Murako Saito

Murako Saito is a representative of Health Care Technology Management Research Center in Tokyo, and research adviser in the Institute of Future Healthcare Policy in Waseda University. She had been a professor of cognitive ergonomics, organizational ergonomics in Graduate and Undergraduate Courses in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, and as the position that preceded Waseda University, she had been a professor of Industrial Health, Healthcare Management in Dept. of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Ryukyu. She received PhD of Health Sciences from Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo where she graduated. She had been a Fulbright Scholarship Grantee authorized by US Department for continuing to study in Graduate School of Public Health and Teachers College, Columbia University (New York, USA) . Dr. Saito has been involved in several associations and served as editorial boards of national and international journals. She serves currently for NPO Joint Lecture-Consultation Plans. Her major research interests are on organizational redesign and transformation into innovative organizations by strategic knowledge management in the processes of cognition-action coupling or the recursive processes of organizational learning, and by fostering the participants to be a healthy actor and harnessing potentiality of the participants in individual and collective levels.

Publications

Causal Relationship among Perceived Organizational Environment, Leadership and Organizational Learning in Industrial Workers
Causal Relationship among Perceived Organizational Environment, Leadership and Organizational Learning in Industrial Workers
Murako Saito. © 2012. 8 pages.
Managing Knowledge for Enhancing the Participants through Organizational Learning and Leadership
Managing Knowledge for Enhancing the Participants through Organizational Learning and Leadership
Murako Saito. © 2012. 11 pages.
Conceptual Levels of Information Processing and Information Interpretation in Knowledge Management
Conceptual Levels of Information Processing and Information Interpretation in Knowledge Management
Murako Saito. © 2012. 12 pages.
Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management
Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management
Murako Saito, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Masako Fuji, Eliezer Geisler. © 2010. 322 pages.
In global environments, healthcare organizations are required to be flexible and resilient in coping with uncertain and complex circumstances. Redesigning Innovative Healthcare...
Managing Knowledge for Enhancing the Participants through Organizational Learning and Leadership
Managing Knowledge for Enhancing the Participants through Organizational Learning and Leadership
Murako Saito. © 2010. 14 pages.
Managing knowledge is essential to facilitate the process of organizational learning and to foster organizational culture in which the participants are inspired and feel...
Whole Systems/Holistic Approaches in Individual and Collective Levels
Whole Systems/Holistic Approaches in Individual and Collective Levels
Murako Saito. © 2010. 18 pages.
In managing complexity and ambiguity, we need holistic or whole systems approaches. Complementary systemic approaches to integrate some separate systems are needed for fostering...
Conceptual Levels of Information Processing and Information Interpretation in Knowledge Management
Conceptual Levels of Information Processing and Information Interpretation in Knowledge Management
Murako Saito. © 2010. 16 pages.
In managing knowledge, conceptual confusion on information arises frequently among researchers in different disciplines. The term of information is defined at least into four...
Perceived Organizational Environment and Performance Reliability in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Perceived Organizational Environment and Performance Reliability in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Murako Saito. © 2010. 14 pages.
Most hospital organizational environments in Japan are required to redesign the current organization into a new type of organization, namely a knowledge-based or an intelligent...
Roles of Interpersonal Relationships in Improving Organizational Performances in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Roles of Interpersonal Relationships in Improving Organizational Performances in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Murako Saito. © 2010. 18 pages.
In this chapter, a comparison of organizational performances representing team reciprocity, communication accuracy, and performance reliability was made with participants’...
Interference of Mood States at Work with Perceived Performance, Perceived Efficacy, and Perceived Health
Interference of Mood States at Work with Perceived Performance, Perceived Efficacy, and Perceived Health
Murako Saito. © 2010. 15 pages.
The competencies of self-management and interpersonal relationship management play a crucial role in improving individual and organizational performance. Interference of mood...
Causal Relationship among Perceived Organizational Environment, Leadership, and Organizational Learning in Industrial Workers
Causal Relationship among Perceived Organizational Environment, Leadership, and Organizational Learning in Industrial Workers
Murako Saito. © 2010. 13 pages.
It does not seem that recent social events occur simply due to the inappropriateness of a particular individual human action or a particular technological system. Most social...
Perceived Organizational Environment and Performance Reliability in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Perceived Organizational Environment and Performance Reliability in the Case of Hospital Nurses
Murako Saito. © 2010. 10 pages.
Most hospital organizational environments in Japan are required to redesign the current organization into a new type of organization, namely a knowledge-based or an intelligent...
Appreciation Level and Organizational Performance
Appreciation Level and Organizational Performance
Murako Saito. © 2008. 7 pages.
Corporate environment changing with the advent of information technology and with diversified organization has been inquired to redesign to transform into an intelligent and...
Relationship Management Competence and Organizational Performance
Relationship Management Competence and Organizational Performance
Murako Saito. © 2008. 7 pages.
The competence of organizational management is required to cope with complexity of technology and diversity of social demands for maintaining good interpersonal relationship by...