Amos Avgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 124970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amos Avgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amos |
| FAMILY NAME | Avgar |
| SIGNATURE | AVGAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2656-0060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Home health aides’ perspectives towards achieving cardiovascular health and life’s essential 8
Despite frequently providing care to adults with cardiovascular (CV) disease in the home, home health aides and attendants (HHAs) have poor CV health (CVH) themselves, which is problematic for their own health and potentially their patients. We elicited the perspectives of HHAs towards achieving optimal CVH, including the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Life’s Essential 8 (LE8). We conducted focus groups and interviews with HHAs from January…
A fragmented and heavily privatized dispute resolution system
The United States possesses a highly fragmented and decentralized set of mechanisms addressing work‐related conflicts and disputes. There are consequential differences in how workplace conflicts are resolved across the following settings—union and nonunion or collective and individual, public and private sectors, traditional and nonstandard employment models, and public and private forums. An important trend is the growing influence in the nonuni…
Changing face of public agencies in workplace conflict resolution
This six‐country study includes examination of the institutional context in which public agencies for conflict resolution operate; the internal and external pressures for change in the activities of these agencies, including the shift from collective to individual forms of workplace conflict; the extent to which the changes being introduced are altering the traditional organizational character or culture of these bodies; and the effects of the pa…
Lessons from the Art and Science of Negotiation
Rural‐urban differences in family and paid caregiving utilization in the United States
PURPOSE: While rates of family caregiving and paid caregiving are increasing, how often they occur together ("shared care") and whether utilization varies geographically are unknown. We examined differences in family and paid caregiving utilization by rurality and region in the United States. METHODS: The 2020 Cornell National Social Survey is an annual cross-sectional telephone-based survey of a random sample of 1,000 US adults. Participants wer…
Relational Exchange in Non-union Firms
For much of the 20th century, a sizeable proportion of the workforce in the United States had access to a combination of dispute resolution and voice options through the union grievance process. The vast majority of today's workforce, however, no longer does. The focus of this article is the proliferation of alternative relational exchange models developed in non-union firms. The author develops a theoretical framework proposing variation in the …
Heart Failure Training and Job Satisfaction
The majority of HCWs have not received HF training. HF training was associated with higher job satisfaction, suggesting that HF training programs may improve HCWs' experience caring for this patient population
Organizational Conflict Resolution and Strategic Choice
This article examines the strategic underpinnings of firms' use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices. The authors argue that a firm's strategic orientation and commitment to ADR shape its adoption of dispute resolution techniques-such as mediation and arbitration. Firms vary in the benefits they seek to gain from adopting ADR practices, and firm-level use is affected by these anticipated benefits. The authors also propose a link betw…
Integrating Conflict
This article contributes to existing conflict research by proposing a theoretical framework capable of integrating findings and insights across distinct disciplines. The author utilizes the Kochan, Katz, and McKersie (1986) three-tiered industrial relations framework and demonstrates its unique capacity to situate and organize what we know about conflict and to highlight areas that have been neglected as a result of disciplinary fragmentation. Th…
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
Worker Voice and Union Revitalization
This article contributes to the study of union revitalization efforts by exploring the strategic underpinnings of and consideration for a restructured grievance system in a large Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local based in Chicago (hereinafter Local 1). This case study provides for a unique opportunity to examine the role that the structure and process of handling grievances plays in union efforts to mobilize members, increase mem…
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Arts as a vehicle for community building and post-disaster development
Use of the arts in international aid is common in an ad hoc form, but it has not been systematically theorised or evaluated. The arts have the potential to be a culturally contextualised and sustainable intervention for adults and children in the aftermath of war or disaster. On the micro level, the arts are a method to enable the retrieval and reprocessing of traumatic memories that are often encoded in images rather than in words. On a macro le…
Using arts-based research to help visualize community intervention in international aid
This article discusses the advantages of arts-based research specifically for high-context, culturally diverse, power-infused, and chaotic or diffuse research settings as often found in international aid. It points to the ability of arts to concretize abstract concepts and to situate them within specific socio-cultural locations, enabling powerless groups to self-define and to adjust resilience-enhancing interventions to their own perceptions. Th…
