Employee resistance to change at State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) is a visible phenomenon in both local and global contexts. Though it’s an expanding significant area, also heavily understudied, depicting literature empirical gaps the said scope. Under qualitative approach, case study strategy has been used explore employee Healthway General Hospital (HGH). In light of context, this emphasizes re...

Employee Trust and Workplace Performance We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then analyse matched workplace and employee data in order to asc...

In 2005, employees and physicians of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario were surveyed about their experiences with and receipt of the 2003-2004 influenza vaccination. With a 29% response rate, 91% of respondents stated that they had received the 2003-2004 vaccine, and physicians were the most likely to have done so (97.2%). Using logistic regression, the only factor significantly predic...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new trend of business governance. Few research studies on CSR published in Taiwanese academia, especially for medical settings, we were interested in probing the relationship of CSR and financial performance in medical settings in Taiwan. The results illustrate that: (1) a time delay effect exists with a lag between CSR effort and its performan...

PURPOSE This is a national study which aims to determine the average waiting time in Malaysian public hospitals and to gauge the level of patient satisfaction with the waiting time. It also aims to identify factors perceived by healthcare providers which contribute to the waiting time problem. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Self-administered questionnaires were the main method of data collection...

BACKGROUND Health care workers (HCWs) can acquire and transmit influenza to their patients and coworkers, even while asymptomatic. The U.S. Healthy People 2010 initiative set a national goal of 60% coverage for HCW influenza vaccination by 2010. Yet vaccination rates remain low. In the 2008-2009 influenza season, Flushing Hospital Medical Center (FHMC; New York) adopted a "push/pull" point-of-d...

Job satisfaction is very important because most of people spend a major portion of their life in the working place. Moreover a job satisfaction has its impact, on the general life of the employee, as a contented and human being. A highly satisfied worker has both better physical and mental wellbeing. Though it is a debatable point as to which one is the cause and which the effective is but they...

This study is aimed at determining the effect of managerial human factors on business performance of hospital services. For this purpose a neural networks-based model is employed. A checklist tool for evaluation of human factors from management viewpoint was applied. It consists of input checklist items like role of hospital top management, employee relations, process management and data collec...

This article analyzes the relationship between organizational change and employee health. It illuminates the potentially negative outcomes of change at the level of the employee. In addition, it relates to the ongoing debate over how employees react to and respond to organizational change. I hypothesize that change increases the risk of negative stress, and I test this hypothesis using a compre...