scholarly journals An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110359
Author(s):  
Sara Chaudhry ◽  
Emily Yarrow ◽  
Maryam Aldossari ◽  
Elizabeth Waterson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Work Intensification ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Employee Experience ◽  
Organisational Level ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This article offers the lived experiences of an NHS doctor working on the front line in an English NHS Trust during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The overall aim of the article is to offer a context-specific perspective on the employee experience of burnout by drawing out the interplay of organisational and external/socio-political factors during an atypical time. The narrative also highlights an as yet unexplored pattern of burnout with active maintenance of professional efficacy as the starting point which then interacts with high levels of work intensification prevalent in the NHS, leading to the coping mechanisms of depersonalisation and detachment. Existing research has predominantly focused on how/why employees experience burnout at the organisational level of analysis, leaving a gap in the literature on how external/socio-political and time contexts may impact employee burnout.

Performing Autism through a Layered Account

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigdis Stokker Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Class A ◽  
Education Class ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Queer Temporality

This piece dialogically makes methodological, theoretical, and substantive contributions to existing literature on autoethnography, Foucault and queer temporality studies, and autism. The text is based on ethnographic observations from a psych education class for adults diagnosed with autism and an interview with a psychologist who teaches the class. A layered account approach is used to explore the emergent lived experience of time and space for people diagnosed with autism. The concept of chrononormativity serves as a starting point for understanding the autism experience and a springboard for the introduction of an analytical concept that I term toponormativity.

scholarly journals Sukcesy fińskiego systemu edukacji, czyli dlaczego Finlandia szczyci się jednym z najlepszych systemów szkolnictwa na świecie – porównawcze studium przypadku

2018 ◽  
pp. 349-365
Author(s):  
Ewelina Czujko-Moszyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Education Major ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
High Social Status

This paper seeks to answer the question why Finland is considered to have one of the best education systems in the world. The author aims at providing a descriptive case study of Finland in comparison to the Polish educational system with some reference to other Western countries. The world first noticed Finland following the release of PISA results in 2001. Yet, PISA overview is just a starting point for this case study. The paper analyses different social, economic and political factors which, in the author’s opinion, contributed the most to the Finnish success in education. Major arguments for the Finnish success are preceded by an overview of educational reforms from the 1950s until the present. The author argues that the remarkably high social status of teachers, their autonomy and great qualifications,consistency in educational reforms which offer high quality, equity and decentralization are the primary reasons for Finland’s global success. All of the above achievements are compared to Poland’s current situation in education.

scholarly journals THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF TEACHER AND STUDENTS IN PE AMIDST THE PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-372
Author(s):  
Ma. Isabel O. Mojica
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Remote Learning

Conducting classes remotely to shift in teaching paradigm of learning due to the on-going pandemic has posed many challenges to the education sector. Despite these efforts, several arguments are associated with remote learning especially with online classes or e-learning amidst the pandemic. The study aimed to unveil the lived experience of teachers and student who are taking remote learning in physical education subject. The respondents must had experience and engaging in remote learning. This study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods of research. The respondents must had experience and engaging in remote learning. This study answered the following: What is the demographic profile of teachers and students? What are the challenges encountered by teachers and students? What are the coping mechanisms of teachers and students during remote learning? Is there a relationship between challenges encountered and coping mechanisms of teachers and students? How do the profile of the teachers and students relate to the challenges encountered and their coping mechanisms? For the qualitative part, an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method was used to interpret the meanings of experiences of human life, and focused on research question “What it is like to experience remote teaching and learning in physical education amidst the pandemic?”. Considering the results of the study, it can be said that the major problems faced by both teachers and students are the poor internet connection. This hampers the communication between the two as well as the communication among students. This breeds to a series of problems that stem from the lack of connectivity. Moreover, the most common coping mechanisms employed by both groups are engaging into activities that will help them distress.

Untranslatable wounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-548
Author(s):  
María Amelia Viteri
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Racial Ethnic

A good starting point for revisiting the intersections of language, gender and sexuality is to acknowledge and understand how colonial wounds and legacies play out in our everyday lives. This essay critically addresses the multiple ways in which we are all marked in one way or another by our colonial relations and their intersections. A careful unpacking of mechanisms and linkages is critical for identifying strategies and tactics of struggle that might lead to more equitable present-days characterised by esperanza (hope). Yet a desire to decolonise language and language practices without recognising the lived experience of our own messy and colonial entanglements will never be enough to resignify the systems that hold racial, ethnic, gender, sexual and linguistic inequalities in place. This essay highlights the acts of desbordar (undoing/overflowing), trasto-car (queering) and resentir (feeling again) as alternative strategies that can be used to fracture the architectures of colonialism, starting with our own.

Is the Engagement Survey the Only Way?

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Madhura Chakrabarti ◽  
Elizabeth A. McCune
Keyword(s):  
Use Cases ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Passive Data ◽  
Employee Experience ◽  
Employee Data

Organizations are faced with a new challenge as the landscape around employee sensing evolves: Beyond a traditional engagement survey, where can organizations look to gather employee data and subsequently analyze, interpret, and act upon those data to enhance the employee experience? A useful starting point is to be aware of the plethora of sources for employee sensing available today. This chapter covers a range of internal, external, active, and passive data sources that organizations can use to expand their listening systems beyond surveys. The data sources described include network data, biometrics, internal ticket management data, and others. Use cases provide concrete examples of how these data sources are being applied to employee sensing.

