Culture and climate in health care organizations edited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Paula Hyde, and Catherine Pope.

EBSCO PDA Program

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Why Focus on Culture and Climate? / C. Pope, J. Braithwaite & P. Hyde -- 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 -- 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.O'Sullivan -- 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 -- 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. Braithwaite.

Health care settings - from hospitals to general practice, doctor's offices to medical and surgical wards, to community nursing to hospital in the home - are interesting and exciting places to visit and work. This book explores the concepts of culture and climate in these kinds of health care settings with chapters from some of the best researchers and thinkers in the world. The book is a compilation of recent international research on this theme. Chapters look at topics such as organizational change, attitudes of clinical professions, how teams work and where conflict occurs. The research reported here provides insights into decision-making in Australian health care, bullying cultures in Ireland, networks in the English National Health Service and innovation in primary health care in Canada. This book is a must-read for researchers and academics, and clinicians, managers, policymakers and patients interested in understanding how modern health systems operate will find information inside discussing when health systems work well, and when they don't including the circumstances in which they are under stress and strain.

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