Intra-organizational Communication in Healthcare

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 336-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Niazkhani ◽  
M. Berg ◽  
R. Bal ◽  
H. Pirnejad
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Healthcare Communication ◽  
And Control

Summary Objectives: Intra-organizational communication is mostly interpersonal. Synchronous interruptive communication is recognized as aprimary source of inefficiency anderror in healthcare, and there is much potential for information and communication technology (ICT) to improve such communication. As recently suggested, however, due to communication failures ICT can also compound medical errors. In this paper we analyze factors that restrict the role of ICT in improving interpersonal healthcare communication and suggest solutions. Methods: We critically analyzed the literature from a selection of diverse scientific disciplines. These were related to interpersonal communication, tothe role and place of standardization and computerization in its improvement, and to reducing medical errors. Results: Four possible scenarios were defined on how ICT can serve healthcare communication. Two differing conceptual frameworks about communication in health-care were discussed. Considering “information space” as apart of “communication space ” allows the recognition and control of the source of the semantic gaps in conventional standardization and an enhancement of the role of ICT in improving intra-organizational communication. Moreover, cognitive, social, and organizational dimensions of complexity in interpersonal communication can be managed. Three approaches to control the variability in those dimensions and to promote therole of ICT in intra-organizational communication were discussed. Conclusion: A multi-dimensional approach is required to promote the role of ICT in intra-organizational communication in healthcare. Parallel to conventional standardization, atleast three dimensions need to be addressed: controlling the effect of the social context, developing standard information processing skills, and most importantly, controlling variations in care practices’ performance.

Using Arm Configuration to Learn the Effects of Gyroscopes and Other Devices

2003 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 450-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Flanders ◽  
Jan M. Hondzinski ◽  
John F. Soechting ◽  
Jadin C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Arm Movement ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Hand Path ◽  
Motor Commands ◽  
Similar Strategy ◽  
Normal Configuration ◽  
Normal Hand ◽  
And Control

Previous studies have perturbed the association between motor commands and arm movements by applying forces to the arm during two-dimensional movements. These studies have revealed that, when the normal hand path is perturbed, subjects gradually adapt their motor commands to return to this path. The present study used the spin of a gyroscope to create a complex perturbation, as subjects reached to targets presented in three dimensions. Hand path did not change, but the whole-arm geometry (“arm configuration” in four dimensions) was altered. Over a series of several hundred reaches to various targets, subjects gradually returned the arm movement to its normal configuration. Furthermore, during the course of this learning, subjects used a strategy that involved manipulating arm posture. A similar strategy was observed when subjects made reaching movements with a rod attached to the upper arm to change its inertial characteristics. In both cases, the gradual return to the normal arm movement was accomplished without an increase in kinetic energy, suggesting that arm postures and movements (kinematics) and muscular forces (kinetics) may be mutually optimized. In contrast to previous studies, the present results highlight the role of arm configuration (rather than hand path) in learning and control.

Disaster Management in Digital Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodluck Ifijeh ◽  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-ose ◽  
Chidi Segun-Adeniran ◽  
Julie Ilogho
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Storage

The role of digital libraries in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This article articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.

The Value of Online Networks of Practice: The Role of Embeddedness and Media Use

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart van den Hooff ◽  
Femke de Leeuw van Weenen ◽  
Maura Soekijad ◽  
Marleen Huysman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Relational Embeddedness ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Networks Of Practice

This article addresses the question how networks of practice (NoPs) can create value (operationalized as their contribution to individual members’ performance) for organizations through knowledge integration and management. The discussion focuses on two sets of variables influencing member performance: the embeddedness of the network and the use of different media. Three dimensions of embeddedness are distinguished: (1) embeddedness in practice: the extent to which the knowledge shared in the network is integrated in members’ (local) practices; (2) structural embeddedness: the extent to which network members are connected to each other and know who knows what; and (3) relational embeddedness: the extent to which the network is characterized by strong social ties. In terms of communication media, information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled and face-to-face interaction are distinguished. A survey study among 206 members of different NoPs reveals that all three forms of embeddedness are important antecedents of NoP member performance (explaining 43% of the variance in performance) and that these forms are interrelated. Furthermore, ICT use positively influences embeddedness in practice, whereas face-to-face communication contributes to the structural and relational embeddedness of an NoP. This contributes to knowledge management and ICT literature in general and NoP theory in particular.

