Health Manpower Management: Volume 24 Issue 4

Building human resources capability in health care: a global analysis of best practice ‐ part II

Mohamed Zairi

This paper is the second from a series of three, addressing human resource practices using best practice examples. The analysis covered is based on the experiences of…

Chaos and complexity ‐ the future for health care HRM

Annabelle Mark, Peter Critten

The need to understand chaos and complexity in organisations has particular importance for health which is bedevilled by the complexity of organisations and the sometimes chaotic…

Human resource management in the health care industry

Junaid Siddiqui, Brian H. Kleiner

Human resource management practices with special reference to the latest developments of the 1990s such as environmental effects and managing diversity, were investigated. The…

Measuring resilience in health care provider organizations

Larry A. Mallak

Health care providers offer an ideal setting to study the effectiveness of resilient behavior. The notion of a resilient organization is an emerging concept for understanding and…

Occupational determinants of work attitudes and organizational attachment

Rita Mano‐Negrin

The “work attitudes‐turnover” linkage was compared among four medical‐sector occupational groups. In a sample of 707 employees, drawn from eight variously‐sized medical‐sector…