Publications by authors named "Ian Gellatly"
Experiential Aspects of Participation in Employment and Mobility for Adults With Physical Disabilities: Testing Cross-Sectional Models of Contextual Influences and Well-Being Outcomes.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil
February 2024
Objective: To use structural equation modeling to test research- and theory-informed models of potential predictors and outcomes of subjective experiences of employment and mobility participation in a national sample of people with physical disabilities.
Design: Cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Canada.
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- - This research examines different leadership styles and their effects on followers, focusing on perceptions of behaviors such as abusive supervision, transformational leadership, and various management styles.
- - Through analysis of data from over 1,300 working adults, three distinct patterns of follower responses to leadership were identified: one constructive (high on transformational and contingent reward) and two destructive (high on passive management styles, with one including abusive supervision).
- - The study highlights significant impacts of these leadership styles on worker outcomes, showing that passive-abusive leadership severely harms physical health, while passive leadership alone negatively affects psychological well-being, underlining the nuanced differences between types of passiveness.
Article Synopsis
- Despite existing diversity legislation, individuals with disabilities still face significant barriers to employment opportunities compared to those without disabilities.
- Many employers hold misconceptions about the capabilities of people with disabilities, leading to negative biases that affect the entire hiring process.
- This paper aims to address 11 common employer concerns with evidence-based responses, offering recommendations for fostering an inclusive workplace and highlighting areas for further research.
Aims: The aim of this study was to present a discussion and model depicting most effecting work-life experience contextual factors that influence commitment and turnover intentions for nurses in Sri Lanka.
Background: Increasing demand for nurses has made the retention of experienced, qualified nursing staff a priority for healthcare organizations and highlights the need to capture contextual work-life experiences that influence nurses' turnover decisions.
Design: Discussion paper.
Aim: We address issues and challenges in nursing in Sri Lanka with the aim of identifying where and how policy changes need to be made.
Background: Increased global interconnectivity calls for professional leadership, research, education, and policy reform in nursing as these are identified as enhancing health workforce performance and professionalization, thereby improving health systems.
Sources Of Evidence: We draw on first-hand knowledge of health care and nursing in Sri Lanka and a recent survey of nurses at a large urban government hospital in Sri Lanka, followed by discussion and proposed action on themes identified through analysis of published and unpublished literature about the nursing profession.
Background: The three-component model of organization commitment has typically been studied using a variable-centered rather than a person-centered approach, preventing a more complete understanding of how these forms of commitment are felt and expressed as a whole.
Objectives: Latent profile analysis was used to identify qualitatively distinct categories or profiles of staff nurses' commitment. Then, associations of the profiles with perceived work unit relations and turnover intentions were examined.
The authors compared linear and nonlinear relations between affective and continuance commitment and 3 commonly studied work outcomes (turnover cognitions, absenteeism, and job performance), observed in 3 separate research settings. Using a linear model, they replicated the common observation in the literature that affective commitment is more strongly related to work outcomes than continuance commitment. Introducing a higher order continuance commitment term into the same equations, however, they found that the linear model seriously understated the magnitude of continuance commitment's effect on all 3 criterion measures.
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