Health Care Management : Organization Design and Behavior
ISBN: 9781418001896 | 1418001899
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 11/28/2005
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Written by nationally known experts in the field, this text brings a systematic understanding of organizational principles, practices, and insight to the management of health services organizations. While based on state-of-the-art organizational theory and research, the emphasis is on application through Features such as "In the Real World" and "Debate Times" which present actual situations and challenge the reader to provide a solution or a philosophical position. The clinical enterprise model is introduced in this new edition, and is fully de... MORE
| Foreward | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
| Organizations and Managers | p. 1 |
| Organization Theory and Health Services Management | p. 4 |
| The Managerial Role | p. 34 |
| Motivating, Leading, and Negotiating | p. 61 |
| Motivating People | p. 64 |
| Leadership: A Framework for Thinking and Acting | p. 106 |
| Conflict Management ... MORE | p. 130 |
| Operating the Technical System | p. 151 |
| Groups and Teams in Health Services Organizations | p. 154 |
| Work Design | p. 191 |
| Coordination and Communication | p. 210 |
| Power and Politics in Health Services Organizations | p. 244 |
| Renewing the Organization | p. 271 |
| Organization Design | p. 274 |
| Managing Strategic Alliances | p. 307 |
| Organizational Innovation, Change, and Learning | p. 330 |
| Organizational Performance: Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness | p. 356 |
| Charting the Future | p. 391 |
| Strategy Making in Health Care Organizations | p. 394 |
| Creating and Managing the Future | p. 432 |
| Glossary | p. 455 |
| Author Index | p. 471 |
| Subject Index | p. 485 |
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