scholarly journals High-Performance Workplace Practices in Nursing Homes: An Economic Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S46-S52 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Workplace Practices

Impact of organisational characteristics on turnover intention among care workers in nursing homes in Korea: a structural equation model

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Goon Ha ◽  
Ji Man Kim ◽  
Won Ju Hwang ◽  
Sang Gyu Lee
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
High Performance Work Practices

Objective The aim of the present study was to analyse the impact of organisational characteristics on the turnover intention of care workers working at nursing homes in Korea. Methods Study participants included 504 care workers working at 14 nursing homes in Korea. The variables measured were: high-performance work practices, consisting of five subfactors (official training, employment stability, autonomy, employee participation and group-based payment); organisational commitment, consisting of three subfactors (affective, normative and continuance commitment); organisational support; and turnover intention. The inter-relationship between high-performance work practices, organisational support, organisational commitment and turnover intention and the fit of the hypothetical model were analysed using structural equation modelling. Results According to our analysis, high-performance work practices not only had a direct effect on turnover intention, but also an indirect effect by mediating organisational support and commitment. The factor having the largest direct influence on turnover intention was organisational commitment. Conclusions The results of the present study suggest that to improve health conditions for frail elderly patients at nursing homes, as well as the efficiency of nursing homes through the continuance of nursing service and enhancement of quality of service, long-term care facilities should reduce the turnover intention of care workers by increasing their organisational commitment by actively implementing high-performance work practices. What is known about the topic? Considerable studies have shown that the adoption of high-performance work practices is related to an organisation’s performance and job satisfaction. In addition, previous studies found that job satisfaction is inversely related to the turnover intention of employees. What does this paper add? This paper identified that high-performance work practices are closely related to the turnover intention of care workers in nursing homes. These findings could improve our understanding of the factors that impact on labour management in nursing homes. What are the implications for practitioners? The turnover of care workers is one of the major managerial challenges for nursing home managers. The findings of this study suggest that managers should be focused on high-performance work practices to improve the efficiency of their organisations.

Hybrids or Hodgepodges? Workplace Practices of Japanese and Domestic Startups in the United States

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B. Doeringer ◽  
Christine Evans-Klock ◽  
David G. Terkla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hybrid Systems ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Workplace Practices

This study examines the adoption of high-performance workplace management practices in Japanese and domestic manufacturing plants, spanning a broad range of products and technologies, that began operations in the United States between 1978 and 1988. Japanese transplants, the authors find, were likely to adopt “hybrid” systems of high-performance practices melding Japanese principles of workplace management with the American industrial relations system. Domestic startups incorporated many of these same techniques, but they tended to take a more limited and piecemeal approach. The managers of domestic startups also paid less attention to how individual high-performance practices fit into an overall system of efficient workplace management than did managers at Japanese transplants.

scholarly journals Health Monitoring System for Nursing Homes with Lightweight Security and Privacy Protection

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu’e Jiang ◽  
Jiaxiang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Health Monitoring System ◽  
Diet And Exercise ◽  
Mobile Authentication

With the rapid growth of aged population in China, it is urgent to design a safe and effective monitoring system for the nursing homes. An optimized scheme and high performance security and privacy protection for monitoring system have already become the focus studied especially. So this paper proposed a health monitoring system with lightweight security and privacy protection for nursing homes. Dual-band RFID, virtual routing location algorithm, and diet and exercise data collection based on RFID were adopted to obtain the location and health information. And that fused a mobile authentication protocol based on Hash function to realize security access and privacy protection, which can improve security and reduce the complexity of calculation and the implementation cost compared with the typical authentication protocols. The experiment results show that the ratio of relative network delay is below 35%. The system has strong real-time, high security, more comprehensive data, and lower cost of computation and communication. It can satisfy the requirements of health monitoring for nursing homes.

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