Mastering Leadership

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Author: Alan Belasen, PhD, Barry Eisenberg, PhD, John Huppertz, PhD
Affiliation: Professor and Chair, MBA Program, SUNY Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN 10: 1284043231
ISBN 13: 9781284043235
eISBN: 9781284043242
Edition: 1st
Description:
The challenges facing the healthcare industry are unparalleled in scope, number, and magnitude. Organizational realignments of healthcare systems, uncertainty about the course and impact of legislation, an aging population with evolving clinical needs, the rapid evolution of information management technologies-all combined with pressure to establish reliable systems of quality management have created an unprecedented environment for health care leaders at every level of the system. Mastering Leadership defines and clarifies the extraordinary challenges leaders in the healthcare industry are facing and will continue to confront in the coming years. The book advances a model of leadership that enables executives to steer their organizations through the maze of uncertainty created by legislative, economic, demographic, clinical, information management, and political change. With contributions from leading scholars and experts in the field, the authors skillfully demonstrate how the transformational demands of leadership can be effectively integrated with the transactional and operational necessities of managing. Key Features: Uses the Competing Values Framework as the framework for guiding leaders toward an aptitude for assimilating vision development, strategic planning, and operational management. Highly experienced lead authors with complementary experience as a health care executive and as a leader of one of the fastest growing graduate programs in business, management, and leadership. Organized into four distinct sections: competition & commitment; communication & collaboration; community & credibility; coordination & compliance Chapters include learning objectives, vignettes, case studies, case study review questions, review questions, references.
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