The relationship between the perceived importance of managerial skills and self-assessed proficiency in each skill among health-system pharmacy managers in Canada was examined, and the demographic characteristics associated with pharmacy managers who lack these skills were analyzed. Surveys were mailed to 514 health-system pharmacy managers in Canada in July 2000. The survey listed 61 specific ...

The elderly population in Sweden is growing and as a result of that, society is facing different types of challenges. Oral hygiene is important for preventing oral disease but also for the general health (GH). A goal for the Swedish dental society is that every inhabitant should have an equal right to dental-care and oral health (OH) under the same conditions. This is not only a challenge for d...

BACKGROUND Leadership is a key feature in implementation efforts, which is highlighted in most implementation frameworks. However, in studying leadership and implementation, only few studies rely on established leadership theory, which makes it difficult to draw conclusions regarding what kinds of leadership managers should perform and under what circumstances. In industrial and organizational ...

In our work we saw that during the last decades the environment that the MNCs operate in has changed becoming more volatile and less pacedly growing. In this environment the MNCs themselves have become more complex and also flexible. We found that MNCs are essentially three dimensional, that is, they organize around product, functional and geographical dimensions and exhibit characteristics tha...

As part of an evaluation of a contract with general practices to deliver the national NHS Health Checks programme in Sefton, North West England, we surveyed general practitioners (GPs) and practice managers (PMs) in all 55 practices. The contract required practices to identify individuals from their practice registers with potentially high cardiovascular disease risk, and provide annual reviews...

AIMS To identify conflict mode choices of head nurses in general hospitals and examine the relationship between leadership style, choice of strategy in handling conflicts and demographic characteristics. BACKGROUND Nurse managers deal with conflicts daily. The choice of conflict management mode is associated with managerial effectiveness. The ability to creatively manage conflict situations, ...

Management staff and teachers are the subjects factors that determine each school's Quality of Education, Training, development. Over past years, development managers at general education institutions in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam, has achieved many positive results; however, more is needed. The article analyzes current situation as a scientific basis orientation to take measures promote meet ...

We explore theoretically and experimentally the general equilibrium price and allocation implications of delegated portfolio management when the investor-manager relationship is non-exclusive. Investors transfer their securities allocations to managers, managers trade in a competitive marketplace to achieve new allocations, and payo↵s are distributed back to investors after subtraction of a por...

BACKGROUND Combining a professional and managerial role can be challenging for doctors and nurses. We aimed to explore influence strategies used by doctors and nurses who are managers in hospitals with a model of unitary and profession neutral management at all levels. METHODS We did a study based on data from interviews and observations of 30 managers with a clinical background in Norwegian ...