Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 31 Issue 4

They did not start the fire: reviewing and resolving the issue of physician stress and burnout

Julie Christine Babyar

Physician stress and burnout is a serious and common concern in healthcare, with over half of physicians in the USA meeting at least one criterion for burnout. The paper aims to…

Management challenges in British Columbia’s healthcare system

Howard Peter Greenwald

The purpose of this paper is to identify the operational and management challenges in a globally budgeted, regionalized healthcare system and their implications for public service.

Are we nearly there yet? A study of the English National Health Service as professional bureaucracies

Helen Dickinson, Iain Snelling, Chris Ham, Peter C. Spurgeon

The purpose of this paper is to explore issues of medical engagement in the management and leadership of health services in the English National Health Service (NHS). The…

A value-based taxonomy of improvement approaches in healthcare

Christian Colldén, Ida Gremyr, Andreas Hellström, Daniella Sporraeus

The concept of value is becoming increasingly fashionable in healthcare and various improvement approaches (IAs) have been introduced with the aim of increasing value. The purpose…

Bricks-and-mortar and patient safety culture

Susan Brandis, Stephanie Schleimer, John Rice

Building a new hospital requires a major investment in capital infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of bricks-and-mortar on patient safety…

“That was a good shift”: Interprofessional collaboration and junior doctors’ learning and development on overtime shifts

Anya Johnson, Helena Nguyen, Sharon K. Parker, Markus Groth, Steven Coote, Lin Perry, Bruce Way

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a boundary spanning, interprofessional collaboration between advanced practice nurses (APNs) and junior doctors to support junior…

Work motivation among healthcare professionals: A study of well-functioning primary healthcare centers in Sweden

Sofia Kjellström, Gunilla Avby, Kristina Areskoug-Josefsson, Boel Andersson Gäre, Monica Andersson Bäck

The purpose of this paper is to explore work motivation among professionals at well-functioning primary healthcare centers subject to a national healthcare reform which include…

Workforce flexibility – in defence of professional healthcare work

Sarah Wise, Christine Duffield, Margaret Fry, Michael Roche

The desirability of having a more flexible workforce is emphasised across many health systems yet this goal is as ambiguous as it is ubiquitous. In the absence of empirical…

Emerging hybridity: comparing UK healthcare regulatory arrangements

Joy Furnival, Kieran Walshe, Ruth Boaden

Healthcare regulation is one means to address quality challenges in healthcare systems and is carried out using compliance, deterrence and/or improvement approaches. The four…