Summary
Contents
Subject index
Each chapter flows well and holds the reader's interest. The book is suitable for learners and experienced practitioners. - Keith Hurst, Leeds University
The management of change in the context of new policy directives and agendas is a critical issue for healthcare practitioners. All professionals – not just managers - need to develop and implement new services designed to bring patients into the centre of healthcare delivery. This book looks at the leadership, interpersonal, and management skills needed to manage such change effectively within multi-professional healthcare settings.
Key Features
- Provides unique use of action research as a model for planning and implementing change at the patient-service interface
- Makes use of evidence and case studies to demonstrate the stages of the change process
- Includes tips and useful strategies for achieving change
- Shows dynamic change can be achieved at the individual, team, departmental and organizational level
- Covers a range of topics including: organizational culture; leadership; conflict resolution; managerial roles; and organizational analysis
Managing Change in Healthcare is ideal for all nursing and allied health care trainees taking courses in management and leadership. It will also be invaluable for qualified professionals and managers who need a clear and engaging guide to the key issues and skills underpinning effective healthcare management.
Leadership in Healthcare
Leadership in Healthcare
Introduction
The key to implementing successful change in healthcare is leadership integrated with effective management processes.
Leadership research, anecdote and opinion has created a vast and bewildering range of literature (Hunt, 1992) characterized by a myriad of competing terms and definitions; theories and models; qualities, actions and skills; as well as historical shifts in fashions (Michie and West, 2004). The lack of consensus over meaning can be seen by claims that there are more than 1,500 definitions of leadership (Gill, 2006) and more than 65 classification systems (Northouse, 2004).
Furthermore, leadership has been examined from a wide range of disciplines, particularly business and psychology, each of which has focused on and studied its favourite constructs, creating its own set of categories and theories ...
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