Matthew L. Cole

Incorporating UTAUT Predictors for Understanding Home Care Patients' and Clinician's Acceptance of Healthcare Telemedicine Equipment

Telemedicine programs within health care are experiencing significant growth as healthcare organizations seek to reduce expenditures and improve efficiency. The high costs of treating chronic diseases, compounded by an aging population, has given focus to creating technology-enabled alternatives to support, enhance, or expand patient services. As investments in telemedicine products and services grow at a rapid pace, user technology acceptance has become a key issue in successful implementation. Drawing from the Unified Theory of Acceptance in Technology (UTAUT), this study investigated the predictors of behavioral intention to use Telehealth equipment by patients, clinicians, and agency personnel at Henry Ford e-Home Health Care. Survey data were provided by 126 participants recruited from an eligible population who were either currently using the Telehealth equipment or were familiar with it. Structural equation modeling was used to study the overall fit of the UTAUT model in predicting behavioral intention. Participant type, self-efficacy, anxiety and attitude were tested as moderators. Implications for increasing adoption of Telehealth technology are discussed.

Creating Sustainable Relationships Using the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results Framework, Trust, and Environmentalism: A Research-Based Case Study

New forms of organization development are moving from a classical diagnostic perspective to a dialogic perspective. This move includes a focus on exploring positive states of organizing, shared aspirations, and the design of preferred futures as key outcomes of a strategic change process. Training and development that applies the elements of the strengths, opportunities, aspirations and results (SOAR) framework allows for stakeholders to engage in a dialogue that represents the whole system, and builds trust and environmental management systems that can positively impact supplier performance. In this study, we examined the interrelationship between the SOAR framework, trust, environmental management systems, and supplier performance in respect of 71 program managers and customers from the Hass TCM Group, the largest chemical management services provider in North America. Hypothesis testing was carried out using correlation analysis, multiple linear regression, correlation analysis and Sobels test for mediation. Our results support a combined framework in which the SOAR framework can be used to build trust and pro-environmental behaviors to train suppliers to develop collaborative relationships with customers.

Authentic Leadership: The Role of Self-Awareness in Promoting Coaching Effectiveness

Authentic leadership encompasses four dimensions crucial for the success of leadership: self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing and internalised moral perspective. In the context of Business Coaching, authentic leadership is a crucial factor in the coach–client relationship in which the leader demonstrates to others a genuine and honest desire to understand their leadership in order to serve others more effectively. The current study investigated the relationship between leadership style and coaching effectiveness among 96 business coaches from the Professional Business Coaches Alliance (PBCA). Study results indicate authentic leadership and its constitutive factor self-awareness were significantly related to coaching effectiveness. Coaching organisations, franchises and alliances, may benefit from this research if they wish to leverage higher levels of authentic leadership and self-awareness when developing selection, assessment, training and measurement systems.

Teens in the Twenty-First Century Still Prefer People over Machines: Importance of Intervention Delivery Style in Adolescent HIV/STD Prevention

ABSTRACT Purpose: To assess and compare youth satisfaction with two delivery approaches to a HIV/STD risk reduction intervention targeting adolescents: an on-site, face-to-face (FTF) approach versus a long distance interactive televised (DIT) approach. Methods: A convenience sample of 571 rural adolescents ages 12–16 years who participated in an HIV/STD risk reduction program were assessed by an anonymous, written, process evaluation questionnaire. Factor analysis and reliability testing evaluated psychometric properties. Students t tests evaluated differences between the two intervention approaches for individual items and the four factors. Results: Factor analysis identified four underlying factors: (1) Interventionist Leadership Characteristics, (2) Interventionist Warmth, (3) Connection, and (4) Programmatic Assessment/Clarity: Students t tests demonstrated that all four factors consistently favored the FTF over the DIT approach (p < .05). Conclusions: These findings indicate that participants randomized to the FTF conditions were significantly more satisfied than the DIT-based group. These findings highlight the need for research regarding program implementation that may alter acceptability of the adolescent HIV risk reduction intervention approach.

SOAR as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Collaboration Among Professionals Working in Teams: Implications for Entrepreneurial Teams:

A majority of ventures are started by entrepreneurial teams rather than individuals. More than half of team-based new venture failures are believed to be due to problems with the entrepreneurial team. Collaboration among entrepreneurial team members is important for increasing the likelihood of successful venture outcomes. We investigated collaboration in professionals working in teams using survey methodology. Results found a framework for collaborative dialogue, SOAR (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results), mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence and team collaboration. We discuss practical recommendations to increase the strength of the relationship between emotional intelligence and collaboration to increase entrepreneurial team performance. For example, behavioral coaches are recommended to use dialogical exercises to help team members develop emotional intelligence competencies of awareness and regulation of emtions in self and others. Entrepreneurs are recommended to create teams that build on member strengths and aspirations, and identify opportunities for achieving measurable positive results.

Lawrence Technological University ‘Leaders in the Making’: An Effective Leader is a Learning Leader

This article examines survey data on leadership from university students and alumni to characterize effective leadership using Appreciative Inquiry and SOAR. We define learning leaders as leaders who use lifelong learning, dialogue and collaborative communication to lead self and others through leveraging strengths, identifying opportunities and aspirations, and being results-driven and present recommendations for how to be a learning leader. T he purpose of this article is to consider an effective leader as an individual who is a learning leader. The article examines the phenomena

Relationship Among Emotional Intelligence, SOAR, and Team-Based Collaboration: Implications for a Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) Based Approach to Coaching Psychology

The aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical overview of SOAR, a strengths-based framework with a whole-system (stakeholder) approach to strategy that focuses on strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results, and to consider implications for its use within coaching psychology research and practice. We first present the results of an empirical study in which SOAR was found to mediate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and team-based collaboration among team leaders but not team members. In finding that SOAR differentially mediated the EI-collaboration relationship in team leaders rather than team members, we suggest that SOAR may help a coach create a reservoir of positivity to support new ideas, innovations, and the best in people to emerge and thrive. We discuss how a SOAR-based coaching process may facilitate a coach’s ability to promote performance enhancement through a results-oriented approach focusing on the coachee’s strengths, opportunities, and aspirations.

Building Collaboration in Virtual Teams through Emotional Intelligence: Mediation by SOAR

In today’s global business environment virtual teams have increased rapidly worldwide due to advances in communication technology that facilitate communication and sharing of information among team...

Latent Class Analysis of Entrepreneurial Reframing: Effect of Latent Class on Innovation and Success

Reframing strategies of 88 experienced business entrepreneurs were analyzed using latent class analysis to create discrete classes of entrepreneurial reframers. Logistic regression was used to investigate the relationship between class membership, background/demographic factors, and entrepreneurial innovation and success. Results found entrepreneurs were categorized into one of four latent classes based on their reframing strategies: Class 1, Social re-framers; Class 2, Reflection re-framers; Class 3, Optimistic re-framers; and Class 4, Converse re-framers. Reframing strategies usage increased from class one to four. The entrepreneur’s background/demographic factors did not affect the use of reframing strategies except for the number of new businesses started. Entrepreneurial innovation increased across the four reframing strategies latent classes, although entrepreneurial success was not affected. Results are discussed and emphasize the benefits of reframing on innovation, and drive the need for future r...