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Psychologische veiligheid in organisaties:Het kan wel!
No full textGrensoverschrijdend gedrag en psychologische veiligheid in organisaties staan erg in de belangstelling. Als het ergens fout gaat, springt de media er bovenop waardoor de gevolgen voor alle betrokkenen nog worden verergerd. Wat we in de krant lezen is nog maar het topje van de ijsberg. De meeste gevallen van een onveilige situatie krijgen geen publiciteit. Organisaties willen niet negatief in het nieuws komen en spannen zich mede daarom in om grensoverschrijdend gedrag te voorkomen. Ze besteden veel tijd aan de ontwikkeling van beleid om de psychologische veiligheid te verhogen. Met als basis ervoor te zorgen dat mensen zich durven te uiten en daardoor meer plezier in hun werk hebben. De ervaring leert dat het verhogen van psychologische veiligheid niet vanzelf gaat. Waar te beginnen? Wat heeft prioriteit? Het is complex met een aanzienlijke kans op mislukking en voelt soms aan als een wespennest. Dit boek bespreekt wat psychologische veiligheid inhoudt – en wat niet. Het gaat in op de gevolgen. Vooral geeft het boek richting met concrete handvatten en gespreksvormen waarmee je de psychologische veiligheid in je eigen organisatie daadwerkelijk kan verhogen. De voorbeelden uit de dagelijkse praktijk tonen aan dat het wél kan! Het boek is bestemd voor bestuurders, managers en andere leidinggevenden die zich inzetten voor het bevorderen van de psychologische veiligheid. Ook bijvoorbeeld coaches zullen zeer praktische aanknopingspunten in dit boek vinden.<br/
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No full textDegrowth and Humanism:A Comparison of the Principles
No full textIn this aricle the worldview issues of Degrowth philosophy play a central role. These worldview points are compared with traditional humanism, using the work of Serge Latouche and Jason Hickel.It is shown how both worldviews can be mediated by ecohumanist philosoph
How occupational physicians pay attention to the values of employees: a qualitative study
No full textPurposeThe Dutch Association for Occupational Medicine considers employee values to be an essential pillar in occupational medicine. The occupational physician should focus on what an employee finds valuable. However, it is unclear how occupational physicians comply with this policy and pay attention to employee values. The present study aims to fill this gap by mapping to what extent occupational physicians pay attention to employee values.MethodWe used an exploratory qualitative research method through in-depth interviews with 10 Dutch occupational physicians. Additionally, two non-participating observations were conducted.Results & conclusionThe results show that values remain mostly implicit and are applied intuitively or unconsciously but not explicitly. Hence, the ethical requirements of the Dutch Association for Occupational Medicine policy remain underexposed and under-executed. Multiple facets foster or impede a conversation about values. As far values were mentioned they were mainly extrinsic, social, and prestige-oriented. Intrinsic values were hardly mentioned. However, a few occupational physicians explicitly stated that they pay attention to values and reported that heeding to employee values contributes to better collaboration and decision-making with the employee. We argue that paying attention to intrinsic values may improve the overall work quality of occupational physicians and benefit employee well-being
Adult sibling bereavement in the Netherlands: social support, meaning and lived experiences of grief and loss
No full textBackgroundBereaved individuals benefit from a supportive social network. However, in the case of sibling loss in adulthood, several scholars report a lack of support and acknowledgement, even among health care professionals. Therefore, they are often considered forgotten grievers (Rostila et al., 2012). Furthermore, sibling loss may evoke existential questions regarding the meaning of life. Existential meaning can be reflected in certain needs for meaning (Jacobs, 2020); Derkx et al. (2020) identify seven of such needs for meaning. RationaleThe present study aims to explore the lived experiences of grief and loss among adults whose sibling died, the social support they receive following the loss, and their need for meaning. This study is significant for European professionals working in bereavement care, including chaplains.DesignThis study has a qualitative design, in which ten bereaved adults who lost one or more adult siblings to illness or suicide, were interviewed in-depth. The interviewees were three men and seven women living in the Netherlands. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the data.ResultsThe death of an adult sibling is a profound loss which leads to long-lasting grief, even if the siblings were not close. Most bereaved siblings experience a lack of support, although responses from the nearby social network are predominantly supportive. The loss increases the bereaved sibling’s sense of temporality which urges a reconsideration of what gives value to life. All respondents long for connection, with their families and their deceased sibling. A protective presence of the deceased is often felt.ConclusionsDutch adults who have lost a sibling experience long-lasting grief and receive limited social support. They report three important needs for meaning: moral justification, connection and transcendence. <br/
Integration of a Disability Lens as Prerequisite for Inclusive Higher Education
