Healthy Working and Performance Management: A Discussion of the Approach and a Report on a Survey of NHS Organizations
Abstract
Achieving high performance in an organization is a complex business. Most approaches are too piecemeal, unidimensional or iatrogenic. Healthy working is an approach to managing performance that attempts to overcome these problems by aiming, in a holistic manner, to harmonize those factors which affect, either separately or jointly, individual physical, mental and emotional health and individual and organizational performance. The approach is based on a set of values and a series of steps. The first step has to be establishing an information base‐line – the four key indicators. A survey was undertaken by PBS to establish the availability and usefulness of data in NHS organizations; summarizes some of the issues raised. Although a worryingly small number keep useful data or produce useful information, much can be done in making critical links if available data is fully used.
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Citation
Flanagan, H.D. and Henry, P. (1994), "Healthy Working and Performance Management: A Discussion of the Approach and a Report on a Survey of NHS Organizations", Health Manpower Management, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/09552069410060067
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:MCB UP Ltd
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