This paper investigates employee turnover, using data from a recent study of 352 NHS nurse leavers. We explore individual decisions to quit in a context characterised by change, and suggest a mechanism whereby organisational and contextual change can prompt individual leaving decisions. We develop and test hypotheses designed to shed light on the links between organisational change and individu...

Precis: Research on organisational change has rarely treated the nature of the change as a variable. This can be done by differentiating changes in terms of complexity. By treating both change complexity and change strategy as variables a more elaborate model of the change process can be established, forming a link between the study of change and other branches of organisation theory. considera...

Organisational learning is a method of successfully dealing with continuous change. Emotional aspects of change, however, are not addressed in any detail. In this article, I explore the four branches of emotional intelligence, emotional awareness, emotional facilitation, emotional knowledge and emotional regulation to identify the links between organisational learning and emotional intelligence...

BACKGROUND Increasing demands on general practice to manage chronic disease may warrant organisational change at the practice level. Staff's readiness for organisational change can act as a facilitator or barrier to implementing interventions aimed at organisational change. OBJECTIVES To explore general practice staff readiness for organisational change and its association with staff and prac...