Organisational Behaviour in Health Care : The Research Agenda

## Foreword xi • Will the relevance of the findings date quickly and, if so, is the research likely to be complete and written up in time? Another possible pragmatic consideration for young researchers trying to build their reputation is whether it is a fashionable area of research or one that they believe they could make fashionable. It is hoped that some of the younger readers will find these personal criteria helpful in thinking about fruitful areas for research in organisational behaviour in health care. Perhaps my anxieties about the state of research in health care management and in organisational behaviour in health care arise from unrealistically scholarly ideas? It may be that such research is necessarily pragmatic and responsive to the interests of research funders and to the many factors, particularly political ones, that are changing the perception and practice of health care. Perhaps most of the research is, and should be, research consultancy, as a justification for taking up busy people's time. But I still feel concerned about what I think is a lack of intellectual development within the field of research into organisational behaviour in health care and in health care management. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-5 Managing, Organising and Performing in Health Care: what do we know and how can we learn?....Pages 7-24 Organisational Development: from a reactive to a proactive process....Pages 25-34 Methodology and Marketing: making organisational behaviour research irresistible in health care....Pages 35-45 The Consumer’s Role in Co-ordination: making sense of transitions in health care....Pages 47-62 Professional Control Issues between Medicine and Nursing in Primary Care....Pages 63-76 Enabling Leaders to Change: interventions with established GP principals through a mid-career break scheme....Pages 77-87 Medical Managers: puppetmasters or puppets? Sources of power and influence in clinical directorates....Pages 89-116 Variations on a Theme: clinicians in management in England and the Netherlands....Pages 117-133 Leadership in the NHS: what are the competencies and qualities needed and how can they be developed?....Pages 135-151 The Influence of Middle Management upon Emergent Strategy: a case for more microempirical studies....Pages 153-167 MAPS for PAMS: managerial and professional solutions for professions allied to medicine....Pages 169-188 Evidence into Practice? An exploratory analysis of the interpretation of evidence....Pages 189-206 Value Critical Analysis and Actor Network Theory: two perspectives on collaboration in the name of health....Pages 207-221 Organising for Incompatible Priorities....Pages 223-242 Evaluating Interventions to Health Organisation....Pages 243-253 Conclusion....Pages 255-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-274 This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in healthcare. It includes contributions from key names such as Sandra Dawson and Peter Spurgeon with a foreword by Rosemary Stewart. Also including chapters from Australia, Canada and Europe, it is consciously international in perspective and aims to relate the public sector agenda as a comparator for developments in the US.