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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1108/13527590410527540
Abstract: This paper is the third in a series that will examine the management of innovation by multidisciplinary patient care teams in palliative care in Australia and reports on the existence and use of organisational levers to enable and influence required characteristic behaviours in the teams. These levers work in concert with organisational capabilities to resource the required behaviours. Interviews with management teams in three Australian palliative care case study organisations confirm the existence and use of organisational levers. It appears that levers are available organisationally and utilised where necessary but fall into three distinct groups, those utilised by any person or group needing them, those utilised more specifically by management teams and those utilised by multidisciplinary patient care teams. It is noted that these groups are dependent on the existence of the levers for the optimisation of their efforts.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2002
DOI: 10.1108/13527590210433357
Abstract: This paper is the first in a series that will examine the management of innovation by cross‐functional, multi‐disciplinary patient care teams in a palliative care environment. This highly innovative environment is singularly focused on relieving the suffering of patients and their socially related carers during an end of life experience. The singular focus enables and encourages palliative care practitioners to break through and diminish or accommodate professionally‐based paradigm conflicts and organisational politics. This facilitates collaborative team‐based efforts, including the patient and the patient’s social support group, to address the multi‐causal uncertainties that characterise end of life in palliative care. The continuous innovation model used in the European Union funded CIMA project is used as a starting point for this research. While many businesses have struggled to implement self‐regulating teams and have invested considerable resources in attempting to gain some advantage from teamwork it appears palliative care professionals have adopted self‐regulating work teams in a highly uncertain environment as the most suitable human resource structure and practice.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.1108/14601060510627795
Abstract: This paper aims to explore the role of mental models in knowledge development in order to demonstrate how the type and strength of the mental models held by a team contribute to its success in general and to innovation in particular. Two cases are analysed (a successful and an unsuccessful team) which were developed via observation and interviews. The mental models in each case were analysed to map them to the success or otherwise of the teams. The first case demonstrates that mental models in a multidisciplinary team can provide opportunity for a shared generation of knowledge for process innovation while open to external influence. The second case demonstrates that, where there are strongly shared mental models that prevent the team from constructing an accurate picture of their present by closing out external influences and pre‐selecting desired knowledge, opportunities for innovation are shut down. Where mental models provide a sharing framework without closing out the networks and systems that sustain them, they can foster and support innovation. Managing team openness becomes a priority for supporting innovation. Team leaders will need to consider what types of mental models are developing and foster a focus on innovative outcomes and not processes. A concentration on understanding the current context via challenging given assumptions is recommended. The paper offers clear, practical ex les of the results of teams being encouraged to utilise open and closed systems of mental models.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-2005
DOI: 10.1108/14777260510600068
Abstract: This paper aims to investigate whether an organisation's configuration, with regard to its operating environment, could have a bearing on the learning that occurs within the organisation because the configuration can be considered an artefact capable of enabling learning and capable of facilitating the storage and utilisation of the results of learning. This raises an interesting question about the ability of organisations to shape the configuration that enables and facilitates them, which in turn would shape the learning itself. Reported in this paper is research in healthcare organisations in Brazil and Australia that use a multidisciplinary model of care delivery which test these relationships. The paper's findings indicate that in the Brazilian case learning has to do with the formal acquisition of knowledge for use within professions, by professionals who are in practice and teaching. In the Australian case learning has to do with the flexible acquisition of knowledge across professions, within and between teams. This paper is useful to those wishing to facilitate learning in an organisation.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-10-2023
Publisher: IEEE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-10-2023
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1071/AH10984
Abstract: Objective. To discuss the results of a qualitative analysis of the group dynamics of General Practitioner (GP)-led case conferences for palliative care patients, where the GP becomes the care coordinator. Two outcomes are sought: (1) raise the understanding of this type of case conferencing for palliative care patients and (2) recommend improvements to this process that will positively affect its efficacy. Methods. Original data is the qualitative component of quantitative and qualitative study of 17 GP-led case conferences for palliative care patients. Data were analysed using Carney’s Ladder of Analytical Abstraction. Results. Analysis produced four persistent themes: ambiguity of purpose ambiguity of role lack of information and involvement of multiple interconnected and dynamic groups. These themes are a natural result of the case conferencing process that occurred during the study. Conclusion. Case conferences were inherently uncertain and complex. Complexity results from the range of people and groups interacting with the patient before the case conference who do not attend the conference. Uncertainty results from a lack of direction, leadership and agreed outcomes against which the conference can be structured and measured. A standard process facilitated by someone other than the GP and containing necessary information would offer a better chance of optimising this process. What is known about the topic? Little is known of the group dynamics that occur during these case conferences. What does this paper add? This paper adds a first assessment of the group dynamics of the process and discloses issues that will need to be addressed if this type of case conferencing is to be optimised. What are the implications for practitioners? Understanding of fundamental issues with the process.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-05-2023
