To collaborate or not-to-collaborate? Behavioral-antecedents and mediating role of intraprofessional collaborative behavior on performance of community pharmacists: A modeling study.

Extensive research exists on collaborative behavior between healthcare professionals with different skill sets (interprofessional collaboration). However, research is scarce and evolving on collaborative behavior among members of the same profession (intraprofessional collaboration), community pharmacists in particular. Based on the theory of reasoned action, a hypothetical structural model was developed to evaluate the impact of behavioral antecedents: competitive behavior (CB), knowledge-sharing behavior (KSB), and customer-focused behavior (CFB), and the mediating effects of collaborative behavior (CTB) on work performance (WP) of community pharmacists in southwestern Nigeria. We used a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey of randomly selected community pharmacists (N = 646). Structural equation modeling was used to test hypotheses. The model had an acceptable fit and data quality. The model showed that CB, KSB, and CFB exert a significant direct influence on CTB. Only CFB significantly influenced WP compared to other antecedents and CTB. The absence of mediating effects of CTB suggests a gap in intraprofessional practice with implications for interprofessional collaboration and performance among community pharmacists. We conclude from our results that overall work performance is enhanced when community pharmacists encourage and adopt a collaborative culture. This culture strengthens the benefits of shared experiential knowledge, focus on patients' welfare, and healthy competition.

'O povo cuidando do povo': Agentes Populares na promoção de territórios mais sustentáveis e saudáveis / 'People taking care of people': Popular Agents in promoting more sustainable and healthy territories

RESUMO A pandemia da covid-19 provocou impactos profundos na sociedade brasileira, mas pouca atenção foi endereçada à determinação socioambiental da saúde de populações periféricas. Este projeto surge nesse contexto com a proposta de identificar desafios e potencialidades do enfrentamento da pandemia e suas consequências em três territórios periféricos e vulnerabilizados do estado do Rio de Janeiro. O edital Inova-TSS foi a oportunidade de desenvolver uma pesquisa que, além de gerar dados, contribuísse para potencializar esses territórios para lidar melhor com esse desafio, contribuindo assim para torná-los mais sustentáveis e saudáveis. Apoiado na Educação Popular e em outras perspectivas dialógicas e participativas, este é um estudo qualitativo que conjugou pesquisa, formação, extensão e estratégias de pesquisa quantitativa, sendo desenvolvido em parceria com cinco movimentos sociais, desde a sua gênese. Por sugestão dessas organizações, a pesquisa foi articulada a uma ação da campanha popular 'Periferia Viva': um curso de Agentes Populares de Saúde oferecido nos mesmos territórios da pesquisa onde essas organizações já atuavam. Este relato de experiência propõe-se a compartilhar desafios e potências do processo constitutivo dessa investigação, que integrou militantes, profissionais da saúde e moradoras(es) das comunidades beneficiadas como pesquisadoras(es) populares, reconhecendo sua condição como sujeitos na produção de conhecimentos.

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic had profound impacts on Brazilian society, but little attention was paid to the socio-environmental determination of the health of peripheral populations. This project arises in this context, with the proposal to identify challenges and potential in confronting the pandemic and its consequences in three peripheral and vulnerable territories in Rio de Janeiro. The Inova-TSS notice was the opportunity to develop research that, simultaneously to generating data, would contribute to empowering these territories to better deal with this challenge, thus contributing to making them more sustainable and healthier. Supported by Popular Education and other dialogical perspectives, this is a qualitative study that combined research, training, extension and quantitative research strategies, and was developed in partnership with five social movements, since its genesis. At the suggestion of these organizations, the research was linked to an action of the popular campaign 'Periferia Viva', a course for Popular Health Agents offered in the same territories as the research, where these organizations were already operating. This experience report aims to share challenges and strengths of the constitutive process of this investigation, which integrated activists, health professionals, and residents of benefiting communities as popular researchers, recognizing their condition as subjects in knowledge production.

Looking for related posts on GitHub discussions.

