scholarly journals Navigating Role Ambiguity & Conflict: Exploring the Role of the Referee Within the Olympic Sporting Structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Brittany L. Jacobs ◽  
Claire C. Zvosec ◽  
Brent D. Oja
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Role Strain ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Role Clarity

This phenomenological study seeks to better understand the role of the referee in the Olympic sporting structure and to deconstruct the apparent dichotomies that exist within this role. Eleven rugby sevens referees each completed a pre and post interview for a total of twenty-two interviews. From the data, four sources of role ambiguity or conflict emerged; (1) remaining unnoticed vs. media exposure; (2) the team vs. individualistic nature of officiating; (3) being a judge vs. being an athlete, and (4) amateurism vs. professionalism. This study discusses how these dichotomies highlight the major sources of role ambiguity and role conflict for rugby sevens officials within the larger Olympic context. Implications regarding increased role clarity, reduced role strain, and referee management are discussed.   

scholarly journals Experience of the Irish physician associate role: PA and supervising consultant perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Lea R. Hix ◽  
Susan M. Fernandes ◽  
Pauline Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
North America ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Scope Of Practice ◽  
Pilot Program ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Flexible Scope

Background: The physician associate/assistant (PA) role was introduced into the Irish healthcare system in 2015 when four PAs from North America were recruited to work in Ireland as part of a two-year pilot program. In parallel, the Royal College Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) began its own PA program in January of 2016 and has graduated 25 PAs. To date, there is little published on the few Irish-trained PAs. This study seeks to share initial experiences with the PA profession in Ireland.Methods: This descriptive phenomenological study explores the newly implemented PA role in Ireland through semi-structured, one-to-one interviews with five PAs and their supervising consultants in Dublin, Ireland. Questions centered on the PA scope of clinical practice, satisfaction with the role, acceptance by the medical team, and integration into the Irish healthcare system.Results: Six themes were identified from the interviews: continuity of patient care, flexible scope of practice, lack of role clarity, complementary to the medical team, regulation and prescribing challenges, and the emerging role of the PA.Conclusions: The development of the PA role is in its infancy in Ireland, but this study suggests that they fill an important role by providing continuity of care to both patients and the medical team. Currently, there are significant challenges imposed by a lack of regulation of the PA profession and the inability to prescribe. However, PAs in Ireland appear to enjoy their work and have great potential to expand throughout Irish healthcare and are valued by their team members.

Role clarity, role conflict, and vitality at work: The role of the basic needs

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 456-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petri Karkkola ◽  
Matti Kuittinen ◽  
Taina Hintsa
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Role Clarity

scholarly journals Exposure to Workplace Bullying: The Role of Coping Strategies in Dealing with Work Stressors

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney Van den Brande ◽  
Elfi Baillien ◽  
Tinne Vander Elst ◽  
Hans De Witte ◽  
Anja Van den Broeck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Work Stressors ◽  
Heterogeneous Sample ◽  
Work Related

Studies investigating both work- and individual-related antecedents of workplace bullying are scarce. In reply, this study investigated the interaction between workload, job insecurity, role conflict, and role ambiguity (i.e., work-related antecedents), and problem- and emotion-focused coping strategies (i.e., individual-related antecedents) in association with exposure to workplace bullying. Problem-focused coping strategies were hypothesised to decrease (i.e., buffer) the associations between workload, job insecurity, role conflict, and role ambiguity and exposure to bullying, while emotion-focused coping strategies were hypothesised to increase (i.e., amplify) these associations. Results for a heterogeneous sample (N= 3,105) did not provide evidence for problem-focused coping strategies as moderators. As expected, some emotion-focused coping strategies amplified the associations between work-related antecedents and bullying: employees using “focus on and venting of emotions” or “behavioural disengagement” in dealing with job insecurity, role conflict, or role ambiguity were more likely to be exposed to bullying. Similarly, “seeking social support for emotional reasons” and “mental disengagement” amplified the associations of role ambiguity and the associations of both role conflict and role ambiguity, respectively. To prevent bullying, organisations may train employees in tempering emotion-focused coping strategies, especially when experiencing job insecurity, role conflict, or role ambiguity.

scholarly journals An Examination of the Moderating Role of Gender on Turnover Intention among Manufacturing Industry Employees in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 904-911
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Staff Turnover ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Moderating Role

This study investigates staff turnover in a manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Manufacturing is semi-capital intensive industry. Manufacturing contributes to employment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Gross Domestic Production (GDP). Skilled and semi-skilled workers. Manufacturing is one of key success factors to national economy, nevertheless, high staff turnover continues to be disastrous towards manufacturing industry performance. This study employs a second-order construct with moderating role of gender in evaluating staff turnover intentions among 392 manufacturing industry employees in Malaysia, providing a case study of a manufacturing company in the consumer sector. Six variables were studied: role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, work family conflicts, gender and turnover intention. The analysis was undertaken via SEM-PLS 3.2.7. A total of four hypotheses were tested. Positive results were obtained with respect to role overloaded on turnover intention. Negative results were obtained for role ambiguity, role conflict and work–family conflict. The implication of this study reveals that organizations generally recognize the importance of staff retention for superior organizational performance.

scholarly journals Stres peran dan kinerja karyawan: pengujian model hubungan inverted-U

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Hendryadi Hendryadi
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of role stress (role overload, role ambiguity, and role conflict) on the frontline employees' performance. The study employs a direct survey through a self-administered questionnaire handed out to 132 employees in the restaurant business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hierarchical Regression Analysis is used to test the hypotheses. The finding of the study shows that the role conflict and role ambiguity affects negatively to the performance, while role overload has a positive effect. The locus of control moderation role is supported in the role of role overload and role ambiguity, but not in the role conflict - performance relationship. The implication for managers is that efforts need to be made to reduce role conflict and role ambiguity because it has negative implications on employee performance. While the excess of roles perceived by employees is maintained at a moderate level to maintain employee performance.  

