scholarly journals A holistic exploration of leadership development

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Von Krosigk
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Over Time

Aligning body, mind and spirit, acquiring emotional intelligence, an unshakable belief in their own intuition and producing outcomes in the context of organisational abilities encompass the attributes of leaders that emerged from this holistic exploration of leadership development. Emotionally aware leaders demonstrated their authenticity and cared for peaceful process. In this exploration such leaders started at the bottom within their enterprise working their way up over time. Agreeableness and flexibility were the core competencies they developed amongst others. A complex mix of behaviour, thoughts and emotions were the specific leadership attributes that were found to differ for different organisations. These specific leadership attributes needed to fit with the character and dynamics of the organisation. Since leadership development was found to be a holistic character development over time leadership courses are recommended for all scholars and students, with a strong emphasis on self-development. A grounded theory approach to this holistic exploration of leadership development serves the community well, by promoting the emergence of grounded theories which are free from practical impossibilities.

scholarly journals The experience of family caregivers of patients with cancer in an Asian country: A grounded theory approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Sinta Kristanti ◽  
Christantie Effendy ◽  
Adi Utarini ◽  
Myrra Vernooij-Dassen ◽  
Yvonne Engels
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
The Core ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Will Power ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Background: Strong family bonds are part of the Indonesian culture. Family members of patients with cancer are intensively involved in caring, also in hospitals. This is considered “normal”: a societal and religious obligation. The values underpinning this might influence families’ perception of it. Aim: To explore and model experiences of family caregivers of patients with cancer in Indonesia in performing caregiving tasks. Design: A grounded theory approach was applied. The constant comparative method was used for data analysis and a paradigm scheme was employed for developing a theoretical model. Setting/participants: The study was conducted in three hospitals in Indonesia. The participants were family caregivers of patients with cancer. Results: A total of 24 family caregivers participated. “Belief in caregiving” appeared to be the core phenomenon. This reflects the caregivers’ conviction that providing care is an important value, which becomes the will power and source of their strength. It is a combination of spiritual and religious, value and motivation to care, and is influenced by contextual factors. It influences actions: coping mechanisms, sharing tasks, and making sacrifices. Social support influences the process of the core phenomenon and the actions of the caregivers. Both positive and negative experiences were identified. Conclusion: We developed a model of family caregivers’ experiences from a country where caregiving is deeply rooted in religion and culture. The model might also be useful in other cultural contexts. Our model shows that the spiritual domain, not only for the patient but also for the family caregivers, should be structurally addressed by professional caregivers.

scholarly journals It's Like Doing a Job Analysis: You Know More About Qualitative Methods Than You May Think

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Brawley ◽  
Cynthia L. S. Pury
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Job Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Through learning about and doing job analysis, industrial–organizational (I-O) psychologists likely already possess skills and knowledge relevant to doing and understanding qualitative research. We'll illustrate this by showing similarities between common job analysis practices and one particular qualitative research approach likely to be relevant to organizational research: grounded theory. Grounded theory was “discovered” in 1967 by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Though Glaser and Strauss later split in their methodologies (an occurrence not unlike the varied approaches to job analysis), the core idea of grounded theory is to develop a new theory of some process or phenomenon from the “ground” up. In the grounded theory approach, researchers typically collect mostly qualitative data—often including interviews (Creswell, 2007)—and simultaneously develop increasingly abstract codes, concepts, and categories from the data. In the final step of analysis, researchers develop a theory that subsumes all categories from the data. If researchers follow the Straussian tradition, categories can be fit into a theoretical framework that details a central phenomenon underlying the process of interest and the conditions that precede it, result from it, and shape the resulting categories (Creswell, 2007). We illustrate this framework in Figure 1. Grounded theory is particularly useful for developing an accurate understanding of many organizational processes and phenomena that I-O psychologists study.

Two worlds: Adolescents' strategies for managing life with a parent in hospice

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denice Kopchak Sheehan ◽  
M. Murray Mayo ◽  
Grace H. Christ ◽  
Kim Heim ◽  
Stephanie Parish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTObjective:This study aimed to generate an explanatory model of the coping strategies that adolescents employ to manage the stressors they experience in the final months of their ill parent's life and shortly after their death.Method:The sample included 26 families of adolescents with a parent receiving care in a large hospice program in northeastern Ohio. A semistructured interview was conducted with 14 ill parents, 17 well parents/guardians, and 30 of their adolescent children before the parent's death and, additionally, with 6 of these families after the death. The interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using a grounded-theory approach.Results:The participants described two worlds that constituted the lives of the adolescents: the well world of normal adolescence and the ill world of having a parent near the end of life. The adolescents experienced a common challenge of living in two worlds and responded to the challenge with a process we labeled “managing two worlds.” Five stages through which adolescents manage their worlds were identified: keeping the ill world and the well world separate; having the ill world intrude into the well world; moving between the ill world and the well world; being immersed in the ill world; and returning to the well world having been changed by the ill world.Significance of results:The explanatory model of “managing two worlds” outlines a complex and nuanced process that changes over time. The model can be used by health professionals who seek to help adolescents navigate this critical time when their parents are dying or have recently died. These results can also be used to inform the development of interventions that assist families with strategies tailored to an adolescent's specific needs. Future research should investigate associations among the process of “managing two worlds” and outcomes related to adolescent bereavement.

