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Balance of occupation in older adults: experiences in a residential care home
Authors: Hearle Deb , Rees Val , Prince Jane 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe significant increase in the number of older adults in the UK population is expected to continue. Physical and psychological problems associated with ageing often require older adults to move into residential care where opportunities to participate in previously enjoyed occupations may be limited. Engagement in self‐selected purposeful activities is positively related to physical and psychological well‐being. This paper aims to focus on some of these issues.Design/methodology/approachAn ethnographic approach, a single case study of one care home in a semi‐rural area of Wales was designed to investigate the balance of occupation of residents. Occupations were observed and recorded using a time‐sampling frame over 12 hours on three consecutive days. Field notes were used to contextualise the data in reflecting the home environment.FindingsThe majority spent their time in the lounges and remained passive, interacting infrequently with staff and one another. Little opportunity or intervention has been afforded to residents to encourage or support participation in occupation.Research limitations/implicationsA single case study may not be representative of the experiences of residents in other care homes. Time limited observation over different locations may miss activities. Future research could extend the scope of the study.Practical implicationsOlder adults in residential care should be supported to engage in occupations. Employment of occupational therapists could allow support to be individually and appropriately focussed. There are implications for health and social care course design and also for the training of care workers.Originality/valueThe paper illustrates observation of activities in a care home over an extended period.
How Specsavers attracts and nurtures outstanding talent
Authors: Newby Leah , Howarth Chris 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to detail the innovative campaign co‐developed by Words&Pictures and Specsavers to raise the caliber of Specsavers' profile in the optics profession among university optometry graduates, to produce a continuous flow of talent within the company, and to give customers the best service.Design/methodology/approachAdopting a collaborative approach, Specsavers' canvassed the opinions of its employees and joint venture partners to develop a new HR strategy to attract and nurture outstanding talent. In order to implement the new strategy, Specsavers turned to Words&Pictures, which created a high‐end internal brand, INsight, to showcase the new five‐part recruitment and development program.Practical implicationsOrganizations that face similar recruitment challenges would do well to re‐assess the needs of the business, including the inter‐personal and communication skills required by their employees.Originality/valueWorking together, Specsavers and Words&Pictures combined their unique strengths to create a visually stunning, professional, practical, aspirational and fun suite of training materials for pre‐registration optometrists. This has helped to elevate Specsavers' pre‐registration optometrists' program above its competitors and positioned the company as unrivalled in its attitude towards employee acquisition, development and retention.
Future female talent development
Authors: Garcea Nicky , Linley Alex , Mazurkiewicz Katarzyna , Bailey Trudy 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThis article sets out to highlight some of the positive outcomes in the development of rising female leaders. Latest research shows that organizations and women need to be aware of the challenges hindering the realization of female talent. The article provides an overview of how the strengths approach can help address these challenges through its integration into future female leader development programs. It also presents a pilot case study of strengths‐based development from Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.Design/methodology/approachThomson Reuters explored using the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology's (Capp) 3S‐P model of talent development in relation to the development of female leaders. The 3S‐P model looks at the effect that working on strengths, strategy and situation has on performance. As part of this exploration, Capp's 4M model of strengths development was also used in a coaching and development environment to help delegates align their strengths to their organizational objectives.FindingsThe pilot, which was targeted at emerging female future leaders, showed that the strengths‐based “Women in Leadership” program at Thomson Reuters was just as effective for delegates who received the program face‐to‐face as those who received the training virtually, and demonstrated that strengths awareness had an impact on their capacity to deliver their goals and ability to influence.Practical implicationsStrengths‐based emerging female leadership development provides an effective and reliable methodology for developing talent at this level and helps ensure that future female leaders can align their unique strengths profile to their goals and career aspirations.Originality/valueThomson Reuters is the first organization to take an explicit strengths‐based approach to the development of its rising female leaders. It is also one of the few organizations to maximize the use of virtual technology in order to develop women at this level in locations around the world. This approach is consistent with the organization's commitment to developing future leaders who demonstrate global mind set and embrace technology to effectively communicate and influence virtually.
