Organisational development is an 'effort [that is] planned, organisation-wide, managed from the top to increase organisational effectiveness and health through planned interventions in the organisation's processes using behavioural science knowledge'[ 5].
17 Thus far, organisation-level or facility-level information about test results management practices is poorly documented or understood, but this knowledge of local organisational context may be useful in understanding organisation-wide vulnerabilities and explain why some healthcare settings may have fewer missed test results than others.
It is difficult to isolate variables such as organisational or cultural determinants and patient outcomes that affect a specific organisation-wide intervention among the clutter of many large and small simultaneous interventions occurring within healthcare systems at any one time.
It's the first time in 25 years that the company has carried out organisation-wide layoffs.
"Organisation-wide communication is key so that you don't miss opportunities to innovate at ground level," said Hannah Clark, head of charities and social organisations at Zurich Insurance.
"Whilst it has a business plan, a customer-centric strategy and a change programme which is seeking to co-ordinate delivery of major projects, the department does not have an organisation-wide operational strategy," the report says.
Would a person with good handwriting, spelling and grammar and instant recall of multiplication tables be considered a better candidate for a job than, say, one who knows how to configure a peer-to-peer network of devices, set up an organisation-wide Google calendar and find out where the most reliable sources of venture capital are, I wonder?
According to interviewed project managers and software engineering people in their workshop, organisation-wide agile transformation within the large case organisation is hard.
In the UK, their training has been variable, but organisation-wide failures in care have prompted questions about how this crucial section of the workforce should be developed.
However, the PBO is inherently weak where the matrix organisation is strong: in performing routine tasks, achieving economies of scale, coordinating cross-project resources, facilitating company wide technical development, and promoting organisation-wide learning.
Amongst the approaches suggested in the QAA report (QAA 2017) the approach "use of organisation-wide detection methods incorporating linguistic analysis tools to complement text-matching software" most closely corresponds to the approach investigated in this paper.
