Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 14 Issue 5/6

A realistic theory of health sector management: The case for critical realism

Jim Connelly

To date the practice of health sector management has not been sufficiently theorised. An adequate theory should be able to answer the pre‐eminent critique of managerial…

Who really wants health‐care choice?

Douglas Amyx, John C. Mowen, Robert Hamm

An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of patients’ freedom to choose a physician and health locus of control on patient satisfaction. The experiment was set within the…

Effective leadership within hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Units

Liz Barker

In this study the Repertory Grid interview technique was used to investigate constructs of leadership held by a group of male and female senior managers from within hospice and…

Renewing the model employer: Changing employment relations and “partnership” in the health and private sectors

Mark Stuart, Miguel Martinez Lucio

Drawing from original empirical data this paper compares the changing nature of employment relations in the health and private sectors. A key concern is to assess the extent to…

The value of the facilities management function in the UK NHS community health‐care sector

Paul Featherstone, David Baldry

This paper stresses the importance of the strategic integration of the organisational facilities management function as being an essential prerequisite towards facilities and…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/08876040010334565. When citing the…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/09604520010318254. When citing the…

Basic estimate of needs for training in evidence‐based medicine in Slovakia

Ljuba Bacharova, Svatopluk Hlavacka, Viera Rusnakova

This study reports the findings of the first survey of the knowledge and needs for training in evidence based medicine (EBM) of health‐care workers in Slovakia. This study was…

Hospital human resource planning in Slovakia

Robert Wagner, Svatopluk Hlavacka, Ljuba Bacharova

The study is an attempt to provide empirical evidence, in the context of acute hospital care, of the current human resource practices in the health sector of the Slovak Republic…