Table of contents - Special Issue: Culture and climate in health organisations
Guest Editors: P. Hyde, J. Braithwaite, A. Fitzgerald
Understanding and improving patient safety: the psychological, social and cultural dimensions
John ØvretveitThis paper aims to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of how organisation behaviour research (OBR) helps to understand and resolve patient safety problems in…
Analysing the “field” of patient safety employing Bourdieusian technologies
Joanne F. Travaglia, Jeffrey BraithwaiteThis paper aims to analyse the development of patient safety as a field within which patients are peripheral stakeholders.
Positively deviant networks: what are they and why do we need them?
Ann Casebeer, Janice Popp, Cathie ScottThis paper aims to report “positively deviant” experiences of three public sector networks seeking to enhance organizational and system level capacities. It is the authors' thesis…
Building knowledge integration systems for evidence‐informed decisions
Allan Best, Jennifer L. Terpstra, Gregg Moor, Barbara Riley, Cameron D. Norman, Russell E. GlasgowThis paper aims to describe methods and models designed to build a comprehensive, integrative framework to guide the research to policy and practice cycle in health care.
Organisational professional conflict and hybrid clinician managers: The effects of dual roles in Australian health care organisations
Louise Kippist, Anneke FitzgeraldThis article aims to examine tensions between hybrid clinician managers' professional values and health care organisations' management objectives.
Critical pedagogy in a health service management development programme: Can “critically thinking” managers change the NHS management culture?
Sally SambrookManagement development programmes available to NHS managers focus on a performance orientation and sustain a culture of managerial and medical domination. This paper aims to…
