" In this book Graham Lowe provides an authoritative & meticulously well-researched vision
of what a healthy workplace can be. Employers today are confronted with a bewildering …

Objective This research explores measures of employee engagement in the National Health
Service (NHS) acute Trusts in England and examines the association between organisation …

Purpose–The aim of this article is to report some of the work undertaken by a nursing “think
tank”, focussed on examining the causes of poor nursing care in hospitals, and potential …

Aim This article aims to explore spiritual care in the neonatal care environment in addition to
highlighting the importance of spiritual leadership of a health team in that context …

This chapter describes research into organizational culture and climate in the health care
industry, and explores how both climate and culture affect the performance of health care …

Upper echelons (UE) theory posits that organisational performance reflects the personal
values and cognitive frames of the top management team (TMT) and, crucially, that greater …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report an evaluation of a leading-with-compassion
recognition scheme and to present a new framework for compassion derived from the data …

Background A culture of shared leadership is widespread among palliative care teams
based on a commitment to valuing and including all people equally. As compassion is a …

This study examines how middle managers in public sector organizations experienced 'New
Public Management'(NPM)-related change initiatives. Data from 486 Australian middle …

Objective Concerns about care quality have prompted calls to create workplace cultures
conducive to high-quality, safe and compassionate care and to provide a supportive …