Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe health promotion activities accomplished within a project and to measure the conditions for sustainable health within the case organizations. Also, the purpose is to test a previously developed measurement approach, which measures...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to measuring health‐related quality management based on earlier research on the connection between quality management and employee health. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was developed and a research study was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the effects of quality management in the health care sector and the general effects of quality management on the health of the employees. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical basis consists of three case studies in one...

Social norms affect almost every aspect of people's lives, and can be an obstacle to or support economic development. This paper outlines what social norms are and how they work, providing examples from everyday life and from development case studies. Sometimes not much can be done about...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the fundamentals of quality management, to examine the deeper layers of quality management and propose a tentative framework of its profound foundations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is conceptual, reviewing the quality management...