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Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

The Balanced Scorecard allows managers to look at their business from four critical perspectives, financial, internal business, in...

complex today than it has ever been and some authors believe defining management by functions is pass?, however, these same functi...

Swift (2004b) says the evolution of organizational relationships that have been building for many years have "failed to provide us...

the use of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) technology within the structure of a complex organization. Because the hospital is a...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

also the individuals within the organizations need to learn how to adept and make use of new information, as well as unlearn socia...

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

interests, personal friendships or other specific elements (Adler and Elmhorst, 2002). Informal communication networks may be sma...

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

were available to enhance the decision and design processes. 1. Terms of Reference Harley Davidson are a well known motorbike m...

will become less common. Teams are making more decisions. This serves to replace the increasing importance on mentoring within t...

In six pages this paper discusses STAT order designations and its usage by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Org...

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

In ten pages this paper discusses Alabama's rural hospital in a consideration of how the standards of the Joint Commission on Acc...

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

the staff themselves. The pressures include limited time with each patient and pressure to deal with a large patient load due to l...

system level orientation. This system perpetuates itself, so the universal worker feels excluded and can find no real attachment t...

method of evaluation identifies different measures where there may be a gap between the level of service expected and that gained....

and they have their error down to just about zero (Rona 2005, p. 87). Different studies indicate that hospitals have about a 97.1...

more of a smaller part of each task, to increase efficiency, this is an approach that is linked to the efficiency approach. The r...

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

any of the organizations system which are not available to the general public, which will include the patient records it should be...

empowerment of the PFS staff, giving them responsibility over specific accounts and up to date tools to allow them to track the p...

The writer presents a paper with the results of a fictitious interview with an employee of a healthcare organization looking at th...