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Enabling Harmonious Relationships between Grassroots Communities and Rural-based Universities in South Africa
Increasingly, there are calls for effective partnerships between grassroots communities and universities. This paper presents the key enablers of harmonious working relationships between grassroots communities and a university focused on rural development. This emanated from a qualitative study in which the views of academic staff and postgraduate students from the University of Venda were explored. This paper was conducted using qualitative exploratory research design. A convenient purposive sample of students and academic staff members from the four faculties of the University of Venda was selected. A total of 35 participants were sampled and involved in the study. Data was collected using reflection circles to solicit information from the participants. Data was subjected to thematic content analysis. The key enablers of harmonious collaboration were “resource allocation and institutional support”, engagement with external stakeholders”, equality and fair treatment”, positive relationship building”, “community-oriented programmes and projects”, “collaborative agreements and support”, and “community feedback and communication”. These findings imply that universities should prioritise community engagement, establish transparent and equitable partnerships, and allocate sufficient resources to support initiatives. The study recommends the design and implementation of community-oriented programmes allowing the communities to actively engage in university initiatives while establishing feedback mechanisms.
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Factors influencing the performance of architects in construction projects
The construction industry has been accused of ineffectiveness and inefficiency because of delays, cost overruns and defects that are partly due to flaws in the design. As professionals responsible for design, architects should achieve optimum performance in the project delivery process. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the performance of architects in construction projects. This study employs a questionnaire survey for data collection and partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) for data analysis. Using a census method, a total of 222 useable responses are gathered from registered architects in Indonesia. Results reveal significant and positive relationships between working condition, organisational support and effective design process and the performance of architects. The strongest effect is found from the influence of effective design process on the performance of architects. Thus, these factors should be applied to enhance the performance of architects, thereby improving the project outcome.
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Night waking
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders. The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence, the way we try to control children, and about women's vexed and passionate relationship with work. Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range - showing her to be both an excellent comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.
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Effects of Human Rights Sensitivity on Empathy and Working Relationship in Mental Health Social Workers: Using Vignettes of Schizophrenia and Alcoholism
Human rights sensitivity (HRS) is essential for social workers advocating for and providing services to people with mental illness. In this study, the authors employed vignettes of two chronic mental illnesses—schizophrenia and alcoholism—to analyze the moderating effect of HRS on association between empathy and working relationship by hierarchical regression analysis. In total 245 social workers in mental health (M age = 36.44, SD = 6.61, male 22.0%, female 78.0%) participated in the study. Differences were found in empathy levels and working relationships in schizophrenia and alcoholism vignettes. Levels of empathy, intrinsic helping and emotional support (behavioral dimension), client respect, and emotional relatedness as well as respect and acceptance in working relationships were significantly higher for schizophrenia than for the alcoholism vignette. Further, empathy and HRS significantly predicted the quality of working relationships in schizophrenia and alcoholism vignettes. Levels for positive work relationships increased with empathy and HRS. The effects of empathy on working relationship were augmented among social workers with a high level of HRS only in the vignette of schizophrenia. Based on these results, the authors emphasize the importance of HRS and propose strategies to enhance it.
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Negotiation Power: How Humanitarian Frontliners Get Things Done with Hard Bargainers
Hard bargainers are known to dictate terms. Humanitarian frontliners confront them daily. Some state and nonstate counterparts, guided by military necessity, are deemed so overpowering that it seems impossible to negotiate humanitarian necessity with them. And yet, humanitarians leverage negotiations with quite an edge. They construct working relationships and creative solutions to get access and deliver humanitarian aid to those affected by conflict. Humanitarians shape a responsible approach that can enrich the understanding of negotiation power. Guided by humanitarian principles, they do not exercise a power over anyone but leverage a power of getting things done with counterparts, through relational, transactional, and process moves. The purpose of this article is both descriptive and prescriptive. On the one hand, it provides examples to document humanitarian negotiation practices of empowerment and to contribute to a general theory of negotiation power. On the other hand, the article provides some recommendations from negotiation theory to empower humanitarians. Indirectly, by analyzing and supporting the power of humanitarian frontliners, this article also aims at refining the reflection and action of every negotiator when confronted with tough bargainers.
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Understanding the impact of dementia and age‐related vision loss on older adults’ participation
Introduction Although a dual diagnosis of dementia and age‐related vision loss (ARVL) is common in later life, there is minimal research to describe its impact on participation. As such, the aim of this scoping review was to explore the combined impact of ARVL and dementia on the participation of older adults, with a specific focus on highlighting strategies that help mitigate the impact of ARVL and dementia on participation. Methods This study adopted a scoping review methodology based off the Arksey & O’Malley (2005) framework. An exhaustive search of 62 terms across six databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, EMBASE, Medline, and PsycINFO) was conducted. In addition, the reference lists of included articles, as well as grey literature, including conference proceedings, textbooks, and websites were searched. To be included in the review, each study had to: 1) involve older adults (65+ years old); b) be focussed on the outcome of participation; c) include a dual diagnosis of dementia and ARVL; d) be written in English and e) be available through the university's library database. Results After a title, , and full‐text screen, 13 research articles and 10 grey literature sources that met the inclusion criteria were included in the final review. Following detailed thematic analysis of the empirical and grey literature sources, four themes emerged regarding the impact of combined ARVL and dementia on the participation of older adults including: 1) Managing the pragmatic aspects of a dual diagnosis; 2) Diverse approaches to risk assessment and management; 3) Adopting a multi‐disciplinary approach to facilitate care and 4) Using compensatory strategies to facilitate participation. Discussion/Conclusion With the growing number of older adults aging with a dual diagnosis of dementia and ARVL, it is imperative to understand the unique participation needs of this population to develop appropriate and targeted rehabilitation services. Perhaps most pressing is the need for collaborative working relationships to develop across practice areas, such that vision professionals and dementia care professionals could share best practices, knowledge, and skills to improve the quality of care, and support the participation, of older adults aging with this dual diagnosis.
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