Staff, space, and time as dimensions of organizational slack: A psychometric assessment

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 252-264

  Mallidou, Anastasia A ^a   Cummings, Greta G ^a   Ginsburg, Liane R ^b   Chuang, You Ta ^c   Kang, Sunghyun ^a   Norton, Peter G ^d   Estabrooks, Carole A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b York University   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

excess resources; organizational slack; space; staff; time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALBERTA; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79958843086     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e318208ccf8     Document Type: Article

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