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J N Hood

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PubMed1994

Quality of work life in home care. The contribution of leaders' personal concern for staff.

The process of healthcare restructuring is creating substantial stress for healthcare organizations and professionals. As the health system focuses on issues associated with restructuring, concern for staff may be minimized when nursing administrators and other healthcare leaders address contextual pressures and their impact on service delivery. The authors examine how leaders' personal concern for nurses and homemakers contributes to quality of working life in home health. Strategies aimed at enhancing personal concern for staff are discussed from the perspective of transformational leadership.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

Leadership and quality of working life in home health care.

Home health care has undergone startling changes in the past decade and, in the process, become a strategically important ingredient of health care delivery. However, the question remains whether home health care organizations can deliver the benefits anticipated for integrated care delivery systems. The answer to this question depends to a great extent on whether home health care organizations build vibrant, visionary leadership capable of transforming organizations and motivating staff to deliver high quality and low cost services. This paper examines a case study of transformational leadership as it relates to the quality of working life for nurses, homemakers, and staff. The findings indicate that leader behaviour is strongly associated with homemakers', and to a lesser extent staff members', job satisfaction, job involvement, and propensity to remain with the organization. These job attitudes have been shown to be related to higher job performance. The implications for leadership in home health agencies are discussed.

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed1994

Supervisors' concern for staff: opportunities and outcomes.

Numerous ideas are constantly surfacing on how to manage organizations better. As health care supervisors familiarize themselves with these concepts and consider implementing new strategies, it is important not to forget the basics. This is especially true when considering staff motivation. The value of demonstrating personal concern, or consideration, for staff is examined from the perspective of transformational leadership. It has been suggested that transformational leaders are visionary and demonstrate concern for individual staff members. The association of leader support for personal concern with enhanced job attitudes is analyzed and then illustrated in several health care supervisor situations. A case study of these relationships is presented for a home health agency. The results point to the value of supervisors actively demonstrating concern for staff.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1992

Quantitative information presentation and gender: an interaction effect.

The authors investigated whether performance on mathematical test items would be influenced by an interaction between presentation format and gender. One hundred fourteen students in a management accounting course were randomly assigned either to a tabular format or to a graphics format. There were significant main effects for gender and presentation format; men outperformed women, and the subjects who received the tabular format outperformed the subjects who received the graphics format. A significant interaction supported the existence of a conditional relationship between performance on mathematical test items and presentation format. This relationship varied as a function of gender (symmetry permits the interchange of presentation format and gender). Simple effects for the interaction determined that the women who received the graphics presentation did not perform as well as their male counterparts, or as well as other women and men who received the tabular format. The results of this study indicate that presentation format is an important consideration in gender differences for mathematics performance.

Accounting↗