Wir wünschen guten Appetit!

Besser essen im Krankenhaus - Essen kann glücklich machen. Essen kann aber auch belastend sein. Gerade im Krankenhaus verschl?gt es vielen Senioren den Appetit. Es liegt in der Verantwortung der Pflegenden, sich dieses Problems anzunehmen. Doch wie gelingt es, auch unter schwierigen Bedingungen, den Bedürfnissen der Patienten gerecht zu werden?     

Social Embeddedness in Electronic Negotiations

This study contributes to electronic negotiation research by analyzing the role of social embeddedness of actors in a controlled laboratory experiment. In particular, we analyze the effect of prior negotiator relationship in different conflict levels in web-based negotiations. We hypothesize that with increasing intensity of conflicts, negotiators who have a personal relationship use more value creating strategies compared to anonymous negotiators. As a consequence, we also hypothesize to find fewer impasses in electronic negotiations involving subjects who are socially embedded. Our results confirm that, in fact, in severe conflicts socially embedded actors reach significantly more agreements than subjects of the control group while such an effect is not found in weak conflict situations. These findings are related to more yielding between embedded actors but not to more value creating behavior. From these results, we can conclude that socially embedded negotiators better manage to reach agreements in difficult situations. Furthermore, an institutionalized pre-negotiation phase which allows negotiators to establish a personal relationship can counteract the threat of impasses.     

Von Schwestern und Brüdern – wird die Pflege männlich?

Randerscheinung oder Zukunftsl?sung? - Mehr M?nner in der Pflege, lautet das erkl?rte Ziel der Politik, um den drohenden Pflegenotstand abzuwenden. Braucht die Pflege mehr M?nner? Wie viele arbeiten bereits in pflegenden Berufen? Und was sagen die Frauen in der Pflege dazu? Wir haben uns umgeh?rt.     

Competing,collaborating or controlling? Comparing benchmarking in European local government

The way that local authorities in OECD countries compare and benchmark their performance varies widely. This paper explains some of the reasons behind the variations. The current local government benchmarking schemes in Europe— their governance, coverage and impact—largely depend on the institutional characteristics of the respective administrative and local government systems (in other words, the starting conditions). There are signs that, as a result of the fiscal crisis in Europe and need to cut public sector costs, many countries (but not England and Wales) are leaning towards compulsory large-scale benchmarking projects.     

Regulatory impact assessment: a survey of selected developing and emerging economies

This paper reports on a survey of regulatory impact assessment (RIA) in 16 developing and emerging economies. RIA was playing an increasing role in these countries: eight had introduced RIA in the past 10 years; one had recently redesigned its existing RIA system; another had a long-standing RIA system in place. However, RIA was at an early stage of development in the majority of cases and six countries did not practise RIA.     

Externally Directed and Internally Directed Market Launch Management: The Role of Organizational Factors in Influencing New Product Success

Introducing new products remains a critical challenge for managers. Consumer acceptance of new products is key to new product success and requires the effective implementation of market launch activities. The present study describes the relationship between different types of market launch activities and market‐related, time‐related, and financial market launch success. The study's framework extends previous work on launch management by complementing the view that launch activities are predominantly outwardly directed with the notion that launch management can also be inwardly directed. More specifically, launch activities can both target customers as the external audience, for example, via communication and pricing, and address an internal audience, such as management and sales personnel, for example, using departmental coordination or employee incentives. The study also sets out to investigate how situational factors impact the relative effectiveness of both externally directed and internally directed launch activities in engendering successful new product launches. In particular, product newness, technology drivers, and firm size are considered as relevant variables. Structural equation analysis of data on 178 new products across industries provide empirical evidence that market launch success depends on the intensity of both externally directed and internally directed market launch activities. With regard to the overall impact of internally directed activities, the findings confirm that organizational factors and antecedents indeed play a critical role in new product launch and its respective performance with internally directed activities having an even stronger impact on time‐related and financial success than outwardly directed instruments. Specifically, these internal activities are often viewed as idiosyncratic resources that are hard for competitors to observe and are therefore more difficult—if not impossible—to replicate compared to externally directed activities in market launch. The paper clearly pinpoints that the successful launch of new products is a complex task that also necessitates the implementation of internally directed launch activities. Fast market penetration requires coordination among the different internal players as well as support from top management. Furthermore, the financial objectives of the market launch can only be met if employees and executives both receive the necessary incentives and support to effectively execute the new product introduction. The study also demonstrates that moderators impact the strength of the effectiveness of these two different types of market launch activities. This research provides important implications for launch management by advocating that the two foci on external and internal constituencies should not be pursued in isolation but that instead, the opposite is true.     

Experten für schwache Herzen

Pflegeexperte/in Herzinsuffizienz - Wenn das Herz nicht mehr in der Lage ist, den Körper ausreichend mit Blut zu versorgen, tut Hilfe dringend Not. Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz leiden im Alltag unter teils massiven Einschränkungen und brauchen umfassende Unterstützung. Es besteht Handlungsbedarf, denn eine optimale Versorgung kann Leben verlängern.     

Labilität und Aggressivität professionell begegnen

Betreuung von Patienten mit Hirnmetastasen - Treten im Verlauf einer Tumorerkrankung Hirnmetastasen auf, ist das meist ein prognostisch ungünstiges Zeichen. Für viele Patienten bedeutet das, sich mit dem nahenden Tod auseinandersetzen zu müssen. Welche Hilfsangebote kann die Pflege in dieser Situation machen?