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Extra Mile (extra + mile)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	50%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

Going the Extra Mile: Beyond Health Teaching to Political Involvement

NURSING FORUM, Issue 4 2008
Susan J. Wold PhD
TOPIC.,Addressing community health problems through political involvement. PURPOSE AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION.,This article describes how a group of RN,BSN students completing an assigned community-assessment and health-teaching project in a small, rural, southern county exceeded course requirements to address a significant community health problem. Specifically, after documenting a high rate of dental caries among local children and consulting with state officials and other experts, these students involved themselves in local politics in an effort to persuade county officials to implement community water fluoridation. CONCLUSIONS.,These RN,BSN students successfully demonstrated their ability to move beyond a focus on individuals to embrace the concept of community as client. In the process, they honed their skills in advocacy, communication, and political involvement, and achieved all of their BSN program's objectives. [source]

Glycaemic control and metabolic risk: getting the extra mile from diabetes control

PRACTICAL DIABETES INTERNATIONAL (INCORPORATING CARDIABETES), Issue 6 2008
M Devers MBChB, MRCP Specialist Registrar
Abstract Cardiometabolic risk is an emerging term which has been used to denote the cluster of risk factors defined by the metabolic syndrome and, in addition, to include the newer risk factors which are now recognised to occur in association with dysglycaemia and abdominal obesity. Interventions for diabetes can have effects on cardiometabolic risk factors beyond lowering of hyperglycaemia, and may be an explanation for the reductions in cardiovascular events that are seen with some but not all antidiabetic drugs. Newer antidiabetic agents and the weight-reducing drug, rimonabant, have demonstrated favourable effects on cardiometabolic risk factors and on glycaemia, and should be further studied in long-term cardiovascular outcomes trials. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons. [source]

If employees "go the extra mile," do customers reciprocate with similar behavior?

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 10 2008
Youjae Yi
This study proposes an integrated framework depicting the effects of two types of employee behavior (employee citizenship behavior and employee dysfunctional behavior) on customer satisfaction, which in turn, influences customer commitment. Customer satisfaction and commitment are then expected to affect two types of customer behavior (customer citizenship behavior and customer dysfunctional behavior). A survey of matched responses from 123 employees and 590 customers reveals that employee citizenship behavior, employee dysfunctional behavior, customer satisfaction, and customer commitment are important predictors of customer citizenship behavior and customer dysfunctional behavior. Furthermore, this study identifies variables (relationship age, group size, and communication frequency) that moderate the relationships being considered. The results show that the effects of two types of employee behavior on customer satisfaction are stronger when relationship age and communication frequency are higher. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

A study of cross-border outshopping determinants: mediating effect of outshopping enjoyment

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, Issue 6 2009
Chiquan Guo
Abstract Outshopping has been studied in the marketing literature for years, and research has identified some compelling reasons for people to shop out of their home country. Outshoppers literally go extra miles to outshop for better quality and assortment of merchandise, higher quality of personal service, more pleasant shopping atmospherics, and more competitive prices. In this study, we propose that outshopping enjoyment is not only directly related to outshopping, as are the earlier outshopping determinants, but mediate the relationships between those cognitive determinants and outshopping behaviour. In addition, we explore how patriotism and terror would affect people's outshopping frequency. Managerial and research implications are also discussed. [source]