Healthcare performance and organizational culture

Healthcare performance and organizational culture

BACE1 is the protease responsible for the production of amyloid-b peptides that accumulate in the brain of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. BACE1 expression is regulated at the transcriptional, as well as post-transcriptional level. Very high BACE1 mRNA levels have been observed in pancreas, but the protein and activity were found mainly in brain. An up-regulation of the protein has been desc...

Organizational Culture and Performance

* Martinez: Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 (e-mail: [email protected]). Beaulieu: Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]). Gibbons: MIT, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (e-mail: [email protected]). Pronovost: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins ...

Organizational culture and performance measurement systems

The aim of this study is to articulate and test the relationships between organizational culture and two attributes of performance measurement systems (PMS), namely the diversity of measurement and the nature of use. The results of a survey reveal that top managers of firms reflecting a flexibility dominant type tend to use more performance measures and to use PMS to focus organizational attent...

Capability , Organizational Culture , and Export Performance

Measurement of organizational culture and climate in healthcare.

Although there is increasing interest in the relationship between organizational constructs and health services outcomes, information on the reliability and validity of the instruments measuring these constructs is sparse. Twelve instruments were identified that may have applicability in measuring organizational constructs in the healthcare setting. The authors describe and characterize these i...