Organizational Culture or Nursing Leadership and Management

Organizational Culture: Mapping the Terrain

Author: Joanne Martin

Organizational Culture provides a sweeping interdisciplinary overview of the organizational culture literature, showing how and why researchers have disagreed about such fundamental questions as: What is organizational culture? What are the major theoretical perspectives used to understand cultures in organizations? How can a researcher decipher the political interests inherent in research that claims to be political neutral -- merely "descriptive"?

Expert author Joanne Martin examines a variety of conflicting ways to study cultures in organizations, including different theoretical orientations, political ideologies (managerial, critical, and apparently neutral); methods (qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid approaches), and styles of writing about culture (ranging from traditional to postmodern and experimental). In addition, she offers a guide for those who might want to study culture themselves, addressing such issues as: What qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid methods can be used to study culture? What standards are used when reviewers evaluate these various types of research? What innovative ways of writing about culture have been introduced? And finally, what are the most important unanswered questions for future organizational culture researchers?

Intended for graduate students and established scholars who need to understand, value, and utilize highly divergent approaches to the study of culture. The book will also be useful for researchers who do not study culture, but who are interested in the ways political interests affect scholarly writing, the ways critical and managerial approaches to theory differ, the use and justification ofqualitative methods in domains where quantitative methods are the norm.

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In a text for graduate students and researchers, Martin (organizational behavior, Stanford U.) offers a variety of perspectives for thinking and studying cultures that can be applied to organizational culture. She surveys a range of studies and theories, including those that defines culture as a variable that can be conceptually distinguished and measured separately from other more familiar organizational variables, and those that define it as metaphor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Nursing Leadership and Management: Concepts and Practice

Author: Ruth N Ed Tappen

The new edition of this popular book provides a strong foundation in leadership and management for students and nurses practicing in today's changing health care environment. The role of the nurse professional as leader and manager in acute care, community, and long-term settings is examined.

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Revised edition of Nursing leadership (1983). The author advocates a participative style. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Unit I	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Studying Leadership and Management	3
Ch. 2	Conceptual Base for Leadership and Management	18
Unit II	Leadership in Nursing	51
Ch. 3	Components of Effective Leadership	53
Ch. 4	Advanced Communication Skills: Conflict and Negotiation	76
Ch. 5	Dynamics of Working Groups and Teams	90
Ch. 6	Leading Workplace Meetings	121
Ch. 7	Diversity in the Workplace	149
Ch. 8	Time Management	165
Ch. 9	Critically Reflective Thinking and Problem Solving	182
Ch. 10	Leading Change	195
Pt. III	Nursing Management	219
Ch. 11	Components of Effective Management	220
Ch. 12	Directing and Organizing Patient Care	241
Ch. 13	Individual Evaluation Procedures	272
Ch. 14	Managing a Budget	295
Ch. 15	Informatics and Nursing Management	312
Ch. 16	Project Planning and Evaluation	326
Unit IV	The Workplace	347
Ch. 17	Organizational Dynamics	349
Ch. 18	Workplace Health and Safety	375
Ch. 19	Quality Improvement	392
Ch. 20	Workplace Ethics	413
Ch. 21	Power, Empowerment, and Political Influence	435
Ch. 22	Political and Economic Context of Health Care	471
Unit V	Career Development	489
Ch. 23	Leadership Aspects of Career Development	491
	Index	515