Managing Health Professionals
Published on 17. August 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-412-33350-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a handbook of personnel management for all health professionals at every level of management. It provides an outline of management theories and practices needed by managers to plan, manage and control staff. In terms of personnel management, the health service is a complex field with potential tensions between different professional groups competing for status. The structure of the service itself also creates special problems for personnel management. The book is of major importance to the improvement of the quality of service delivery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-33350-7 (9780412333507)
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Content
Part 1 The personnel management brief: the need for and functions of management and the special personnel management features of the health business; policies, aims and constraints. Part 2 The elements of managing people: creating a stock of skilled labour; motivation and leadership of people in a health organization; creating an amenable working climate. Part 3 Management in the organization: organisational design and management development; human relations and professional conflicts; organisational support and bureaucracy. Part 4 For the future: new idols.