Software teams increasingly adopt different tools and communication channels to aid the software collaborative development model and coordinate tasks. Among such resources, software development forums have become widely used by developers. Such environments enable developers to get and share technical information quickly. In line with this trend, GitHub announced GitHub Discussions-a native forum to facilitate collaborative discussions between users and members of communities hosted on the platform. Since GitHub Discussions is a software development forum, it faces challenges similar to those faced by systems used for asynchronous communication, including the problems caused by related posts (duplicated and near-duplicated posts). These related posts can add noise to the platform and compromise project knowledge sharing. Hence, this article addresses the problem of detecting related posts on GitHub Discussions. To achieve this, we propose an approach based on a Sentence-BERT pre-trained general-purpose model: the RD-Detector. We evaluated RD-Detector using data from three communities hosted in GitHub. Our dataset comprises 16,048 discussion posts. Three maintainers and three Software Engineering (SE) researchers manually evaluated the RD-Detector results, achieving 77-100% of precision and 66% of recall. In addition, maintainers pointed out practical applications of the approach, such as providing knowledge to support merging the discussion posts and converting the posts to comments on other related posts. Maintainers can benefit from RD-Detector to address the labor-intensive task of manually detecting related posts.

Evaluación de la gestión del conocimiento en el Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso / Evaluation of knowledge management at the National Center for Limited Access Surgery

RESUMEN Introducción: La gestión del conocimiento es vital para las organizaciones de salud con vistas a garantizar la calidad de sus servicios. Objetivo: Evaluar la gestión del conocimiento en el Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso. Métodos: Se realizó una investigación descriptiva de tipo transversal. Se elaboró, validó y aplicó una encuesta a 20 trabajadores del Centro en los meses de noviembre y diciembre de 2018. Se estudió la variable gestión del conocimiento, a través de sus elementos caracterizadores, los cuales fueron evaluados en dos dimensiones: importancia y frecuencia. Los datos se procesaron mediante los métodos de estadística descriptiva con el uso del programa SPSS v.21. Resultados: Se identificaron el compromiso de la alta dirección del centro con la gestión del conocimiento, la existencia de una infraestructura tecnológica suficiente para apoyar sus actividades, así como la necesidad de fortalecer los intercambios entre especialistas para compartir los resultados de investigación y aprovechar las lecciones aprendidas de los errores médicos y las no conformidades, para lo cual se requirió destinar tiempo y recursos. Conclusiones: El Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso es una institución con una destacada actividad en gestión del conocimiento. La aplicación de la encuesta para evaluar la gestión del conocimiento en el centro permitió identificar las oportunidades de mejora necesarias en apoyo a la innovación y la calidad del servicio de salud que se presta, lo que potencia aún más actividades como la formación profesional y el intercambio de las lecciones aprendidas entre los especialistas para el aprendizaje organizacional.

ABSTRACT Introduction: Knowledge management is vital for health organizations in order to guarantee the quality of their services. Objective: To evaluate knowledge management at the National Center for Limited Access Surgery. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional investigation was carried out. A survey was prepared, validated and applied to 20 employees at this institution from November to December 2018. The knowledge management variable was studied, through its characterizing elements, which were evaluated in two dimensions: importance and frequency. The data were processed through descriptive statistics methods with the use of SPSS v.21 program. Results: The investigation identified the institution top management commitment with knowledge management, the existence of a sufficient technological infrastructure to support its activities, as well as the need to strengthen exchanges between specialists to share research results and take advantage of lessons learned from medical errors and non-conformities, for which time and resources were required. Conclusions: The National Center for Limited Access Surgery is an institution with outstanding activity in knowledge management. The application of the survey to evaluate knowledge management in the institution allowed identifying the necessary improvement opportunities in support of innovation and the quality of the health service provided, which further enhances professional training and exchange of lessons learned among specialists for organizational learning.

