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Study finds hospital accreditation helps improve human resource management systems

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
A team of Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) researchers, in conjunction with a member of Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University (Associate Professor David Greenfield), has recently published a paper  in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care focusing on the role of accreditation bodies in influencing human resource management (HRM) performance outcomes in […]

Hospital accreditation and HRM: a likely pair?

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
In 2013, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported more than one quarter of a million full-time equivalent persons to be employed in Australia’s public hospitals. As the most resource-intensive element of the healthcare system (with about 62 per cent of recurrent expenditure), the sector is under constant pressure to implement organisational change […]