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Examining effective collaboration in critical care settings
Published in Scott Reeves, Janet Alexanian, Deborah Kendall-Gallagher, Todd Dorman, Simon Kitto, Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings, 2018
Scott Reeves, Janet Alexanian, Deborah Kendall-Gallagher, Todd Dorman, Simon Kitto
Manthous & Hollingshead (2011) for example advocate that improving patient outcomes in critical care settings will require that interprofessional team leaders, inclusive of nurse managers and attending (senior) physicians, practice three behaviours: cultivate psychological safety for all team members; develop the team’s transactive memory capability that allows professions to function cohesively and effectively together overtime in an interdependent and interconnected manner; and demonstrate leadership skills that empower team members, particularly during interprofessional rounds.
Team Psychological Needs and Radical versus Incremental Creativity of Work Teams
Published in Human Performance, 2021
Finally, in the current analysis, potential intervening team processes such as social risk concerns, performance pressure, and competitive climate were presumed but not empirically tested. To address this deficiency, future studies should elaborate and verify underlying mechanisms between team psychological needs and team creativity. In this respect, various alternative team emergent states and cognitive processes could be examined, such as psychological safety, reflexivity, intragroup conflict, group trust, and risk-taking tendency. Another intriguing direction could involve the role of knowledge management processes in teams, such as knowledge sharing, shared mental models, and transactive memory systems, which also provide plausible collective mechanisms through which team psychological needs generate different forms of creativity.
Effects of Diversity on Knowledge Sharing and Creativity of Work Teams: Status Differential Among Members as a Facilitator
Published in Human Performance, 2019
From the knowledge management perspective, the literature emphasizes the coordination and the formation of normative principles as a critical enabler of knowledge flow in groups (cf. shared mental model or SMM, Mohammed, Klimoski, & Rentsch, 2000). As a form of informally shared images of social structure, status differential may facilitate group knowledge sharing through prescribing shared normative rules of communication, which should enhance SMM. Another perspective on knowledge management underscores a cognitive division of labor across members and the importance of knowing who knows what across members (transactive memory systems or TMS, Moreland & Myaskovsky, 2000). Studies on TMS suggest that accurate identification of who knows what leads to effective knowledge flows (Gino, Argote, Miron-Spektor, & Todorova, 2010). The positive function of status differential can also be related to the formation of TMS, in that it promotes clear role assignments and distributions of cognitive loads (Bunderson & Boumgarden, 2010). Thus, the benefit of status differential as a positive contingency for group diversity can be driven by either SMM, TMS, or both. Future studies may further specify these intriguing possibilities and underlying knowledge-based mechanisms that account for the functions of status differential.
Application of activity theory to examine the implementation of e-health in Namibia
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Laizah Sashah Mutasa, Tiko Iyamu
Activity theory (AT) underpins this study, primarily because it helps to examine interactions between people and the ways technologies shape and are shaped by human activities [33]. Hakkinen and Korpela [34], suggest that AT is useful in understanding the activities of user groups in IS development and information about the relationship between actors in a system. Thus, Simeonova [35] applied AT in a study to explore the role of transactive memory systems and Web 2.0. Hasan et al. [36] employed the theory to study the role of IS in climate change. Karanasios and Allen [37] applied AT in their study on mobile technologies and mobile work.