No full textPURPOSE. Occidental higher education often approaches disability as a disparate issue, failing to recognize that it is part of human diversity. Such an approach hinders inclusive education because it overlooks how disability is intertwined with other identities and concepts of exclusion. The overarching aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of (intersecting) disabling processes within education policy and practice and the impact thereof on students; and to raise educators’ awareness about how integration of knowledge from Disability Studies within pedagogy and their daily interaction with students, can positively influence disabled students’ wellbeing, their study opportunities and aid the overall process of inclusion.APPROACH. This paper offers a disability lens by (1) presenting a literature overview from a Disability Studies (DS) perspective about disability and exclusionary phenomena, in particular disablism and ableism; (2) substantiating how a current focus on accessibility hinders actual inclusion; (3) analysing a case-study through the presented perspective with attention to Dutch contextual factors. For the case-study, the first author and ‘Tess’ engaged in regular conversations during a year in which Tess shared her experiences as a student of higher education. In this paper, a selection of these experiences is presented from a reflexive perspective and with application of the presented frameworks. With this, the complex impact of exclusionary processes on interactions between students, educators and on the organization of university involved (social) events is illustrated.FINDINGS. The lack of nuanced, fluid and intersectional approaches to disability within mainstream education hinders the recognition of (epistemic) injustices. Exclusionary processes and practices in higher education remain unacknowledged, although they negatively impact disabled students and block their epistemic contribution. Moreover, the continued focus on accessibility hinders implementation of the international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and deflects attention from the fact that inclusive education requires systemic change and a multi-layered approach.KEY MESSAGE. The current trajectory of disability inclusion is counterproductive without true systemic change. Integration of the presented disability lens is imperative for truly intersectional approaches to inclusion and offers educators a way to positively influence students’ wellbeing and identity development, even when policy changes are not yet achieved
The frequency and types of resident relocations in Dutch nursing homes::a nationwide cohort study of electronic health record data
No full textPURPOSE: One third of Dutch nursing home residents relocated at least once during length of stay. Roughly 75 percent were individual relocations and the other 25 percent concerned group relocations. The average yearly number of individual relocations was about 3 times as high in the first 4 months after admission compared with later periods.METHODS: We performed an historical cohort study of pseudonymized registration data from a Dutch electronic health record. We selected data from nursing home residents aged 65 years and older who stayed on a ward for physical impairment or dementia and passed away between 2015 and 2019. Our study sample consisted of 26,060 long-stay nursing home residents from 67 nursing homes in the Netherlands. We examined the number of relocations, trends over time, individual versus group relocations and relocation destinations.RESULTS: We found that approximately one-third of long-stay nursing home residents relocated at least once with an average of 36 relocations per 100 residents per year. Roughly, 75 percent of relocations were individual relocations and 25 percent concerned group relocations. In the first 4 months after admission, the average number of individual relocations per 100 resident per year was about 3 times as often compared to later periods after admission. Most individual relocations were within the same type of care.CONCLUSION: A considerable proportion of Dutch long-stay nursing home residents experienced one or more relocations. Relocations for individual reasons occurred mostly in the first months after admission. Further investigation is warranted to explore which factors lead to relocations.</p
Dehumanization in the Global Migration Crisis
No full textWhat does it mean to fail to recognise people's humanity? This book analyses dehumanization in the global migration crisis to answer this complex question. Drawing from interviews with refugees and asylum seekers, Dehumanization in the Global Migration Crisis presents a philosophical, yet empirically grounded account of what dehumanization entails. While dehumanization is commonly used as a key concept in scholarship, popular media, and public debate to call attention to remediable harms faced by the forcibly displaced, its precise meaning is far from clear. A wide variety of practices is called dehumanizing, ranging from international policies that confine people under undignified circumstances within refugee camps to using (forced) migrants as bargaining chips in political negotiations. Yet,(how) do these practices exactly deny the humanity of the persons involved? What sense of humanity is at stake in the adversities that refugees, asylum seekers, and unwanted migrants face? Through a detailed examination of victims' descriptions of their lived experiences with dehumanization, animalization, objectification, and brutalization, De Ruiter finds that dehumanisation is best understood as a distinct form of moral exclusion that is characterised by blindness to the significance of their human subjectivity. The book provides a critical discourse analysis of the usage of the term dehumanization in reporting on the global migration crisis, and sets out what should be done to counteract the dehumanization of refugees, asylum seekers, and unwanted migrants