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Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements


Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements

Paperback by Peck, Edward

Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements

£51.99

ISBN:
9781857758962
Publication Date:
15 Feb 2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Pages:
320 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 16 - 21 May 2024
Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements

Description

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted. It includes descriptions of all of the most important approaches to change currently being used in the NHS, discussion of when they work best and details of the evidence of their impact.

Contents

Introduction. What is organisational development? The role of OD policy implementation in healthcare. Organisational development and the 'repertoire' of healthcare leaders. The OD cycle: putting approches into a process. Service improvement. Psychodynamic approaches: organisational health and effectiveness. Systems theories and their applications. Emergence, complexity and organisational development. Working with structure. Working with culture. Critical appreciative inquiry as intervention in organisational discourse. Reaching the parts: the use of narrative and storytelling in organisational development. A review of the evidence on organisational development in healthcare. Conclusion.

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