... the understanding of the item and its relationship to the underlying construct being measured. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Coping Health care Hospitals Organizations Organizational change Stress Workers today constantly face change ‐ in the work they do, how they perform the work, where the work...

... education, change should be embraced and viewed positively, and all opportunities for research, collaboration and professional development should be grasped. Education Higher education Integration Midwives Nurses Organizational change Change has become one of the permanent features of our...

... 1998 Leadership Organizational change Self‐assessment On 1 April 1993 Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Holme Valley Memorial Hospital and St Luke’s Hospital became Huddersfield Healthcare NHS Trust. Situated within the Northern and Yorkshire region, the Trust was the main provider...

... that she would simply be a replacement for the previous college administrator rather than operate as a general manager with significant responsibilities for operational, strategic and financial decision making. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Corporate culture Education Nurses Organizational change...

... Service Organizational change Pay structures Trusts © MCB UP Limited 1997 ...

...George E. Kempton Describes a major programme of change embarked on by Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, UK in 1992 to deliver care to its patients more effectively and efficiently. Reports on the training strategy which was required to facilitate this important organizational change and establish...

... that change is continuous and requires continual monitoring and review. Ends by stating that change from bureaucracy to enterprise may be difficult but can be achieved successfully. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Development National Health Service Organizational change Training Change...

.... When an accurate standard has been developed and the department is unable to meet it, the cause must be found before improvement can begin. © Company 1995 Health care Human resource management Organizational change Productivity management USA Each patient in a hospital receives...

... and value for money, with a strong element of organizational loyalty and ownership of the end product. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Ambulance services National Health Service Organizational change The average public perception of the ambulance service is that it provides transport to hospital...

... and attitudes, change them and hence modify their behaviour at work. A number of basic assumptions underly this programmatic approach: For some 25 years the NHS has been absorbed (some would say obsessed!) with how to manage organizational change effectively. From early beginnings such as Revans′ Hospital...

... strategic learning design (see Table I). © MCB UP Limited 1994 Health care Higher education Human resource development Management development National Health Service Organizational change Self‐managed learning Skills This article is the first in a series of three which...

...John Lloyd Many public sector managers are facing fundamental organizational changes, as government macro reforms in health and education reach down to the managers′ agenda. Cultural changes and a new set of values are demanding new management approaches and skills as managers seek to embrace...

.... There is no doubt that what started out as a challenging pay and grading exercise evolved quickly into a major organizational change and development project. In relation to the characteristics of high performing health‐care organizations referred to in our previous article, what can we conclude about...

... embrace both of them. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Customer-oriented performance measures Human resource management National Health Service Organizational change Process planning Service quality Standards Signposts assist change, and icons illuminate the path. If we are to realize...

... pace with developments in the IT field. The NHS′s share of the market in public sector facilities management grew from 39 per cent to 56 per cent in 1991[ 3 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Health care Internal markets Medical professions National Health Service Organizational change...

... in their task and begin the process of building a strategy group. Despite protestations from others the groups were changed. Conflict resolution Doctors General practice Human resource management Management development Medical professions Organizational change Partnering Strategic planning Team...

... and work of others researching and practising in primary care. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Doctors General practice Leadership Management development Managers National Health Service Service Organizational change Strategic planning Values Four years on from the publication...

...‐term investment as the labour market tightens and skilled staff become scarcer in the later 1990s. Alienation Ethics Human resource management Industrial relations Internal markets Management attitudes National Health Service Organizational change Performance appraisal Taylorism © MCB...

... professions National Health Service Organizational change Training Women When someone threw a stone called medical management into the pool of health care organizations in the United Kingdom the implications for the ripples which would flow from it were not known. Some are only just becoming...

... and management services to the core departments. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Accountability Contracts Human resource development National Health Service Organizational change Performance appraisal Service levels One of the outcomes of the reformed NHS is the extension of contracting through...