Health Service Management: Culture, Consensus & The Middle Manager

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Designed to provide health professionals with an integrated theoretical and empirical approach to strategic management through the incorporation of managerial, behavioural and organizational skills into a consensus model. These concepts are important in health service management from a strategic perspective. This book endeavours to provoke and stimulate professionals to examine the behavioural, professional, environmental and structural factors under-pinning health care management and, thereby, to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to strategic management in health service organizations. The book should be of immense benefit to the students of business management, health care management as well as for those practising in this field. Table of Contents Foreword. Preview. Preface. 1. Strategic Management Principles. 2. The Middle Manager in Health Service Provision. 3. Managerial Effectiveness. 4. Organisational Policy & Structure. 5. Professional Health Service Organisations. 6. Inter-Professional Relations. 7. Change Management in Health Service Provision. 8. Leadership for the Future. 9. Motivation for Health Professional Managers. 10. Involvement in Strategy Development in the Health Service. 11. Organisational & Professional Commitment & Its Influence on Health Service Management. 12. Organisational Culture & Its Effect on Health Service Management. 13. Strategic Consensus of Health Service Strategy. 14. An Integrative Approach to Strategic Management in the Health Services: The Consensus Model. Bibliography. Index.