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Når fravær blir hverdagen: Lederblikk på sykefravær i sykehjem - En kvantitativ studie av førstelinjeledere i kommunale sykehjem
Sykefraværet i Norge ligger høyt sammenlignet med våre naboland. Det har i mange år vært stort fokus på dette i samfunnet, og i den siste tiden har sykelønnsordningen vært i søkelyset. Helse- og sosialtjenester i kommuneforvaltningen ligger høyest av alle næringer, 10,7 % i fjerde kvartal 2024. Det er stor enighet om at sykefraværet må reduseres, men det er mange meninger om hva som må til.
Dette er en tverrsnittstudie med mål om å få et blikk på hva ledere på sykehjem tenker om sykefraværet. Problemstillingen er; Hva tenker ledere på sykehjem om sykefraværet på deres arbeidsplass? For å kunne besvare problemstillingen, ble følgende forskningsspørsmål formulert:
1) Hvordan vurderer lederne subjektivt hvor stor betydning ulike årsaker har for sykefraværet på egen arbeidsplass?
2) I hvilken grad vurderer lederne sin evne til å påvirke sykefraværet på egen arbeidsplass?
3) Hvordan henger ledernes tro på i hvilken grad de selv kan påvirke sykefraværet sammen med deres mestringstro og ansiennitet som ledere?
Oppgaven innledes med teori om sykefravær, hvor fokuset er på arbeidsrelaterte plager og risikofaktorer for medarbeidere på sykehjem, og teori om ledelse knyttet opp mot sykefravær. Videre har jeg benyttet meg av teorien mestringstro (Self-Efficacy) av Albert Bandura. Syv hypoteser ble formulert og primærdata ble innhentet via en digital spørreundersøkelse. Hypotesene ble testet, og funnene i undersøkelsen viser at førstelinjeledere på sykehjem vurderer at muskel- og skjelettplager, forhold i privatlivet og psykiske plager er de tre årsakene som har størst betydning for sykefraværet på deres arbeidsplass, og ugyldig fravær har minst betydning. Førstelinjelederne har moderat tro på sin evne til å påvirke sykefraværet og de scorer moderat til høyt på mestringstro. Det er en statistisk signifikant forskjell på menn og kvinners mestringstro og på deres tro på sin evne til å påvirke sykefraværet. Ansiennitet som leder har ingen korrelasjon med ledernes tro på sin evne til å påvirke sykefraværet.
Nøkkelord: sykefravær, ledelse, lederadferd, mestringstro, Self-EfficacySickness absence in Norway is high compared to our neighboring countries. There has been a great deal of focus on this in society for many years, and recently the sick pay scheme has been in the spotlight. Health and social services in municipal administration are the highest of all industries, 10.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024. There is broad agreement that sick leave must be reduced, but there are many opinions about what is needed.
This is a cross-sectional study with the goal of getting a look at what managers in nursing homes think about sick leave. The question is; What do managers in nursing homes think about sick leave in their workplace? In order to answer the question, the following research questions were formulated:
1) How do managers subjectively assess the importance of different reasons for sick leave in their own workplace?
2) To what extent do managers assess their ability to influence sick leave in their own workplace?
3) How are managers' beliefs about the extent to which they can influence sick leave related to their coping beliefs and seniority as managers?
The paper begins with a theory of sick leave, where the focus is on work-related ailments and risk factors for employees in nursing homes, and a theory of leadership linked to sick leave. Furthermore, I have used the theory of self-efficacy by Albert Bandura. Seven hypotheses were formulated and primary data were obtained via a digital questionnaire. The hypotheses were tested, and the findings in the study show that first-line managers in nursing homes consider that musculoskeletal disorders, private life issues and psychological disorders are the three reasons that have the greatest impact on sick leave in their workplace, and that invalid absence is the least important. First-line managers have moderate belief in their ability to influence sick leave and they score moderately to high on coping beliefs. There is a statistically significant difference between men and women's self-efficacy beliefs and their beliefs in their ability to influence sick leave. Seniority as a manager has no correlation with managers' beliefs in their ability to influence sick leave.
Keywords: sick leave, leadership, leadership behavior, self-efficacy beliefs, Self-Efficac
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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