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First-Line Managers' Practices and Learning in Unpredictable Work within Elderly Care
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Wastesson, Karin; Fogelberg Eriksson, Anna; Nilsson, Peter; Gustavsson, Maria – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
Despite the number of studies confirming a high degree of unpredictability in managerial work, little is still known about how managers' workplace learning happens within organisations in such circumstances. This paper therefore aims to contribute knowledge about managers' learning in managerial practice when work is unpredictable, by…
Descriptors: Administrators, Management Development, Administrator Education, Workplace Learning
Mentoring Programmes -- Building Capacity for Learning and Retaining Workers in the Workplace
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Wikström, Ewa; Arman, Rebecka; Dellve, Lotta; Gillberg, Nanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to contribute to an understanding of the relational work carried out in mentoring programmes and the implications for learning capabilities in future practices. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on field research of a mentoring programme bringing together senior and newly graduated workers in a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Health Services, Employees, Foreign Countries
Developing Ethical Competence in Healthcare Management
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Falkenström, Erica; Ohlsson, Jon; Höglund, Anna T – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to explore what kind of ethical competence healthcare managers need in handling conflicts of interest (COI). The aim is also to highlight essential learning processes to develop healthcare managers' ethical competence. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative study was performed. Semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Ethics, Competence, Health Services, Administrators
Multiple Balances in Workplace Dialogue: Experiences of an Intervention in Health Care
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Grill, Christina; Ahlborg, Gunnar, Jr.; Wikström, Ewa; Lindgren, Eva-Carin – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to illuminate and analyse the participants' experiences of the influences of a dialogue intervention. Cooperation and coordination in health care require planning of dialogically oriented communication to prevent stress and ill health and to promote health, well-being, learning, and efficiency in the organisation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Health Personnel, Dialogs (Language)
Learning Opportunities for Nurses Working within Home Care
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Lundgren, Solveig – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore home care nurses' experience of learning in a multicultural environment. Design/methodology/approach: The study was based on qualitative research design. Data were collected through repeated interviews with registered home care nurses working in a multicultural area. The data were analyzed through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Community Health Services, Home Programs
The Impact of Emotion and Power Relations on Workplace Learning
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Sebrant, Ulla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2008
In a previous ethnographic study (Sebrant, 2000) a social constructionist view of how social identity is produced among professional groups in Swedish healthcare was developed. Looking at the workplace as an important environment for identity construction suggested that these processes were conditions for learning. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Health Services, Geriatrics