Collaborative Management in Health Care

Shows how health care administrators and clinical leaders can improve organizational effectiveness and responsiveness by fostering collaboration among different disciplines within their institutions. Provides six original case studies that show how integrative approaches can be applied in practice. Offers useful guidelines for choosing people to serve in key integrative positions, supporting the new structure through reward and information systems, and carrying out the change process.

Part One: Effective Organization Design and Change 1. The Challenges of Improving Organization Effectiveness 2. The Continuum of Organization Structures 3. Leadership Skills for Integrative Managers 4. Reward Systems That Support Integrative Management andChange 5. Matching Integrative Structures and Information Systems 6. Implementing (and Surviving) the Change Process 7. Product Line Management: A Special Case of Integration Part Two: From the Field: Lessons in Design andImplementation 8. Are Two Hats Better Than One? Biscayne Hospital 9. Involving Physicians and Trustees: Philadelphia Hospital MedicalCenter 10. Multiple Approaches to Integration: Hilltop HealthServices 11. Managing Key Factors in a Triad Structure: Bayview MedicalCenter 12. Strengths and Disadvantages of a Service Line Structure:Hanna-Thorndike Hospital 13. Implementing an Integrative Structure: Waller MemorialHospital 14. Using Organization Design to Facilitate Innovation