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1. Expanded span of control, leadership and management performance, work-related stress, and job satisfaction among first-line managers: A repeated cross-sectional study | 2025 | Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & rehabilitation
First-line healthcare managers navigate complex organizational demands to ensure a good work environment and quality care. Key factors such as expanded span of control, leadership and management performance, and work-related stress significantly influence their job satisfaction. However, how these factors evolve over time in organizational settings remains unclear. 

2. Development of a comprehensive tool to assess rigor when evaluating quality improvement projects | 2025 | Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
The aim of this study was to develop a pragmatic domain-based tool to Comprehensively Assess Rigor when Evaluating Quality Improvement projects (CARE-QI) that can be used by health professionals, researchers, or academics.

3. The impact of nurse managers' transformational leadership on nurses work engagement: A cross-sectional study | 2025 | Journal of Nursing Management
This study aimed to describe nurses’ evaluations of their work engagement, their perceptions of their managers’ transformational leadership, and the relationships between these factors. A cross-sectional study design was employed. 

4. Loss, adversity, and asymmetry: The future of NIH funding (editorial) | 2025 | Journal of Healthcare Management
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The story of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding over the past few decades reveals itself not just through dollars and percentages, but in terms of hope, frustration, and resilience. It vividly illustrates a fundamental truth about human behavior: We feel the sting of loss far more keenly than the joy of an equivalent gain.

5. Achieve DEI goals without DEI programs | 2025 | Harvard Business Review
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THE CHALLENGE: Formal DEI pro-grams and policies are being scaled back or eliminated, and champions of workforce diversity feel their work is being undone. THE SOLUTION: Many recent management innovations designed to improve performance also boost workforce diversity—for frontline workers and managers alike. And they don’t invite the backlash that formal DEI programs do. THE WAY FORWARD: If companies start using the high-performance management practices described in this article, their diversity numbers are likely to improve. But that will happen only if these innovations are used to manage all employees.

6. Climate-resilient acute care clinical operations: A framework that informs how operations within acute care build climate-resilient health systems| 2025 | Healthcare Management Forum
This article describes the development of an organization-wide intervention to address moral distress in healthcare. A multidisciplinary team, including researchers and organizational partners, used intervention mapping and the theoretical domains framework to create the moral empowerment system for healthcare. This system encompasses a suite of strategies designed for integration into organizations’ operations to empower healthcare professionals individually and collectively to address moral events. This suite includes an ethics education program for healthcare professionals, interprofessional teams, and leaders; moral empowerment consultations; reflective debriefings; and mentoring. An implementation and evaluation plan is also presented, highlighting a staged approach that reflects the organizational context. Ultimately, the approach described here offers health leaders a practical and systematic method to design, implement, and evaluate moral distress interventions, tailoring them to their specific environments.

7. A physician and practice incentive intervention to increase referrals to high-value settings | 2025 | NEJM Catalyst
Historically, navigating the healthcare system for an acute illness would require a visit to a physician’s office or local emergency department, followed by admission to an acute care facility with subsequent discharge to a rehabilitation center, skilled nursing facility, or home. During the pandemic, hospitals and health systems that cared for patients who required additional close follow-up after discharge, but were unable to find accommodations in skilled nursing or rehabilitation facilities, turned to hospital-at-home care. Healthcare organizations across the country began these programs and quickly realized the healthcare benefits for patients, as well as how the model improves value by improving outcomes, enhancing the patient experience, and reducing cost (American Hospital Association, 2020). A recent study released by the American Medical Association surveyed 1,233 randomly chosen individuals using an online form to assess the acceptability of hospital-at-home care and the capacity for caregiver burden.

Multimedia

1. How to get people to do what you want | 2025 | Ted Talks | Video
As a film and television director, Barry Sonnenfeld had millions of dollars riding on his ability to get his cast and crew to play along — and much of what he learned along the way applies to everyday life. Here, he shares nine bits of wisdom and whimsy gleaned from 40 years in entertainment. So the next time you encounter a screaming bully, you too will know what to do.

2. How do I deal with a competitive peer? | 2025 | Coaching Real Leaders | Podcast
She’s stepped into a leadership position thanks, in part, to a former boss at her organization. But now, this former boss has become a peer, and perhaps competition for the next-level role. Plus, their leadership styles often clash. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through how to position herself for career advancement in the face of competition from a colleague.