We report with deep regret the sudden death of the president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr Fulton Gillespie of Edmonton, after presiding at a meeting of the College in Toronto, died in the train on his way home. His loss is felt deeply by all those who knew him and recognised how great a part he was playing in the destinies of the Royal College of Canada. Message...

This article describes positive outcomes in culture, Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores, employee engagement, and clinical quality as a result of using shared governance, specifically unit practice councils (UPC) or staff councils, to implement Relationship-Based Care (RBC).

In 2014, a radical shift took place in Danish water planning. Following years of a top-down water planning approach, 23 regional water councils were established to co-create and provide input to Danish authorities on the development of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). The water councils advised local authorities on the application of measures to improve the physical conditions in Danish str...

the counseling system is the one of the basis on which all social and political affairs are presented and investigated through public and political consultation in the form of discussions and free conversations. in the counseling system, it is the public wisdom and agreement that leads to the selection and determination of rulers, social and political constructs and institutions, codifying and ...

Abstract This chapter observes the participation project Youth Forum, which was funded by Erasmus+. It took place in small Polish town Mińsk Mazowiecki conducted Fundacja EBU. Despite EBU’s engagement EU-related topics and exchange programs, NGO could not rely on existing networks among student councils while local decision-makers students were disconnected from each other. The goal of Forum to...

Shared governance is an approach to empowering nurses and other health care workers to have authority for decisions concerning their practice. Commonly, visible definers of shared governance are groups of workers known as ‘councils’ whose membership works collectively to realise a shared goal. The literature is replete with rhetoric as to the benefits of shared governance yet the evidence base ...

Employees’ representatives at workplace (i.e. Works Councils) are an important component of industrial relations, in particular, in Europe. This institution has been considered as efficient mechanism to avoid the lack of communication between manager and employees [Freeman and Lazear (1995)]. However, we investigate the agency problems between workers and their representatives that are supposed...