Synopses & Reviews
This book showcases international research on health care organizations. It presents diverse and multidisciplinary approaches to studying differing health care settings, in international context. These approaches range from in depth observation to questionnaire based measures, investigating a spectrum of health care professionals.
About the Author
JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE, BA, DipLR, MIR (Hons I), MBA, PhD, FAIM, FCHSE, is Foundation Director of the UNSW Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, and Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Professor Braithwaites has presented and published extensively (more than 200 refereed publications) on his research which inquires into the changing nature of health systems and patient safety, particularly the structure and culture of organizations and professions.
PAULA HYDE is Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Experiential Learning at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Her research interests include workforce modernization, human resource management and psychodynamic approaches to understanding organizational life. She co-edited the previous book in this series (McKee, L., Ferlie, E., Hyde, P. eds. 2008) about organizing and reorganizing health care and has published on workforce development, role redesign, and organizational dynamics in health care.
CATHERINE POPE is Reader in Health Services Research in the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton. Her research focuses on organizational change and professional practice in health services, and she has also written extensively about qualitative methods and evidence synthesis for health research.
Table of Contents
Preface--
A.MarkIntroduction Why Focus on Culture and Climate?--C.Pope, J.Braithwaite&--P.Hyde
PART I: CULTURE AND CLIMATE IN CHANGING HEALTH SYSTEMS
Converging and Diverging Concepts in Culture and Climate Research: Cultate or Climure?--J.Braithwaite, D.Greenfield&--M.Westbrook
Management Cultures in the English National Health Service--R.Mannion, H.Davies, S.Harrison, F.Konteh, R.Jacobs&--K.Walshe
Culture Made Flesh: Discourse, Performativity and Materiality--T.Freeman&--E.Peck
PART II: RELATIONSHIPS AND COLLABORATION
Organizational-professional Conflict in Medicine--A.Fitzgerald&--A.Dadich
People, Place and Innovation: How Organizational Culture and Physical Environment Shaped the Implementation of the NHS TC Programme--C.Pope,A.le May&--J.Gabbay
People, Place and Innovation
Interpersonal Relationships and Decision-making About Patient Flow: What and Who Really Matters?--K.Eljiz, A.Fitzgerald&--T.Sloan Patient Flow Decision-making: Who Really Matters?
Bullying, Culture, and Climate in Healthcare Organizations: A Theoretical Framework--J.MacMahon, S.MacCurtain&--M.OSullivan
Changing Relationships Between Health Service Managers: Confrontation, Collusion and Collaboration--P.Hyde
Changing Relationships Between Health Service Managers
HRM Practice Systems in Employer-of-Choice Health Care Organizations; K.Rondeau&--T.Wagar
Team Climate and Clinical Information Systems--J.Callen, J.Braithwaite&--J.Westbrook
Health Network Culture and Reform--R.Sheaff, L.Benson, L.Farbus, J.Schofield, R.Mannion&--D.Reeves
Primary Health Care Innovation Sites: Learning to Create New Cultures of Care--A.Casebeer, T.Reay, K.Golden-Biddle, B.Hinings&--K.Germ
PART III: RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE
A Shared Vision: Using Action Research for Work Culture Change in a Cardiology Department--S.Long, D.Penny, S.Gold&--W.Harding
Creating a Climate for Service Improvement Through Role Structures--A.McDermott&--M.Keating
Accountability and Transparency Through the Technologization of Practice--D.Greenfield
The Role of Cultural Performance in Health Care Commissioning--H.Dickinson, E.Peck, J.Durose&--E.Wade
Conclusion Culture and Climate in Health Care Organizations: Evidentiary, Conceptual and Practical Progress--P.Hyde, C.Pope&--J.Braithw