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Industries represent distinctive contexts for research in Organizational Behavior. From Services to Manufacturing, from Healthcare to the Public Sector, industries comprise distinct configurations of occupational, institutional, and labor market forces that impact the dynamics of individual and work group behavior and organizational effectiveness. Helping scholars and practitioners to be more discerning about industry-specific factors can lead to better theory and more actionable knowledge. This special issue on Healthcare organizations is the first in a series of special issues addressing how industry matters in OB research.
The Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB) announces a special issue focusing upon the unique opportunities Healthcare organizations provide for advancing Organizational Behavior theory and research. This special issue reflects JOB's commitment to promoting context-sensitive OB research and theory-see JOB special issue editorial < ../../editors_lists/0_editorial/editorial.html > on context in 2001, vol. 22 (1). This Call for Papers comes at a time of growing recognition in Healthcare that its fundamental challenges are organizational, not clinical. Implementation of effective healthcare practices has fallen far short in applying state-of-the art clinical knowledge. The widening gap between knowledge of evidence-based practices and their adoption has led advisory groups to declare that implementation is a more pressing priority than discovery (see U.S. Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, 2000 and Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses, 2003). Patient deaths linked to avoidable errors and hospital-acquired infections are increasingly viewed as organizational, not simply clinical, outcomes arising from poor communication among care providers and dysfunctional occupational and organizational cultures. Persistent geographic differences in clinical outcomes, within countries as well as between nations even in the developed world, draw attention to the effects of micro-processes on healthcare outcomes. Effectiveness in healthcare organizations is also reflected in indicators generalizable to other types of organizations (e.g., cost, efficiency, profitability, staff retention, and market share). Yet there is little research on the link between care quality and broad indicators of healthcare organization performance despite the considerable attention healthcare managers focus on cost reduction, efficiency, and in for profit healthcare settings, profitability.
We encourage researchers from a wide range of disciplines including organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and health policy to submit papers to the special issue. We are open
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