Managing Modern Healthcare - Knowledge, Networks and Practice (Hardcover)

Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practice they belong to. Managing Modern Healthcare fills these important gaps in our understanding by drawing upon an in-depth study of management networks and practice in three healthcare organisations in the UK. It draws from the primary research a number of important and grounded lessons about how management networks develop and influence the spread of management knowledge and practice; how management training and development relates to the needs of managers facing challenging conditions; and how those conditions are themselves shaping the nature of management in healthcare. This book reveals how managers in practice are responding to the many contemporary challenges facing healthcare (and the NHS in particular) and how they are able or not to effectively exploit sources of knowledge, learning and best practice through the networks of practice they engage in to improve healthcare delivery and healthcare organisational performance. Managing Modern Healthcare makes a number of important theoretical contributions as well as practical recommendations. The theoretical and empirical contributions the book makes relate to wider work on networks and networking, management knowledge, situated learning/communities of practice, professionalization/professional identity and healthcare management more generally. The practical contribution comes in the form of recommendations for healthcare management practitioners and policy makers that are intended to impact upon and help enhance healthcare management delivery and performance.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Health Management
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Mike Bresnen • Damian Hodgson • Simon Bailey • Paula Hyde • John Hassard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-99878-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Hospital administration & management Promotions
LSN:	1-138-99878-8
Barcode:	9781138998780

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