Complexity and healthcare organization : a view from the street /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kernick, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Medical, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Getting to grips with the basics
  • Models, metaphors and paradigms : making sense of the world and the road to complexity
  • Chaos theory and its relationship to complexity
  • An introduction to complexity theory
  • The spectrum of how we think about organizations
  • An introduction to systems theory : from hard to soft systems thinking in the management of complex organizations
  • Organizations as learning systems
  • Making sense of organizational change in practice : change as complex responsive processes
  • Complexity perspectives on healthcare organization
  • Complexity and the development of organizational theory
  • The search for the correct organization solution for the NHS
  • Organizational culture and complexity
  • Leadership and change
  • Facilitating emergence in healthcare organizations
  • Allocating limited healthcare resources
  • Improving patient access in a large medical practice : a complex and complicated system problem
  • Agent-based working : a device for systemic dialogue
  • Using the visual arts to facilitate emergence in organizations
  • Using the performing arts to facilitate emergence in organizations
  • Going on together in organizations : perspectives on healthcare provision
  • Progressing clinical governance through complexity : from managing to co-creating
  • Skill mix in the NHS : adaptability or efficiency
  • Adaptation in action : the NHS modernisation agency's critical care programme
  • Educating the healthcare professional for capability
  • Going on together in organizations : perspectives on whole sytems
  • Social networks in organizations : social capital and health
  • Organization and communities of practice
  • Imagining complex partnerships
  • From theory to action : personal perspectives
  • Community regeneration and complexity
  • Running an organization along complexity lines
  • Whole-systems working in practice : this house is for real
  • Complex adaptive systems : interesting theory or useful practice : the Piedmont Hospital bed control experiment
  • Applying complexity theory to primary healthcare organizations
  • Using complexity science in community health promotion : novel perspectives and a tool for change