Looking into a future marked by intense competition for talent, growing numbers of employers are striving to create "workplaces of choice." Yet, despite the consensus that health human resources are a vital piece of the healthcare reform puzzle, few health service organizations have developed comprehensive strategies to address work environment issues. The cumulative impact of years of cost-cut...

This essay explores how three behavior-shaping systems legal, market, and moral influence the fundamental tasks of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including organizational goal-setting; motivation of participants; and deterring and reducing abuse of power. After identifying key features of these normative systems and their characteristic differences, the author argues that the infl...

Many countries in Europe, which have significant pharmaceutical industries, recently have embarked on reforms in the organization of their health care systems and methods of regulating the pharmaceutical market. This paper describes the different systems in major European countries and the changes taking place. Although it is too early to make final judgment on the impact of these changes, it i...

E-business process modeling is an important factor in developing schemes of e-business. In order to develop schemes of ebusiness in or among firms, they have to reform their business process and information systems, considering changes that enable the companies to achieve new value. In this paper, the authors overview related works on developing e-business schemes, consider issues concerning e-...

In response to calls for medical education reform we designed and implemented a new Longitudinal Ambulatory Clerkship (LAC) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The LAC provides first-year medical students with their initial exposure to clinical medicine during a 12-month experience consisting of weekly clinic sessions with a practicing physician-mentor (preceptor) and longitudin...

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types of organizations. Com...

The most fundamental organizational similarities in teaching job is classroom instruction. We can improve the reform of classrooms and caliber China based on study analysis to take advantage strengths weaknesses by analyzing comparing various characteristics teachers students learning two countries from perspective cultural differences.

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...