The mentoring relationship between a scholar and their primary mentor is a core feature of research training. Anecdotal evidence suggests this relationship is adversely affected when scholar and mentor expectations are not aligned. We examined three questions: (1) What is the value in assuring that the expectations of scholars and mentors are mutually identified and aligned? (2) What types of p...

BACKGROUND Motivated human resource is the key to improve health system performance and retention of health workers. There is scanty literature on measuring motivation of health workers in India. Thus, the objective of this study was to measure and identify important aspects of health workers' motivation in North India. METHODS A mixed method study design was adopted. Under the quantitative c...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is a pleasant emotional state associated with the appreciation of one's work and contributes immensely to performance in an organization. The purpose of this study was to assess the comparative job satisfaction among regular and staff on contract in Government Primary Urban Health Centers in Delhi, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in 2013, on a ...

BACKGROUND Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) college students may have an increased number of health inequities compared to their heterosexual counterparts. However, to date, no research has provided a comprehensive examination of health-related factors by sexual orientation identity and sex among a national sample of college students. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine physical, sex...

Sounds like h-nmm, hh-aaaah, hn-hn, unkay, nyeah, ummum, uuh and um-hmuh-hm, occur in American English conversation but have thus far escaped systematic study. This article reports a study of both the forms and functions of these items, together with related tokens such as um and uh-huh, in a corpus of American English conversations. These sounds appear not to be lexical, in that they are produ...

Study of the professions, and the process of professionalisation as an occupational strategy, has mainly concentrated on investigating structures of power, rather than individual and deliberate use of power. This chapter provides a microanalysis of power relations by examining professional power and hierarchy in interpersonal relations within the workplace. It makes links across the spectrum of...

OBJECTIVE The introduction of health information technologies (HIT) can lead to unintended consequences. We studied a newly introduced electronic messaging (e-messaging) system for communication between homecare providers and general practitioners (GPs) in Norway. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss unintended consequences of the introduction of e-messaging, particularly how ...

background: student-teacher relationship is a salient issue in nursing education and has long-lasting implication in professional development of nursing students. nowadays, this relationship in clinical settings is different from the past due to changing in nursing education paradigm. the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of students and teachers about student-tea...

Purpose: The study draws on the social network theory to examine influence of interpersonal relations task performance at individual employee, team and divisional levels in Nigerian Police Force.
 Design/methodology/approach: adopted a cross sectional survey design sample 556 police men was selected through application multi-stage sampling procedures. data collection instrument designed li...