Afterword

2009 ◽  
pp. 270-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Som Naidu
Keyword(s):  
Full Advantage ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Starting Point

Many teachers commonly use assessment as the starting point of their teaching activities because they believe that assessment drives learning and teaching activities. Hence students tend to organise their learning activities around these prescribed assessment tasks. These beliefs and practices have the potential to detract from promoting effective, efficient, and engaging learning. Teachers, in using assessment tasks to orchestrate their teaching activities send out a message to their learners which minimises the importance of the learning experience. Not only does this constrain learners from taking full advantage of the designed learning experience, but with an explicit focus on assessment tasks by teachers, learners tend to adopt coping mechanisms that focus on the assessment task itself, and little else.

scholarly journals Senses and Sensibility: The Civil War as Lived Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Home Front ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Literary Markets ◽  
North And South

Among wartime and postwar Americans, North and South, an appetite to narrate their experiences of preserving Union or achieving state sovereignty is reflected in their many accounts of the coming of the Civil War, its fighting, and its aftermath. Private letters from the home front and front line were regularly written and received; despite shortages of paper and ink, diaries and journals were diligently kept, recording experiences at both local and state levels; and memoirs and reminiscences, usually written many years after the events they describe, were produced for regional, national, and even international literary markets. These eyewitness accounts from a wide range of historical actors offer scholars, students, and general readers a remarkably detailed, intimate, and valuable glimpse of lived experience during four years of fighting that shaped a nation.

Challenging corporate commitment to CSR

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1410-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Fehre ◽  
Florian Weber
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Commitment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Purpose In times of crisis, the fundamental principles of companies erode, leading to strategy shifts. This paper aims to examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) is on management’s agenda in times of crisis, indicating CSR embeddedness into corporate strategy. The focus is on the four pillars of CSR: social, environment, economy and governance. Design/methodology/approach Starting points are competing hypotheses based on shareholder and stakeholder theory. Chief executive officer (CEO) letters to shareholders of German HDAX firms from 2003 to 2012 are analyzed by means of computer-aided text analysis. Findings The authors find that CEOs talk less about CSR in times of crisis, especially about social and governance issues, indicating that CSR is not fully embedded into corporate strategy, and that, in times of crisis, other aspects gain more importance on management’s agenda. Research limitations/implications CEO communication is an indicator for management’s attention. Less talk about CSR in times of crisis does not automatically indicate less real CSR activity. This study is a starting point for analyses of the discrepancy between both, if any exists. Practical implications Managers should regard CSR as a strategic and trust enhancing element and stick to CSR even when under pressure from market distortions. Social implications Environment issues – exposed to companies’ attention for a long time – are embedded into corporate strategy. More research and management attention is essential to get the other CSR aspects woven into company DNA as well. Originality/value The paper is the first to research CSR in times of crisis in depth: CSR as umbrella covers social, environment, economy and governance issues. The institutional level of analysis ensures that implications for the business-society link are central.

Waiting in organisations

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Employee Experience ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Shed Light

Waiting is a pervasive feature of organisational life and, as such, is likely to be important for a range of individual and organisational outcomes. Although extant research has shed light on the waiting experiences of diverse groups such as those suffering from illness, waiting in detention centres or queuing, there have been no previous attempts to theorise waiting specifically from the perspective of the employee. To address this gap, we draw on theories of temporality and waiting in fields such as consumer behaviour as well as the wider social sciences to develop the notion of ‘situated waiting’ which uncovers the complexity of the lived experience of waiting from the perspective of the employee. This experience is associated with factors at the level of the individual, the wait itself, and the broader waiting context. We outline the implications for future research on this hitherto hidden domain of the employee experience.

IMPLEMENTING FRAILTY MEASURES IN THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
D.B. Rolfson ◽  
G.A. Heckman ◽  
S.M. Bagshaw ◽  
D. Robertson ◽  
J.P. Hirdes
Keyword(s):  
Case Finding ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Deficit Accumulation ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Canadian Healthcare

Canadian healthcare is changing to include individuals living with frailty, but frailty must be better operationalized and better framed by sound data standards and policy. Frailty results from deficit accumulation in multiple body systems, with exaggerated vulnerability to external stressors. A growing consensus on defining frailty sets the stage for consensus on operationalization and widespread implementation in care settings. Frailty measurement is not yet integrated into daily clinical practice in Canada. Here, we will present how this integration might occur. We hope to demonstrate that implementation must appeal to inter-professional practice needs in different settings or circumstances. In some settings, methods for frailty case finding are expected to evolve as deemed to be most appropriate to the front-line users. In this “hands-off” approach, care providers, supported by emerging knowledge translation on frailty operationalization, would be informed by their setting and local practices to establish patterns of ad hoc case finding and component definition of frailty. This more nimble case finding strategy would be opportunistic, and would appeal to expert clinicians and self-directed teams who emphasize an individualized health care experience for their patients. In other settings, we can shape frailty case finding by building care algorithms around existing standardized practices and data repositories, leading to a systematic application of frailty measures and a more coordinated process of component definition and care protocols. Here, recommended instruments and data standards must be endorsed by health networks locally, provincially and nationally. The interRAI suite of assessment instruments has pan-Canadian standards in place and its pervasiveness makes it the most obvious starting point, especially in home care and long-term care. We anticipate the evolution of an integrated model informed by stakeholders and settings, where policy makers focus on system supports for frailty case finding, while front-line clinicians use case finding strategies to pinpoint and act on key frailty components.

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