Archive for category: Publications

/ September 23, 2010 14:37

An Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety

Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice. Within the Clinical Governance framework, patient safety is the top priority for all healthcare organisations, with the prevention of avoidable harm a key goal. Traditionally medical training has concentrated on the acquisition of knowledge and [...]

/ December 14, 2009 23:56

Engaging Communication in Conflict

Written from the authors’ experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, “Engaging Communication in Conflict” uses a communication perspective to address insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. This book offers encouragement for a world sometimes overwhelmed by conflict and presents an expanded and pragmatic definition of peace. Authors [...]

/ December 14, 2009 19:16

The Social Construction of Organisation

Textbooks in the areas of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Communication Studies, and Organizational Development and Change typically treat person and organization as separate entities, in a subject-object relation. However there is another story of persons and organizations, one in which Person is seen to participate in social processes, and, in so doing, to both shape and be shaped by [...]

/ December 14, 2009 14:36

Collaborative Strategies & Multi-Organisational Partnerships

This book contains a collection of papers which were presented at the Seventh International Conference on Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Cooperative Strategy. The aim is to advance the understanding of the nature of such partnerships and strategies by providing an international platform for the exchange of novel ideas, experiences and practices. The conference covered in this book focused most of its [...]

/ September 18, 2009 15:11

Organisational Development in Healthcare

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted. It includes descriptions of all of the most important approaches to change currently being used in the NHS, discussion of when they work best and details of the evidence of their impact.