Organizing and Reorganizing: Power and Change in Health Care Organizations (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare)

Following on from the success of the last four years, this new book includes the best papers from the 2006 Organizational Behaviour in Health Care conference. Addressing contemporary issues such as policy, collaborate and public engagement, this book is a unique collection of outstanding contributions to current debates. Medicine and management in English primary care: a shifting balance of power? / Rod Sheaff Processes of change in the reconfiguration of hospital services: the role of stakeholder involvement / Naomi Fulop, Perri 6 and Peter Spurgeon Hospital sector organisational restructuring: evidence of its futility / Jeffrey Braithwaite ... [et al.] Decentralization as a means to reorganize health-care in England: from theory to practice? / Mark Exworthy and Ian Greener Va va voom, size doesn't matter: form and function in the NHS / Jill Schofield ... [et al.] Evidence-based management: the power of evidence or evidence of power? / Mark Learmonth 'Speaking truth to power': on the discomforts of researching the contemporary policy process / David J. Hunter It's part of the job: healthcare restructuring and the health and safety of nursing aides / Michael J. O'Sullivan ... [et al.] Chasing chameleons, chimeras and caterpillars: evaluating an organizational innovation in the National Health Service / Catherine Pope, Andrée le May and John Gabbay Engaging the public voice in health care decision-making / Ann Casebeer ... [et al.] The swampy lowland: using hyperlinks to navigate the multiple realities of partnership / Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh Systems thinking for knowledge integration: new models for policy-research collaboration / Allan Best ... [et al.] Strategies of persuasion: the efforts of nurse practitioners in institutionalizing a new role / Trish Reay and Karen Golden-Biddle Knowledge to action? the implications for policy and practice of research on innovation processes / Louise Fitzgerald ... [et al.] Is the best defense a good offense? marketing of quality by U.S. nursing homes / Jane Banaszak-Holl, Judith G. Calhoun and Larry R. Hearld Models of medical work control: a theory elaboration from English general practice / Martin Kitchener and Mark Exworthy. The fifth title in an ongoing series on organizational behaviour in health care. This edition reveals the handling of organizational politics, power and change as a core aspect of effective reorganizations and explores how health care management research relates to health policy in this politically charged arena.