Many major incidents have significant impacts on people's health, placing additional demands on health-care organisations. The main aim of this paper is to suggest a prioritised agenda for organisational and management research on emergency planning and management relevant to U.K. health care, based on a scoping study. A secondary aim is to enhance knowledge and understanding of health-care eme...

In today’s highly challenging business environment, an innovative and systemic approach is imperative to survival and growth. Organisational integration and technological integration, are often seen as a catalyst of change that could lead to significant improvements in organisations. The levels of improvement in inter and intra firm integration should arise from a detailed understanding and dev...

Few studies have focused on the individual and organisational factors that predict motivation to learn when training is mandatory. This study addressed the overall predictability of motivation to learn from a range of individual and organisational variables as well as whether organisational commitment mediated the relationships between the other predictors and motivation to learn. Only organisa...

OBJECTIVE The study had two specific objectives: (1) To analyse change in a survey measure of organisational patient safety climate and capability (SCC) resulting from participation in the UK Safer Patients Initiative and (2) To investigate the role of a range of programme and contextual factors in predicting change in SCC scores. DESIGN Single group longitudinal design with repeated measurem...

The success of organisational change processes depends on a number of factors. Traditional organisational change research has been predominantly concerned with social and human issues. Nevertheless, due to the ever increasing complexity of organisations and their IT-Systems, today good information on the internal structures are indispensable for the required swift changes. Corporate conceptual ...

A prevalent claim is that we are in a knowledge economy. An increasingly influential argument is that the division of labour is becoming complex and firms can be viewed as networks of knowledge nodes, that is, sets of interacting individuals with key skills and competencies. Firms competitive advantage relies in their ability to enact intellectual production processes that require bridging tale...

We investigate ‘employment incongruity’ among skilled migrants from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries – that is, whether the jobs they achieve in Australia match expect to be doing after arrive or not along with factors shape outcomes gendered dimensions of these outcomes. analyse data collected qualitative interviews 15 females eight male MENA migrants, a median seven years arr...

This research explores the formation and evolution of organisational architecture in megaprojects. We introduce Project System Organisation (PSO) conceptual framework, which charts megaproject organising, from intra- to inter-organisational design, ultimately system-level design. The PSO identifies multiple evolving actors across multi-level multi-layer system defines four roles often used labe...

Background Many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. Empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

AIM It is everyday news that we need more intensive care unit (ICU) beds, thus effective use of existing resources is imperative. The aim of this literature review was to critically analyse current literature on how organizational factors, individual factors and teamwork factors influence the ICU discharge process. A better understanding of discharge practices has the potential to ultimately in...