Innovation Imperative in Health Care Organisations

Edited by Peter Spurgeon, Professor of Health Services Management, Medical Sch4ool, University of Warwick, UK, the late Ronald J. Burke, formerly Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and Cary Cooper, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Contents:PART I: OVERALL CONTEXT: QUALITY, COST, PRODUCTIVITY IN HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS1. Background and ContextRonald J. Burke, Peter Spurgeon and Cary L. Cooper2. Productivity in Health CareJohn Appleby3. Raising Quality and Reducing Costs – in One Improvement?John Øvretveit4. A Trilogy for Health Care Improvement: Quality, Productivity and InnovationHelen BevanPART II: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT5. The Contribution of ‘Best-Practice’ HR Management to Better Organisational PerformanceSandra G. Leggat6. Fostering Creativity in Health Care: Health Care Workers as Agents of CreativityMarch L. To, Neal M. Ashkanasy and Cynthia D. Fisher7. Hospital Restructuring and Downsizing: Déjà Vu All Over AgainRonald J. Burke8. A Better Model of Managing Sickness AbsenceHugh Flanagan, Fred Barwell, Patti Mazelan and Peter SpurgeonPART III: BETTER LEADERSHIP, BETTER ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE9. Nurse Leaders: Partners in Health Care LeadershipMargaret M. Hopkins and Deborah A. O’Neil10. Enhancing Medical Leadership and Engagement: Impact upon Organisational PerformancePeter Spurgeon11. A Review of Quality Improvement in Health Care and Recommendations for the FutureAmy L. Grove and James O. Meredith12. Leadership Across Complex Systems and BoundariesJean Hartley PART IV: MANAGING STAFF BETTER13. Workforce Engagement and Organisational PerformanceAstrid M. Richardsen and Ronald J. Burke14. Organisational and Health Effects of Workplace Empowerment in Health Care SettingsHeather Laschinger15. Stress Amongst Health Care Professionals and What Can be DoneCary L. Cooper16. A Safer Clinical Systems ApproachMatthew Cooke, Steve Cross and Peter SpurgeonPART V: CONCLUDING COMMENTS17. Concluding CommentsPeter Spurgeon, Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. CooperIndex

’Healthy organisations are twice as likely to get better results than unhealthy ones, and this could be a matter of life and death if your business is healthcare. Whatever way you look at it, HR has a key role to play and the authors once again points the way.’