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Sensemaking of change in the managed care era: a case of hospital‐based nurses
Apker, Julie - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 17 (2004) 2, pp. 211-227
This study explores how nurses working in a large, metropolitan hospital make sense of the managed care change … grounded in the caregiving role. Study results show that nurses view managed care with ambiguity. Nurses understand managed … care era. Although nurses view collaboration and professional empowerment as positive outcomes of managed care, further …
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Want to, need to, ought to: employee commitment to organizational change
Turner Parish, Janet; Cadwallader, Susan; Busch, Paul - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 1, pp. 32-52
Purpose – This study aims to focus on the role of employee commitment in the success of organizational change initiatives. The authors seek to propose and test a model that delineates antecedents and consequences of affective, normative, and continuance commitment to organizational change....
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Building leadership capacity for change as the norm
Fleming, Kerrie (ed.); Millar, Carla (ed.) - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042833
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Change in healthcare: the impact on NHS managers
Kelliher, Clare; Parry, Emma - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 4, pp. 591-602
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of new public management (NPM) style practices on public sector managers and in particular on the stress experienced by managers in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Although, ostensibly NPM liberates public sector managers to...
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Speaking up when feeling job insecure
Schreurs, Bert; Guenter, Hannes; Jawahar, I.M. 'Jim'; … - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 6, pp. 1107-1128
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which felt job insecurity facilitates or hinders employees from raising voice (i.e. speaking up to their authority). The authors introduce punishment and reward sensitivity, two constructs of reinforcement sensitivity theory,...
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The Japanese Approach to Quality Management – A Human Resource Perspective
Zhuang Yang, John - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 44-64
Unlike the traditional approach to quality control that is administered by quality inspectors at the end of the production process, the Japanese approach to quality control focuses on building superior quality in the production process through the development of team‐oriented human resource...
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Vocation to profession
Hallam, Julia - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 15 (2002) 1, pp. 35-47
The public image of a profession is an important barometer of the group’s status in society. Media images play a key role in this respect, projecting the ideas and values of the group and negotiating shifts in public perception of their identity. This paper focuses on two periods in Britain...
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Stories for executive development
Greco, Janet - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 9 (1996) 5, pp. 43-74
Presents the results of research conducted with five groups of nurse executives from the Johnson & Johnson/Wharton Fellows Program in Nurse Management. Groups at the 1994 and 1995 sessions conducted collaborative story enquiries into their own development as organizational politicians. In...
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Appropriation process of dirty work: focus on health executives in a medical services restructuring
Urasadettan, Jennifer; Burellier, Franck - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 30 (2017) 4, pp. 569-583
French hospital. Findings The results showed that the appropriation of dirty work first needs the acceptance of task shifting …
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Balanced or unbalanced routines: the case of two routines dynamics in a French hospital
Habib, Johanna; Krohmer, Cathy - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 29 (2016) 4, pp. 508-528
absence management in two departments of a French hospital. Findings – The results show contrasting dynamics in the studied … imbalance situation leads to the conservation of defective routine. The research underlines also that, in the hospital context …
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