scholarly journals Establishment of Performance Scales for Team Integration Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Khairil Izam Ibrahim ◽  
Seosamh B Costello ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Team Integration

The increased use of the alliance model in recent years highlights the importance of integration practice among multi-disciplinary teams, as it promotes a collaborative culture and the continuity of equitable relationships to improve project performance. If continuous improvement in project alliances is to be achieved through the use of integrated teams, then a means of assessing how well teams integrate and how team integration changes over time, needs to be introduced. In response to that need, an Alliance Team Integration Performance Index (ATIPI) has been developed as part of a wider study to develop an assessment tool for team integration in road construction alliance projects in New Zealand. In this paper, a set of Key Indicators (KIs) of team integration practice and the Quantitative Measures (QMs) for each KI are first introduced and then, in order to enhance the associated ATIPI model, the establishment of scales for the performance levels, namely ‘poor’, ‘average’, ‘good’, ‘very good’ and ‘excellent’, for each KI are described. The establishment of performance scales will help ensure that the assessment of team integration practice is quantified in a consistent and objective manner. Keywords: Alliance, Assessment, New Zealand, Performance Scales, Team Integration

A content analysis of the portrayal of alcohol in televised music videos in New Zealand: Changes over time

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Sloane ◽  
Nick Wilson ◽  
Fiona Imlach Gunasekara
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals The Primacy of the Nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, Beliefs and Responses over Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barbara Gay Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

<p>Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses’ decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand Registered Nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse.</p>

scholarly journals The Primacy of the Nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, Beliefs and Responses over Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barbara Gay Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

<p>Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses’ decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand Registered Nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse.</p>

Intertidal communities in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand: Changes over time

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Boyle ◽  
John B. Jillett ◽  
Philip V. Mladenov
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Intertidal Communities ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Salmonella entericaserotypes and antibiotic susceptibility in New Zealand, 2002–2007

2009 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. I. BROUGHTON ◽  
H. M. HEFFERNAN ◽  
C. L. COLES
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Salmonella Enterica ◽  
Antibiotic Susceptibility ◽  
Serovar Typhimurium ◽  
Common Serotypes ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

SUMMARYWe analysed the serotypes and antibiotic susceptibility of 1560 human and 1505 non-humanSalmonellaisolated in New Zealand (NZ) between 2002 and 2007. The most common serotypes in humans wereSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium,S. Enteritidis,S. Brandenburg andS. Infantis. Over the 6-year period human cases due toS. Agona andS. Enteritidis increased and cases due toS. Typhimurium decreased. The most common serotypes from non-human sources wereS. Typhimurium,S. Brandenberg,S. Hindmarsh andS. Infantis, and there were no significant changes over time. More isolates were non-susceptible to streptomycin than to any other antibiotic. Almost all isolates were susceptible to ciprofloxacin and gentamicin. There were significant trends of increasing non-susceptibility to streptomycin and sulfonamides in isolates from human and non-human sources, while ampicillin, tetracycline and multidrug non-susceptibility also increased in human isolates. Despite these increases, rates of antibiotic non-susceptibility inSalmonellain NZ are still lower than in many international settings.

Assessing sustainability knowledge of a student population

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Zwickle ◽  
Tomas M. Koontz ◽  
Kristina M. Slagle ◽  
Jeremy T. Bruskotter
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
College And University ◽  
Expert Input ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present a tool for assessing the sustainability knowledge of an undergraduate population. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple-choice questions were developed through soliciting expert input, focus groups, pilot testing, distribution via a large-scale online survey and analysis using item response theory. Findings – The final assessment consists of 16 questions from the environmental, economic and social domains, covering foundational concepts within the topic of sustainability. Research limitations/implications – This assessment represents an initial effort to quantify knowledge of the broad and abstract concept of sustainability. The authors plan to continue refining these questions to better differentiate between students with higher levels of knowledge and to replace those with answers that may change over time. Practical implications – With knowledge of sustainability concepts becoming increasingly included in institution-wide learning objectives, there is a growing demand for a way to measure progress in this area. Our assessment tool can easily be used (via a campus-wide survey or distributed at the classroom level) by institutions to gauge current levels of knowledge and track changes over time, as well as assess the effectiveness of courses and curricula at meeting sustainability knowledge goals. Originality/value – This assessment of sustainability knowledge is the first of its kind to include all three separate domains of sustainability, and we expect it to be useful across a variety of college and university contexts.

scholarly journals Evidence of Declining Nicotine Dependency in New Callers to a National Quitline

