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Exploring the darkest side of organizations may have a potential to change our previous assumptions about business life. Scholars both in management and organizational research fields have shown interest in the "bright" side of behavioral life and have looked for the ways to create a positive organizational climate and assumed a positive relation between happiness of employees and productivity. These main assumptions of the Human Relations School have dominated the scientific inquiry on organizational behavior. However, "the dark side of organizational life" may have more explanatory power than "the bright side". Hostility, jealousy, envy, rivalry, gossip, problematic personalities, dislike,...
Life Space Management is a book that throws up a new concept of enhancing individual & organisational effectiveness by managing the parameters of Life Space, a word coined by Kurt Lewin. Our entire effectiveness in life depends on how well we create space with others in the environment. All of us intrinsically yet unknowingly practice the art of creating the right space, whenever we interact with others. Our entire relationship blooms and grows or diminishes based on the quantum of life space we create with them. The author has researched on this new subject and put across his views to help the reader evolve and grow more effective in life.
This book provides the core knowledge that all doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and non-clinical leaders and managers at all levels should have at their fingertips to plan and execute both large-scale and continuous incremental improvement. The contributors of this book collectively cover the motivational aspects for such improvements as well as the core frameworks and techniques that are proven to be effective in the world’s best healthcare organisations, and in other industries. The book is rich with examples and case studies, with a focus on ‘what works’ in healthcare organisational improvement and how it can be executed effectively. Most of the book’s contributors are senior practitioners who have first-hand experience of leading healthcare transformation projects and can speak to how constraints can be overcome to provide real gains. Focusing on improving organisational leadership, management and systems, this book will be of great interest to clinical leaders, medical colleges and healthcare associations.
ÔHealthy organisations are twice as likely to get better results than unhealthy ones, and this could be a matter of life and death if your business is healthcare. Whatever way you look at it, HR has a key role to play and the authors once again points the way.Õ Ð Clare Chapman, Group People Director, BT (British Telecoms) ÔIf healthcare systems around the world are to respond to the growing demands of an ageing population and advances in technology, then healthcare workforces will need to managed with imagination, agility and innovation. This important book sets out some of these challenges in a thoughtful and accessible way, allowing the reader to tap into the research pedigree of its a...
This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990. The book adds to the international literature on New Public Management with a distinctively Australian focus and synthesizes the impact of health sector and industrial relations reforms on health care management and work practices. It illustrates that New Public Management practices have been implemented creatively at both macro and micro levels. The book provides context to the changing work practices in the health care sector.
Updated guide on essential strategic management practices for health care organisations Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations delivers an essential framework for leading health care organisations through strategic management, examining the processes of strategic thinking, consensus building and documentation of that thinking into a strategic plan, and creating and maintaining strategic momentum. This Ninth Edition contains numerous updates on the rapid advancements in the field of health care, different health care settings, and natural disasters in a healthcare context, with revisions to existing content reflecting the latest research and methodology in the field. This book show...
Leading and Managing Health Services: An Australasian Perspective is an indispensable resource for students in the ever-changing healthcare industry.