Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 34 Issue 1

The Chief Registrar role in the UK: leadership capacity and development of hybrid leaders

Iain Snelling, Mark Exworthy, Shahin Ghezelayagh

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the first cohort of the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) Chief Registrar programme in 2016/7. Chief Registrars provide medical leadership…

Entrepreneurial orientation and burnout among healthcare professionals

Claudine Kearney, Padraic Dunne, William J. Wales

Among healthcare professionals, burnout is one of the key challenges affecting organizational outcomes, employee productivity and quality of care. The knowledge of burnout and its…

The importance of keeping employees satisfied: Three prevailing factors for health organization leaders

Céline Blanchard, Amanda Baker, Dominique Perreault, Lisa Mask, Maxime Tremblay

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between three antecedents, namely, work self-determination, managerial support (i.e. interpersonal motivation style…

Working in social prescribing services: a qualitative study

Amy Beardmore

Social prescribing (SP) is an emerging area of public health that has the potential to alleviate pressure on primary care by offering non-clinical solutions to health problems…

“There is total silence here” Ethical competence and inter-organizational learning in healthcare governance

Erica Falkenström, Anna T. Höglund

The purpose of this paper is to analyse ethical competence related to healthcare governance and management tasks at the county/regional level in Sweden. The paper also discusses…

Shared leadership in a medical division of an academic hospital

Fran Ellen Cogen, Priya Vaidyanathan

The purpose of this paper is to describe a successful model of shared medical leadership within an academic division of an urban children’s hospital.

Fiddling while Rome burns? Conducting research with healthcare staff when the NHS is in crisis

Laura Sheard, Rosemary Peacock

Health research in the UK is being impeded by a stretched NHS system. The purpose of this paper is to use the Great Fire of Rome as an allegory to understand the difficulties…

Middle managers’ roles after a hospital merger

Elsa Solstad, Inger Johanne Petterson

Mergers are important and challenging elements in hospital reforms. The authors study the social aspects of management and the roles of middle managers in the aftermath of a…