The innovation imperative in health care organisations : critical role of human resource management in the cost, quality and productivity equation / edited by Peter Spurgeon, Ronald J. Burke, Cary L. Cooper.
Health systems in the western world face increasingly intense pressure to contain or reduce costs, while countries such as China and India move towards universal coverage. The contributors illustrate that radical gains in efficiency and innovative practice are required internationally in health care...
| Uniform Title: | New horizons in management.
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| Language: | English |
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Northampton, Mass. :
Edward Elgar Pub.,
2012.
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| Series: | New horizons in management.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 282 pages. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- pt. 1. Overall context : quality, cost, productivity in health care organisations: 1. Background and context / Ronald J. Burke, Peter Spurgeon and Cary L. Cooper ; 2. Productivity in health care / John Appleby ; 3. Raising quality and reducing costs - in one improvement? / John Øvretveit ; 4. A trilogy for health care improvement : quality, productivity and innovation / Helen Bevan
- pt. 2. Human resource management: 5. The contribution of 'best-practice' HR management to better organisational performance / Sandra G. Leggat ; 6. Fostering creativity in health care : health care workers as agents of creativity / March L. To, Neal M. Ashkanasy and Cynthia D. Fisher ; 7. Hospital restructuring and downsizing : déjà vu all over again / Ronald J. Burke ; 8. A better model of managing sickness absence / Hugh Flanagan ... [et al.]
- pt. 3. Better leadership, better organisational performance: 9. Nurse leaders : partners in health care leadership / Margaret M. Hopkins and Deborah A. O'Neil ; 10. Enhancing medical leadership and engagement : impact upon organisational performance / Peter Spurgeon ; 11. A review of quality improvement in health care and recommendations for the future / Amy L. Grove and James O. Meredith ; 12. Leadership across complex systems and boundaries / Jean Hartley
- pt. 4. Managing staff better: 13. Workforce engagement and organisational performance / Astrid M. Richardsen and Ronald J. Burke ; 14. Organisational and health effects of workplace empowerment in health care settings / Heather Laschinger ; 15. Stress amongst health care professionals and what can be done / Cary L. Cooper ; 16. A safer clinical systems approach / Matthew Cooke, Steve Cross and Peter Spurgeon
- pt. 5. Concluding comments: 17. Concluding comments / Peter Spurgeon, Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper.