Organizational health in health organizations: Towards a conceptualization

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 796-802

  Orvik, Arne ^a   Axelsson, Runo ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dialectical perspective; Disintegration; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Health professionals; Integration; Inverse value pyramid; Quality of care; Tricultural approach

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE;

EID: 84869087194     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2012.00996.x     Document Type: Article

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