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- Billquist, Leila, 1949, et al.
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Care - A Challenge to Healthy organization?
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Ingår i: IV International Community, Work and Family Conference: Actors, Structures and Theories, 19-21 May, University of Tampere.
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- Björk, Lisa, 1981, et al.
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Measuring capacity to perform across local government services – managers’ perceptions
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Ingår i: International Journal of Public Sector Management. - 0951-3558. ; 27:1, s. 26-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – This study aims at developing a measure that can be used to evaluate organizational capacity to perform across local government jurisdictions, using operational managers' own assessments. Design/methodology/approach – The “management matters” literature that links organizational capacity to service performance is far from reaching any consensus on how to operationalize organizational capacity. In this study, over 400 operational managers were asked, at two different time points and in thirty different local government departments, about what opportunities they have to fulfill their responsibilities and about their perceptions of service performance. The data are factor analyzed, and the proportion of higher level variance of the resulting capacity measure is explored. Findings – Organizational capacity to perform represents a consistent measure that covers essential aspects of the managerial assignment and is empirically distinct, yet positively related to the managers' perceptions of service performance. Results further show that up to 12 percent of the variance in organizational capacity to perform can be attributed to the organization in which managers work. Practical implications – A service-neutral measure of organizational capacity to perform should be useful to strategic managers in organizations as guidance for resource allocation, and for the design of solid organizational structures and support systems for operational managers. Originality/value – Recent public management research indicates that rationalistic management models are often inadequately grounded in the day-to-day practices of operative managerial work. The construct of organizational capacity to perform presented in this study could be a valuable instrument that can bridge this strategic-operational disconnect and provide an insider perspective of the organizational prerequisites that underpin any public service achievement.
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- Bäck-Wiklund, Margareta, 1944, et al.
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Are Health Care Organizations Healthy? Quality of Work and Private Life in Northern and Southern Europe
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Ingår i: Work and Family Researchers Network Inaugural Conference, June 14-16, 2012, New York City.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we study healthy organization and gender through exploring the dual agenda from the perspective of the human service organization. Looking at employee survey data from public hospitals in eight countries across the Europe (Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK), we analyze the empirical support for concept of the healthy organization. Quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in a mixed methods approach, collected across four types of service sector organizations in each participating country (public hospitals, ITC, retail, and bank/insurance), within the framework of the EU project Quality of Life in a Changing Europe (QUALITY). Two case studies of hospitals are selected: one gender equal in average self-reported health status (Sweden) and one where women share a much lower average (Portugal). We explore the dual agenda from two perspectives – the work-household duality (engagement/work-life balance) and workforce-organization duality (social support/life satisfaction). Three hypotheses are advanced: (1) that human service organizations, and the hospital employee in particular, harbour a latent healthy organizations perception, indicated by an individual consistency of social support, life satisfaction engagement, work-life balance; (2) that due to gendered differences, women in medicine share a stronger such healthy organizations perception, and; (3) gender matters for the healthy organizations perception because of work organizational policy, career paths and home related resources. The findings in large verify these hypotheses. Among employees at the eight hospitals across Europe, there is a significant latent dimension of perceiving the healthy organization measure, based on social support, engagement, satisfaction with life and work-life balance, and this construct is significantly higher among women, mainly because of formal work time flex policies, formal supervisory position combined with low education level, and domestic resources that includes the availability of child care and a stronger social network. These findings are further verified/ explored by in depth analysis of our two case studies.
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- McKelvey, Maureen, 1965, et al.
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Collaborative Strategies: How and Why Academic Spin-offs Interact with Engineering University Centers
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Ingår i: How Entrepreneurs Do What they Do: Case Study of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship / McKelvey, M. and A.H. Lassen (eds.). - Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar Publishers. - 9781781005491 ; , s. 34-47
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter follows the management and development of two KIE ventures that are academic spin-offs, in relation to collaborative strategies. The perspective is on how and why academic spin-offs continue to engage in collaborative strategies with engineering centers located at the university. The KIE ventures use the centers to access scientific and technological knowledge, as expected, but they also are interested in accessing other resources and networks to help further develop their research, product and market development. The key message is that networks with research centers at the university help shape the venture. Even after the founding phase, these KIE ventures can use collaborative strategies for research to access resources and ideas – involving scientific and technological knowledge but also market and business knowledge. The results of the chapter help us understand in particular how the venture needs to continue to access resources and ideas, even during the management and development phase of the KIE conceptual model. The KIE ventures are academic spin-offs, heavily involved in the development of technologies, and yet they greatly benefit from these university networks to access market knowledge from other, established firms, and to access business knowledge through the recruitment of experienced managers.
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