scholarly journals Exploring the Effective Factors on Fires Related Injuries in Residential Buildings Inhabitants: Findings from a Paradigm Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Shokouhi ◽  
Kadijeh Nasiriani ◽  
Ali Ardalan ◽  
Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Residential Areas

Abstract Background Fires is one of the most important hazards leading to human casualties as well as financial losses in the world, mostly in low- and middle- income countries. This study aims to provide in-depth information on fires in residential buildings and explain the safety process against fires in Iran. Methods This study has a qualitative study design using a grounded theory principle, recommended by Strauss and Corbin, and using the Paradigm Model. The data were collected via in-depth interviews with 27 participants, including injured patients, health professionals, firefighters and other stakeholders in Iran, who have practical experience or theoretical knowledge about management and action after fires. Data were analyzed based on a grounded theory approach, using the Paradigm model. Results Synergistic building safety deficiency and qualitative relief defects were identified as the center of this study. This reflects participants' experience essence on the barriers to preventing fires related injuries in residential areas in Iran. These issues are debatable at various levels, from local and national policy to individual characteristics and behaviors of people and inhabitants of residential buildings against fires. Conclusions The safety of building’s occupants requires the improvement of many factors at the local and national level. Safety construction of buildings, urban infrastructure and public education should be taken into consideration to promote community safety.

scholarly journals Tourist-to-Tourist Interaction at Festivals: A Grounded Theory Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Sun ◽  
Shaofeng Wu ◽  
Yanning Li ◽  
Guangquan Dai
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Behavioral Reactions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Overall Evaluation ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Although neglected in previous studies, tourist-to-tourist interaction (TTI) is a core part of festival experience. It is widely acknowledged that interactions between tourists significantly influence behavioral reactions such as desire to stay, satisfaction, and loyalty, which are important for tourism destination marketing. This study used grounded theory to obtain insights into onsite interactions between tourists and to propose a conceptual model of TTI on the Midi Music Festival in China. The model constitutes the types, drivers, and influence of TTI. Compared with mutual assistance and conflict, entertainment interaction plays an essential role in the overall evaluation of the festival experience. Individual characteristics are the internal drivers of interactions between tourists. Environmental elements including the festivalscape and social festivalscape are influential exogenous factors. Additionally, spatial locations of tourists at the venue play mediating roles between the driving elements and TTI. Since entertainment incidents construct the essential part of onsite interactions at festivals, managers can shape the atmosphere to encourage tourists to engage in interactive entertainment with others tourists. This should improve participants’ overall evaluations of the festival experience as well as the sustainable development of destinations where festivals are held.

scholarly journals Exploring the Interactions of Factory Workers in China: A Model Development Using the Grounded Theory Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6750
Author(s):  
Ye Ye ◽  
Rosmini Omar ◽  
Binyao Ning ◽  
Hiram Ting
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This study uses the grounded theory approach to explore factory workers to factory worker interaction (FWI) in the context of Chinese factories and proposes a model of FWI in the workplace. Human interaction in the workplace is indispensable in most sectors. Compared with large-scale factories, China’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) factories lack capital resources and technological advancement, and sustainably managing factory workers is essential for the development of Chinese SME factories. However, previous studies have ignored FWI in Chinese factories. The model developed in this study considers the types, driving factors, and influential outcomes of FWI. The main factors affecting FWI are the individual characteristics of the workplace and external environmental factors and, among types of FWI, information sharing is the most dominant and prevailing. The managers’ management style and the emotional state of factory workers are playing moderating roles in FWI. Results show that factory managers can take advantage of the positive impacts of FWI to improve the efficiency of factory workers and avoid its negative effects to achieve sustainable development of the factory. Theoretical and managerial implications are provided.

scholarly journals Tutorial support of professional and personal development of young specialists

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Svitlana Boiko
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
National Level ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Young Specialist ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Individual Educational Program

The article analyzes tutoring as a pedagogical phenomenon, a particular type of pedagogical activity, which is aimed at supporting and accompanying a young specialist in the process of their work in the first years of their professional activity. Attention is drawn to the fact that tutoring is aimed at a comprehensive, systematic, holistic, comprehensive, and effective study of individual characteristics of young professionals in order to develop and implement an individual educational program of professional and diverse personal development. The effectiveness of organizational and methodological principles of tutoring of young professionals in the institution of general secondary education of Ukraine according to certain criteria (organizational, motivational, pedagogical-procedural, psychological-procedural, information-technological, methodical-procedural, communicative, and cognitive ones) based on analysis, systematization, and summarizing the results of a pedagogical experiment at the national level on the topic: “Tutoring technology as a means of implementing the principle of individualization in education,” which was held in 2015–2020 (orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as of 15.07.2015 No 764 and as of 04.12.2020 No 1499). It is proved that the tutor (mentoring teacher) does not choose goals for the young specialist but only helps him to see alternative ways to achieve them; assists in the development of necessary personal traits and professional competencies. The results of the research and experimental work showed that a young specialist forms into a professional due to the joint work of a tutor with a young specialist based on the use of tutoring technology and the support of the administration and the psychologist of the educational institution. The tutor creates an educational environment that allows a young specialist to gain new knowledge and skills, helps to solve certain problems in their activities. At the same time, the tutor helps to make the most effective use of various scientific and methodological materials, the Internet, and the practical experience of other young specialists.

