5th International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care – First Call for Abstracts
✍ Scribed by Mrs Kate Ellis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 31 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.313
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✦ Synopsis
This is a leading research conference for people interested in organisational behaviour in health care. Conference size, format and venue are aimed at allowing interactive presentation and discussion among individuals with specific interests in organisational behaviour in health care environments. This is the first time this international conference has been held in Scotland. Abstracts for papers are invited by 1 May 2005 in accordance with the conference theme below and related sub-themes. Abstracts must be in the designated format detailed below.
CONFERENCE THEME
Speaking Truth to Power: Who Speaks to Whom? The challenge to health care organisations today is not so much being able to speak truth to those in power; rather, the problem is finding ways to be heard. Over 25 years ago Aaron Wildavsky, the US policy analyst and academic, recognised the challenge facing researchers, practitioners and policymakers especially given the multiplicity of available truths.
What is this power to which policy analysts speak their truth? And what is this truth they seek to speak? In the United States where the fragmentation of power has always been both a problem and a solution, pretenders to power have never had an easy time. Nor should they. For the truth they have to tell is not necessarily in them, nor in their clients, but in their give and take with others whose consent they require, not once and for all, as if the social contract were forever irrevocable, but over and over again. This [policy] process is certainly exhausting, hardly exhilarating, but hopefully enlightening. (Wildavsky, 1979: 405) The challenge to academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners today is two-fold, firstly, being able to make oneself heard or to listen, and secondly to offer the means of managing a diversity of