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Lemos VAF, Brunstein J. Fostering soft skills leadership through a critical reflection approach. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL TRAINING 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/ict-01-2022-0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Purpose
This paper aims to contribute to the research on the use of reflection in the work environment, highlighting its use in the development of interpersonal skills. This study presents procedures for promoting critical reflection using critical incidents, dialogue and reflective diaries, which can be a reference for researchers, managers, consultants and corporate educators.
Design/methodology/approach
This research was guided by an interpretative qualitative approach that is suitable for the study of critical reflection. The authors chose the method of action research because of its interactionist and interventionist character, which allows for the evaluation of the leadership soft skills development experience.
Findings
A leadership soft skills development program based on the concept of critical reflection in the work context leads to leaders having potential to promote changes in management practices and enhancing behavior, and the study points out the conditions necessary for success in instituting the desired changes and transformation.
Practical implications
The proposed developmental model, based on reflective conversations of critical incidents, dialogue and reflective diaries, stimulates critical reflection. This can be applied by other actors who are interested in promoting assessment and the development of soft skills.
Originality/value
There are few studies that discuss critical reflection in the corporate environment. In particular, few present models or tools that foster a reflective view of one’s assumptions, beliefs and values. This research not only advances this proposal by introducing considerations from practical experience as developed through action research, but it also signals the high potential of the study’s approach to promoting the development of soft skills.
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Grenier RS, Williams P, Cho Y. Moving the needle on qualitative approaches to studying HRD. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/ejtd-02-2022-0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conclude this special issue on innovation in qualitative research by addressing the preceding papers in relation to the work of Human Resource Development (HRD) scholars and scholar-practitioners, consider the implications to the field of HRD and point to additional directions for innovative qualitative approaches. The authors use the term “innovative” to mean either an approach (or technique) that is newly conceived or one that is new to HRD (or little used).
Design/methodology/approach
The authors reviewed the papers in the special issue, identified other innovative qualitative approaches from the HRD literature and described briefly additional innovative approaches from other fields to suggest future directions for HRD professionals.
Findings
In this review, the authors noted the relatively few approaches to qualitative research that have been used regularly in HRD literature and suggested further innovative approaches that could deepen the understanding of organizations, including narrative, visual and indigenous methods, among others.
Research limitations/implications
This paper provides for HRD scholars an overview of a few qualitative research methodologies that are new to HRD and identifies additional approaches and epistemological challenges that could be valuable for future inquiry into complex organizations by HRD scholars and practitioners.
Practical implications
The authors suggest various feasible approaches and tools for HRD professionals to inquire into their practice in organizations to identify needs, evaluate outcomes and inquire into socially complex issues.
Originality/value
This study’s intent is to encourage the use of various innovative qualitative inquiry approaches when appropriate to understand and transform organizations. In particular, this study encourages the approaches that center the voices and experiences of those being studied and emphasizes the ways of listening to voices from the margins that may have been ignored previously.
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Nzinga J, Boga M, Kagwanja N, Waithaka D, Barasa E, Tsofa B, Gilson L, Molyneux S. An innovative leadership development initiative to support building everyday resilience in health systems. Health Policy Plan 2021; 36:1023-1035. [PMID: 34002796 PMCID: PMC8359752 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czab056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Effective management and leadership are essential for everyday health system resilience, but actors charged with these roles are often underprepared and undersupported to perform them. Particular challenges have been observed in interpersonal and relational aspects of health managers’ work, including communication skills, emotional competence and supportive oversight. Within the Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RESYST) consortium in Kenya, we worked with two county health and hospital management teams to adapt a package of leadership development interventions aimed at building these skills. This article provides insights into: (1) the content and co-development of a participatory intervention combining two core elements: a complex health system taught course, and an adapted communications and emotional competence process training; and (2) the findings from a formative evaluation of this intervention which included observations of the training, individual interviews with participating managers and discussions in regular meetings with managers. Following the training, managers reported greater recognition of the importance of health system software (values, belief systems and relationships), and improved self-awareness and team communication. Managers appeared to build valued skills in active listening, giving constructive feedback, ‘stepping back’ from automatic reactions to challenging emotional situations and taking responsibility to communicate with emotional competence. The training also created spaces for managers to share experiences, reflect upon and nurture social competences. We draw on our findings and the literature to propose a theory of change regarding the potential of our leadership development intervention to nurture everyday health system resilience through strengthening cognitive, behavioural and contextual capacities. We recommend further development and evaluation of novel approaches such as those shared in this article to support leadership development and management in complex, hierarchical systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jacinta Nzinga
- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.,Nuffield Department of Medicine & Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, 7925 Cape Town, South Africa.,Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Health Services and Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, PO Box 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.,Nuffield Department of Medicine & Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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Pousti H, Urquhart C, Linger H. Researching the virtual: A framework for reflexivity in qualitative social media research. INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/isj.12314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Hamid Pousti
- Faculty of Business and Law Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn Victoria Australia
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- Faculty of Business and Law Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester UK
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- Department of Human Centred Computing Monash University Caulfield East Victoria Australia
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Critical reflection on the role of theater nurses in a multidisciplinary team for perioperative care in China. FRONTIERS OF NURSING 2019. [DOI: 10.2478/fon-2019-0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Objective
The aim of this article is to reflect on the role of theater nurses in a multidisciplinary team, understand the factors that have influenced theater nurses’ practice, and improve the authors’ clinical practice ultimately.
Methods
The author used Smyth’s model to guide the process of reflection on the practice issue. Critical reflection, critical emancipatory theory, reflexivity, and critical social theory were used to help the author analyze the factors that have affected theater nurses’ practice in the organization.
Results
There are gaps between the espoused and enacted theories. A theater nurse’s practice is determined by multiple factors, such as political, structural, social, historical, cultural issues, and so on. The hierarchy of the health context could hinder possible changes in theater nurses’ practice. To better understand our practice and implement transformation, we should shape a supportive environment, bear in mind the practice motto of “patient-centered” care, and improve our knowledge and reflection skills.
Conclusions
Reflection plays a significant role in the advancing of practice among theater nurses and needs to be combined with clinical practice. To provide the best service of care to perioperative patients, a theater nurse should have an insightful understanding of the factors that have influenced her/his behaviors historically, socially, and culturally. By improving their critical reflection skills, practitioners could gain knowledge from experience.
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Zarestky J, Collins JC. Supporting the United Nations’ 2030 sustainable development goals: a call for international HRD action. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2017.1329370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jill Zarestky
- School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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