Compartilhamento de conhecimento e mentoring no contexto da indústria de software / Knowledge sharing in mentoring in the context of the software industry / Compartir el conocimiento en el contexto de la industria del software

O mentoring é uma prática empregada para compartilhar conhecimento entre pessoas mais experientes e menos experientes, representando uma possibilidade de aprendizagem. Em empresas de base tecnológica o conhecimento e o capital humano ocupam uma posição estratégica. Nesse sentido, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi compreender a relação entre a adoção de práticas de mentoring e o compartilhamento de conhecimento em uma empresa de desenvolvimento de software. É um estudo qualitativo, com o emprego do método de estudo de caso. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionários conduzidos junto aos envolvidos no Programa Mentor dessa empresa. Os resultados indicam que o mentoring exerceu influência no modo e na quantidade de conhecimento compartilhado entre profissionais, com implicações da relação mentor-mentorado tanto no desenvolvimento profissional como nos relacionamentos pessoais. No mentorado evidenciam-se tipos e formas de compartilhamento, como reuniões, pair programming, avaliações formais e informais e leitura, bem como habilidades adquiridas pelos participantes e respectivas vivências.

Sharing knowledge is essential in contemporary knowledge-driven organizations. Thus mentoring is a practice used to share knowledge among more and less experienced people. In this sense, this research aims to understand the relationship between the adoption of mentoring practices and the sharing of knowledge in a software development company. This is a qualitative study, using the case study method. Data was collected through questionnaires conducted with those involved in the Mentor Program of this company. The results indicate that mentoring influences the way and amount of knowledge shared among professionals, with implications of the mentor-mentor relationship in both professional development and personal relationships. Mentoring shows types and forms of sharing, such as meetings, pair programming, formal and informal assessments and reading, as well as skills acquired by participants and their experiences.

El compartir el conocimiento es esencial en organizaciones contemporáneas orientadas al conocimiento, siendo el mentoring una práctica empleada para compartir conocimiento entre personas más experimentadas y menos experimentadas. En este sentido, el objetivo de esta investigación fue comprender la relación entre la adopción de prácticas de mentoring y el intercambio de conocimiento en una empresa de desarrollo de software. Es un estudio cualitativo, con el empleo del método de estudio de caso. Los datos fueron recolectados por medio de cuestionarios conducidos junto a los involucrados en el Programa Mentor de esa empresa. Los resultados indican que el mentoring ejerce influencia en el modo y la cantidad de conocimiento compartido entre profesionales, con implicaciones de la relación mentor-mentorado tanto en el desarrollo profesional como en las relaciones personales. En el mentor se evidencian tipos y formas de compartir, como reuniones, pair programming, evaluaciones formales e informales y lectura, así como habilidades adquiridas por los participantes y sus vivencias.

A relação entre clima organizacional e gestão do conhecimento: uma revisão da literatura / The relationship between organizational climate and knowledge management: a review of the literature / La relación entre clima organizacional y gestión del conocimiento: revisión de la literatura

O propósito deste estudo foi analisar a relação entre Clima Organizacional (CO) e Gestão do Conhecimento (GC) partindo da revisão sistemática da literatura. A pesquisa bibliográfica foi realizada nas bases de dados Web of Science e Scopus, por meio dos descritores "organizational climate" e "knowledge management". Os resultados mostraram uma relação entre os termos nos diversos sistemas de produção (bens e serviços), não foram encontrados estudos dessa relação em países em desenvolvimento, nem no Brasil. Há um consenso na literatura, que aponta que o CO favorável (analisando variáveis como motivação, satisfação, comunicação, liderança, entre outros) promove benefícios sobre a GC e vice-versa. Estudos futuros devem analisar as relações entre fatores do CO e a GC: por exemplo, os fatores motivadores e as barreiras à intenção de partilhar o conhecimento avaliando os ambientes de trabalho, por meio de instrumentos de pesquisas e rigorosas análises de correlação. Estudar como as variáveis de CO e GC se relacionam em diferentes contextos e culturas.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between Organizational Climate (OC) and Knowledge Management (KM) based on systematic review of the literature in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, using the descriptors "organizational climate" and "knowledge management". The results showed a relationship between the terms, and no studies of this relationship were found in developing countries, nor in Brazil. There is a consensus in the literature, which points out that a favorable OC promotes benefits regarding KM and vice versa. Future studies should analyze relationships between OC and KM factors, for example, motivating factors and barriers to the intention to share knowledge, by evaluating work environments through research tools and rigorous correlation analyses. Also, study is needed on how OC and KM variables are related in different contexts and cultures.

