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The Myths of Health Care: Towards New Models of Leadership and Management in the Healthcare Sector
Paola Adinolfi (Ed.)
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Description for The Myths of Health Care: Towards New Models of Leadership and Management in the Healthcare Sector
Hardback. Editor(s): Adinolfi, Paola; Borgonovi, Elio. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCQ; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg's Myths of Healthcare as a springboard, it reveals management practices that undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness, service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and common sense. The book's multidisciplinary panel of experts analyzes the most popular healthcare management myths, ... Read more
This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg's Myths of Healthcare as a springboard, it reveals management practices that undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness, service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and common sense. The book's multidisciplinary panel of experts analyzes the most popular healthcare management myths, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319535999
SKU
V9783319535999
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Ref
99-15
About Paola Adinolfi (Ed.)
Paola Adinolfi, PhD, head of the Department of Management and Information Technology and full professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy. Elio Borgonovi, full professor of Economics and Management of Public Sector Organizations at University Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
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