Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 31 Issue 2

Managerial strategies to make incentives meaningful and motivating

Sara Korlén, Anna Essén, Peter Lindgren, Isis Amer-Wahlin, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz

Policy makers are applying market-inspired competition and financial incentives to drive efficiency in healthcare. However, a lack of knowledge exists about the process whereby…

Can hospital dashboards provide visibility of information from bedside to board? A case study approach

Adriana Pace, Sandra C. Buttigieg

The purpose of this paper is to analyse hospital dashboards’ visibility of information at different management levels to improve quality and performance in an acute general…

Positive emotion in knowledge creation

Michael Hodgins, Ann Dadich

Despite the importance of evidence-based practice, the translation of knowledge into quality healthcare continues to be stymied by an array of micro, meso and macro factors. The…

Leadership quality: a factor important for social capital in healthcare organizations

Marcus Strömgren, Andrea Eriksson, Linda Ahlstrom, David Kristofer Bergman, Lotta Dellve

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between leadership and social capital and what qualities of leadership are important for social capital among employees in…

Size does matter – span of control in hospitals

Christina Holm-Petersen, Sussanne Østergaard, Per Bo Noergaard Andersen

Centralization, mergers and cost reductions have generally led to increasing levels of span of control (SOC), and thus potentially to lower leadership capacity. The purpose of…

Men’s health and communities of practice in Australia

Maree Henwood, Amie Shaw, Jillian Cavanagh, Timothy Bartram, Timothy Marjoribanks, Madeleine Kendrick

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men created through Men’s Groups/Sheds across urban, regional and remote…

A network of networks: The governance of deliberative approaches to healthcare improvement and reform

Rick Iedema, Raj Verma, Sonia Wutzke, Nigel Lyons, Brian McCaughan

To further our insight into the role of networks in health system reform, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how one agency, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)…

The impact of leadership coaching in an Australian healthcare setting

Anthony M. Grant, Ingrid Studholme, Raj Verma, Lea Kirkwood, Bronwyn Paton, Sean O’Connor

There is limited empirical literature on the effectiveness of leadership coaching in healthcare settings. The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of leadership…

Gender bias in hospital leadership: a qualitative study on the experiences of women CEOs

Sophie Soklaridis, Ayelet Kuper, Cynthia R. Whitehead, Genevieve Ferguson, Valerie H. Taylor, Catherine Zahn

The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of gender bias among women hospital CEOs and explore to what these female leaders attribute their success within a…