Our objective was to implement a directorate research strategy to improve and grow clinical academic capacity and capability and ensure that the organisational systems and processes enabled clinical staff and managers to increase grant capture, undertake clinically relevant research, including the adoption of NIHR portfolio sites and established a culture in which research was an accepted part ...

Aim: This paper provides information on the reliability and validity of direct and indirect employee questionnaires developed in a study of patient safety that examines the impact of human engineering intervention on both direct and indirect employees. Method: This paper describes the employee questionnaires, which survey various elements of the work system (e.g., heavy workload, inexperience/l...

Clinician managers need relevant, current and integrated information to assist them in their managerial roles. This study examined the management information needs of clinician managers (doctors, nurses, data managers and a business manager) from a metropolitan teaching hospital. A purposive sample, of 15 clinician managers and five Information Unit staff who provide the clinicians with managem...

The objective of the study was to examine how surface acting is used by middle managers to manage the emotional displays of executives in the health industry in Australia. The research was located within a social constructionist epistemology and the theoretical construct used to structure the study was surface acting. Data was generated through qualitative interviews with 49 middle managers. An...

The day-to-day management of human resources that occurs during the development and maintenance process of software systems is a responsibility of project leads and managers, who usually perform such a task empirically. Moreover, rotation and distributed software development affect the establishment of long-term relationships between project managers and software projects, as well as between pr...

There is a lack of reliable information about the size and structure of the independent care home workforce. Estimates suggest 72,000 employed by the local authority and 390,000 in the independent sector (private and voluntary). Of the 390,000 staff (including support staff) working in the independent sector an estimated 47,000 are managers and supervisors, 288,000 are care workers and 36,000 a...

We examine how a firm’s changing environment and the information constraints of its managers interact as determinants of the size of the firm’s administration. Following the recent decentralized information processing literature, we assume that it takes individual managers time to process information. A consequence is that it takes time for a firm to aggregate information, even when this task i...

By adopting the theory of planned behavior, this study tried to predict human resources managers' (N = 79) intentions toward unstructured and structured interview techniques. Managers evaluated case descriptions of both techniques and were interviewed about their own practices. The data revealed stronger intentions toward unstructured interviewing than toward structured interviewing, which was ...

OBJECTIVES--To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of risk of occupational HIV transmission in hospital in relation to existing guidelines. DESIGN--Cross sectional anonymous questionnaire survey of all occupational groups. SETTING--One large inner city teaching hospital. SUBJECTS--All 1530 staff working in the hospital in October 1991 and 22 managers. MAIN MEASURES--Knowledge of sa...

To examine the reliability of adverse incident-reporting systems we carried out a retrospective review of the mother and baby case notes from a series of 250 deliveries in each of two London obstetric units. Notes were screened for the presence of adverse incidents defined by lists of incidents to be reported in accordance with unit protocols. We assessed the percentage of adverse incidents rep...