This article focuses on a study conducted with the purpose of exploring and describing the organisational climate as a cause of job dissatisfaction among nursing staff in selected hospitals within the Mpumalanga Province. The major objectives were to determine what organisational climate encompasses; ascertain which factors related to organisational climate can cause dissatisfaction among nurse...

Organisational audit of public health in the United Kingdom is rare. To provide a framework for a structured organisational audit in district public health departments in one region organisational factors contributing to efficient, high quality work were identified and compared between districts, enabling each department to identify its organisational strengths and weaknesses. A draft list of o...

This paper proposes a human-centred solution framework for KM in the Concurrent Enterprise. The framework allows for the identification of key prerequisites and enablers for inter-organisational knowledge management. In the end the framework provides a theoretically based check-list to assess inter-organisational co-operations towards their knowledge management preconditions. Looking at knowled...

Social welfare and healthcare professionals consider their services fragmented, which also impacts information technology (IT) deployment. They also face the question of whether to cooperate with other organisations in IT. The need to cooperate and to organise cooperation has increased with ever-wider IT deployment. Governance of IT helps in this by defining the responsibilities of cooperating ...

The paper analyses the initiation and management of inter-organisational networks, spanning both the public and private domain. Specifically, bracketing the institutional level and combining literature on communities-of-practice and network management, we turn our attention to managerial activities which are no longer de-contextualized but understood as highly situated activities. By doing so, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward a theoretical model grounded in the literature that identifies a number of antecedent conditions associated with network commitment. Design/methodology/approach – Based upon empirical data gathered from formal healthcare networks in the UK, findings are presented that suggest different forms of commitment within networks may have opposite ef...

This qualitative study analyses the lived experiences of project members who worked in a three-yearlong inter-organisational information system (IOIS) project. The IOIS project spanned nine organisations. The data was gathered by means of interviews, observations of project meetings, diaries, project memoranda and emails sent by project members to each other during these years. This study used ...

This paper examined the adoption of total quality management (TQM) by 228 New Zealand enterprises of all sizes, ranging from one employee to 8,800. Overall, 33% of firms in New Zealand used TQM, with an additional 5% of firms no longer using TQM. This indicates strong TQM adoption rates by current international standards. Factors tested to predict TQM adoption were organisational size, workplac...

The coordination of inter-organisational networks is key to their success and yet partnership management in the context regional economic development remains a complex ambiguous process. To ...