Table of Contents

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Organizational Change

1.Theories of Organizational Change: Transformational Change as a Developed Theory?

Louise Fitzgerald

2. The Diffusion of Innovations: The Translation and Implementation of Evidence-based Innovations

Louise Fitzgerald

3. Organization Development in Health Care: A Good Fit?

Louise Fitzgerald & Aoife M. McDermott

4. Getting Contextualizing Organizational Change: The Case of Health Care

Louise Fitzgerald

Part 2: Contemporary Issues in Changing Health Care

5. Mandated Top-down Change and the Re-structuring of Commissioning

Louise Fitzgerald

6. Organizational Change and Professionals: System Change and Professionals in Change Processes

Louise Fitzgerald

7. Patient and Provider Perspectives on Safety as a Focus of Change

Aoife M. McDermott

8. System Change - Building Networks of Health and Social Care

Louise Fitzgeral

9. HRM: A Driver and Enabler of Change

Aoife M. McDermott

Part 3: Final Themes

10. Changing Perspectives on Change

Louise Fitzgerald & Aoife M. McDermott

About the Author

Louise Fitzgerald is a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK.

Aoife M. McDermott is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff University, UK.

Reviews

"... the authors do offer some important recommendations (Chapter 10). First, those who trumpet the need for ‘transformational’ and ‘disruptive’ change should familiarise themselves with the substantial evidence base against this approach and learn the advantages of what they call ‘accumulative change processes’ — humbler, less radical efforts that aim not to disrupt or destroy the complex infrastructure that forms the fabric of our healthcare organisations."Trisha Greenhalgh, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, British Journal of General Practice