Care workers’ ambivalence towards family care partners: informal decision-making processes when older people consider relocation to a residential home

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-530
Author(s):  
Maria Söderberg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Residential Home ◽  
Home Help ◽  
Care Partners ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The aim of this article is to reveal how care workers in the home-help service interpret the influence of family care partners when older people’s relocation to a residential home is considered. Based on interviews with 33 care workers, this article investigates how they use their discretion. The analysis shows that the care workers express ambivalence towards family care workers and that they informally influence decision-making processes despite prevailing care management systems. The conclusion drawn are that welfare ideas in transformation and diffuse areas of responsibility may not benefit either care workers, family care partners or a care receiver’s self-determination.

Developing Management Systems for Statewide Transportation Planning: Early Lessons

1996 ◽  
Vol 1552 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Kish ◽  
Michael D. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Organizational Planning ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The implementation of two management systems, the intermodal and public transportation management systems, in the Georgia Department of Transportation is examined. Early experience with this implementation suggests that key elements of an implementation strategy are characteristic of success in such an organizational environment. These include establishing organizational responsibilities, establishing guidance principles, assessing the organizational planning and decision-making processes, assessing the environmental context for the management system, establishing an implementation strategy that has tangible intermediate results, and identifying an agency “champion” for implementation. The challenge of implementing management systems within any organization is understanding the decision-making process and the information needs of the agency decision makers.

SYSTEMIC CONDITIONS OF EFFICIENCY AND DURABILITY OF ROAD TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Andrzej Letkiewicz ◽  
Michał Suchanek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Formal Strategy ◽  
Basic Input

The basic condition for the proper configuration of inputs and outputs in a transport company is the ability to optimise, build, and implement a strategy based on carefully selected components of the information and decision-making system, capable of taking into account the different optimisation criteria for each level and of gathering and generating information useful in the process of developing a strategy. Within this system, IT tools that increase the efficiency of the technical dimension of decision-making processes are useful. For Polish road transport companies, economically speaking, the basic input and output record-keeping systems are accounting systems, used by nearly 89% of the surveyed entities. In the operational context, 58% of the entities declare using resource management systems. Nearly 18% of the companies possess a formal strategy.

scholarly journals "Anishinaabe time": temporalities and impact assessment in pipeline reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakihitowin Awasis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Temporal Modes ◽  
Indigenous Geographies ◽  
And Function

Indigenous ways of living that embrace multiple temporalities have been largely supplanted by a single, linear colonial temporality. Drawing on theoretical insights from Indigenous geographies and political ecology, this article considers how pipeline reviews come into being through contested temporalities and how dominant modes of time dispossess Indigenous peoples of self-determination in energy decision-making. In particular, Anishinaabe clan governance – a form of kinship that provides both social identity and function based on relations to animal nations – is undermined in colonial decision-making processes. Through analysis of documents from Canada's National Energy Board and interviews with Anishinaabe pipeline opponents, I explore tensions between Anishinaabe and settler temporalities reflected in the 2012-2017 Line 9 pipeline dispute in the Great Lakes region. These include divergent understandings of periodicities, timeframes, kinship relations, and the role of nonhuman temporalities in decision-making. Colonial temporal modes that have been imposed on Indigenous communities foreshorten timescales, depoliticize kinship relations, and discount nonhumans in decision-making – resulting in narrower and more short-sighted project reviews than Anishinaabe temporalities would support. I argue that the rich concepts of kinship, queerness, continuity, and prophecy embedded in Anishinaabe temporalities can inform strategies for decolonizing energy review processes and open possibilities for Indigenous self-determination in energy decision-making.Keywords: Anishinaabe studies, Two-Spirit, Indigenous geographies, temporalities, Indigenous knowledge, energy governance, pipeline, National Energy Board

Assessing Knowledge Management Systems Usage in Supporting Decision Making Processes in Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 326-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abdelrahman ◽  
K. Nadia Papamichail ◽  
Simon French
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Support Decision Making

With the advent of the knowledge economy and the growing importance of knowledge societies, organizations are constantly seeking new ways of leveraging knowledge assets to support Decision Making (DM) processes. This chapter presents an initial insight to the little-researched phenomenon of how Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) can support DM processes in organizations. A synthesis of ideas from a literature review suggests a new conceptual framework with several critical factors that organizations should take into account to assess the usage of KMSs tools in supporting DM processes in organizations. The proposed framework, “USUQ,” will benefit managers in both public and private sectors in knowing how the Usage, Satisfaction, Usefulness, and the Quality of using KMSs can support DM processes.