scholarly journals Leadership development among public health officials in Nepal: A grounded theory

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0259256
Author(s):  
Sudarshan Subedi ◽  
Colin MacDougall ◽  
Darlene McNaughton ◽  
Udoy Saikia ◽  
Tara Brabazon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Public Health Official ◽  
Health Official ◽  
Public Health Officials

Leadership in public health is necessary, relevant, and important as it enables the engagement, management, and transformation of complex public health challenges at a national level, as well as collaborating with internal stakeholders to address global public health threats. The research literature recommends exploring the journey of public health leaders and the factors influencing leadership development, especially in developing countries. Thus, we aimed to develop a grounded theory on individual leadership development in the Nepalese context. For this, we adopted constructivist grounded theory, and conducted 46 intensive interviews with 22 public health officials working under the Ministry of Health, Nepal. Data were analysed by adopting the principles of Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. The theory developed from this study illustrates four phases of leadership development within an individual–initiation, identification, development, and expansion. The ’initial phase’ is about an individual’s wishes to be a leader without a formal role or acknowledgement, where family environment, social environment and individual characteristics play a role in influencing the actualisation of leadership behaviours. The ’identification phase’ involves being identified as a public health official after having formal position in health-related organisations. The ’development’ phase is about developing core leadership capabilities mostly through exposure and experiences. The ’expansion’ phase describes expanding leadership capabilities and recognition mostly by continuous self-directed learning. The grounded theory provides insights into the meaning and actions of participants’ professional experiences and highlighted the role of individual characteristics, family and socio-cultural environment, and workplace settings in the development of leadership capabilities. It has implications for academia to fulfill the absence of leadership theory in public health and is significant to fulfill the need of leadership models grounded in the local context of Asian countries.

On-the-Job Treatment of Employees With Disabilities: A Grounded Theory Investigation

2021 ◽  
pp. 003435522199357
Author(s):  
Lynn C. Koch ◽  
Rachel Glade ◽  
Christine M. Manno ◽  
Aten Zaandam ◽  
Lauren S. Simon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Employees With Disabilities ◽  
Workplace Mistreatment ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Workplace mistreatment is common for workers with and without disabilities. Overt forms of mistreatment in the workplace (e.g., abuse, bullying, harassment) have been well studied; however, less is known about more subtle forms of workplace mistreatment for employees with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine how workers with disabilities are treated on the job, the types of mistreatment present in the workplace, the consequences involved (if any), the courses of action taken (if any), and workers’ satisfaction with the outcomes of actions taken. We used a grounded theory approach to learn from 26 employees with disabilities about their experiences with workplace treatment. Primary themes that emerged from the data were (a) the emotional toll of being mistreated on the job; (b) attempting to “grin and bear it,” as one participant described it, to avoid mistreatment; (c) a desire to feel a sense of belongingness at the workplace; and (d) the intersection of disability characteristics, individual characteristics, and work environment characteristics that influences how people with disabilities are treated on the job. Implications are presented for understanding the role that rehabilitation counselors play in helping workers and employers to respond to mistreatment of employees with disabilities.

The Analysis of Nurses’ Positive Deviance Behaviours as a Measure in Preventing the Transmission of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) at M. Djamil Hospital, Padang, West Sumatera

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Esthika Ariany Maisa ◽  
Yulastri Arif ◽  
Wawan Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Wound Care ◽  
Positive Deviance ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
Develop Theory ◽  
Healthcare Associated ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Purpose: To explore the nurses’ positive deviance behaviors as an effort to provide solutions in preventing and controlling infections in the hospital. Method: This is a qualitative research using grounded theory approach. Thirteen nurses from Dr.M.Djamil hospital were selected based on theoretical sampling in order to develop theory as it appears. Nurses were interviewed from June to September 2014. Interviews were thematically analyzed using techniques of grounded theory to then generate a theory from themes formed. Findings: The modes of positive deviance behavior identified were practicing hand hygiene beyond the standards (bringing handsanitizer from home), applying nursing art in wound care practice, placing patients with MRSA infections at the corner side, giving a red mark on a MRSA patient’s bed for easy identification by nurses, changing clothes and shoes in hospital, reducing hooks on the wall, and cleaning the ward on scheduled days. Conclusion: The study shows that nurses have a number of positive deviance behaviors to prevent infection transmission in the wards. It is sugested that the hospital management and nursing managers adopt some of the uncommon solution highlighted by the nurses to solve the HAIs problems in the hospital.

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