Caring in Nursing from an Islamic Perspective: A Grounded Theory Approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubina Barolia,
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Instrument Development ◽  
Role Modeling ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Grounded Theory Methodology ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Category ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

The aim of this study was to discover the key components of caring within an Islamic context. The grounded theory methodology was utilized to discover caring processes. Seven scholars were interviewed: four were nursing scholars and three were Islamic scholars. Literature was simultaneously searched for support of emerging concepts and to fill in gaps in the emerging theory. The concepts emerging from the data are physical, ethical/moral, ideological, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of human personality. The five antecedents emerging from the data were the five Rs: response, reflection, relationship, relatedness, and role modeling. Balancing emerged as the core category. Implications include caring instrument development, concepts to modify existing caring theories, and some recommendations for further research.

The Impact of NOLS Rocky Mountain on the Development of a Sense of Place

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-397
Author(s):  
Garrett Hutson ◽  
Liz Peredun ◽  
Shannon Rochelle
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nature Appreciation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Background: One of the core environmental studies learning objectives at NOLS is for students to develop a “sense of place” by experiencing wilderness and exploring relationships with their surroundings. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how students report developing a sense of place after completing a course based out of NOLS Rocky Mountain in Lander, Wyoming. A secondary focus of this study was to understand sense-of-place development through past NOLS research on learning mechanisms. Methodology/Approach: Data were analyzed from 511 NOLS students who answered the open-ended question: Did NOLS help you develop a personal relationship to the places you visited? If so, how? This study utilized a grounded theory approach to design and analysis. Findings/Conclusions: Analyses revealed nine core categories related to developing an expeditionary and wilderness-focused sense of place. The two predominant themes supporting a sense of place were the ability of a NOLS course to facilitate nature appreciation and specific instructor-oriented and NOLS structure-oriented learning mechanisms. Implications: This article offers insights into how NOLS supports a sense of place, clarifies related learning mechanisms, and discusses curricular considerations related to facilitating person–environment relationships within landscapes understood as wilderness.

scholarly journals Becoming a Novice Smoker: Initial Smoking Behaviours among Jor danian Psychiatric Nurses

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaldoun Aldiabat ◽  
Michael Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Smoking Reduction ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Smoking Behaviours ◽  
Over Time

A better understanding of how male Jordanian psychiatric nurses become smokers and continue the habit mainly at work is necessary if smoking reduction and cessation programs are to help them better manage their smoking behaviours. Here we use a grounded theory approach to describe the factors that influenced the eight nurses in our sample to take up smoking. We use five categories derived from open coding to explain the initial stage in the smoking histories of the nurses. We situate our account of " becoming a novice smoker" within the contextualizing smoking behaviours over time theory we developed from our study. Finally, we relate the substantive findings we report here to the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and transtheoretical theory.

Conceptualizing for managerial relevance in B2B research: a grounded theory approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 626-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Gustavsson ◽  
Lars-Johan Åge
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Grounded Theory Methodology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Purpose – This study aims to formulate recommendations for business-to-business (B2B) researchers, with the potential to increase the extent to which B2B research is relevant to managers. Design/methodology/approach – These recommendations are derived from and inspired by the grounded theory methodology. Findings – In this article, we argue that conceptualizations which are potentially relevant to managers are those that discover new perspectives, simplify complexity, enable managers to take action and have an instant grab. To accomplish this as researchers, the authors emphasize fostering a beginner’s mind, creating umbrella models, increasing the level of abstraction of concepts and finding the core process in data. Originality/value – In this article, we translate the basic principles within the grounded theory methodology into more general recommendations that can be used by B2B researchers.

scholarly journals How Nurses Apply Patterns of Knowing in Clinical Practice: A Grounded Theory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Forough Rafii ◽  
Alireza Nikbakht Nasrabadi ◽  
Fereshteh Javaheri Tehrani
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Clinical Nurses ◽  
The Core ◽  
Patterns Of Knowing ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Core Variable

BACKGROUND፡ Nurses require a great deal of knowledge to provide a comprehensive and effective nursing care. A number of patterns have been put into place to help nurses acquire this knowledge. The aim of this study was to describe the core variable in the process of using patterns of knowing by nurses in clinical practice.METHODS: The study was conducted in qualitative and grounded theory approach, between April 2018 and January 2020. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. All the interviews were transcribed verbatim. Nineteen clinical nurses were interviewed, and eight observation sessions were conducted in different hospital departments. Participants were first selected through purposeful and then theoretical sampling. Data were analyzed and interpreted using constant comparison analysis approach.RESULTS: The findings of the study indicated that nurses apply the patterns of knowing in three ways in their clinical practice: "cohesion of patterns of knowing", "domination of some patterns of knowing" and "elimination of some patterns of knowing". The core variable of this process is cohesion of patterns of knowing in the domain of flexibility.CONCLUSION: The findings of the present study indicate that application of patterns of knowing is practiced in a range of nurse flexibility in clinical settings.

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