Persuasive speech in multi-professional change facilitation meetings.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe persuasive speech and discourses in multi-professional organizational change facilitation meetings at a hospital through rhetorical discourse analysis. Previous research has often considered organizational change to be a managerial issue, with other employees given the rather passive role of implementators. This study takes an alternative approach in assuming that organizational change could benefit by involving those who are most familiar with the tasks to be changed.

Authentic leadership in healthcare: a scoping review.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review peer-reviewed original research articles on authentic leadership (AL) in health care to identify potential research gaps and present recommendations for future research. The objectives are to examine and map evidence of the main characteristics, research themes and methodologies in the studies. AL is a leader's non-authoritarian, ethical and transparent behaviour pattern.

The Finnish healthcare services lean management.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss health services managers' experiences of management in a special health-care unit and development efforts from the point of view of the Lean method. Additionally, the aim is to deepen the knowledge of the managers' work and nature of the Lean method development processes in the workplace. The research focuses on those aspects and results of Lean method that are currently being used in health-care environments.

Work-based learning in health care organisations experienced by nursing staff: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

The aim of this review is to systematically summarise qualitative evidence about work-based learning in health care organisations as experienced by nursing staff. Work-based learning is understood as informal learning that occurs inside the work community in the interaction between employees. Studies for this review were searched for in the CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus and ABI Inform ProQuest databases for the period 2000-2015.

Consumer-led health-related online sources and their impact on consumers: An integrative review of the literature.

The aim of the review was to describe consumer-led health-related online sources and their impact on consumers. The review was carried out as an integrative literature review. Quantisation and qualitative content analysis were used as the analysis method.

Workplace spirituality in health care: an integrated review of the literature.

Aim: The aim is to describe workplace spirituality as a concept and phenomenon in health care and to explore the points of view from which it has been studied in nursing.

Background: Personnel in nursing are ageing and recruitment is challenging; workplace spirituality might benefit both employees and organisations. Workplace spirituality has three levels - individual, group and organisational - and presents different components at each level.

Ambiguous meanings of projects as facilitators of sensegiving.

Aim: To describe mid-level nurse managers' experiences of sensegiving in the context of hospital projects.

Background: Sensegiving is about shaping and affecting how employees see themselves, their work and issues related to their work. It has been little studied in the context of hospital projects from mid-level nurse managers' point of view.

Nurse managers' perceptions related to their leadership styles, knowledge, and skills in these areas-a viewpoint: case of health centre wards in Finland.

The purpose of this study was to explore nurse managers' perceptions related to their leadership styles, knowledge, and their skills in these areas in health centre wards in Finland. The data were collected from nurse managers (n = 252) in health centre hospitals in Finland using a structured questionnaire (response rate 63%). Six leadership styles-visionary, coaching, affiliate, democratic, commanding, and isolating-were reflected on.

Nurse managers' leadership styles in Finland.

Nurse managers who can observe their own behaviour and its effects on employees can adjust to a better leadership style. The intention of this study was to explore nurses' and supervisors' perceptions of nurse managers' leadership styles. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 11 nurses and 10 superiors.

Nurse managers' challenges in project management.

Aim: To analyse the challenges that nurse managers meet in project management.

Background: Project management done by nurse managers has a significant role in the success of projects conducted in work units.

Methods: The data were collected by open interviews (n = 14).

Factors of human capital related to project success in health care work units.

Aim: To explore factors of human capital related to project success that employees expect from nurse managers.

Background: Human capital refers to those resources that managers working with projects possess, such as abilities, knowledge and qualities of character.

Method: The data were collected by open interviews (n=14) with nurses, public health nurses and nurse managers working in primary health care and a hospital.

Focal aspects of co-operation between the private, public and third sectors in a sparsely populated area in northern Finland.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the focal aspects of co-operation between the private, public and third sectors in a sparsely populated area of northern Finland. The study is part of a larger research and development project, which produced a model of co-operation between the sectors in a sparsely populated area of northern Finland.

Study Design: The study was qualitative.