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Assessing Organizational Readiness for the Improvement and Change Initiatives in Public Hospitals

Mohamad Alwheeb, David Rea Orcid Logo

Management Issues in Healthcare System, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 49 - 57

Swansea University Author: David Rea Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.33844/mihs.2017.60346

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A high volume of research work related to change management discusses the need to evaluate readiness as an important point prior to making change. This paper focuses on increasing the readiness of public hospitals in Saudi Arabia. It analyses the interrelationships between organizational readiness a...

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ISSN: 2476-6771 2476-6771
Published: Vancouver, BC Canadian Institute For Knowledge Development 2017
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