Implementing a strategic plan in five steps: What tips to know.The article discusses issues concerning the implementation of a strategic plan for ophthalmology practice in the U.S. Topics covered include the importance of analyzing an initiative based on their strategic value and impact on the practice, including influential employees into the planning process, formulating a transformational strategy and budget structuring.
Job Satisfaction Among Long-Term Care Staff: Bureaucracy Isn't Always BadThe study investigated the influence of role conflict, workload, centralization, and formalization on job satisfaction of long-term care staff. Regression analysis revealed that role conflict, workload, centralization, and formalization together contributed 40.0% variance in job satisfaction. Role conflict and workload decrease job satisfaction while centralization and formalization increase it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Why Power Matters: Creating a Foundation of Mutual Support in Couple Relationships.Research shows that equal power helps couples create intimacy and relationship success. However, though couples increasingly desire equal relationships, cultural models of mutual support are not well developed. Clinicians often approach heterosexual couple therapy as though partners are inherently equal, thus reinforcing unacknowledged gender inequities. This article examines research that shows why power imbalances are destructive to intimate relationships and focuses on four gender-related aspects of mutual support: (a) shared relational responsibility, (b) mutual vulnerability, (c) mutual attunement, and (d) shared influence. Case examples illustrate how socio-emotional attunement, interrupting the flow of power, and introducing alternative relational experience help couple therapists identify and address power disparities in these important relational processes. Encouraging the powerful person to take relational initiative and introducing alternative gender discourse are especially important.
