Benefits and limitations of the management planning

Strategic and operational planning occur at different level within health services. Strategic planning leads to establishing the outputs while operational planning establishes objectives, programs, policies, procedures, activities. (Longest and Darr, p. 424). Planning involves decision making about human resources and the future. It is dynamic, continuous and focused on the outputs.

As we’ve learned in prior modules, organizing includes purposely developing patterns of relationships between people and resources, determining how the work is divided and specialized.

Watch/Listen to “What makes us feel good about our work opens in a new window” by Dan Ariely.

Discussion Topics and Instructions
The following are some of the management functions addressed in this module.

Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Decision making

Discuss and analyze the benefits and limitations of the management function of PLANNING in depth, including how this connects to other functions towards achieving or not achieving organizational goals.
Examine how information technology assists or hampers the functions you are addressing?
Evaluate how relationships among individuals and organizational culture impacts motivation and satisfaction and an organization’s ability to coordinate work.
Cite from course textbooks and a least one outside source.

Course textbook # 1: Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems
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Read Longest and Darr, pp. 421-459 (Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems)
Read Longest and Darr, pp. 587-621
Read Longest and Darr, pp. 632-633
Read Longest and Darr, pp. 508-527
Read Longest and Darr, pp. 293-321

Course textbook #2: Effectively Managing Nonprofit Organizations ISBN 978-0-87101-369-9
Read Edwards and Yankey, pp. 141-176
Read Edwards and Yankey, pp. 179-193
Read Edwards and Yankey, pp. 215-237