People, organizational culture and change – also known as e-learning fundamentals

Organizational Change and Learning

July 2006 Volume 32 Number 7 As documented in the Institute of Medicine’s two widely cited reports, health care has serious patient safety and quality problems. Care processes are poorly designed and characterized by unnecessary duplication of services and long waiting times and delays. As a result, health care is not meeting patients’ needs—and needs to be redesigned. In this article we descri...

Organizational Mindfulness: Safety Culture and Change Management

Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Change

• Set against the baseline perspective that health care organizations are complex adaptive systems whose future states are unpredictable and unknowable, the purpose of this chapter is to introduce a perspective of health care organizations that borrows from quantum theory and chaos theory to describe innovation and change not as rational, controllable processes, but instead as complex, uncertai...

Patients-people-place: developing a framework for researching organizational culture during health service redesign and change

BACKGROUND Organizational culture is considered by policy-makers, clinicians, health service managers and researchers to be a crucial mediator in the success of implementing health service redesign. It is a challenge to find a method to capture cultural issues that is both theoretically robust and meaningful to those working in the organizations concerned. As part of a comparative study of serv...

Verifying the Effects of Leadership Styles upon Organizational Performance: Using Organizational Culture and Organizational Change as Dual-factor Distal Mediators

The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of leadership style in listed IC design companies in Taiwan on organizational performances, with organizational culture and organizational change as the mediators. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted on directors and the above levels of supervisors in these companies with simple random sampling. The overall model’s goodness-of-fit effect...