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 04-2006
Abstract: Previous research on the management competences and organisational capabilities necessary for continuous innovation in complex and dynamic environments and evidence emerging from a study of innovation in palliative care are compared. A range of research on the management of different types of innovation within changing contexts is presented along with research on the relationships between management competence, organisational capabilities and innovation choices. Evidence is presented from research into innovation management in palliative care that enables a relationship between some elements of the theory and practice of innovation management in complex and dynamic environments to be established.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.PLAPHY.2018.03.005
Abstract: Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik.) is an important legume crop, which often experience drought stress especially at the flowering and grain filling phenological stages. The availability of efficient and robust screening tools based on relevant non-destructive quantifiable traits would facilitate research on crop improvement for drought tolerance. The objective of this study was to evaluate the drought tolerance of 37 lentil genotypes using infrared thermal imaging (IRTI), drought tolerance parameters and multivariate data analysis. Potted plants were kept in a completely randomized design in a growth chamber with five replicates. Plants were subjected to three different drought treatments: 100, 50 and 20% of field capacity at the onset of reproductive period. The relative drought stress tolerance was determined based on a set of morpho-physiological parameters including non-destructive measures based on IRTI, such as: canopy temperature (Tc), canopy temperature depression (CTD) and crop water stress index (CWSI) during the growing period and destructive measures at harvest, such as: dry root-shoot ratio (RS ratio), relative water content (RWC) and harvest index (HI). The drought tolerance indices used were drought susceptibility index (DSI) and drought tolerance efficiency (DTE). Results showed that drought stress treatments significantly reduced the RWC, HI, CTD and DSI, whereas, the values of Tc, CWSI, RS ratio and DTE significantly increased for all the genotypes. The cluster analysis from morpho-physiological parameters clustered genotypes in three distinctive groups as per the level of drought stress tolerance. The genotypes with higher values of RS ratio, RWC, HI, DTE and CTD and lower values of DSI, Tc and CWSI were identified as drought-tolerant genotypes. Based on this preliminary screening, the genotypes Digger, Cumra, Indianhead, ILL 5588, ILL 6002 and ILL 5582 were identified as promising drought-tolerant genotypes. It can be concluded that the IRTI analysis is a high-throughput constructive screening tool along with RS ratio, RWC, HI and other drought tolerance indices to define the drought stress tolerance variability within lentil plants. These results provide a foundation for future research directed at identifying powerful drought assessment traits using rapid and non-destructive techniques, such as IRTI along with the yield traits, and understanding the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying lentil tolerance to drought stress.
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2007
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 23-05-2008
DOI: 10.1108/14777260810876303
Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to show that free flowing teamwork depends on at least three aspects of team life: functional ersity, social cohesion and superordinate identity. The paper takes the approach of a discussion, arguing for a strong need to understand multidisciplinary and cross‐functional barriers for achieving team goals in the context of health care. These barriers include a strong medically dominated business model, historically anchored delineations between professional identities and a complex organisational environment where in iduals may have conflicting goals. The paper finds that the complexity is exacerbated by the differences between and within health care teams. It illustrates the differences by presenting the case of an operating theatre team. Whilst the paper recommends some ideas for acquiring these skills, further research is needed to assess effectiveness and influence of team skills training on optimising multidisciplinary interdependence in the health care environment. The paper shows that becoming a team member requires team membership skills.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-2003
DOI: 10.1108/13527590310493873
Abstract: Palliative care is a complex environment in which teams of health care professionals are constantly challenged to match the configuration of care delivery to suit the dynamics of the whole of a patient’s bio‐medical, social and spiritual situations as they change during the end of life process. In such an environment these teams need to engage in ongoing interaction between different professional disciplines, incremental improvement in care delivery, learning and radical innovation. This is aimed at combining operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility, exploitation and exploration in a way that ensures the best possible end of life experience for the patient. This paper examines previous research on the management competences and the organisational capabilities necessary for continuous innovation, and analyses evidence emerging from a study of palliative care. Work on the relationships between innovation capacities, organisational capabilities and team‐based competence is drawn together. Evidence is presented from research into the management of innovation in palliative care.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2005
DOI: 10.1108/14601060510594729
