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The impact of corporate memory loss: What happens when a senior executive leaves?

Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv

October 2005

Huronia District Hospital, Midland, Canada.

Purpose: The author is a nursing management practitioner, whose purpose in writing this paper is twofold: to examine the impact of corporate memory loss on a health care institution, caused by increasing retirement rates of senior executives; and to use this research as an opportunity for action learning where both the author and the institution can benefit from the learning outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach: Using qualitative research methods based on ethnographic interviewing techniques and grounded theory, the author interviews 12 senior executives from four diverse health care facilities. The purpose is to determine the point at which corporate memory loss, in the form of tacit knowledge in the heads of departing executives, becomes a problem for the institution.

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When one considers global health issues from the natural science worldview, it is with a belief that no one person can have any significant influence, hence, a sense of powerlessness and disconnection. In this column, though, the authors assert that when one's perspective is the human science paradigm, and particularly, the human becoming theory, one person can and does make a difference in global health. The authors discuss the human becoming perspective using the metaparadigm concepts of human, health, and environment, and also, nursing practice guided by the theory.

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