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Recent discussions on the sociology of the nursing profession have tended to go beyond the focus of a relation of nursing to clinical medicine in general. May and Fleming (1997) reflects on the importance of analytical stability and points out that sociologists have not paid enough attention to the ways in which nursing is constructing its difference from medicine and the professional imagination involved. (more…)

As the name suggests, this diagnostic model is based on the concept of congruence, specifically the degree to which the needs, demands, goals, objectives, and/or structures of one component are consistent with the needs, demands, goals, objectives, and/or structures of another (Nadler and Tushman 1980, cited in Falletta 2005). (more…)

In 1990, Gerry Rummler and Alan Brache introduced a new methodology for improving organisational performance. Their Three-Levels of Performance Framework is a holistic model that provides concepts and techniques for conducting an organisational diagnosis then proceeds to furnish an approach for using the results of the diagnosis to improve organisational performance. (more…)