Building Collaborative Capacity
BACKGROUND: Contradictory findings about the effectiveness of health care teams may relate to the actual structure of teams-loose rather than formal-and the nature of decision making-hierarchical rather than egalitarian. We introduce the concept of collaborative capacity-the likelihood that providers, no matter how brief their exchange, will collaborate as if they were members of an egalitarian team even in the absence of a formal team structure.…
Patient-Centered but Employee Delivered
Hospitals are increasingly experimenting with workplace innovations designed to improve the quality of patient care, alleviate financial pressures, and retain staff. The authors examine one such innovation, patient-centered care (PCC), and its effects on clinical and employee outcomes in hospitals in the United Kingdom. Employing PCC entails a shift from an institutional and physician focus to one that emphasizes patients' needs and preferences. …
Overcoming the barriers
Voluntary organisations and volunteer action are new pheno-mena in post-Soviet Russia. Despite growing needs, cultural and socio-economic barriers preclude their massive development. This is a report on a case study of a volunteer programme that succeeded in overcoming these barriers, and in recruiting large numbers of volunteers. Characteristics of the volunteers and organisational conditions that enabled this success were identified and lessons…
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Using arts-based research to help visualize community intervention in international aid
This article discusses the advantages of arts-based research specifically for high-context, culturally diverse, power-infused, and chaotic or diffuse research settings as often found in international aid. It points to the ability of arts to concretize abstract concepts and to situate them within specific socio-cultural locations, enabling powerless groups to self-define and to adjust resilience-enhancing interventions to their own perceptions. Th…
Patient-Centered but Employee Delivered
Hospitals are increasingly experimenting with workplace innovations designed to improve the quality of patient care, alleviate financial pressures, and retain staff. The authors examine one such innovation, patient-centered care (PCC), and its effects on clinical and employee outcomes in hospitals in the United Kingdom. Employing PCC entails a shift from an institutional and physician focus to one that emphasizes patients' needs and preferences. …
Arts as a vehicle for community building and post-disaster development
Use of the arts in international aid is common in an ad hoc form, but it has not been systematically theorised or evaluated. The arts have the potential to be a culturally contextualised and sustainable intervention for adults and children in the aftermath of war or disaster. On the micro level, the arts are a method to enable the retrieval and reprocessing of traumatic memories that are often encoded in images rather than in words. On a macro le…
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
Relational Exchange in Non-union Firms
For much of the 20th century, a sizeable proportion of the workforce in the United States had access to a combination of dispute resolution and voice options through the union grievance process. The vast majority of today's workforce, however, no longer does. The focus of this article is the proliferation of alternative relational exchange models developed in non-union firms. The author develops a theoretical framework proposing variation in the …
Organizational Conflict Resolution and Strategic Choice
This article examines the strategic underpinnings of firms' use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices. The authors argue that a firm's strategic orientation and commitment to ADR shape its adoption of dispute resolution techniques-such as mediation and arbitration. Firms vary in the benefits they seek to gain from adopting ADR practices, and firm-level use is affected by these anticipated benefits. The authors also propose a link betw…
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Integrating Conflict
This article contributes to existing conflict research by proposing a theoretical framework capable of integrating findings and insights across distinct disciplines. The author utilizes the Kochan, Katz, and McKersie (1986) three-tiered industrial relations framework and demonstrates its unique capacity to situate and organize what we know about conflict and to highlight areas that have been neglected as a result of disciplinary fragmentation. Th…
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Overcoming the barriers
Voluntary organisations and volunteer action are new pheno-mena in post-Soviet Russia. Despite growing needs, cultural and socio-economic barriers preclude their massive development. This is a report on a case study of a volunteer programme that succeeded in overcoming these barriers, and in recruiting large numbers of volunteers. Characteristics of the volunteers and organisational conditions that enabled this success were identified and lessons…
Building Collaborative Capacity
BACKGROUND: Contradictory findings about the effectiveness of health care teams may relate to the actual structure of teams-loose rather than formal-and the nature of decision making-hierarchical rather than egalitarian. We introduce the concept of collaborative capacity-the likelihood that providers, no matter how brief their exchange, will collaborate as if they were members of an egalitarian team even in the absence of a formal team structure.…
Patient-Centered but Employee Delivered
