, which would provide them help when needed. They also appeared very keen on attending regularly H&S training programs, especially if these programs were administered during working hours.Originality/value–The research has explored all types of health hazards (physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial) faced by nurses. The results of this study could be useful to hospital managers and H&S professionals who wish to take active measures in order to provide a safer working environment. There could also be comparisons with other similar research in other units/hospitals/health systems/countries, so as to examine whether – and for what reasons – there are differences in the way health professionals experience exposure to risk factors. Finally, this study might be useful to training designers/providers, who need to obtain a better understanding on nurses' educational/training needs when they organize and administer their various H&S training interventions.
Crisis communication strategies: a case of British Petroleum
Authors: C. Valvi Aikaterini , C. Fragkos Konstantinos 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– Every unexpected and sudden event (crisis) operates as a threat for an organization's reputation. British Petroleum (BP) came face to face with a crisis on 20 April 2010 when an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig caused a huge oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. The present case study aims to describe BP's serious communication mistakes with its stakeholders managing a serious hit to BP's reputation.

Design/methodology/approach
– The present case study attempts to provide a detailed outline of BP's communication failures by conducting in-depth investigation of secondary data (newspapers, audiovisual material, social network sites).

Findings
– BP's crisis communication was a weak link in its crisis management strategy. The lessons to learn are various, both for practitioners and researchers. Practitioners should learn from the leadership, culture and public relations (PR) mistakes made by BP and avoid them in a crisis of their organisation. They should select those strategies that foster their organization's strengths and correct its weaknesses in order to take advantage of external opportunities and counter external threats.

Originality/value
– This study could be a valuable asset in communication literature, since BP's PR strategies during this oil spill have not been studied extensively. The communications solutions BP took during the crisis were examined and certain strategies BP should have followed in order to avoid its failed PR plan are suggested, which can help both practitioners and researchers to learn from BP's mistakes and give more attention to communication strategies, which are of critical essence to all crises.
Management training to ensure excellent team performance
Authors: Brodke Michelle 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to highlight areas in which targeted management training will have the greatest impact on creating effective teams.

Design/methodology/approach
– The current best practices from the research literature are presented such that a reasonable program of management training for effective teamwork is proposed.

Findings
– Training professionals have an opportunity to demonstrate their value to organizations by delivering targeted training about how to manage teams through the planning, staffing, launch, and conclusion of a team.

Practical implications
– Professional trainers can provide a needed link from the known best practices for managing teamwork to educating team managers about how to instill those best practices within their teams.

Originality/value
– This paper links factors leading to effective teamwork with a rational for and the key subjects areas that should comprise management training focused on the effective management of teams.
Effect of delamination on nonlinear transient response of composite shells in hygrothermal environments
Authors: Nanda Namita , Sahu S.K. , Bandyopadhyay J.N. 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the nonlinear forced vibration responses of delaminated composite shells in hygrothermal environments.

Design/methodology/approach
– Finite element method using an eight-noded C0 continuity, isoparametric quadrilateral element is employed. The theoretical formulations are based on the first order shear deformation theory and von Kármán type nonlinear kinematics. For modeling the delamination, multipoint constraint algorithm is incorporated in the finite element code.

Findings
– The effect of delaminations on the nonlinear transient response of delaminated composite shells is dependent not only on the size but also on the location of the delaminations and hygrothermal environments.

Research limitations/implications
– The present study is limited to cylindrical and spherical shells having rectangular planform containing single delamination. Studies on different shell forms having non rectangular planforms containing multiple delaminations can be taken up for future research.

Originality/value
– Nonlinear transient response of delaminated shells in hygrothermal environments is studied for the first time. It will assist researchers of nonlinear dynamic behavior of elastic systems.
Governance in adult safeguarding in Scotland since the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Authors: Cornish Sally , Preston-Shoot Michael 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of the paper is to report the findings from research into the governance of adult protection in Scotland, with particular focus on the outcomes of provision for multi-agency leadership and management of adult safeguarding in the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007. Comparisons will be drawn between these findings and the evidence on the governance of adult safeguarding in England.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study comprised a thematic analysis of Adult Protection Committee (APC) biennial reports on implementation of the 2007 Act to the Scottish Government, associated documentation, and key informant interviews with professionals involved in adult protection leadership and practice.

