Governing Boards and Profound Organizational Change in Hospitals

Governing boards and profound organizational change in hospitals.

Over the past decade the importance of governing boards as policy-making setting and oversight units within organizations has increased dramatically. Although this is true for both corporate- and private-sector organizations (Bacon and Brown 1977; Gelman 1988), it is particularly relevant to the health sector. Hospital governing boards, long considered inconsequential in hospital management, ha...

Public Boards Governing Corporately

Consequences of organizational change in U.S. hospitals.

Organizational change has become commonplace among U.S. hospitals. Empirical investigations of the consequences of organizational change, however, are relatively scarce, and findings of existing studies are inconsistent. In this article, the authors review the rationale and performance implications of hospital organizational change in three areas: (1) the development of new multi-institutional ...

Hospital governing boards: a study of their effectiveness in relation to organizational performance.

This article describes the development and evolution of governing boards and summarizes critical findings from a research study on hospital governing boards. The purpose of the research was to examine factors that measure performance of governing boards and the relationship of governing board effectiveness to the organizational performance of hospitals. Board leaders from 64 nonprofit hospitals...

PROSPECTING FOR PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES TO EXAMINE LINKS BETWEEN GOVERNING BOARDS’ PERFORMANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organizational Governance