...Mai-Stiina Lampinen; Anne Irmeli Konu; Tarja Kettunen; Elina Annikki Suutala Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify factors that foster or prevent sense of belonging among frontline and middle managers in social and health-care services in Finland. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mai-Stiina Lampinen; ElinaAnnikki Suutala; Anne Irmeli Konu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how factors associated with a sense of community in the workplace are connected with organizational commitment and the quality of services among frontline managers and middle managers...

...Mai-Stiina Lampinen; Elina Annikki Viitanen; Anne Irmeli Konu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how the factors associated with sense of community at work are connected with job satisfaction among the front-line managers and middle managers in social and health-care services...

...Eric D. Carlström Purpose This article aims to examine middle managers in health care and how their role has changed in times of fiscal constraints. It seeks to focus particularly on how cost savings influence the position of middle managers in the organisation between governance and advocacy...

... and Neuman, 2000). Elina Viitanen can be contacted at: elina.viitanen @uta.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Leadership Social care Middle managers Finland 1. structure (flexibility vs stability); 2. and focus (internal vs external...

...Elsmari Bergin Purpose The call for cuts and streamlining in health organizations has resulted in middle managers having more responsibilities. The main aim of this study is to explore and understand the way middle managers in Swedish health care organizations handle multiple obligations...

... be contacted at: anne.konu@uta.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Shared leadership Middle managers Health services Social services Finland The post‐industrial management framework is typically characterized in terms of its overall concept of people, shared leadership, value...

.... Originality/value This study identifies components of good personnel management from literature and uses them as the basis for analysing the data. Lauri Kokkinen can be contacted at: lauri.kokkinen@uta.fi Personnel administration Leadership Social care Health services Middle managers Finland...