K2 & AXA Insurance (UK) – transforming the culture in a key part of the organization
Authors: Constable Jim 
Published: June 2012

PurposeK2's work with AXA (UK) has developed from a single “athlete at work” workshop for one manager into a high‐performance coaching program across 40 claims teams in multiple sites. It also formed part of AXA's Fast Forward initiative for accelerating individual talent. This paper aims to explore how the program developed at such scale, changing the inherent performance culture within AXA's critical claims business and giving the teams improved control over their results outcome.Design/methodology/approachDelivery of K2's elite team program to front line claims teams and management personnel was designed to inspire confidence, improve morale and establish a network of support, thereby triggering a sustainable cultural change within the organization and all‐round better performance.FindingsThe author demonstrates how a structured, premeditated performance program can often lead to unexpected, organic shifts in behavior that positively influence and alter a company's future outlook and performance ratio. By taking ownership of new styles of working, leaders can inspire and innovate through workforce participation, creating highly beneficial standalone initiatives that are adopted into the business on a permanent basis.Originality/valueThe article summarizes the relationship between K2 and AXA Claims, the difficulties facing both staff and leaders at the outset of the program, and how K2 set about effecting lasting change through use of individual and team techniques and methodologies.
All together now? Strategic segmentation in talent and reward
Authors: Durham Gemma , Charman Chris 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the marketing notion of segmentation in the HR context and specifically how this thinking can be applied to talent and reward programs.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a best practice guide and discussion based on a combination of recent survey data and the authors' experience of applying this thinking across a range of companies and industry sectors.FindingsSegmentation can be applied as a principle with benefits across talent and reward programs but it presents a range of change challenges. Long‐term low levels of people spend in Western multinationals may lead to segmented thinking being a logical response to future people challenges. Reward and talent professionals should consider this as a potential response early and strategically.Originality/valueThe article points to the adoption of a bottom‐up, role‐based approach to segmentation as a valuable approach to thinking through the implications of segmentation in any organization.
Unintended consequences? The impact of NHS reforms upon Torbay Care Trust
Authors: Farnsworth Anthony 
Published: June 2012

PurposeTorbay Care Trust has been widely promoted as an effective model of integrated health and social care, and yet the impact of reforms introduced by the previous and current governments has been to destabilise its partnership coherence and its organisational form. This paper seeks to explain why this is the case, highlighting the potentially damaging consequences for the local, currently productive, system of care; and to indicate the local adaptations necessary to maintain progress, which are seen as under continuing threat in the current financial environment.Design/methodology/approachThis is a personal reflection by the chief executive of Torbay Care Trust, reviewing the documented progress made since 2005.FindingsThe model of partnership, collaboration and risk sharing carefully nurtured over 15 years in Torbay has been proven to be beneficial not only for local people, but for NHS financial and clinical performance generally, and for social care performance. This is now paradoxically being undermined by the more commercially‐minded policy approaches of Labour's Transforming Community Services programme and by the current NHS reforms. New tensions have arisen across the “health and social care divide”.Originality/valueThe current government is unequivocally committed to integrated care, and specifically to integrated health and social care. The Torbay experience gives insight firstly into the care and attention which may be needed by government to secure this over forthcoming years; and secondly to the way in which integrated commissioning will have to be conceived and organised in the new system, and how integrated services will have, in turn, to be commissioned, and operated.
Benchmarking integrated care for people with long‐term neurological conditions
Authors: Bernard Sylvia , Aspinal Fiona , Gridley Kate , Parker Gillian 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThis paper aims to report results from a national survey of primary care trusts (PCTs) that explored the strategic, organisational and practice context of services for people with long‐term neurological conditions (LTNCs). It seeks to provide benchmarks for integrated service provision and to discuss possible reasons for the variability in progress.Design/methodology/approachEarlier phases of the research identified three models of care that promoted continuity of care for people with LTNCs: community interdisciplinary neurological rehabilitation teams, nurse specialists and pro‐active day opportunities. Based on this evidence, a benchmarking questionnaire was developed and a telephone survey of PCTs in England undertaken in 2009.FindingsThe survey found that the prevalence of models of good practice varied widely across and within PCT areas. Strategic support and commissioning arrangements were also variable. A little over half of responding PCTs had completed a joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) that included a reference to LTNCs and a quarter of PCTs had no joint commissioning arrangements in place for LTNCs. The complex interplay between strategy, organisational structures and models of delivery, in a context of competing priorities, may account for this variation and patchy progress.Originality/valueService provision for people with LTNCs is an under‐researched area, despite having major implications for long‐term care and support. The paper will be valuable to policy makers and commissioners in benchmarking organisational activity and models of good practice for integrated services.