Abstract: To begin a process of understanding how palliative care organisations are configured to enable innovative multidisciplinary patient care teams and their management in an uncertain, complex and dynamic environment. A range of literature was reviewed to suggest configuration and characteristics that were tested using semi‐structured interviews with the senior medical staff member at each of three Australian case study organisations. Data gathered from these interviews was supplemented with data gathered from semi‐structured interviews with multidisciplinary management teams and patient care teams dealing with inpatients and home‐care patients. A hybrid configuration is suggested, based on Mintzberg's typology of organisations. Responses from interviews modify some characteristics of the suggested configuration, though generally appearing to support it. Characteristics of the external and internal environments are described. Palliative care is rarely written off outside the healthcare literature and comparatively infrequently within it. Configuration is used to suggest the characteristics of innovative teams in an uncertain, dynamic, complex environment. The use and management of multidisciplinary patient care teams in palliative care offers interesting insights for a broad range of organisations. A contribution to the discourse on the relationship between configuration and innovation based in organisations without commercial imperative, delivering multi‐level care for and by people involved in the end‐of‐life process. The paper continues a line of publications, beginning in 2002, describing the management of innovation in multidisciplinary palliative care teams. The originality and value of this paper and this line of research is in taking a management view of a unique environment that offers insights and lessons to a broad range of organisations.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-459-0.CH020
Abstract: Research in Australia on the management of innovative practices in multidisciplinary palliative care teams reveals the central role of knowledge as an enabler of holistic care in an environment where sometimes little, apart from the result of the end of life process, is operationally predictable. While palliative care organisations provide, and regulators require, opportunities for formal exchange, recording and review of patient-based information and patient care processes the members of care teams require and construct more frequent opportunities for the exchange of information and the generation and application of knowledge. Multidisciplinary patient care teams are resourced to and capable of constructing real-time temporary communication infrastructures between the team’s different disciplinary representatives, between teams as necessary and between teams and the organisation, for in idual patient situations. This chapter describes the organisational capabilities and levers necessary for providing an environment within which these infrastructures can be created and the in idual behaviours and team tools that are used in the process, based on a wide ranging literature review and the results of research interviews.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2003
DOI: 10.1108/13527590310482253
Abstract: This paper is the second in a series that will examine the management of innovation by cross‐functional, multidisciplinary patient care teams in palliative care. Two further outcomes of this research are reported here. The first is that within palliative care a number of distinct in idual behaviours are identified that act as foundations for the successful development and application of innovative practices by multidisciplinary teams. The second is that interviews with multidisciplinary palliative care teams in case studies in Australia confirm the existence and use of these behaviours. In idual behaviours within these teams are found to fall into two groups: those used by palliative care professionals when working with patients and patient‐based carers and those used by professionals when dealing with each other away from patients. The purpose of both groups is to generate useful valid information, knowledge and learning that can be transferred across boundaries regardless of boundary type or location.
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.PLAPHY.2018.06.035
Abstract: Salt stress is one of most dramatic abiotic stresses, reduces crop yield significantly. Application of hormones proved effective salt stress ameliorating approach. 24-Epibrassinolide (EBL), an active by-product from brassinolide biosynthesis shows significant salt stress tolerance in plants. EBL application improves plant growth and development under salt stress by playing as signalling compound in different metabolic and physiological processes. This article compiles all identified ways by which EBL improves plant growth and enhances crop yield. Furthermore, EBL enhances photosynthetic rate, reduces ROS production and plays important role in ionic homeostasis. Furthermore EBL-induced salt stress tolerance suggest that complex transcriptional and translational reprogramming occurs in response to EBL and salt stress therefore transcriptional and translational changes in response to EBL application are also discussed in this article.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2004
DOI: 10.1023/B:HCMS.0000039381.02400.49
Abstract: Research in Australia and the United States offers evidence of sophisticated, implicit, knowledge assets in two erse healthcare environments, care and cure. Two case studies representing these two distinct archetypal environments are presented (a palliative care organization in Australia and a spinal care unit in the United States) both are based around multidisciplinary service delivery and demonstrate the existence of implicit knowledge assets. Yet the full potential of these knowledge assets is not being realized. A Knowledge Management Infrastructure model is proffered as a way of making explicit the elements of these knowledge assets in both case studies. In addition, this model provides a systematic and robust approach to structuring the conceptualization of knowledge assets across a range of healthcare environments.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2003
DOI: 10.1108/14777260310480712
Abstract: Palliative care is a complex environment in which teams of healthcare professionals are constantly challenged to match the configuration of care delivery to suit the dynamics of the patient's bio‐medical, social and spiritual situations as they change during the end‐of‐life process. In such an environment these teams need to engage in ongoing interaction between different professional disciplines, incremental improvement in care delivery, learning and radical innovation. This is aimed at combining operational effectiveness, strategic flexibility, exploitation and exploration, in a way that ensures the best possible care for the patient. This paper examines previous research on the management competences and the organisational capabilities necessary for continuous innovation, and analyses evidence emerging from a study of palliative care. Work on the relationships between innovation capacities, organisational capabilities and team‐based competence is drawn together. Evidence is presented from research into the management of innovation in palliative care.
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