Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 26 Issue 5

The impact of team empowerment on proactivity: The moderating roles of leader's emotional intelligence and proactive personality

Hakan Erkutlu, Jamel Chafra

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between team empowerment and team proactivity and the moderating roles of a team leader's emotional intelligence (EI…

Leadership, clinician managers and a thing called “hybridity”

Liz Fulop

In many countries leadership theories and leadership development programs in healthcare have been dominated by individualistic and heroic approaches that focus on developing the…

Members' sensemaking in a multi‐professional team

Airi Rovio‐Johansson, Roy Liff

The aim of this study is to investigate sensemaking as interaction among team members in a multi‐professional team setting in a new public management context at a Swedish Child…

Clinical managers in the primary care sector: do the benefits stack up?

Chris O'Riordan, Aoife McDermott

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and value of the clinical management role undertaken by primary care doctors in Ireland. To date, a majority of research has…

Strategic groups and outcomes in the US hospice care industry

Eric G. Kirby

As a result of a drastic increase in new patients, two major shifts are occurring in the US hospice care industry: an increase in the number of for‐profit providers, and hospices…

Using evaluation theory in priority setting and resource allocation

Neale Smith, Craig Mitton, Evelyn Cornelissen, Jennifer Gibson, Stuart Peacock

Public sector interest in methods for priority setting and program or policy evaluation has grown considerably over the last several decades, given increased expectations for…