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To address the degree of burnout in nursing managers in hospitals of Western Switzerland, including comparison with medical managers, and its relationship with personal, work-related, and...
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This study aims to investigate how NHS middle managers encounter, adapt and apply management knowledge in their working practices and to examine the factors [particularly organisational context, career...
View ArticleApplying Organizational Learning to Health Challenges in the Developing World
In countries that have historically suffered from limited resources and entrenched medical systems – including Egypt, Afghanistan, and Tanzania – or ganizational learning approaches have enabled...
View ArticleDeveloping Collective Leadership for Health Care
The [National Health Service] is confronted by radically changing demographic pressures and hugely increasing demands. Alongside these is the need to build public confidence after several high-profile...
View ArticleThe Role of Informal Networks in Creating Knowledge Among Health-Care...
Health and well-being services, in common with many public services, cannot be delivered by a single organisation and require co-ordination across several organisations in a locality. There is some...
View ArticleLean Management in the South African Public Health Sector: A Case Study
This chapter gives an account of one relatively modest but effective intervention in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic at the New Somerset Hospital (NSH) in Cape Town in 2013. This project aimed to...
View ArticleChallenges of Clinical Leadership in Nigeria
Trending in Nigeria is the conventional view that medical practitioners should look after patients, while administrators look after organizations. Yet several pioneering healthcare institutions have...
View ArticleThree-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis as a Tool for Nurse Leader Performance...
This article proposes a performance appraisal based on competency models of leadership for a larger professional group working across several different organizations, yet in similar professional and...
View ArticleWhat Do District Health Managers in Ghana Use Their Working Time for? A Case...
Ineffective district health management potentially impacts on health system performance and service delivery. However, little is known about district health managing practices and time allocation in...
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