The objective of this exploratory study was to assess the effects of four nurse staffing patterns on the efficiency of patient care delivery in the hospital: registered nurses (RNs) from temporary agencies; part-time career RNs; RN rich skill mix; and organizationally experienced RNs. Using...

In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, voluntary turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that the social organization of work in hospitals is an important determinant...

A common technique for conducting efficiency analyses consists of a two-stage procedure that combines data envelopment analysis (DEA) with Tobit regression. As the DEA scores are censored at one, this method has the drawback of masking important information at the upper tail of the distribution...

This study tests the competing arguments that organizational turnover rates are positively associated with organizational inefficiency or, alternatively, that turnover rates are positively related to organizational inefficiency only in those organizations experiencing very high or very low rates...

In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that the social organization of work in hospitals is an importnt determinate of voluntary...

This article develops an analytic framework for predicting organizational survival, growth and death in the U.S. hospital industry. The population ecology perspective is used to identify the environmental conditions under which health service organizations with specialist or generalist...