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Abstract: Background: Military nursing operates at the intersection of healthcare and defense, requiring nurses to balance professional ethics with military discipline, operational readiness, and organizational hierarchy. Purpose: To explore how military nurses in a small defense system construct and sustain professional identities and how organizational structures and military culture shape their autonomy, competence, wellbeing, and family life. Methods: A qualitative design using reflexive thematic analysis was employed. Nineteen individual semistructured interviews were conducted with military nurses serving in the armed forces. Discussion: Seven interrelated themes demonstrated that professional identity in military nursing is dynamic, adaptive, and morally grounded, and is continuously negotiated at the intersection of care and command. Organizational hierarchy, autonomy, professional development, emotional resilience, family responsibilities, and institutional recognition shaped participants’ professional experiences. Conclusion: Empathetic leadership, realistic training, and policies that support work-life balance and equitable recognition are vital for well-being and operational readiness. Stronger organizational support and clearer leadership communication may enhance retention, resilience, and the quality of military healthcare
Keywords: military nursing, professional identity, emotional resilience, organizational culture
Published in RUP: 23.08.2026; Views: 308; Downloads: 10
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Abstract: A successful business is a business based on knowledge. In modern economy, successful companies appreciate knowledge and systematically support its creation, sharing and application within business processes. Very often knowledge is the most critical economic resource; it is therefore necessary to effectively direct and lead processes of creation or acquisition, transfer, use and exploitation of knowledge. These processes together form the concept of knowledge management. Through effective knowledge management, organizations can improve their performance and gain a competitive advantage. But first they need to identify critical success factors to develop knowledge managements in organizations. This paper shows and discusses results of the empirical study conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on existing research and proposed models, the study outlines six factors (i.e. organizational culture, human capital, management, organizational structure, reward system, information technology), which we believe have a direct impact on the effectiveness of knowledge management. Research data have been collected through a survey. The research sample was composed of 317 companies that employed 10 to 600 employees. Collected data were analyzed by use of the structural equation modelling. This will allow us to propose a model of influential factors for effective knowledge management. Results of the study will help organizations to better understand critical factors influencing the effectiveness of knowledge management.
Keywords: upravljanje znanja, organizacijska kultura, človeški kapital, menedžment, organizacijske strukture, sestem nagrajevanja, informacijska tehnologija, knowledge management, organizational culture, human capital, management, organizational structure, rewarding system, information technology
Published in RUP: 08.08.2016; Views: 7007; Downloads: 42
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Keywords: competitive global economy, global organization, strategic vision, strategic capacity, organizational culture, cultural education
Published in RUP: 15.10.2013; Views: 4282; Downloads: 76
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