..., and participant observation notes (Richards, 2006). Gender Women Leadership Hospital management Management development Grounded theory Academic medicine in the USA is searching for ways to “reframe the narrative” of diversity and develop a “strategic diversity leadership” approach for selecting...

...Helen Dickinson; Ross Millar; Michael West; Paul Smith; Libby Hampson; Jonathan Scott; Karen Bower Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the introduction of innovation as part of a management development programme at a primary care organisation, a legal form known as a Primary Care Trust...

...P. Hyde; J. Braithwaite; A. Fitzgerald; Sally Sambrook Purpose Management development programmes available to NHS managers focus on a performance orientation and sustain a culture of managerial and medical domination. This paper aims to question whether it is possible to consider NHS management...

... NHS Trusts. Findings The paper finds some of the different discourses used by different managers, including those with a nursing background and those without. It examines how they talk about HRD, and also explores their own (management) development and the impact this has had on their sense...

... to improve quality and safety. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leaders Managers Quality Safety Management development It is no longer enough to run a service – managers need to continually improve their services. This is one of the changes in management which follows from more...

... be addressed; if not elements of dysfunctional nurse leadership will always remain (Donnelly 2003, p. 66) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Leadership Nursing Management development In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of leadership...

... Change management Management development National Health Service Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler (Albert Einstein). This paper is concerned with the problem of finding ways for academics to talk to NHS managers about explicit management knowledge in a way...

... its ideology. For this paper we have begun to analyse the case of nurse manager education. This provides a number of interesting particularities as well as providing many similarities with other competence‐based management development programmes. In terms of similarity, the nurses are all students...

... skills, once they have reached consultant level. In contrast, this paper evaluates a new management development initiative, designed to involve doctors and managers at an earlier career stage, and on an inter‐disciplinary basis. Interview and questionnaire responses indicate that specialist registrars...

...Graeme Currie Illustrates the failure of a competence‐based management development programme in a hospital trust to achieve organisational objectives. The approach and content of the management development programme is resisted by participants despite the facilitators drawing on management theory...

... appropriate management development interventions for the “target” groups, to equip them with the missing knowledge and skills. One illustration of this approach is the work of Gatrell and White[ 32 ] whose research identifies a “management model for doctors” with five “broad clusters of capabilities...

...John Loan‐Clarke Discusses the impact of a self‐governing hospital trust’s accredited management development programme designed for health‐care professionals responsible for managing natural clinical groups. The programme was a dual qualification: a level 5 national vocational qualification...

... Management Charter Initiative Management development National Health Service Skills Many doctors employed in the National Health Service (NHS) regard “management” as an alien process, which acts to the detriment of good health care. Others have embraced managerial activity in their everyday work...

...Richard Walker; Philip Morgan Reports the results of a survey of 209 senior registrars and 269 consultants throughout Wales to identify the management development needs of doctors and ascertain their views of the value and utility of current management development course offerings in Wales. Finds...

... the clinical strategy of the trust. Table I. Factors enabling or disabling clinical management (based on McKinsey 7S Cultural Web) © MCB UP Limited 1995 Management development National Health Service Organizational development Strategic planning United Kingdom “Do...

...Sue Balderson; Una MacFadyen Having recognized the importance and inevitability of doctors becoming involved in the management of National Health Service (NHS) Trusts, the Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust initiated its own in‐house management development programme for senior medical staff...

... Management development National Health Service Involving doctors in management has been an aim of the four structural reorganizations of the NHS, as well as numerous managerial initiatives. Most research‐based studies up until 1993 conclude that managerial initiatives have left the power of doctors...

...Angelo Stefanini Discusses the lessons learned from a two‐year, WHO/DANIDA funded health management development project at district level in Zambia. The project was implemented by the Zambian Ministry of Health whose active interest and political commitment ensured the continuation and the country...

...” questionnaires. Most consultants emerged from the courses feeling more confident to handle their current and prospective management roles and the tangible returns to the organization suggest that advanced management development should continue for consultants being appointed to senior management roles...

... Doctors Management development Methodology National Health Service Research Training Journal of Management in Medicine 7,4 52 Researching the Doctor Manager Choosing Valid Methodologies Annabelle Mark Middlesex University, Hendon Journal of Management in Medicine, Vol. 7 No. 4. 1993, p. 52-59. ©...