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Show moreHome health care practitioners interact with patients via a learning process. Research has proven that reciprocal learning and expert learning styles are the primary methods of knowledge sharing in these home health care settings. The research conducted uncovered three major themes regarding knowledge sharing in home health care—self-identity, learning orientation, and resilience. A conceptual model was developed using these learning concepts in relationship to effective patient outcomes. Our research demonstrated that these home health care practitioners predominately uses two types of learning styles. One of these styles, reciprocal learning, transfers the education responsibility to the patient. The process of a switching back and forth between these two learning styles successfully has proven to facilitate positive patient outcomes. Effective outcomes were defined as both a positive patient outcome and practitioner satisfaction. In conclusion, our research discusses relevant practices and situations in the home health care setting that aid in producing effective outcomes.
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Show moreBusiness strategists seek to create a sustainable competitive advantage so that their organizations thrive. Yet in industry after industry the corporate graveyards are lined with companies that once led an industry and were subsequently ousted by smaller, nimbler competitors or new entrants. The long list of failed organizations underscores the challenge to the notion of sustainability. Clearly competitive advantage is subject to constant erosion, and companies seeking a sustainable competitive advantage may be chasing an illusory goal. To thrive, companies must learn to adapt their skills, resources and experience and transform them into renewable competitive advantages that are commensurate with the demands of their changing market environment. Strategic renewal is an ongoing journey in which organizations break free from the constraints inherent in their current trajectory (Volberda, Baden-Fuller, and van den Bosch, 2001). The organizational transformations inherent in such a strategic renewal journey are best understood by examining theories in strategy, learning, and intentional change. Striving to connect these multi-disciplinary perspectives is one potential contribution from this research. Discerning if relentless addiction to learning can continually renew an organization’s competitive advantage is a vital question for business leaders and inspires this research.
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Show moreProfessional associations rely on member volunteers to perform organizational work. Yet, half of these volunteers do not intend to volunteer in the future or are ambivalent towards future volunteering (Gazley, 2013). Combined with a dearth of empirical research on both professional associations in general (Webb & Abzug, 2008) and on the volunteer experience in particular (Wilson, 2012), this qualitative study utilizes grounded theory methodology to improve our understanding of the volunteer experience of volunteering at professional associations. Our aim is to determine how this experience occurs to professional volunteers, and in what ways this experience (or these experiences) lead to effective and sustainable volunteer recruitment, engagement, efficacy, and retention. Theorization of our findings emerges largely through the lens of social construction (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Gergen, 2009) because volunteering is characterized as a form of "social action" (Snyder & Omoto, 2008). We elucidate a mosaic of specific situational factors that contribute to the positive experience of professional volunteering, which can inform strategies implemented by professional associations in order to increase volunteer engagement.
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