Disaster Management in Digital Libraries

2019 ◽  
pp. 1556-1571
Author(s):  
Goodluck Ifijeh ◽  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose ◽  
Chidi Segun-Adeniran ◽  
Julie Ilogho
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Generation ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Storage

The role of digital libraries in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This article articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.

scholarly journals Sustainable and Community-Centred Development of Smart Cities and Villages

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Zavratnik ◽  
Dan Podjed ◽  
Jure Trilar ◽  
Nina Hlebec ◽  
Andrej Kos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Community Size ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
New Community ◽  
And Control ◽  
Calm Technology

The article highlights the need to rethink and reconceptualise the accepted concepts of smart cities and villages by shifting the attention from technology and technological solutions and moving it towards understanding the significance of communities and sustainability. The conceptual framework combines four essential features—community, village, city and sustainability—and analyses the links and relationships between them. A new community-centred approach to development is suggested in order to emphasise that sustainable living cannot be achieved only through technological solutions. Instead, we suggest that to ensure social sustainability, appropriation, and effectiveness of new solutions in the long term, the process has to start, be adapted and led by people and their needs. In this light, the article analyses three dimensions of smart living—energy, mobility, waste—through the prism of rural–urban linkages and the role of ICT. Core principles and recommendations (calm technology, community size, identification of community leaders, surveillance and control issues, community building) for designers of ICT solutions and developmental projects in smart cities and villages are presented. These principles take into account people and communities and combine findings of engineering and social sciences, especially anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

scholarly journals Organizational Communication: Communication and Motivation in The Workplace

Humaniora ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Ramadanty ◽  
Handy Martinus
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Communication Climate ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
The Relationship

Every human activity was basically driven by the motivation. Work motivation was a condition or an energy that directed employees to achieve organizational goals of the company. Nowadays, the development of organizational communication saw the communication as one of the most dominant and important activity in the organization and it could be able to motivate employees. The purpose of this study was to reveal how the role of the communication that occurs within the organization could give the motivation to employee. The problem of the research was the relationship employee motivation with factors of communication, such as nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication leadership and communication climate. The method used descriptive qualitative method. Methods of data collection of this study were literature study. Research finds that nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication leadership and communication climate have a significant role to form employee motivation. Nonverbal communication has slightly strong role in shaping the positive motivation to employee. The role includes body communication, facial communication and eye communication. Interpersonal communication leader is based on the satisfaction level of information between management and employees. Management and transparency in openness in downward communication under the form of information from superiors are by listening the communication between supervisors and employees are running smoothly. 

scholarly journals Analysis of troops groupings in modern local wars and armed conflicts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Anton Tkachenko ◽  
Ruslan Cherevko ◽  
Anton Nykytenko ◽  
Aleksandr Yvashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modern Warfare ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military

The results of the analysis of recent military conflicts convincingly show that the forms and methods of the armed forces application are changing and improving. Scientific and technological progress, the rapid development of information technology, the growing role of high-precision weapons, increasing the effectiveness of intelligence, intensive automation of command and control systems change the nature of modern warfare and are having a steady impact on operational arts, including the need to further improve management theory. In modern military conflicts, new trends in the development of an armed warfare have emerged, which affect the construction of the armed forces, the development of forms and methods of their application. At the same time, there are deviations from the classical views on the military operation execution. The article presents some features of modern conflicts, shows that the main task in modern wars is to gain and maintain information superiority over the enemy through the use of a single information and communication space by the troop’s groupings.

scholarly journals Design and Development of Comprehensive Railway Information and Communication Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damir M. Zaborski ◽  
Zoran Ž Avramović
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Automatic Control Systems ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

Successful operation of the railways as a large technological system is directly related to the reliable and timely transmission of data and information. Therefore, the role of the information and communication system (ICS) has irreplaceable importance for operation and functioning of the railways. Considering that the railway modernization represents an uninterrupted process, it is necessary to ensure constant technical and technological development and application of the latest achievements in the field of information and communication systems. The railway ICS, among other things, provides infrastructure for the automatic control systems, traffic management and control, monitoring and navigation systems, data processing devices, and it also provides support to other subsystems designed for safe and consistent use of the line, as well as efficient management of the modern rail transportation system.

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