The fifth title in an ongoing series on organizational behaviour in health care. This edition reveals the handling of organizational politics, power and change as a core aspect of effective reorganizations and explores how health care management research relates to health policy in this politically charged arena.
About the Author: PERRI 6 is Professor of Social Policy in the Graduate School of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, UK JULIA ABELSON is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, an Associate Member of the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University, Canada JANE BANASZAK-HOLL is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Associate Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology, School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, USA ALLEN BEST is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute; Clinical Professor, Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE is Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Australia. JUDITH CALHOUN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, USA ANN CASEBEER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and Associate Director of the Centre for Health and Policy Studies, both at the University of Calgary, Canada SUE DOPSON is the Rhodes Reader in Organizational Behavior at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and fellow and vice president of Templeton College, UK BERNARD DOWLING is a Research Fellow in the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre at the University of Manchester, UK MARK EXWORTHY is a Reader in Public management and policy in the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK EWAN FERLIE is Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK LOUISE FITZGERALD is Professor of Organization Development at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK PIERRE-GERLIER FOREST is the President of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Canada. NAOMI FULOP is Professor of Health and Health Policy in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, and Director of the King's Centre for Patient Safety and Quality Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research, UK JOHN GABBAY is Emeritus Professor at the Wessex Institute for Health R&D at the University of Southampton, UK IAN GREENER is a Reader in Public Policy and Management at Manchester Business School, UK KAREN GOLDEN-BIDDLE is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University's School of Management, USA JEANNIE HAGGERTY is Assistant Professor, Département de Sciences de la Santé Communautaire, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada LARRY R HERRALD is a Doctoral Candidate in the Health Services, Organization and Policy Program at the University of Michigan, USA DON HINDLE is an applied mathematician, is currently Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia LEE ANN HOFF is a nurse-anthropologist, author of the award-winning book, People in Crisis, and other books, and founding director of the Life Crisis Institute in Boston and Ottawa, USA DAVID HUNTER is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Durham University, UK PAULA HYDE is Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Experiential Learning at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK RICK IEDEMA is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Organizational Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia MARTIN KITCHENER is Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, USA AINAT KOREN is Assistant Professor at the School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA MARK LEARMONTH is a Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, University of Nottingham, UK LOUISE LOCOCK is a University Research Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford, UK MARION MACALPINE has worked for many years as an organizational consultant in the public and voluntary sectors in the UK and internationally GAIL MCKEAN is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada BRETTA MALOFF is Director, Healthy Living, Calgary Health Region, Canada RUSSELL MANNION is Director of the Centre for Health and Public Services Management at the University of York, UK SHELIA MARSH has been an independent organizational consultant for twenty years, working with the public and community sectors. She has in the last ten years focused on leadership and partnership development with managers in health and social care, co-developing and teaching Masters programmes at Thames Valley, Middlesex and City Universities, UK MARTIN MARSHALL is Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health, UK ANDREE LE MAY is Professor of Nursing, also in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southampton, UK LORNA MCKEE is Professor of Management at the University of Aberdeen Business School, Scotland ROSALIND MCNALLY is a Chartered Librarian. She has spent most of her career supporting the research process, currently as Library and Information Services Manager at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, UK KAREN DEVEREAUX is Professor/Chair, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA GREGG MOOR is Project Coordinator, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada RICHARD MUSTO is Executive Medical Director for the Southeast Community Portfolio and a Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the Calgary Health Region, Canada CAMERON D NORMAN is Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada MICHAEL J O'SULLIVAN joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1993 teaching graduate courses in Health Care Management, Organizational Behavior, Health Law and Ethics, and Leadership, USA CATHERINE POPE is Reader in Health Services Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, UK TRISH RAEY is an Assistant Professor in the department of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business, Canada ROD SHEAFF is Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Plymouth, UK JILL SCHOFIELD is the Somers Chair of Healthcare Management at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland CRAIG SLATIN is an Associate Professor in the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Department of Community Health and Sustainability and co-director of the Centre for Public Health Research and Health Promotion, USA EDUARDO SIQUEIRA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA KATHY SPERAZZA is a Nurse Research Consultant and member of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, USA. PETER SPURGEON has worked in, and with, the NHS for the past 20 years, serving as Director of the Health Service Management Centre, University of Birmingham and more recently as Director, Institute for Clinical Leadership at the University of Warwick, UK WILLIAM K TROCHIM is Professor, Department of Policy Analysis& Management, Cornell University, USA MARY WESTBROOK is Conjoint Associate Professor in the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Australia EDNA WHITE-O'SULLIVAN is a Mental Health Counselor with Market Square Counseling Associates in Portsmouth NH, UK