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Li ◽  
Michele Grigg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Nicotine Dependence ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Nicotine Dependency ◽  
Quitting Smoking ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

AbstractObjective: To look for evidence of changing nicotine dependency self-reported by new callers to a national quitline in New Zealand between 2001 and 2005. Methods: Levels of self-reported nicotine dependence of new callers were compared across 5 years to determine changes over time. Results: Statistically significant decreases were found in all 3 measures of nicotine dependence over the 5-year period: time to first cigarette (7.9% decline for smoking within 30 minutes of waking), intensity of inhalation (36.8% decline for ‘heavy’ inhalation), and number of cigarettes per day (29.8% decline for 21+ cigarettes per day). Conclusions: The results showed the proportion of callers with high nicotine dependency remains large but decreased continuously during the 5-year period. A decline of highly nicotine dependent callers to the Quitline may indirectly suggest an increased proportion of hard-core smokers in the overall smoking population as this group tends to be less likely to consider quitting smoking. However, the results may also suggest that the overall smoking population was less nicotine dependent in 2005, than it was in 2001, or that the Quitline has become less appealing to heavily nicotine dependent smokers.

Key indicators influencing the management of team integration in construction projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Khairil Izam Che Ibrahim ◽  
Seosamh B. Costello ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Blame Culture ◽  
Successful Team ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Team Integration

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to validate a list of key indicators (KIs) of team integration identified from construction management literature, identify the most significant KIs and provide suggestions on how to influence team integration, based on the opinion of an established construction peer group in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review was conducted to identify and consolidate a set of KIs of team integration. Subsequently, a set of questions was designed to gain insight and opinion in terms of the significance and ranking of the identified indicators, as well as suggestions on how to influence the integration practice. Findings – Analysis of the survey results showed that all relevant indicators have a strong influence towards determining the success of team integration in construction projects. The top-ranked indicators that contribute towards successful team integration are all relationship orientated as follows; single team focus on goals and objectives, trust and respect, commitment from top management, free flow communication and no blame culture. A framework for influencing these indicators of team integration is proposed which includes four elements: first, team formation; second, contractual model; third, teamwork principle; and fourth, operational monitoring. Research limitations/implications – The findings are limited to practitioners’ perceptions who are registered with an established construction peer group in New Zealand. Practical implications – The results of the study are expected to provide insight for construction practitioners to help them embrace team integration practice and, hence, provide both the opportunity and a platform to enhance and measure their team performance. Originality/value – The paper recognises that while the process of integration is a result of a combination of many indicators, it further extends the team integration literature by providing insights into what are the dominant relationship indicators of team integration, and how to influence these indicators based on a proposed framework.

Support for Fast Comprehension of ICU Data: Visualization using Metaphor Graphics

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (05) ◽  
pp. 421-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Popow ◽  
L. Unterasinger ◽  
W. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Stable Patient ◽  
Visualization System ◽  
Graphic Data ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Summary Objectives: The time-oriented analysis of electronic patient records on (neonatal) intensive care units is a tedious and time-consuming task. Graphic data visualization should make it easier for physicians to assess the overall situation of a patient and to recognize essential changes over time. Methods: Metaphor graphics are used to sketch the most relevant parameters for characterizing a patient’s situation. By repetition of the graphic object in 24 frames the situation of the ICU patient is presented in one display, usually summarizing the last 24 h. Results: VIE-VISU is a data visualization system which uses multiples to present the change in the patient’s status over time in graphic form. Each multiple is a highly structured metaphor graphic object. Each object visualizes important ICU parameters from circulation, ventilation, and fluid balance. Conclusion: The design using multiples promotes a focus on stability and change. A stable patient is recognizable at first sight, continuous improvement or worsening condition are easy to analyze, drastic changes in the patient’s situation get the viewers attention immediately.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Survey of Income, Employment and Family Dynamics

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette Briggs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Statistics New Zealand has completed the feasibility study for a Longitudinal Survey of Income, Employment and Family Dynamics, and is now in the process of implementing the recommended methodology for this survey. Data collection begins in April 2002. The survey will provide information about changes over time in the economic wellbeing of individuals, and factors influencing that change such as labour market behaviour and changes in family structure. From an initial panel of households the individuals selected will be interviewed and re-interviewed once every 12 months for 8 years. The paper describes the information to be collected, output variables and types of analysis possible with longitudinal data. Policy uses of the data are briefly discussed, with selected examples of overseas analysis using longitudinal survey information.

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