This chapter presents theory and research on the role of pay systems in complex organizations. It first looks at the relationship between pay systems and business strategy and organization structure. It then focuses on the impact of pay systems on six important determinants of organizational effectiveness: performance motivation, skill development motivation, attraction and retention, organizat...

In tackling administrative reform and in the hope of improving the e!ective allocation of resources, most European governments have shown a growing interest in adopting private sector management models in the public administration. The assumption underlying this paper is that the decisive variables in the di!erent national contexts have to do with the relationships between the central and the p...

BACKGROUND Monitoring treatment patterns is crucial to improving cancer patient care. Our aim was to determine the accuracy of linked routinely collected administrative health data for monitoring colorectal and lung cancer care in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHODS Colorectal and lung cancer cases diagnosed in NSW between 2000 and 2002 were identified from the NSW Central Cancer Regist...

Mobile and wireless networks pose a number of challenges in key management due to the lack of infrastructures such as routing, server, and organization/administrative infrastructures. Several mechanisms have been proposed to solve the problem of key management in mobile and wireless networks. In this paper we focus on key management in IP-based mobile and wireless networks. We first describe th...

In this paper we propose a Two-Tier resource management model for the global Internet. Our solution resembles the current two-tier routing hierarchy and allows individual administrative domains to independently make their own decisions on strategies and protocols to use for internal resource management and QoS support. The aggregate traffic crossing domain borders is served according to relativ...

Pooling resources, knowledge and technologies is a necessity in the health sector. Many hospitals do so through alliances with compatible establishments, which have been studied from the organizational perspective for many years. However, many alliances are reported to fail and the conditions which could foster their success are still not well known. The aim of this exploratory study was to ide...

Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional perspectives on clinical management, steep hierarchies, and lack of administrative support for change. We review principles of high reliability as they apply to communication in clinical care and discuss principles of effective comm...

M(Art)Worlds: Consumer Perceptions of How Luxury Brand Stores Become Art Institutions Annamma Joy a,1, Jeff Jianfeng Wang b, Tsang-Sing Chan c, John F. Sherry Jr. d,∗, Geng Cui e a Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Management, The University of British Columbia-Okanagan, EME4145 – 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1V 1V7 b Assistant Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing, G 75...

OBJECTIVE To provide a state profile of information technology (IT) sophistication in Missouri nursing homes. METHOD Primary survey data were collected from December 2006 to August 2007. A descriptive, exploratory cross-sectional design was used to investigate dimensions of IT sophistication (technological, functional, and integration) related to resident care, clinical support, and administr...