Assignment
I. Why is the healthcare industry so heavily regulated? Identify three major laws and/or regulations affecting healthcare organizations. What are the central goals of the laws and regulations you identified? Who benefits from them?
II. Organizational learning requires a climate of openness, trust, and honesty. What can managers do to establish and maintain such a climate?
III. How can managers distinguish a motivational problem from other factors that affect an individual's performance and what role can managers play to improve staff morale and motivation?
IV. Recently, you have been promoted, and your former business manager team members now report to you. As the new leader of the management team, what challenges will you face in managing the team? How would you approach these challenges?
V. Improving the quality of healthcare in the United States has proven to be an elusive and difficult task. Healthcare organizations have experienced considerable difficulty in grasping all of the individual-level, team-level, organization-level, and system-level factors that shape quality. They have also been challenged to measure quality, to motivate providers to change their practices, and to implement quality improvement projects. The problems have been manifest in high rates of hospital readmission, high rates of preventable deaths and medical errors, uneven quality of care for people with inadequate insurance, and the introduction of new and expensive medical technologies without concomitant gains in life expectancy.
Of the following schools of thought, select and discuss two that you believe to offer the most useful advice in regard to improving care quality in a healthcare organization.
a) Scientific Management
b) Classical School of Administration
c) Human Relations School
d) Contingency Theory of Leadership
e) Decision-Making School ("Neo-Weberian")
f) Institutional Theory
g) Open Systems and Resource Dependence Theories
h) Strategic Management Perspective
i) Organizational Ecology
j) Social Network Perspective
k) System Perspective
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.