Role Strain Experienced by Male Occupational Therapists: A Descriptive Survey

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Ted Brown
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Role Strain ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Role Stress ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Patient Role

Occupational therapy is a female-dominated profession with only 5.8% of all clinicians being men. Traditionally, occupational therapy education programmes have had limited success in recruiting men and those men who do become therapists tend to work in the profession for only short periods of time. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that have an impact on male occupational therapists. Specifically, role strain due to community, colleagues and patients, three types of role stress (role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload) and the demographic characteristics of male occupational therapists in Canada were examined. Role strain is a subjective state of emotional arousal (such as increased level of awareness, general emotional arousal, distress, anxiety or frustration) in response to the external conditions of social stress. Community role strain was considered to arise from the negative attitudes of people outside the immediate work environment. Colleague role strain was considered to arise from the attitudes and behaviours of co-workers and others employed in the work environment. Patient role strain was considered to arise from the acts and attitudes of patients and their families. Role stress is a social structural condition in which role obligations are vague, irritating, difficult, conflicting or impossible to meet. Role ambiguity was defined as vagueness or a lack of clarity of role expectation. Role conflict was defined as role expectations that are incompatible. Role overload was defined as too much expected in the time available. A questionnaire was posted to all male therapists who were members of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (n = 199). Eighty-three per cent of the sample responded. The survey instruments consisted of a demographic questionnaire, the Egeland and Brown Rating Scale, the Rizzo, House and Lirtzman Scale and the Beehr, Walsh and Taber Scale. As a group, male occupational therapists reported a moderate level of community role strain, colleague role strain and patient role strain. Similarly, male occupational therapists also reported a moderate degree of role conflict and role overload, but had a low level of role ambiguity.

scholarly journals PERAN SOCIAL CAPITAL DALAM MEMITIGASI PENGARUH ROLE STRESS TERHADAP JOB PERFORMANCE (Studi Kasus pada Profesi Akuntan di Kebumen, Puworejo, dan Purwokerto)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arya Samudra Mahardhika ◽  
Anton Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Role Stress ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of role stress consisting of role conflict and role ambiguity on job performance, and to analyze the role of social capital as a moderating variable in the relationship. Respondents from this study were accountant professions in Kebumen, Purworejo, and Purwokerto, sampling was done by purposive sampling with the criteria of the accounting profession who had worked for 1 (one) year, the sample studied was 65. The results of hypothesis testing using WarpPLS software 3.0 shows that role stress has a significant effect on job performance, but the coefficient of job ambiguity shows the opposite direction of the hypothesis. Inaddition, this study also found that social capital has a role in reducing the negative influence of role conflict on job performance, but its role cannot be proven in role ambiguity

Other Duties as Assigned: The Ambiguous Role of the High School Counselor

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Blake
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
High School Counselors ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Job Description

Previous research suggests high school counselors are not living up to their potential as social/emotional, academic, and postsecondary counselors. This article addresses this concern by studying how schools and districts utilize counselors. Through interviews and observations of high school counselors, administrators, and counselor educators in an urban midwestern community, I find that counselors suffer from role ambiguity and role conflict due to lack of a clear job description, overlap with similar professions, supervision by noncounseling administrators, inadequate forms of performance evaluation, and conflict between their roles as counselors and educators. This conflict leads to poor boundaries at work, with counselors receiving an overwhelming amount of noncounseling duties that reduce their time with students. High school counselors have the potential to improve student social and academic outcomes, but these obstacles of role ambiguity and role conflict reduce them to school managers rather than master’s-level trained educators with a mental health background.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Role Overload, Role Conflict dan Role Ambiguity terhadap Kinerja Karyawan dengan Dukungan Sosial sebagai Moderating Variabel pada Karyawan PT Y di Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Dianing Kumalaretna ◽  
Praptini Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Performance Support ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT. This study aims to determine the level of job stress amongproduction employees in a manufacturing company, to measure the level ofemployee performance, and test the effect of work stress of Role Overload,Role Conflict and Role ambiguty on employee performance. Then this studyexamined the role of moderation from social support (from supervisors andcoworkers) about the relationship mentioned above. This research is aquantitative study using a questionnaire. All data were collected through asurvey and filled by 50 production workers in a manufacturing company inSurabaya. The sampling method suitable for this study. PLS method is usedfor statistical data analysis. The results showed a significant negativerelationship between role overload and performance, a non-significantnegative relationship between role conflict and performance, a negativerelationship between role ambiguity and performance. Support fromcoworkers and superiors has a significant moderating effect on roleoverload and role ambiguity.Key word: Role Overload, Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity, Job Performance,Social Support.

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