Elisabeth Wilson-Evered

• Monash University (Australia)

Purpose Mental health recovery across cultures lacks understanding and suitable measures. The Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR) is a self-report instrument measuring personal recovery outcomes for consumers of mental health services. However, the extent of its relevance among culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities...

Purpose This study aims to review the empirical studies on empowering leadership in hospitality and tourism and proposes an associated research agenda. Design/methodology/approach A disciplined selection process using transparent inclusion and exclusion criteria resulted in a final sample of 25 empirical studies. The research results from these st...

Objectives: Australian general practitioners (GPs) are pivotal in mental health care. The REFOCUS-PULSAR (Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery) primary care study aimed to improve personal recovery outcomes in adults with mental health problems consulting GPs. Design: Modified from an intended stepped-wedge cluster study, an explorato...

Addressing the dearth of sustainable tourism teaching simulations, this article details the design, development, testing and validation of a destination development game simulation designed to reinforce the teaching and learning of sustainable tourism principles. We discuss two stages of model development, including an earlier game developed using...

Purpose Innovation is ever more critical for sustainable business performance in the contemporary, global economic and social context. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are arguably well positioned to innovate through their potential for rapid adjustment. Although leadership and organizational climate have been identified as playing a key...

The paper details the specification of a model that will underpin the development of system dynamics based teaching and learning simulations across five of the nine levels of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). The model functions as a scaffold, building on previous levels of knowledge and simulation experience to guide students as they...

Climate change response is a social contract that requires collective action, which can be enhanced through human agency. Management research is needed to examine how institutions at various levels are accountable for climate change while considering the social and behavioural contexts when engaging with the community. This paper seeks to conceptua...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of empowering leadership, directive leadership and initiating structure on innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and examine the mediating role of climate for innovation on those relationships. Design/methodology/approach Applying structural equation modeling, the study em...

Background: Recovery-oriented practice promotes the strengths and recovery potential of individuals. We aimed to establish whether individuals who access mental health services where staff have received the REFOCUS-PULSAR intervention, an adaptation of the UK's REFOCUS recovery-oriented staff intervention for use in Australia, show increased recov...

Background Recovery features strongly in Australian mental health policy; however, evidence is limited for the efficacy of recovery-oriented practice at the service level. This paper describes the Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery (PULSAR) Specialist Care trial protocol for a recovery-oriented practice training intervention deliver...

Background General practitioners (GPs) in Australia play a central role in the delivery of mental health care. This article describes the PULSAR (Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery) Primary Care protocol, a novel mixed methods evaluation of a training intervention for GPs in recovery-oriented practice. The aim of the intervention is...

Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have very high levels of mental health (and related) problems but relatively few ever receive required treatment. This paper details the development and implementation of an agent-based decision support system, underpinned by dynamic network analysis models and technologies, aimed at assistin...

Parental separation can be psychologically distressing for families—particularly when conflict between parents is high. In Australia, reforms to Family Law legislation have introduced mandatory mediation, which has increased the need for community-based family dispute resolution (FDR) services. Providers have responded to these needs with innovativ...

Though the field of M&A has come under increasing criticism for its lack of providing theories and explanations of the phenomenon under study, M&A, less attention has been paid to a promising ‘suspect’ behind this state of affairs: the methodological choices used in the study of M&A. Basing ourselves on a symposium on qualitative methods in the stu...

Whereas the number of family disputes makes other disputes pale into insignificance, there is remarkably little decision support or information technology to support disputants in their negotiations. In Australia, pre-trial mediation has become compulsory in family matters. To help disputants better resolve their conflicts, services have evolved to...

This paper describes the dynamic nature of leadership processes that are initiated and driven by emergent leaders known as ‘champions’. The research involved a multiple case study method to examine typical champion-driven leadership processes in six urban water management agencies. The analysis indicated that these leadership processes evolved thro...

Scientific research on employees during pre-implementation phases of human resource information systems (HRIS) is difficult for a number of reasons. First, the constraints of practitioner research in terms of sample sizes, compliance factors and difficulties with obtaining control or comparison groups discourage research initiatives. Second, projec...

Although charismatic, inspiring, and transformational leaders enhance work attitudes in stable work environments, their utility in dynamic contexts has not been investigated extensively. Furthermore, whether or not the benefits of this leadership style depend on openness to change has not been explored. To redress these shortfalls, leaders (n = 57)...

The importance of innovation within organizations has been demonstrated on numerous occasions, which has subsequently led to the identification of effective leadership as a potential catalyst. Accordingly, empirical findings have repeatedly demonstrated a positive relationship between transformational leadership and work unit effectiveness measures...

West’s (1990) theory of group innovation holds that innovation occurs through group processes. The role of leadership in the group innovation process is not clearly defined; rather, group processes are identified without reference to the leader’s influence on those processes. In contrast, theories of leadership suggest that leaders have a major rol...

The health care industry involves the continual introduction of new clinical interventions and technologies designed to improve patient and business outcomes. This article argues for the integration of two possible improvement strategies, namely the use of work groups to generate and implement new ideas and the development of leadership capacity to...

1 The pharmacokinetics of salbutamol and its sulphate conjugate were examined during intravenous and steady-state oral administration in nine patients receiving the drug for the prevention or treatment of premature labour. 2 Uterine contractions were inhibited by plasma salbutamol concentrations in the range 8-33 ng ml-1 in six of the seven patient...

The pharmacokinetics of salbutamol and its sulphate conjugate metabolite were investigated after intravenous and steady-state oral administration of salbutamol to 10 healthy volunteers. With intravenous administration, total plasma clearance was 480 +/- 123 ml min-1, elimination half-life was 3.86 +/- 0.83 h and apparent volume of distribution was...

Sixty primigravidae were assessed on the short form of the Stress-Arousal Adjective Check List (SACL) at the commencement of the third trimester of pregnancy. Fifty-four of these were also administered the SACL in the labour ward and at three days after birth. On the first assessment the mean levels for the group of mothers were above normative lev...

Despite their widespread application over many years, the implementation of human resource information systems continues to be fraught with problems. Failures and complications are frequent with estimates ranging between 40% and 70%. Costs of failed technology projects are immeasurable but some estimates are in excess of US$12.6 million per project...

The research is premised on the assumption that transformational leadership is theoretically predicted to influence both workplace context and outcomes. Determining and developing those leadership behaviours is critical to securing the survival and success of Australian Manufacturing. One hundred and fifty-two managers from the top three layers of...