Management-By-Walking-Around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on organizational outcomes. This paper examines an improvement program based on MBWA in which senior managers observe frontline employees, solicit ideas about improvement opportunities, and work w...

Evidence for effective falls prevention interventions in acute wards is limited. One reason for this may be suboptimal program implementation. This study aimed to identify perceived barriers and enablers of the implementation of the 6-PACK falls prevention program to inform the implementation in a randomised controlled trial. Strategies to optimise successful implementation of 6-PACK were also ...

Background Previous research supports the claim that managers are vital players in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), yet little is known about interventions aiming to develop managers’ leadership in facilitating implementation. In this pilot study, process evaluation was employed to study the feasibility and usefulness of a leadership intervention by exploring the inter...

Objectives To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate how managers of primary care trusts are attempting to deal with this tension. Design Qualitative case studies using data derived from semistructured interviews and a review of published documents. An established cultural fr...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Time management is an extensive concept that is associated with promoting the performance of managers. The present study was carried out to investigate the time management behaviors along with its related factors among senior nurse mangers. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive-analytical study, 180 senior nurse managers were selected using census method. The instru...

OBJECTIVES To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate how managers of primary care trusts are attempting to deal with this tension. DESIGN Qualitative case studies using data derived from semistructured interviews and a review of published documents. An established cultural ...

purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tendency toward teleworking and organizational commitment (affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment) among the librarians of isfahan public universities. methodology: the research method was descriptive – correlational survey and the population consisted of all librarians in isfahan univ...

background: the organizational commitment concept attracted many researchers’ attention to this field; because staff commitment is a strong and effective power of success these organizations. the current study conducted with the aim of investigation the effective factors on organizational commitment dimensions in the view of physicians and sub- physicians’ inductee to service law based on peste...