Findings
– A rich and complex pattern of arrangements, activities, experiences and challenges were identified across a number of dimensions, including management structures of APCs, development of policies and procedures, multi-agency working, training, performance assessment and quality management, engagement of service users and carers and operation of the 2007 Act.

Research limitations/implications
– Service users and carers were not directly involved in the documentary review or key informant interviews. There remains a need to investigate the impacts on practice and service user experience of different forms of governance of adult protection arrangements.

Practical implications
– The paper identifies outcomes and challenges in respect of multi-agency approaches to governance taken by APCs in Scotland.

Originality/value
– The paper offers the first formal evaluation of governance of adult protection systems in Scotland and includes comparative analysis with research findings on the governance of adult safeguarding in England.
Differences in causal attributions of caseworkers and elderly clients in the USA: impact on case resolution and cessation of abuse
Authors: L. Jackson Shelly , L. Hafemeister Thomas 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper was to test whether differences in attributions between caseworkers and their elderly clients regarding the cause of reported elder abuse occurring in a domestic setting impact the ability of caseworkers to effectively intervene in elder abuse cases.

Design/methodology/approach
– Interviews were conducted with 63 pairs of caseworkers and either the elderly client with a substantiated report of elder abuse or their surrogate.

Findings
– Initially, 61.9 percent of the pairs of interviewees held discordant attributions regarding the cause of the elderly person's abuse. However, at the close of the investigation, only 41.3 percent of the pairs of interviewees held discordant causal attributions, with 13 elderly persons having changed their attributions to be in alignment with the caseworker. Discordant causal attributions at the close of the investigation was related to an inability to find a resolution and achieving cessation of abuse.

Research limitations/implications
– It will be beneficial to determine methods APS caseworkers can employ to narrow the causal attribution gap.

Practical implications
– Reconciling discordant causal attributions while maintaining victim autonomy can enhance the likelihood of effective interventions and lead to greater victim safety. However, this takes more time than most APS caseworkers in the USA are allowed by statute to allocate to one case and may necessitate statutory changes that accompany changes in practice.

Originality/value
– This is the first study to assess differences between caseworkers and their elderly clients regarding their causal attributions of reported abuse occurring and whether those differences are related to the likelihood of reaching a resolution and the cessation of abuse.
How Mary P. Follett's ideas on management have emerged
Authors: Damart Sébastien 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The aim of this paper is to highlight the way Mary P. Follett's ideas on management have emerged.

Design/methodology/approach
– The research explores the different opportunities Mary P. Follett has regarding management issues. It also analyses Follett's way of reasoning in some of her conferences on management.

Findings
– Follett's ideas on management have been based on her practical management experience and on her political philosophy. The paper particularly demonstrates that Follett was currently proceeding in three different areas: instantiation, conceptual linkage and deduction of management principles. A management problem becomes a particular instance of social interaction situation, within a broader category of problems and situations: that is what we identify as “instantiation”. Follett makes connections with concepts she has developed about democracy: that is what we named “conceptual linkage”. Deduction of management ideas is then made possible by combining instantiation and conceptual linkage.

Originality/value
– This paper helps to explain why so many management authors have considered Mary P. Follett as a pioneer, a “prophet of management”.
Environmental efficiency, advances in environmental technology and total factor of environmental productivity of China
Authors: Song Ma-Lin , Guan Youyi , Song Feng 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to estimate the values of environmental efficiency of each province in China. Subsequently, it analyzes the changes of total factor productivity (TFP) before and after taking the environmental factors into account. Finally, the paper measures the effect of the components of environmental TFP on the convergence of economic growth.

Design/methodology/approach
– The environmental control variables are taken as output variables and combined with a traditional data envelopment analysis model to build an environmental TFP Index. The growth of environmental TFP is compared among regions and the differences are analyzed. Furthermore, the decomposed components (advances in environmental technology and environmental technical efficiency) are used for regression analysis with labor productivity.

Findings
– The environmental efficiency of most provinces in China has improved although some regions' efficiency remains low in Northeastern China. The value of environmental TFP is higher and more fluctuant during the period of 1997-2009 than that of traditional TFP. Technical efficiency has a convergence effect on economic growth of regions/provinces, but, after adding environmental factors, it turns into a divergence effect.

