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• Title:Values, rationality, and power : developing organizational wisdom : a case study of Canadian healthcare authority / Brad C. Anderson (Kwantlen, Polytechnic University, Canada).
  
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• Author/Creator:Anderson, Brad C., 1972- author.
  
• Published/Created:Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2019.
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  • Call Number: HD58.7 .A4773 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Organizational behavior.
  
• Description:xv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Critical management studies (Series)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.
  
• ISBN:1838679421
  9781838679422
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Study Overview
  1.1. Introduction to Organizational Wisdom, Values, Rationality, and Power
  1.2. Introduction of Theoretical Frameworks and Research Questions
  1.3. Summary of Methodology
  1.4. Overview of Results
  1.5. Summary of Discussion
  ch. 2 Overview of Organizational Wisdom
  2.1. Wisdom: What Is It?
  2.2. Can Organizations Act Wisely?
  2.3. Do Organizations Need to Act Wisely?
  2.4. Elements of Organizational Wisdom
  ch. 3 Values and Rationality
  3.1. Conceptualizations of Values in Public Sector Organizations
  3.2. Conceptualizations of Rationality in Organizations
  ch. 4 Power and the Nature of Pluralistic Organizations
  4.1. Conceptualizations of Power
  4.2. Pluralistic Organizations: How Wise Are They?
  ch. 5 Theoretical Frameworks
  5.1. Philosophical Framing: Critical Realism
  5.2. Phronetic Research
  ch. 6 Methods
  6.1. Qualitative Approach
  6.2. Case study: The Seniors Programme
  6.3. Overview of the Development and Implementation of the Seniors Programme
  6.4. Data Sources
  6.5. Data Analysis
  ch. 7 Values Inherent in the Seniors Programme
  7.1. What Attracted People to the Seniors Programme?
  7.2. Values the Seniors Programme Intended to Achieve
  7.3. Were the Values of the Seniors Programme Consistent with the Canada Health Act?
  ch. 8 Managing Executive Resistance
  8.1. Why Did Some Managers Not Support the Seniors Programme?
  8.2. How Did Managers Resist the Seniors Programme?
  8.3. Building Support for the Seniors Programme
  8.4. Maintaining Executive Support
  ch. 9 Binding the Organization to the Seniors Programme
  9.1. People
  - Building the Engine Room
  9.2. Structure
  - Protecting and Arming Your People
  9.3. Collaboration
  - Creating a Force Field of Commitment
  ch. 10 Multiple Rationalities at Play
  10.1. Learning How to Prevent Frailty
  10.2. Reconciling Differences between Regions
  10.3. Selecting the BC Coaching Organization
  10.4. Defining Rationality
  ch. 11 Reifying Power
  11.1. Shared Values as a Basis for Producing Power Relations
  11.2. Reifying Power through Bureaucratic Rationality
  11.3. Empowerment
  Letting Contextual and Body Rationalities Rise
  11.4. Building and Maintaining Power Structures through Communication
  11.5. Shielding Workers from Political Turmoil
  ch. 12 Structures Constraining Spread
  12.1. Was the Initial Goal to Spread the Seniors Programme?
  12.2. Was the Collaboration Successful?
  12.3. Structures Constraining Spread
  ch. 13 Structures Enabling Spread
  13.1. Leadership
  13.2. Programme Champions
  13.3. Programme Characteristics
  13.4. Developing the eCGA
  13.5. Supporting GPs
  13.6. Changes in How the Province Delivered Primary Care
  13.7. Convincing Regions to Adopt Seniors Programme
  ch. 14 Discussion: Values, Rationality, and Power
  14.1. Values
  14.2. Rationality
  14.3. How Did Power Affect the Process of Developing and Implementing the Seniors Programme in the BC Health Authority?
  ch. 15 Was the Use of Power Consistent with the Values of Canada's Healthcare System?
  15.1. Approach to Values
  15.2. Approach to Rationalities
  15.3. Building Bridges, Not Burning Them
  15.4. Using Power to Reconcile, Not Defeat
  15.5. But
  ch. 16 What's to Be Done? Facilitating the Development of Organizational Wisdom
  16.1. Values Guide Wise Action
  16.2. Knowledge Is Required, But Insufficient for Wise Action
  16.3. Wisdom Is Action-oriented
  ch. 17 Wisdom's Future
  17.1. This Study's Contribution: Where Are We at Now?
  17.2. Call to Educators, Trainers, Mentors, and Coaches: Implementing Pedagogy that Creates a Foundation for Wise Action
  17.3. Call to Scholars: Further Developing Our Understanding of How to Facilitate Organizational Wisdom
  17.4. InClosing.