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Management Principles for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition

Author(s): Joan Gratto Liebler, MPA, RHIA, Professor Emeritus, Health Information Management, Temple University, Pennsylvania
Charles R. McConnell, MBA, CM
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763746179
  • ISBN-10:0763746177
  • Paperback    552 pages      © 2008
Price: International Sales $102.95 US List
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Management Principles for Health Professionals is a practical guide for new or future practicing healthcare managers. The customary activities of the manager—planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting—are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings. Students will learn proven management concepts, techniques, models, and tools for managing individuals or teams with skill and ease.

 

The Fifth Edition is loaded with all-new examples from real-world healthcare settings. It addresses the most current topics in health care such as patient safety initiatives, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), revenue recovery efforts, and diversity training.

 

Specific Chapter Updates:

  • Chapter 2- NEW! A completely new chapter, concerned largely with the management of change and the manager's role as a change agent. This chapter anchors and complements the balance of the book with significant pertinent examples relevant to what's occurring today in health care. Much has been added concerning addressing change with employees, and developments such as the advent of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are addressed in detail.
  • Chapter 6- The chapter entitled "Organizing" (formerly Chapter 5) has been expanded to include enlarged consideration of outsourcing and information on telecommuting and using temporary workers.
  • Chapter 10- NEW! This revised and reorganized section combines the former Chapter 6 ("Staffing: Recruiting and Retaining Quality Employees") and the former Chapter 10 ("Adaptation, Motivation, and Conflict Management").
  • Chapter 11- The chapter entitled "Training and Development: The Backbone of Motivation and Retention" now includes considerable new information about orientation, both all-employee and departmental, including comprehensive orientation checklists.
  • Chapter 14- This revised chapter, "Communication: The Glue that Binds Us Together", includes a greatly expanded section on written communication.

 

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Chapter 1 – The Changing Scene: Organizational Adaptation and Survival 
Chapter 2 – The Challenge of Change      
Chapter 3 – Today’s Concept of Organizational Management   
Chapter 4 – Planning        
Chapter 5 -- Decision Making          
Chapter 6 – Organizing        
Chapter 7 – Improving Performance and Controlling the Critical Cycle 
Chapter 8 – Budgeting: Controlling the Ultimate Resource   
Chapter 9 – Committees and Teams      
Chapter 10 – Adaptation, Motivation, and Conflict Management  
Chapter 11 – Training ands Development: The Backbone of Motivation and Retention 
Chapter 12 – Authority, Leadership, and Supervision    
Chapter 13 – Human Resource Management: A Line Manager’s Perspective   
Chapter 14 – Communication: The Glue that Binds Us Together  
Chapter 15 – Day-to-Day Management for the Professional-as-Manager 


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Joan Gratto Liebler, MPA, RHIA-Professor Emeritus, Health Information Management, Temple University, Pennsylvania

Joan Gratto Liebler is Professor Emeritus, Health Information Management, at Temple University. She has over 34 years of professional experience teaching and researching in the health care setting. She has worked in community health centers, behavioral health settings, schools, industrial clinics, prisons, and long term care, home care, acute care, and hospice care facilities. Her research focuses on the legal, administrative, and ethical aspects of end-of-life decision making.

She is also the author of Medical Records: Policies and Guidelines and numerous journal articles relating to health information management.

Ms. Liebler holds the degrees of Master of Arts, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA and Master of Public Administration, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She is a credentialed Registered Health Information Administrator.

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Charles R. McConnell, MBA, CM


Charles McConnell is an independent health care management and human resources consultant and freelance writer specializing in business, management, and human resource topics. For 11 years he was active as a management engineering consultant with the Management and Planning Services (MAPS) division of the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS) and later spent 18 years as a hospital human resources manager. As author, coauthor, and anthology editor he has published 24 books and has contributed more than 350 articles to various publications. He is in his 26th year as editor of the quarterly professional journal, The Health Care Manager.

 

Mr. McConnell holds an MBA and BS in Engineering from the State University of New York at   Buffalo   ,  Buffalo   ,   New York .

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