Hospitals are increasingly experimenting with workplace innovations designed to improve the quality of patient care, alleviate financial pressures, and retain staff. The authors examine one such innovation, patient-centered care (PCC), and its effects on clinical and employee outcomes in hospitals in the United Kingdom. Employing PCC entails a shift from an institutional and physician focus to one that emphasizes patients' needs and preferences. …
Using arts-based research to help visualize community intervention in international aid
This article discusses the advantages of arts-based research specifically for high-context, culturally diverse, power-infused, and chaotic or diffuse research settings as often found in international aid. It points to the ability of arts to concretize abstract concepts and to situate them within specific socio-cultural locations, enabling powerless groups to self-define and to adjust resilience-enhancing interventions to their own perceptions. Th…
Arts as a vehicle for community building and post-disaster development
Use of the arts in international aid is common in an ad hoc form, but it has not been systematically theorised or evaluated. The arts have the potential to be a culturally contextualised and sustainable intervention for adults and children in the aftermath of war or disaster. On the micro level, the arts are a method to enable the retrieval and reprocessing of traumatic memories that are often encoded in images rather than in words. On a macro le…
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Worker Voice and Union Revitalization
This article contributes to the study of union revitalization efforts by exploring the strategic underpinnings of and consideration for a restructured grievance system in a large Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local based in Chicago (hereinafter Local 1). This case study provides for a unique opportunity to examine the role that the structure and process of handling grievances plays in union efforts to mobilize members, increase mem…
Heart Failure Training and Job Satisfaction
The majority of HCWs have not received HF training. HF training was associated with higher job satisfaction, suggesting that HF training programs may improve HCWs' experience caring for this patient population
Organizational Conflict Resolution and Strategic Choice
This article examines the strategic underpinnings of firms' use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices. The authors argue that a firm's strategic orientation and commitment to ADR shape its adoption of dispute resolution techniques-such as mediation and arbitration. Firms vary in the benefits they seek to gain from adopting ADR practices, and firm-level use is affected by these anticipated benefits. The authors also propose a link betw…
Integrating Conflict
This article contributes to existing conflict research by proposing a theoretical framework capable of integrating findings and insights across distinct disciplines. The author utilizes the Kochan, Katz, and McKersie (1986) three-tiered industrial relations framework and demonstrates its unique capacity to situate and organize what we know about conflict and to highlight areas that have been neglected as a result of disciplinary fragmentation. Th…
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
Relational Exchange in Non-union Firms
For much of the 20th century, a sizeable proportion of the workforce in the United States had access to a combination of dispute resolution and voice options through the union grievance process. The vast majority of today's workforce, however, no longer does. The focus of this article is the proliferation of alternative relational exchange models developed in non-union firms. The author develops a theoretical framework proposing variation in the …
Lessons from the Art and Science of Negotiation
Rural‐urban differences in family and paid caregiving utilization in the United States
PURPOSE: While rates of family caregiving and paid caregiving are increasing, how often they occur together ("shared care") and whether utilization varies geographically are unknown. We examined differences in family and paid caregiving utilization by rurality and region in the United States. METHODS: The 2020 Cornell National Social Survey is an annual cross-sectional telephone-based survey of a random sample of 1,000 US adults. Participants wer…
A fragmented and heavily privatized dispute resolution system
The United States possesses a highly fragmented and decentralized set of mechanisms addressing work‐related conflicts and disputes. There are consequential differences in how workplace conflicts are resolved across the following settings—union and nonunion or collective and individual, public and private sectors, traditional and nonstandard employment models, and public and private forums. An important trend is the growing influence in the nonuni…
Changing face of public agencies in workplace conflict resolution
This six‐country study includes examination of the institutional context in which public agencies for conflict resolution operate; the internal and external pressures for change in the activities of these agencies, including the shift from collective to individual forms of workplace conflict; the extent to which the changes being introduced are altering the traditional organizational character or culture of these bodies; and the effects of the pa…
Home health aides’ perspectives towards achieving cardiovascular health and life’s essential 8
Despite frequently providing care to adults with cardiovascular (CV) disease in the home, home health aides and attendants (HHAs) have poor CV health (CVH) themselves, which is problematic for their own health and potentially their patients. We elicited the perspectives of HHAs towards achieving optimal CVH, including the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Life’s Essential 8 (LE8). We conducted focus groups and interviews with HHAs from January…
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