Organizational culture is a significant element in today's health care environment.
Understanding work culture can assist the nursing administrator in hiring personnel …

Research has established positive links between a constructive culture, the morale and
retention of employees, and the decreased mortality of patients. Given these important …

Change in health care settings is occurring at an ever-increasing rate. One change is the
implementation of new nursing care delivery systems. Although such changes are …

Nurse executives are aware of the complexities of organizational culture. It impacts the
nursing work environment and patient care safety and quality. The authors describe several …

PROBLEM. Using theories from several disciplines, the concept of organizational culture
remains controversial. Conflicting definitions, lack of semantic clarity, and debate over the …

Three hospitals in Oregon were surveyed to assess the strength of various organization and
work unit ideologies and the extent of cultural homogeneity. Nurses from the same work …

The business, psychology, and management disciplines have written extensively about
organizational behavior and organizational psychology. Writers in many disciplines …

Objective: This study investigated" thinking and behavioral" styles that are used to measure
the concept of organizational culture among registered nurses (RNs) and unlicensed …

Examines the role of nurses in implementing organizational culture in the health care system
in the US Ways in which health care organizations can implement organizational culture …

The early hopes and expectations of organiza-tional culture often fail to materialize because
tlhe nature of organizational culture is not understood. This article describes what culture is …