scholarly journals Presidential Interactions with Faculty Senates: Expectations and Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
G. David Gearhart ◽  
Michael T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
College Presidents ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Faculty Senate ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Faculty Senates ◽  
Education Decision

Shared governance is an important element in higher education decision making. Through the joint decision making process, faculty members are provided an opportunity to help shape the future of an institution while increasing support for decisions that are made. Presidents, those leaders who are legally bound to guide their institutions, must find ways to collaborate effectively with faculty members in making decisions, and the first step in this process is understanding when and how presidents and faculty leaders interact. In the current study, a national sample of college presidents reported their preparation for the presidency, their perceptions of the functions of a faculty senate, and ultimately, the locations for important interactions between presidents and faculty senates. Results indicated that presidents, regardless of their preparation, found official functions to be the most important for communicating, although, those presidents with academic backgrounds were more likely to perceive faculty senates as having a role in all aspects of an institutions management.

scholarly journals Charting Spiritual Care: Ethical Perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
Guy Jobin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life History ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Joint Decision

Abstract The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) into clinical practice appears to be irreversible. Where EHRs are used, chaplains have cooperated willingly with this way of reporting and sharing information with other members of the care team. They will have to, as a result, adapt their own note-taking practices to ensure effective, relevant and meaningful communication as part of the joint decision-making process. Although the specialized literature has addressed some of the “classic” ethical issues raised by EHRs, in particular those in connection with confidentiality and access, other questions, no less crucial, have received less attention and are addressed here. They include questions about the recognition of all players in the care relationship (both patients and caregivers) as subjects, and the communication of “non-generic” information about emotions, values, life history, etc. The fact that chaplains contribute to EHRs is both a sign of and a vector for recognition of their work within healthcare institutions – yet a recognition that could involve a price to pay for chaplains and patients.

scholarly journals A Voyage of Esprit-De-Corps: A Sectorial Comparison

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Tabassum Naz ◽  
Allah Bakhsh Malik ◽  
Marium Din
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
T Test ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Esprit-De-Corps encompasses cohesion, loyalty and unity within an organization. The study is focused on the existing threads of EspritDe-Corps and its comparison in public and private sector universities. A sample of 533 faculty members was taken. The team STTEPS (T-TAQ) questionnaire was adapted for collecting the data. The data was analyzed through Percentage, mean and t-test. It was concluded that the strands of Esprit-De-Corps are more prevalent in private sector universities. It is recommended that faculty members may be involved in decision making process and trainings pertaining to leadership, communication and other live skills may be imparted.

Parental Involvement in the Special Education Decision-Making Process

2019 ◽  
pp. 206-228
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Brady ◽  
Charles J. Russo ◽  
Cynthia A. Dieterich ◽  
Allan G. Osborne ◽  
Nicole D. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Education Decision

scholarly journals Faculty Perceptions of Government and Management

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Cummings ◽  
Donald Fisher ◽  
William Locke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Educational Governance ◽  
Institutional Loyalty ◽  
Current State ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
Education Decision

A model of higher education decision-making was prevalent with shared governance. To assess faculty perceptions of the current state of higher educational governance and management, the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) project went to the field in 2007 in 18 countries. In most of the countries, faculty were more likely to perceive they have authority individually or through academic committees and boards. There is a decline in the institutional loyalty of academics from a similar survey conducted in 1992.

A Decision-Making Process in Shared Governance

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 48A???48D
Author(s):  
DIANE RECKER ◽  
CAROL BESS ◽  
HELEN WELLENS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Decision Making Process

scholarly journals Perceived Spousal Influence In The Service Decision-Making Process: A Cross Cultural Investigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marla Royne Stafford ◽  
Gopala Ganesh ◽  
Michael G. Luckett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Spousal Influence

<span>Although spousal influence in the decision-making process has been investigated in the academic literature, most of the existing research has focused on decision-making for consumer goods. This paper reports the results of a cross-cultural study of consumer decision making for two broad types of services, across three different household samples (US Americans, Indian Tamil US Immigrants, and Indian Tamils living in India). Findings of the study suggest that for both types of services, there is more joint decision making within American US households than in Indian-Tamil households. Joint decision making is least prevalent in Tamil households in India.</span>

scholarly journals Fostering Palliative Care Through Digital Intervention: A Platform for Adult Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lefteris Koumakis ◽  
Fatima Schera ◽  
Heather Parker ◽  
Panos Bonotis ◽  
Maria Chatzimina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Hematologic Malignancies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Potential Impact

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are an emerging paradigm in clinical research and healthcare, aiming to capture the patient's self-assessed health status in order to gauge efficacy of treatment from their perspective. As these patient-generated health data provide insights into the effects of healthcare processes in real-life settings beyond the clinical setting, they can also be viewed as a resolution beyond what can be gleaned directly by the clinician. To this end, patients are identified as a key stakeholder of the healthcare decision making process, instead of passively following their doctor's guidance. As this joint decision-making process requires constant and high-quality communication between the patient and his/her healthcare providers, novel methodologies and tools have been proposed to promote richer and preemptive communication to facilitate earlier recognition of potential complications. To this end, as PROs can be used to quantify the patient impact (especially important for chronic conditions such as cancer), they can play a prominent role in providing patient-centric care. In this paper, we introduce the MyPal platform that aims to support adults suffering from hematologic malignancies, focusing on the technical design and highlighting the respective challenges. MyPal is a Horizon 2020 European project aiming to support palliative care for cancer patients via the electronic PROs (ePROs) paradigm, building upon modern eHealth technologies. To this end, MyPal project evaluate the proposed eHealth intervention via clinical studies and assess its potential impact on the provided palliative care. More specifically, MyPal platform provides specialized applications supporting the regular answering of well-defined and standardized questionnaires, spontaneous symptoms reporting, educational material provision, notifications etc. The presented platform has been validated by end-users and is currently in the phase of pilot testing in a clinical study to evaluate its feasibility and its potential impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients with hematologic malignancies.

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