Autonomous Decision Making and Moral capacities

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albine Moser ◽  
Rob Houtepen ◽  
Harry van der Bruggen ◽  
Cor Spreeuwenberg ◽  
Guy Widdershoven
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
Autonomous Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This article examines how people with type 2 diabetes perceive autonomous decision making and which moral capacities they consider important in diabetes nurses' support of autonomous decision making. Fifteen older adults with type 2 diabetes were interviewed in a nurse-led unit. First, the data were analysed using the grounded theory method. The participants described a variety of decision-making processes in the nurse and family care-giver context. Later, descriptions of the decision-making processes were analysed using hermeneutic text interpretation. We suggest first- and second-order moral capacities that nurses specializing in diabetes need to promote the autonomous decision making of their patients. We recommend nurses to engage in ongoing, interactive reflective practice to further develop these moral capacities.

scholarly journals Settler Colonial Pseudo-Solidarity: Indigenous Peoples and the Occupy Movement in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Evan MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Indigenous Voices

As a reaction to neoliberalism, the Occupy movement in Canada presents a radical argument for a just economy. However, it does not engage in any meaningful way with decolonization. Through settler moves to innocence — equating the struggles of indigenous people within colonization with the plight of settlers — Occupy fails to support the cause of indigenous self-determination. Without both effectively centering decolonization within a social justice cause and including indigenous voices within decision-making processes, there can be no long-lasting solidarity created between progressive settlers and indigenous communities. Neoliberalism as a modern face of colonialism is a worthy target of social justice action, but the negation of settler history and treaties provide a roadblock to solidarity. The process of decolonization asks the settler to accept less, but the rhetoric of Occupy focuses on reclaiming wealth and resources that have been seized from their natural owners: working Canadians. The colonial attitudes of most Occupy camps in Canada have resulted in a breakdown in potential alliances, and provide a warning for the next universalizing social justice cause.

scholarly journals NOV PRISTOP NAPOVEDOVANJA IN ODLOČANJA V PROCESU IZBIRE IN DELOVANJA NA CILJ

2013 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
JURIJ JURTELA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control

Predmet raziskovanja so procesi odločanja na podlagi večkriterijskih odločitvenih modelov na podlagi mehke logike. Kot interdisciplinarno je področje uporabno tudi v vojaških procesih odločanja, kjer se že uporablja v tehniki vodenja različnih vojaških sistemov in procesih odločanja nabave specialnih vojaških sredstev. Zaznani so pristopi, ki so bližje obravnavani temi procesov odločanja in obvladujejo bolj celovita področja delovanja. Predvsem so z njimi že bile ocenjene grožnje delovanja in ovrednotene metode napovedovanja rezultatov. Kot neraziskane vojaške teme ostajajo procesi odločanja. Ti so zaradi svoje kompleksnosti nekoliko zahtevnejša tema in hkrati večji izziv. Realizacija sistema, ki na podlagi večkriterijskih odločitvenih modelov lažje, hitreje in uspešneje napove odločitveni proces, pa je osnovni cilj dela. The subject of research is the processes of making decisions on the basis of multi- criteria decision models based on fuzzy logic. As an interdisciplinary field, it comes useful in military decision-making processes. In this respect, it is already being used in various military-oriented management systems and decision-making processes in the procurement of specialized military assets. Some approaches have been identified that are closer to the discussed subject of decision-making processes and control more com- prehensive areas of operation. They have mainly been used to assess operation threats and evaluate result prediction methods. Decision-making processes thus remain a non- explored military issue. Due to their complexity, they remain a somewhat difficult topic and at the same time more challenging. The basic aim of this work is therefore the realization of a system, which uses multi-criteria decision-making models to facilitate, speed up and predict more successfully the decision-making process.

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