Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior

Shortell, Stephen M.; Kaluzny, Arnold D.

ISBN 10: 1418001899 / ISBN 13: 9781418001896

Published by Cengage Learning, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1418001899
• ISBN 13: 9781418001896
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 41 ounces

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Synopsis

Written by nationally known experts in the field, this text brings a systematic understanding of organizational principles, practices, and insight to the management of health services organizations. While based on state-of-the-art organizational theory and research, the emphasis is on application through Features such as In the Real World and Debate Times which present actual situations and challenge the reader to provide a solution or a philosophical position. The clinical enterprise model is introduced in this new edition, and is fully developed in chapter 2.

About the Authors

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D. is an A. C. Buehler Distinguished Professor of Health Services Management. He is Professor of Organization Behavior at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Professor of Sociology. Stephen Shortell is also a member of the Institute of Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois.

Arnold K. Kaluzney, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina.