Journal of Health Organization and Management

Robotic quality, lean leadership and sustainability healthcare: a multilevel investigative study using NCA perspective
Ismael OA, Ibrahim ZK, Abdulmuhsin AA, Khan ST, Rehman SU and Alkhwaldi AF
This study examines the multilevel relationships between robotic quality (RQ), lean leadership (LL) and sustainable healthcare services (SHS), focusing on how LL moderates and serves as a necessary condition for aligning robotic technologies with sustainability goals in healthcare. The research is concerned with the special challenges of the integration of emerging technologies in the healthcare sector in resource-constrained environments, including Iraq.
Public healthcare as a destroyer of value - a customer perspective
Hurme P
This study explores how customer value is destroyed in Lean-managed public healthcare by applying the concepts of value destruction and value co-destruction.
Moderating role of shared vision on employee job satisfaction, perceived stress and job performance relationship among healthcare professionals in Ghana
Otsen B, Zheng X, Ding S, Liu G, Xu F, Dackyirekpa SN, Bai Z and Chen R
Many studies have investigated how job satisfaction and perceived stress link to job performance, yet the role of shared vision for healthcare professionals remains unexplored. This study examined the moderating effect of shared vision on the relationship between job satisfaction, perceived stress, and job performance among healthcare professionals in public teaching hospitals in Ghana.
We are in it together: organisational learning during COVID-19 crisis in healthcare and construction service organisations in Finland
Ihalainen J and Laitinen I
This study examines factors affecting organisational learning during crises by comparing a healthcare organization and a construction service organization. Our goal was to identify differences and similarities between the two organizations in organisational learning for resilience in order to support crisis preparedness in society.
Understanding mHealth adoption among older adults: a novel NCA-fsQCA analysis
Nguyen NS, Ngo QD, Phan TMC, Tao VA and Bui TNL
This study aims to investigate the complex pathways to mHealth adoption among older adults through an innovative methodological integration of necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), addressing critical gaps in understanding technology acceptance in ageing populations.
The mediating role of job satisfaction in the impact of quality of work life on organizational commitment and job performance
Aras Y, Avcı K and Goktas M
This study investigates the mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between quality of work life, organizational commitment and job performance among nurses - a population often overlooked in mediation-based research models. By simultaneously examining two critical outcomes (organizational commitment and job performance), this study proposes a novel framework that integrates quality of work life and job satisfaction into a unified model of occupational well-being and performance.
The effect of nurses' organizational learning level on perceived career opportunity: the parallel mediating role of colleague support and psychological comfort perception
Baş M, Aydın Kahraman H and Tosun N
This study aims to examine the effect of nurses' organizational learning levels on perceived career opportunities, while exploring the parallel mediating roles of colleague support and psychological comfort perception.
When code meets care: rethinking emerging digital health technologies for sustainable primary health systems
Mwogosi A
This study aimed to investigate the impact of emerging digital health technologies on the sustainability of primary healthcare systems in Tanzania, focusing on operational, institutional, social and environmental dimensions.
Challenges and strategies in effective nursing leadership: viewpoints of nurses in management positions - a qualitative study
Aydogdu ALF
To explore the viewpoints of nurses in management positions on the challenges they face and the strategies they use to promote effective leadership in the nursing workplace.
From leadership to digital maturity in public healthcare: evidence from Pakistan's digital transformation journey
Li Y, Khan AN, Zhang Y and Khan NA
This research investigates the digital transformation (DTM) process in Pakistan's public healthcare organizations while analyzing organizational factors that influence their digital maturity levels. This study frames DTM using three key elements: digital transformational leadership (DTL) as the guiding force, employee commitment to digital transformation (ECDT) reflecting workforce engagement and employee artificial intelligence (AI) readiness culminating in organizational digital maturity (ODM).
Nurses' attachment styles, burnout and intention to leave: the role of cognitive appraisal and responses to conflicts with patients' relatives
Gur A, Sher-Censor E, Zisberg A and Gur-Yaish N
Burnout among nurses significantly influences turnover rates, yet the psychological processes leading to burnout, particularly those tied to attachment styles, remain underexplored. The study aims to examine how nurses' attachment styles impact their cognitive appraisal of conflicts with patients' families, their behavioral responses and subsequent effects on burnout and intention to leave nursing.
Tibetan primary care providers' work conditions and patient depression management: a quantitative analysis using job demands-resources model
Zhao R, Li Z, Nicholas S, Maitland E and Wang W
Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, depression is an increasing global challenge, mainly treated by primary care providers (PCPs) in China. China's national health plans are interpreted, piloted and integrated at the local level, where Tibet's geographical remoteness, economic underdevelopment and a shortage of skilled PCPs create unique challenges to managing depression. Using the job demands-resources model, this study aims to assess the competency of PCPs in Tibetan primary health centres (PHCs) to deliver depression-related services and explores factors related to their competency.
Cloud-based healthcare architecture for securing and monitoring healthcare data
Prathima Y and Sampradeepraj T
A new method known as Lionized Remora optimization based Recurrent Neural Network (LRObRNN) is recommended to enhance the safety of medical information stored on cloud servers to tackle these issues.
Factors affecting the management of change in Saudi Arabian healthcare environments: a stakeholder assessment
Hassanain MA, Alkhaldi MS, Alshibani A and Akbar AE
This study evaluates the factors affecting successful implementation of management of change (MOC) in Saudi Arabian healthcare environments.
An investigation of the effects of capitated compensation for primary care on healthcare utilization of medicare beneficiaries
Wieck MR, Smith LD and Stout SR
This article investigates healthcare utilization differences for Traditional Medicare (TM) and Medicare Advantage (MA) patients under the care of primary care physicians (PCPs) who receive reimbursement from risk-bearing capitation contracts.
Unpacking the long-term outcomes of healthcare reforms in home-based healthcare
Mæhre KS and Solstad E
We explore what happens to home-based healthcare practice 11 years after implementing a healthcare reform, the Coordination Reform in 2012.
Challenging traditional leadership models: a narrative review of advanced practice provider integration in health system governance
Steger MJ
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are essential to health system capacity yet remain underrepresented in governance and executive leadership. This narrative review synthesizes existing peer-reviewed and organizational evidence into a five-domain framework for APP leadership integration and assesses its implications for organizational performance.
Exploring the impact of generative AI tools on healthcare delivery in Tanzania
Shidende N and Mwogosi A
This study explores the impact of generative AI tools on healthcare delivery in Tanzania. It examines its potential to enhance efficiency, accessibility and decision-making in health informatics while addressing infrastructure, ethics and equity challenges in low-resource settings.
The relationship between patients' nursing care satisfaction and nursing image perceptions: an example of a university hospital
Unaldi Baydin N, Tuncer Unver G and Yilmaz T
To determine the relationship between nursing care satisfaction levels and nursing image perceptions of patients hospitalized in inpatient units of a university hospital.
Team job crafting as a mediator between sparking leadership and work engagement among nurses: a structural equation modeling approach
Tuncer Unver G, Celebi Cakiroglu O and Boduc N
This study aimed to determine the mediating effect of team job crafting in the relationship between sparking leadership and work engagement and establish a model.
High-performance work systems, organizational identification, trust in leader, perceived organizational support and healthcare professionals' turnover intention
Raji IA, Ismail AI and Salam MA
Drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and social identity theory (SIT), this study investigates how the high-performance work systems (HPWS)-turnover intention () link is mediated by organizational identification (OID) and moderated by trust in leader (TIL) and perceived organizational support (POS).