Research limitations/implications
– Because of data limitations, this paper does not consider the impacts of human capital and other factors on in the convergence analysis on economic. Neither does it consider the use of panel data to analyze the convergence of economic growth and validate the conclusions. These are potential further research directions.

Practical implications
– The study confirms that improvements in environmental technologies play a dominant role in enhancing China's environmental TFP. Furthermore, it demonstrates that China's economic growth largely depends on technological progress. This finding, that China's economic growth depends on advances in environmental technology, implies that China should strive to improve its capacity for technological innovation.

Originality/value
– The paper measures the value of environmental efficiency in the China's provinces and analyzes the relationship between pollution and economic development in each province. Panel data are used to compare the difference among environmental TFP, environmental factors and traditional TFP. The convergence of economic growth is analyzed in respect of environmental control variables.
Intention to use internet marketing
Authors: Sin Tan Khong , Chong Siong-Choy , Lin Binshan 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This is a pilot study that aims to investigate the factors influencing the intention to use internet marketing among Malaysians and South Koreans, the two fast developing Asian countries with good internet infrastructure. Many businesses in these countries have leveraged on the rapid growth of World Wide Web by investing in internet marketing due to the anticipation that its acceptance and usage rates are on the increasing trend. However, the extent of intent to use internet marketing remains a question of interest.

Design/methodology/approach
– This research adopts unified theory of acceptance and use of technology as the underpinning theory to assess the intention to use internet marketing. Data were collected using convenience sampling method from 150 Malaysians and 150 South Koreans through the use of self-reporting questionnaires. The questionnaire was prepared in two languages, English and Hangul to obtain accurate responses.

Findings
– The findings suggest that different factors affect intentions to use internet marketing between Malaysians and South Koreans.

Research limitations/implications
– This is a pilot study and due to its exploratory nature, future research directions are provided for an actual scientific study to be conducted.

Practical implications
– The results inform various stakeholders in the two countries and recommend strategies from the perspective of internet marketing's increased adoption.

Originality/value
– The theoretical and practical contributions of this paper are articulated to guide organizations and policy makers in terms of the strategies to increase internet marketing acceptance and use among the young Malaysians and South Koreans.
The impact of IT infrastructures on Iranian nurses' and students' health information-seeking strategies
Authors: Kahouei Mehdi , Babamohamadi Hassan , Sadat Ghazavi shariat panahi Soheila , Mahdi Zadeh Jamileh 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– Health departments of Iran have attempted to encourage nursing staff to incorporate research findings into practice since 2005. Consequently, significant changes have occurred in nursing area including holding computer skills courses, digital library workshops, establishing web sites in hospitals, and developing information technology (IT) training in nursing students' curriculum to increase accessibility to best practice information and opportunity for nurses and students to use research-based information in their clinical decision. So a question has raised, what information resources are used by nursing staff and students in hospitals? The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– A total of 412 nurses and students working in hospitals connected to web and digital libraries participated. They are evaluated with a questionnaire.

Findings
– The results indicated that the students and the nurses preferred experiential knowledge to research-based information in their clinical decisions and they had little tendency to high-level evidence. Results showed that lack of skill in using library was the most important deterrent in using research-based information.

Originality/value
– It could be concluded that provision of the infrastructures for using research-based information in clinical decisions was not sufficient. In addition to infrastructures, the paper must invest on organizational, system-wide approaches such as organizational culture, information literacy culture, acceptance of innovation, role of clinical librarians and advanced nursing informatics, and social marketing in evidence-based practice to facilitate the use of higher-level evidence in practice.
Evaluation of librarianship and ICT skills of library and information professionals working in the engineering college libraries in Karnataka, India: a survey
Authors: Fakkirappa Kattimani Shivaputrappa , R. Naik Ramesh 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the competences in librarianship and information communication and technology (ICT) skills between different designations of library professionals (librarian, deputy librarian, assistant librarian and library assistants and others) working in the engineering college libraries affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum (www.vtu.ac.in) in Karnataka state, India.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study adopts a combined methodology of theory, fieldwork and the data gathering tools used which included questionnaire, observation and interaction with library and information professionals.