El propósito de este estudio es analizar la relación entre Clima Organizacional (CO) y Gestión del Conocimiento (GC) a partir de la revisión sistemática de la literatura en las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus, y por medio de los descriptores "organizational climate" and "knowledge management". Los resultados mostraron una relación entre estos términos y que noexisten estudios de esta relación en países en desarrollo, ni en Brasil. En la literatura hay un consenso que indica que el CO favorable promueve beneficios en la GC y viceversa. Los estudios futuros deben examinar las relaciones entre los factores CO y GC: por ejemplo, elementos motivadores y barreras a la intención de compartir conocimientos, evaluando los ambientes de trabajo a través de instrumentos de investigación y rigurosos análisis de correlación. Estudiar cómo las variables de CO y GC se relacionan en diferentes contextos y culturas.

Knowledge sharing: the role of psychological variables in leaders and collaborators / Compartir conocimiento: el rol de variables psicológicas en líderes y colaboradores

El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar la relación de normas subjetivas, autoeficacia y valor percibido del conocimiento con la intención y la conducta de compartir conocimiento en líderes y colaboradores en organizaciones. Los datos se obtuvieron de 1027 participantes, el 23.1% líderes y el 76.9% colaboradores. Todas las hipótesis fueron consistentes con los datos. Se propuso un modelo sobre la relación entre las variables. Esta investigación contribuye a comprender los factores humanos en el enfoque conductual de la gestión del conocimiento.

The objective of this research was to evaluate the relationship of subjective norms, selfefficacy and perceived value of knowledge on the knowledge sharing intention and behavior in leaders and collaborators in organizations. Data were obtained from 1027 participants, 23.1% leaders and 76.9% collaborators. All the hypotheses were consistent with the data. A model of the relationship between variables was proposed. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of human factors involved in the behavioral approach to knowledge management.

Enhancing knowledge flow in a health care context: a mobile computing approach.

BACKGROUND: Advances in mobile computing and wireless communication have allowed people to interact and exchange knowledge almost anywhere. These technologies support Medicine 2.0, where the health knowledge flows among all involved people (eg, patients, caregivers, doctors, and patients' relatives). OBJECTIVE: Our paper proposes a knowledge-sharing environment that takes advantage of mobile computing and contextual information to support knowledge sharing among participants within a health care community (ie, from patients to health professionals). This software environment enables knowledge exchange using peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile networks based on users' profiles, and it facilitates face-to-face interactions among people with similar health interests, needs, or goals. METHODS: First, we reviewed and analyzed relevant scientific articles and software apps to determine the current state of knowledge flow within health care. Although no proposal was capable of addressing every aspect in the Medicine 2.0 paradigm, a list of requirements was compiled. Using this requirement list and our previous works, a knowledge-sharing environment was created integrating Mobile Exchange of Knowledge (MEK) and the Easy to Deploy Indoor Positioning System (EDIPS), and a twofold qualitative evaluation was performed. Second, we analyzed the efficiency and reliability of the knowledge that the integrated MEK-EDIPS tool provided to users according to their interest topics, and then performed a proof of concept with health professionals to determine the feasibility and usefulness of using this solution in a real-world scenario. RESULTS: . Using MEK, we reached 100% precision and 80% recall in the exchange of files within the peer-to-peer network. The mechanism that facilitated face-to-face interactions was evaluated by the difference between the location indicated by the EDIPS tool and the actual location of the people involved in the knowledge exchange. The average distance error was <6.28 m for an indoor environment. The usability and usefulness of this tool was assessed by questioning a sample of 18 health professionals: 94% (17/18) agreed the integrated MEK-EDIPS tool provides greater interaction among all the participants (eg, patients, caregivers, doctors, and patients' relatives), most considered it extremely important in the health scenario, 72% (13/18) believed it could increase the knowledge flow in a health environment, and 67% (12/18) recommend it or would like to recommend its use. CONCLUSIONS: The integrated MEK-EDIPS tool can provide more services than any other software tool analyzed in this paper. The proposed integrated MEK-EDIPS tool seems to be the best alternative for supporting health knowledge flow within the Medicine 2.0 paradigm.

