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background many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

When a major failure happens in a healthcare organisation in the British NHS an inquiry of some kind usually ensues, tasked with finding out what happened, diagnosing the problems or causes of the failure, and making recommendations for changes in policy or practice which would prevent or make such a failure less likely in the future. The inquiry is akin to an organisational post-mortem, intend...

When a major failure happens in a healthcare organisation in the British NHS an inquiry of some kind usually ensues, tasked with finding out what happened, diagnosing the problems or causes of the failure, and making recommendations for changes in policy or practice which would prevent or make such a failure less likely in the future. The inquiry is akin to an organisational post-mortem, intend...

Responding to Ruth McDonald’s editorial on the rise of leadership and leadership development programmes in healthcare, this paper offers three arguments. Firstly, care is needed in evaluating impact of leadership development, since achievement of organisational goals is not necessarily an appropriate measure of good leadership. Secondly, the proliferation of styles of leadership might be unders...

responding to ruth mcdonald’s editorial on the rise of leadership and leadership development programmes in healthcare, this paper offers three arguments. firstly, care is needed in evaluating impact of leadership development, since achievement of organisational goals is not necessarily an appropriate measure of good leadership. secondly, the proliferation of styles of leadership might be unders...

In response to the problem of high expatriate failure rates in China, this study investigates organisational commitment issues in relation to a community of Western expatriate managers working in a private, Chinese-owned, academic college in China. Through individual interviews, the study examines the various processes, experiences, and interactions of six expatriate managers in order to gain a...

The notion that hospitals and medical practices should learn from failures, both their own and others', has obvious appeal. Yet, healthcare organisations that systematically and effectively learn from the failures that occur in the care delivery process, especially from small mistakes and problems rather than from consequential adverse events, are rare. This article explores pervasive barriers ...

There is an 80% failure rate for organisational development programmes like total quality management (TQM). Scholars and practitioners agree that success and failure of TQM and other organisational learning programmes depend on having strong management commitment. As this may not always be possible to obtain, one might ask whether good implementation methods based on systems thinking could comp...