Organizational psychology and health care

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The health care system in general, and hospitals in particular, plays a major role in the economies of most countries world wide. Within the budget of health care, expenditures for human resources and personnel are by far the largest. Therefore, it is not surprising that health care institutions undergo profound organizational changes and that personnel is facing pressure and constraints by waves of restructuring, lean management, total quality management, etc. In addition to this nowadays accepted part of working life, hospital staff is faced with complex, stressful and sometimes even traumatic work conditions. How can the persons concerned, and how can hospital management and organization cope with resulting challenges, problems and strain? This book attempts to answer some of these questions. With international contributions on Organizational aspects of health care work, Stress and well-being in health care work, Prevention and intervention and Culture and identity in health care, a wide range of important aspects is addressed and analysed in the light of current theories and recent research findings on organizational psychology. Organizational Psychology and Health Care: European Contributions will be invaluable to practitioners in hospitals as well as to researchers and other people with an interest in the study of health care.