Relación entre capital psicológico y la conducta de compartir conocimiento en el contexto del aprendizaje organizacional / Relationship between psychological capital and knowledge sharing behavior in the context of organizational learning / Relação entre o capital psicológico e o comportamento de compartir conhecimentos no contexto da aprendizagem organizacional

El propósito de esta investigación fue diseñar un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales para identificar las relaciones entre el capital psicológico (optimismo, esperanza, resiliencia y auto-eficacia) y la conducta de compartir conocimiento, en una muestra estratificada por variables sociodemográficas de 137 profesionales empleados de Bogotá. Se utilizaron dos instrumentos: el PCQ (PsyCap Questionnaire), desarrollado por Luthans, Youssef y Avolio (2007a) que mide el capital psicológico, y fue debidamente traducido al español y adaptado lingüística y culturalmente a la población objeto de esta investigación; y la subescala para medir la conducta de compartir conocimiento de Castañeda y Fernández (2008). Los resultados confirmaron las siete hipótesis propuestas y muestran correlaciones positivas significativas entre el capital psicológico, sus cuatro componentes y la conducta de compartir conocimiento. Además, se encontró que el constructo capital psicológico tiene mayor potencial de explicación de la conducta de compartir conocimiento que sus cuatro componentes por separado. La discusión presenta numerosas oportunidades de investigación sobre este tema para el futuro.

The purpose of this research was to design a structural equation model to identify relationships between psychological capital (optimism, hope, resilience and self-efficacy) and knowledge sharing behavior in a sample of 137 professional employees in Bogotá stratified by demographic variables. Two instruments were used: the PCQ (PsyCap Questionnaire), developed by Luthans, Youssef and Avolio (2007a) that measures psychological capital and was duly translated into Spanish and adapted linguistically and culturally to the population under investigation, and the subscale to measure knowledge sharing behavior by Castañeda and Fernández (2008). Results confirmed the seven proposed hypotheses and showed significant positive correlations between psychological capital, its four components and the behavior of knowledge sharing. Furthermore, it was found that the construct of psychological capital has greater potential to explain knowledge sharing behavior than its four separate components. The discussion presents numerous opportunities for research on this topic in the future.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é projetar um modelo de equações estruturais para identificar as relações entre o capital psicológico (otimismo, esperança, resiliência e auto-eficácia) e o comportamento de compartir conhecimentos, em uma amostra estratificada por variáveis ​​sócio-demográficas de 137 empregados profissionais em Bogotá. Utilizaram-se dois instrumentos: o PCQ (Questionário PsyCap), desenvolvido por Luthans, Youssef e Avolio (2007a), que mede o capital psicológico, devidamente traduzido para o espanhol e adaptado lingüística e culturalmente para a população sob pesquisa, e a subescala para medir o comportamento de compartir conhecimentos, de Castañeda e Fernández (2008). Os resultados confirmaram as sete hipóteses propostas e mostram correlações positivas significativas entre o capital psicológico, as suas quatro componentes e o comportamento do compartir de conhecimento. Além disso, descobrimos que a construção da capital psicológico tem maior potencial para explicar o comportamento de compartir conhecimento que os seus quatro componentes separados. A discussão apresenta inúmeras oportunidades para pesquisas sobre este tema.