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A central place, but not center stage : Exploring the effect of organizational culture on innovation implementation in rehabilitation care
Le Noble, M.A. (2023) A central place, but not center stage : Exploring the effect of organizational culture on innovation implementation in rehabilitation care.
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| Abstract: | The healthcare sector faces challenges in sustainability and effectiveness due to employee shortages and an aging population. Therefore, fostering innovation becomes crucial for healthcare, including rehabilitation care. However, despite its societal importance and significant distinction from hospital care, rehabilitation care has received limited attention in scientific research. Literature suggests that organizational culture plays a vital role in effectively implementing innovations in the workplace. Hence, this study focuses on investigating how the organizational culture at the rehabilitation center Roessingh (RCR) influences the implementation of innovations by practitioners. The study follows a two-phase approach, starting with a pre-study to gain initial insights into RCR’s organizational culture and to gain contextual understanding. This serves as input for the second phase, the main study, which utilizes go-along interviews with practitioners to further explore and map out the organizational culture. Through reflexive thematic analysis, four themes were developed that together provide valuable insights into how the organizational culture impacts innovation implementation in the workplace. The combination of heavy workloads, time constraints, organizational passivity, and practitioners’ views on innovative technology in healthcare contributes to an organizational culture where the engagement with and utilization of innovative technology is given low priority. Consequently, a set of recommendations is proposed, applicable to both RCR and the broader rehabilitation care sector. Lastly, given the exploratory nature of this study, several promising avenues for future research, related to policy-making and practitioner involvement, for example, are uncovered and discussed. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Clients: | Roessingh Research & Development, Enschede, Netherlands |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 05 communication studies, 70 social sciences in general, 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Communication Studies MSc (60713) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96166 |
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