Findings
– The majority of the library professionals working in the engineering colleges in Karnataka state have chosen this profession by accident. The significant difference is observed between different designations towards competence on operation of computers, creation of files and folders, radio frequency identification, library automation software modules, various operating systems, internet-related skills, web design/web editors, search engines and digitization of IR. Compared to all designations, librarians have more skills on web designs. The majority of the professionals are facing financial problems, overload of work and negative attitude of the higher authority in acquiring ICT skills.

Originality/value
– This is the first ever study of library professionals working in technical institutions in Karnataka state (India) about the competences in ICT and librarianship.
The importance of a “Lasting Power of Attorney”
Authors: Martins Roberto 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to outline the importance of putting a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) in place, particularly as you plan for your older years.

Design/methodology/approach
– This article takes the form of a review of the current LPA and offers advice on how to register a LPA.

Findings
– By registering a LPA both the donor and their family benefits from peace of mind.

Originality value
– The Public Guardian Board Annual Report 2012 stated that the aim is for every adult in England and Wales to have a LPA.
Looking through tools and situations
Authors: Béjean Mathias , Gentès Annie 
Published: September 2013

Purpose– This paper aims to contribute to the field of research that considers how artefacts and information and communication technologies (ICT) shape organizational practices. In particular, it aims at understanding how tools not only reconfigure relations in organizations, i.e. how people coordinate between each other, but also meaning, i.e. how people interpret the fundamental meaning of their work content and tasks.Design/methodology/approach– The paper reports findings from a longitudinal ethnographic study which investigates the writing process of an interactive live performance written by a group of non-professional writers that was led by French video and multimedia artist Michel Jaffrennou during three months.Findings– The paper shows how multiplying writing software induced the group members to challenge their initial understanding of the cultural and traditional genre of “theater play”. It provides an empirically based account of the capacity of tools to reconfigure meaning in organizational contexts.Practical implications– The paper provides insights about how tools can be used not only as means to an end, but also as ways in which to build original strategies for exploration, especially during creative group sessions.Originality/value– The paper sheds light on distinctive albeit poorly studied aspects of tools and ICT within organizations, namely their capacity to reconfigure meaning, which more empirical studies could further investigate.
Novel Mutation in the KCNJ2 Gene Is Associated with a Malignant Arrhythmic Phenotype of Andersen‐Tawil Syndrome
Authors: Fernlund E. , Lundin C. , Hertervig E. , Kongstad O. , Alders M. , Platonov P. 
Published: September 2013

BackgroundAndersen‐Tawil syndrome (ATS) is a rare inherited multisystem disorder associated with mutations in KCNJ2 and low prevalence of life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Our aim was to describe the clinical course of ATS in a family, in which the proband survived aborted cardiac arrest (ACA) and genetic screening revealed a previously unknown mutation (c.271_282del12[p.Ala91_Leu94del]) in the KCNJ2 gene.MethodsA cascade family screening was performed in a 5‐generation family after identification of the KCNJ2 mutation in the proband. Subsequently, 10 of 21 screened individuals appeared to be mutation carriers (median age 38 [range 10–75] years, 3 female). Mutation carriers underwent clinical examination including biochemistry panel, cardiac ultrasound, Holter ECG, and exercise stress test.Results(1) At baseline, 2 patients had survived ACA, 3 had syncope or presyncopal attacks, and 2 reported palpitations. Exercise‐induced nonsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia was documented in 4 patients, 2 received implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators (ICD) for primary prevention and 2 for secondary prevention. (2) During follow‐up, 1 primary prevention and 1 secondary prevention patient received in total 4 adequate ICD shocks. Life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias were documented during childhood in 5 of 10 mutation carriers. (3) All mutation carriers presented with characteristic mild dysmorphic features. Only 1 patient suffered from periodic paralysis. All had normal serum potassium level at repeated assessments and none had any other extracardiac disease manifestation.ConclusionOur findings suggest that the novel KCNJ2 mutation is associated with a predominantly cardiac phenotype of Andersen‐Tawil syndrome with high propensity to life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias presenting from childhood and young adulthood.