Nurses without specialist training, high levels of agency staff on post-operative wards and hygiene weaknesses were among the alleged risks identified by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest.
We used a 2 × 2 design with two levels of agency (agent or avatar) and two levels of behavioral realism (showing feedback behavior versus showing no behavior).
Participants who expressed higher levels of agency often described trust and safety as being an important element in their personal pursuit of change.
When studying return migration, the framework can show how the decision to return can take place under different levels of agency.
The seven design challenges listed earlier (higher levels of agency, and so on) are vital when the goal is the educational one of developing students into productive thinkers.
We then analyse these narratives to show how different levels of agency to return emerge, and how they interact with subtexts of mobility and security.
The framework recognizes mobility, including return migration, as a process that takes place under different and changing structural circumstances, with different capacities and desires, creating different levels of agency over mobility (Bakewell, 2010; Cassarino, 2004; Castles, 2007).
Still, we see a gradual scale, depending on social, economic, institutional and cultural capacities and desires, interacting with structures and leading to different levels of agency over the decision to return.
We propose that corporate governance of foreign subsidiaries in a transnational corporation should be constructed in response to different levels of agency problems associated with varying strategic roles of foreign subsidiaries.
John Macilwraith, corporate director for children's services, said recruiting and retaining staff was a problem, with vacancies and high levels of agency workers in some parts of the county.
