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  • Competing Forces: A Mixed Methods Approach to Investigating the Link Between Organisational Control Mechanisms and Organisational Culture in the Acute Sector of a Public Healthcare Organisation

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    Author(s)
    Golenko, Xanthe A.
    Primary Supervisor
    Fitzgerald, Janna
    Other Supervisors
    Radford, Katrina
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This research investigates the operationalisation of activity-based funding (ABF) and its impact on the organisational control system and prevailing culture in the acute sector of a public healthcare organisation in South East Queensland. In doing so, it addresses the overarching research question: How do control mechanisms shape the organisational culture in public hospitals? Over the past 30 years, there have been two fundamental shifts in the way public hospitals are funded, structured, and managed. The first was the shift from healthcare organisations being characterised as professional bureaucracies to being managed as ...
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    This research investigates the operationalisation of activity-based funding (ABF) and its impact on the organisational control system and prevailing culture in the acute sector of a public healthcare organisation in South East Queensland. In doing so, it addresses the overarching research question: How do control mechanisms shape the organisational culture in public hospitals? Over the past 30 years, there have been two fundamental shifts in the way public hospitals are funded, structured, and managed. The first was the shift from healthcare organisations being characterised as professional bureaucracies to being managed as quasi-market bureaucratic organisations. This shift was caused by the initial introduction of new public management (NPM) ideology and more recently, the introduction of ABF. These changes represent a decreed set of external managerial controls imposed onto a pre-existing deeply entrenched culture dominated by medical professionalism, which resulted in ongoing tension and conflict between managers and clinicians.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    Griffith Business School
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/1151
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
    Subject
    Activity-based funding (ABF)
    Public healthcare
    Healthcare, Organisational culture
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365741
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    • Theses - Higher Degree by Research

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