Stephen Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4478-2038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Analysis of commissioning and procurement of adult social care in Scotland
Background: Strategic planning and commissioning of adult social care (ASC) involves forecasting population needs across a defined area, together with availability of services or resources to meet those needs then commissioning to best meet these needs through in-house provision, shared services or procurement of independent or voluntary sector services. This paper reports qualitative research conducted on behalf of the Coalition of Care and Supp…
Care as A Golden Thread; Creating and Implementing A New National Outcome on Care in Scotland
Introduction: Governments create National Performance Framworks (NPF) to highlight the 'golden threads' they want all stakeholders to most focus on. Two years ago we presented at ICIC 2022 on the design and development of a new National Outcome for Care in Scotlands NPF, and the 11 existing outcomes in that which did not include Care explicitly, which was up for review. T We can now report that the campaign was a huge success, and the Scottish Go…
How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the longstanding social care crisis across the United Kingdom. The need for thorough and sustained change in the entire policy domain of care – defined as paid care workers, including childcare workers, and unpaid carers and those experiencing care – is clear. To achieve such change, the prominence of care as a key policy issue needs to increase. This could be achieved through care becoming anchored in outcomes-b…
Towards Countries that Care; Advocating A new National Outcome on care for the National Performance Framework in Scotland
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Organizational Values
The espousal of organizational values with an expectation of primarily positive consequences in leadership, employee performance and organizational change has often been recognized as overly simplistic, but giving a more complete and critical account of the interrelations between values and behaviour has proven challenging. This article describes a balanced and integrated positive, ambivalent and negative (PAN) approach. The use of this PAN appro…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
The evolution of management in UK local government
This article presents evidence from a case study of the implementation of a new management development system in a major local authority. The adoption of a competence‐based management system is described, illustrating that there was great scope for adopting an explicitly ‘generic’ and managerialist model of management. It is clear that such a managerialist framework was not adopted. The explanation for the retention of a distinctive public manage…
The Management of Marine Regions: The North Pacific
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
The Management of Marine Regions: The North Pacific
The evolution of management in UK local government
This article presents evidence from a case study of the implementation of a new management development system in a major local authority. The adoption of a competence‐based management system is described, illustrating that there was great scope for adopting an explicitly ‘generic’ and managerialist model of management. It is clear that such a managerialist framework was not adopted. The explanation for the retention of a distinctive public manage…
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
Organizational Values
The espousal of organizational values with an expectation of primarily positive consequences in leadership, employee performance and organizational change has often been recognized as overly simplistic, but giving a more complete and critical account of the interrelations between values and behaviour has proven challenging. This article describes a balanced and integrated positive, ambivalent and negative (PAN) approach. The use of this PAN appro…
Towards Countries that Care; Advocating A new National Outcome on care for the National Performance Framework in Scotland
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Care as A Golden Thread; Creating and Implementing A New National Outcome on Care in Scotland
Introduction: Governments create National Performance Framworks (NPF) to highlight the 'golden threads' they want all stakeholders to most focus on. Two years ago we presented at ICIC 2022 on the design and development of a new National Outcome for Care in Scotlands NPF, and the 11 existing outcomes in that which did not include Care explicitly, which was up for review. T We can now report that the campaign was a huge success, and the Scottish Go…
How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the longstanding social care crisis across the United Kingdom. The need for thorough and sustained change in the entire policy domain of care – defined as paid care workers, including childcare workers, and unpaid carers and those experiencing care – is clear. To achieve such change, the prominence of care as a key policy issue needs to increase. This could be achieved through care becoming anchored in outcomes-b…
Analysis of commissioning and procurement of adult social care in Scotland
Background: Strategic planning and commissioning of adult social care (ASC) involves forecasting population needs across a defined area, together with availability of services or resources to meet those needs then commissioning to best meet these needs through in-house provision, shared services or procurement of independent or voluntary sector services. This paper reports qualitative research conducted on behalf of the Coalition of Care and Supp…
Computer Science (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Competence (human resources (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)