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Management Principles for Health Professionals, 5th Edition
Joan Liebler, MPA, RHIA; Charles McConnell, MBA, CM

Paperback: 550 pages
ISBN 0763746177
9780763746179
Jones & Bartlett
August 2007
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Management Principles for Health Care Professionals has been completely revised and updated to better prepare and bolster readers in their roles as health care managers. 

This 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 customary activities of the manager are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings:

  • planning

  • organizing

  • decision making

  • staffing

  • motivating

  • budgeting

This book is the essential reference for health professionals regardless of their field of specialty. The practical instructions and examples throughout the book reflect multidisciplinary backgrounds. Readers will learn tools for managing individuals or teams with skill and ease: 

  • proven management concepts

  • techniques

  • models

This 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. Key features include:

  • Case studies and exercises, based on real-world scenarios, in each chapter.

  • Detailed examples of practical materials, such as a union contract, department budgets, training objectives, quality control charts, policy and mission statements, and more.

  • Objectives and review questions in each chapter that focus on key concepts.

  • A clear and concise writing style that makes use of charts, tables, and graphs to illustrate concepts.

You may sample these chapters here:

Subjects covered include:

  • The Changing Scene: Organizational Adaptation and Survival

  • The Challenge of Change

  • Today’s Concept of Organizational Management

  • Planning

  • Decision Making

  • Organizing

  • Improving Performance and Controlling the Critical Cycle

  • Budgeting: Controlling the Ultimate Resource

  • Committees and Teams

  • Adaptation, Motivation, and Conflict Management

  • Training ands Development: The Backbone of Motivation and Retention

  • Authority, Leadership, and Supervision

  • Human Resource Management: A Line Manager’s Perspective

  • Communication: The Glue that Binds Us Together

  • Day-to-Day Management for the Professional-as-Manager

Joan Liebler, MPA, RHIA, 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. 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.

Charles McConnell, MBA, CM, retired following 18 years in health care human resources management with the affiliated organizations of ViaHealth, a multi-facility system based in Rochester, New York. He spent 11 years as a senior consultant with the Management and Planning Services (MAPS) division of the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS) and had a prior career in industrial engineering. He is presently affiliated with the VMC Group, Niagara Falls, New York, as a management consultant and works as an independent management consultant as well. An active author and editor, he has published 13 books and some 250 articles and serves as the editor of a quarterly professional journal. Mr. McConnell holds a BS degree in engineering and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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