Healthcare Organisation Management

It's playing with people's lives, like you were playing a slot machine. [...] I love slot machines, but I don't like Russian roulette.

Management is defined here as the accomplishment of desired objectives by establishing an environment favorable to performance by people operating in organized groups. Each of the managerial functions (planning, organizing, staffing, , directing, and controlling) is analyzed and described in a systematic way. As this is done, both the distilled experience of practicing managers and the findings of scholars are presented. This is approached in such a way that the reader may grasp the relationships between each of the functions, obtain a clear view of the major principles underlying them.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.