Managing
the Healthcare Professional
Managing the Healthcare Professional is
a guide that goes against current views stressing
the need for uniform treatment of personnel.
Rather,
Charles McConnell suggests that successful management
of healthcare employees best occurs when the environment
recognizes employees as professionals who possess
an important mixture of characteristics that make
the individuals truly unique. |
He suggests that high
performance is most likely when manager-employee
relationships strive to address this uniqueness.
To support this position, McConnell describes specific
points of departure in how professionals approach
their jobs, how they relate to their organization
and its objectives, and how they respond to a manager's
leadership.Healthcare professionals who have recently
assumed managerial positions are most likely to
find the book beneficial. However, too many pages
seem devoted to topics of narrow interest at times.
As an example, nearly 20 pages are devoted solely
to unions.
Also, some confusion as to appropriate audience
occurs because some of the book's chapters are very
basic and other chapters assume the reader understands
the terminology used. As an example, in the second
chapter, pages are devoted to describing technical
and professional occupations and required training.
This is very basic information that one would typically
expect to find in an appendix to the chapter...
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