TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Sharon AU - Frankl,Milan TI - Improving health care management at the top: how balanced boardrooms can lead to organizational success T2 - Health care management collection, SN - 9781631572616 AV - RA971 PY - 2016///.] CY - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Health services administration KW - Boards of directors KW - Health boards KW - Diversity in the workplace KW - Health Services Administration KW - board KW - diversity KW - gender KW - health care KW - organizational performance KW - upper echelons KW - [genre] N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-51) and index; 1. Gender diversity may be the answer to performance --; 2. Background, what theory reveals --; 3. The Canadian Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), business case --; 4. Health care executive management composition, the good, the bad, and the ugly --; 5. Hospital performance, a taboo to overcome --; 6. Dominance, by whom? --; Bibliography --; Index; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions; 2; b; Also available in printing N2 - In this book we explore the influence of gender on organizational performance in the health care sector. The authors argue that gender diversity of boards improves health care organizational performance when compared to homogeneous boards. The theoretical framework used was developed from conducting literature reviews of scholarly academic journal articles on gender, boards, and organizational performance as well as performing an in-depth study of the performance of health care organizations in Ontario, Canada. Research results suggest that effective boards and their composition were dependent on their female-to-male ratio to realize administrative efficiencies. Publicly funded, nonprofit, 126 acute care hospitals located in Ontario, Canada, were chosen as the health care sector for this research. Limitations of this study are in the complexity of the health care industry, competing internal and external priorities, and funding constraints. Nevertheless, this book is original work and relevant for use by boards to examine the complementary mix of gender as a predictor of organizational performance UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000416.html ER -