Background & Aims of the Study: Organizational health in hospitals can reduce medical errors, increase the quality of care, improve organizational learning, and enhance collaboration, innovation, and cost reduction. The remarkable success of successful organizations lies in organizational culture and employee b...

the aim of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and the new measure to evaluate the organization' performance. powerful organizational culture has significantly related with organizational’ performance and it is going to be expected to create value in the organization. but, when the cultural values support organizational adaptation to environmental, the...

* Martinez: Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 (e-mail: [email protected]). Beaulieu: Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]). Gibbons: MIT, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (e-mail: [email protected]). Pronovost: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins ...

Organizational climate and organizational culture theory and research are reviewed. The article is first framed with definitions of the constructs, and preliminary thoughts on their interrelationships are noted. Organizational climate is briefly defined as the meanings people attach to interrelated bundles of experiences they have at work. Organizational culture is briefly defined as the basic ...

background quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. clinical governance (cg) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. this study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...

BACKGROUND Administrative evidence based practices (A-EBPs) are agency level structures and activities positively associated with performance measures (e.g., achieving core public health functions, carrying out evidence-based interventions). The objectives of this study were to examine the contextual conditions and explore differences in local health department (LHD) characteristics that influe...

THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE of palliative care can be stratified into three value levels1: (1) the “surface level values” which can be easily discerned but hard to understand; (2) beneath the surface level are the “espoused values” which are conscious strategies, goals and philosophies; and (3) finally, the inner “core values” which are the basic underlying assumptions and premises of palliative...

“..only a fool perseveres in error.” Cicero. Humans will break the most advanced technological devices and override safety and security systems if they are given the latitude. Within the workplace, the operator may be just one of several factors in causing accidents or making risky decisions. Other variables considered for their involvement in the negative and often catastrophic outcomes includ...