The English further education (FE) sector caters for young learners who are regularly defined as at risk due to a range of economic and social challenges, transitions from youth adulthood become more protracted, inequalities amongst people between generations persist deepen. At time when policy places increasing responsibilities on governors leaders balance college performance cost‐effectivenes...

In response to legal and accreditation mandates as well as pressures from purchasers and consumers for quality improvement, hospital governing boards seek to improve their oversight of quality of care by adopting various practices. Based on a previous survey of hospital presidents/chief executive officers, this study examines differences in hospital quality performance associated with the adopt...

Contemporary interest in issues of corporate governance within the business sector has been mirrored worldwide by similar interest in matters of governance in the voluntary and sports sectors where it has been evidenced by major changes to organisational structures, in general, and constitutional structures and governance/management relationships, in particular. This paper signals the use of Be...

INTRODUCTION Despite common assumptions that doctors are well placed to lead hospitals and healthcare organisations, the peer-reviewed literature contains little evidence on the performance of doctors in leadership roles in comparison with that of non-medical managers. OBJECTIVES To determine whether there is an association between the leader's medical background and management performance in...

Criteria-driven policy analysis resources from the University of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Studies Group (PPSG) evaluated drug control and professional practice policies that can influence use of controlled substances for pain management, and documented changes over a 3-year period. Additional research was needed to determine the extent of change, the types of messages contained in the policies...

12 Reflections ■ Volume 6, Number 4/5 reflections.solonline.org Are Healthcare Organizations LearningDisabled? In our work, my colleagues and I have found that the organizational dynamics in hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations tend to include an overemphasis on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, blame, and other fear-based dynamics. Although it is true that...

Established by Federal law in 1978, the ESRD Networks are regional nonprofit organizations that contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide quality oversight services to chronic dialysis facilities. The governing bodies and medical review boards of each network are populated by volunteer professionals and patients. The medical review boards drive the quality agenda f...

Motivated by the managers’ social norms and religious orientations, this study offers new avenues for investigating effect of internal governance in curbing earnings management. We comparatively assess whether mechanisms (i.e., boards directors audit committees) employed Islamic conventional banks could differentially mitigate take a step further to association under extended mechanism (i.e. Sh...