Organisational Behaviour in Health Care: The Research Agenda

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