The role of leadership in learning and knowledge for integration
Authors: Williams Paul 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the role and approach to leadership for learning and knowledge management within integrated care arenas.Design/methodology/approachFollowing a critical review of the relevant literature, the paper analyses the findings from case study research in South Wales which generated evidence from in‐depth qualitative interviews with a diverse set of health and social care managers and professionals.FindingsThe paper argues that the leadership role for learning and knowledge management needs to focus on four main areas – promoting common purpose, developing a collaborative culture, facilitating multi‐disciplinary teamwork, and developing learning and knowledge management strategies. The most effective leadership approach to undertake these roles is predominantly collaborative and dispersed but may need to be flexible to reflect the hierarchical imperatives of performance and accountability.Research limitations/implicationsThe research study is limited to a small case study and more in‐depth examples involving different integrated services are necessary to begin to accumulate more knowledge in this area of study.Practical implicationsThere a number of implications that flow from this paper for policy and practice both in terms of leadership development and training, and for the design of planned strategies for learning and knowledge management.Originality/valueThe paper addresses an undeveloped area of research and has value to both theory and practice. It frames the challenge of integration as one of learning and knowledge management and argues that this has significant implications for the role of, and approach to, leadership.
New conversations with new players?
Authors: Lotinga Alan , Glasby Jon 
Published: June 2012

PurposeAgainst the backdrop of the significant changes taking place in health and social care, a key relationship is likely to be between social care and general practice. This paper aims to focus on these issues.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports the outcomes of a series of workshops held with lead GPs, councillors, managers and service users in Birmingham to explore current and future joint working.FindingsThe paper identifies a series of key issues for future policy and practice.Research limitations/implicationsThis is an under‐researched area – so the knowledge of what works is likely to be heavily dependent on practical experience and lessons learned.Practical implicationsWhile current policy changes are unsettling, they also offer opportunities for new conversations with new players.Originality/valueIn the absence of detailed research evidence, the paper provides a practical example of the conversations taking place at local level in response to current policy changes.
The user voice: older people's experiences of reablement and rehabilitation
Authors: Trappes‐Lomax Tessa , Hawton Annie 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThis paper aims to report verbatim the voices of older people describing their experiences of rehabilitation services in community hospitals and local authority short‐term residential units followed by “usual care” services at home. It aims to contribute directly to the implementation of the DH Section 256 “reablement guidance”.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a qualitative study, based on semi‐structured face‐to‐face interviews in 2002/3, with 42 participants (mean age 81.4 years) using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).FindingsFour main themes emerged from users' comments: the complexity of rehabilitative need, the influence of the setting, the role of the staff and the availability of reablement support back at home.Research limitations/implicationsQualitative studies have limited generalisability, but these findings are consistent both with other studies of user experience and with earlier related evidence about assessment, institutionalisation and psychological factors.Practical implicationsThe findings clearly demonstrate changing rehabilitative needs along the care pathway, with implications for commissioners and providers of reablement services. The findings bring a user perspective to current debates about the integration of services and the use of pooled budgets.Originality/valueEffective reablement is critically dependent on service users' co‐operation and motivation. It therefore needs to be highly responsive to their needs and views. This study offers specific user views about their experiences in different settings and at different stages of reablement, together with their ideas for how it might work better. The data are analysed within a single framework, offering an example of the type of local evaluation currently sought by the Department of Health.
The interface between TRIPS and CBD: efforts towards harmonisation
Authors: Laxman Lekha , Haseeb Ansari Abdul 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the interface between the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to determine measures available to the global community to resolve the conflict between them, in order to prevent the rapid loss of biodiversity despite the diverse interests of nations.Design/methodology/approachWithin the framework of sustainability, this paper adopts a socio‐legal approach by undertaking a content analysis of the relevant treaties and juristic writings that sheds light on the existing matrix of interaction between the two legal instruments.FindingsThe findings reveal that there is an urgent need to review all the instruments, particularly in the area of trade, intellectual property and conservation of biodiversity that causally influence the people's freedoms and capabilities in the said areas. To overcome the range of these surmountable barriers, a comprehensive approach to development is required, i.e. an all‐encompassing functional relation amalgamating distinct development concerns in relevant spheres, especially in economic matters.Practical implicationsThe paper explores the changes that need to be incorporated in the TRIPS and CBD in order to develop an appropriate normative framework with regards to property in genetic material.Social implicationsThe research provides amicable solutions that can be explored particularly by the providers of genetic resources, in order to overcome the monumental challenges during the joint implementation of TRIPS and the CBD.Originality/valueThe comprehensive review undertaken in this paper enables the stakeholders to explore measures that enable sustainable development without jeopardizing Earth's biodiversity.
Analysis of the Brazil‐USA cotton dispute
Authors: Ridley William , Devadoss Stephen 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain and conceptually analyse the origins and outcomes of the Brazil‐USA cotton dispute.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is conducted using a conceptual framework to show the effects of US policies on Brazil and the world cotton market. The historical context of the conflict is presented, to explain the motivations of both countries and the background of the dispute.FindingsUS cotton subsidies and related policies have the effect of harming international producers, including Brazil. This analysis, along with an explanation of Brazil's role in world cotton production, explains why Brazil had cause to complain to the WTO and why the WTO ruled in its favor.Practical implicationsThe implications of these rulings are that the international dispute and its unique resolution could foreshadow similar conflicts in the future between different parties over different commodities, and the analysis presented in this paper will serve to explain them.Originality/valueThis is the only paper to present a complete history of the Brazil‐USA conflict, along with a conceptual analysis of the targeted US policies.
Trade and investment potential among BCIM countries: prospects for a dynamic growth quadrangle
Authors: Masudur Rahman Mohammad , Kim Chanwahn 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the trade and investment potential under the ambit of sub‐regional cooperation comprising the four contiguous countries of Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar (BCIM).Design/methodology/approachThe study addressed both intra‐regional and intra‐industrial trade, applying a dynamic gravity model of bilateral trade flows by product group of BEC's 1‐digit product classification, to set a panel data for the period of 1992‐2009.FindingsThe analysis reveals that higher trade transaction costs and tariff between each pair of countries reduce the trade flow. One of the major findings of the paper is that a large part of BCIM's trade has remained unrealized and the trade transaction cost is one of the major trading barriers prohibiting the growth of BCIM intra‐regional trade. The paper concludes that liberalization of non‐policy barriers will spur BCIM's trade, particularly in a time of ongoing global economic and financial crisis.Practical implicationsThe study reinforces that improvement in infrastructure that leads to less trade transportation costs should be a necessary step in order to realize BCIM's trade potential. The paper concludes that liberalization of non‐policy barriers will spur BCIM's trade and economic cooperation, particularly in time of ongoing global economic and financial crisis.Originality/valueThis paper is the first‐ever attempt to estimate the trade potential of BCIM countries using dynamic gravity model.
Regulatory watch list for 2012: the shifting landscape for hedge funds and other private funds
Authors: Cain James M. , Frydman Daphne G. , Roby David , Koffler Michael , Ramirez Raymond A. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain legislative and regulatory changes and related developments that will be of interest to hedge funds and other private funds as they traverse the shifting regulatory landscape in 2012.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a general overview of the new regulatory regime that the Dodd‐Frank Act imposes on over‐the‐counter (OTC) derivatives; describes the rescission of a regulatory exclusion from the commodity pool operator (CPO) definition that was previously available to registered investment companies and the repeal of an exemption from CPO registration requirements for operators of funds whose shares are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933; discusses proposed changes to CPO and commodity trading advisor (CTA) compliance requirements; discusses Dodd‐Frank Act changes to existing securities laws and regulations, including with respect to large trader reporting and investment advisers; highlights some of the concerns raised by MF Global, Inc.’s collapse; and describes recent tax law developments.FindingsThe paper reveals that the Dodd‐Frank Act significantly alters the space within which hedge funds and other private funds currently operate.Practical implicationsWhereas the majority of the regulations to implement the Dodd‐Frank Act have yet to become effective, federal regulators are working diligently to implement their mandates and hedge funds and other private funds should begin preparing to comply with the new Dodd‐Frank Act requirements now.Originality/valueThe paper provides expert guidance by experienced securities, derivatives and tax lawyers.