Angst, schaamte en verlegenheid. Het zijn niet de thema’s waarvoor je als schoolleider direct warm loopt. Dan kan ik beter de tegenpolen van die trits noemen: moed, onbevangenheid en bekwaamheid. Aan de hand van deze drie tegenstellingen zet ik in dit essay uiteen wat de verhouding is tussen leiderschap en identiteitsontwikkeling in de school. De benadering die ik beschrijf, noem ik ‘identificerend leiderschap’. Die term hoeft de lezer maar half serieus te nemen. Hiermee wil ik aan de ene kant de draak steken met alle bijvoeglijke naamwoorden die met leiderschap geassocieerd worden. Daar kan deze dan nog wel bij. Aan de andere kant bedoel ik het serieus. Uit onderzoek komen sterke aanwijzingen naar voren dat identificatieprocessen in organisaties in belangrijke mate de binding van medewerkers met de organisatie bepalen, en daarmee ook hun inzet voor de doelen van de organisatie.
The transition taking place within the Dutch healthcare system has been a central theme in politics and public debate for decades. The recent changes again demand the full attention of researchers and educators in the field. In this article, we reflect on the current ideology and goals of the transition and link these to the range of ideas that lie behind the ideal of “community care”. Additionally, we pose the question of what these changes may mean for research and education within the social care domain in general and for our research group in particular. The AUAS Community Care Research Group covers a variety of research topics that are clustered into three “streams”: informal care, social inclusion and network strengthening. Within these streams, we focus on care by society and link this to professional caregiving. We will also explain why our research interests are specifically relevant in the context of the transition of the healthcare system, as this transition explicitly accentuates the importance of a “caring society” and thus a change in role for the care professional. We will also reflect on how we can best translate our research results into the curriculum of education programmes for students who will soon work as professionals in the social and/or care domains.
Nurse managers play an important role in implementing patient safety practices in hospitals. However, the influence of their professional background on their clinical leadership behaviour remains unclear. Research has demonstrated that concepts of Bourdieu (dispositions of habitus, capital and field) help to describe this influence. It revealed various configurations of dispositions of the habitus in which a caring disposition plays a crucial role. Objectives: We explore how the caring disposition of nurse middle managers' habitus influences their clinical leadership behaviour in patient safety practices.
