Surveying the landscape: Organisational change and its effects

Abstract

The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital was officially opened on the 29th of November, 2014. The hospital combined the Royal Children's Hospital, Herston, and the Mater Children's Hospital, representing the largest investment in children's health services in Queensland's state history. With the merging of two hospitals, each department faced many challenges. The effects of organisational change can influence the amount of employee engagement each person experiences. Employee engagement is the emotional attachment employees feel towards their place of work, job role, position within the company, colleagues and culture and the affect this attachment has on well being and productivity.1 We are interested in gathering data and information from all staff members of the Medical Imaging Department. The survey will utilise quantitative and qualitative methods. After ethics approval, the survey will be emailed to all staff members, and data will be collected, analysed and discussed. The aim of this survey is to gain a better understanding of the current state of the department, how the staff members felt about the merging of the two departments, what went right, what went wrong, and how we can improve for the future. The results will address specific areas such as communication, management, workflow processes and problems encountered when working in a multidisciplinary team. Understanding change and its role on human dynamics is important. The results of this survey will help provide feedback to our department, and also provide advice to other hospitals looking at combining their services in the future.L6134701302016-12-05 <br />