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Questions related to Health Care MGT.

Answer the following five (5) questions.

 Your answers must address ALL aspects of the question while reflecting brevity, the proper use of the English language, and demonstrate the writing of a world-class graduate student.

 Consistently CITE your work using any style you choose.

QUESTIONS:

1. Why is the healthcare industry so heavily regulated? Identify three (3)major laws and/or regulations affecting healthcare organizations. What are the central goals of the laws and regulations you identified? Who benefits from them?

2. Organizational learning requires a climate of openness, trust, and honesty. What can managers do to establish and maintain such a climate?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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 (2) that you believe to offer the most useful advice in regard to improving care quality in a healthcare organization.

 Scientific Management

 Classical School of Administration

 Human Relations School

 Contingency Theory of Leadership

 Decision-Making School ("Neo-Weberian")

 Institutional Theory

 Open Systems and Resource Dependence Theories

 Strategic Management Perspective

 Organizational Ecology

 Social Network Perspective

 System Perspective