Healthcare restructuring and hierarchical alignment: Why do staff and managers perceive change outcomes differently?

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 879-889

  Walston, Stephen L ^a   Chou, Ann F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal setting; Health care; Implementation; Organizational change; Restructuring and reengineering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 33748100200     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000220692.39762.bf     Document Type: Article

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