...Roles and Functions By Terri Peters 09/30/2013 HCS/325 Shawn Matheson, MBA, LNHA, FACHCA Roles and Functions Introduction Managerial roles and functions in today’s society vary depending on which field and the specialty of the facility. Roles and functions in healthcare doesn’t just have an impact on patients but employees as well. As a leader, it is important to know what the roles and functions are because if not carried out correctly, there may be a crisis within the facility. Upon continuation of this paper, it will discuss the major functions of management involving health care, how these functions apply to managing others as ourselves, what is the most important role of a health care manager and what is the most significant aspect related to health care management that I would expect to gain from this class. The four major functions of management in a heath care setting Planning There are four major important function of being a manager, these functions are Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling. Lombardi, D. N., & Schermerhorn, J. R. (2007). Goal-setting is the first step to planning to ensure that every patient is well taken care of. This means making sure that not only is the patient satisfied but the patient’s family is as well. In health care management, when planning, they are coordinating with the community by receiving referrals from physicians and making sure that there are sufficient staff scheduled within the facility to handle the...
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...Roles and Functions Latonya Jackson HCS/ 325 September 2, 2013 Michelle Crumby Introduction Healthcare managers play a vital role in the day to day operations in a healthcare facility or environment. The functions that healthcare managers must possess in order to be successful in maintaining the vision of the organization are planning, leading, controlling and organizing. Healthcare is constantly growing and it is important for there to be good managers who can plan ahead, delegate job responsibilities, and organize the staff to complete their tasks accurately and effectively. Four Major Functions in Management One of the four major functions in management is planning. When planning a manager must first think about the goals and vision of the organization and how to best take the necessary steps to accomplish all goals. Planning allows managers to make good decisions as well as helping them keep track of their department’s progress toward the perception of their organization. Another major function in management is leading. According to Lombardi, Schermerhorn and Kramer (2007), “Leading is the process of arousing people’s enthusiasm to work hard to fulfill plans and accomplish objectives. Through leading, managers build commitments, encourage activities that support goals, and influence others to do their best work on the organization’s behalf”. In my opinion managers have to be good leaders as well; in order to effectively assist their staff in performing their...
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...Roles and Function Demanesse Humphries HCS/325 September 17, 2012 Joan Ralph Webber Roles and Function The four major functions of management are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Planning involves a detailed action plan to reach a goal, such as using critical and creative thinking, organization involves determining what roles everyone will have on a project, gathering resources need to do the job, leading involves communicating, motivating and inspiring others to meet the goals that are set, and controlling involves measuring performance and taking action to make sure results are favorable, it also allows all the other steps to be successful. (Donald J. Lambardi, 2007) The four functions of management are important because it allows managers at all levels to successfully accomplish goals and to manage people effectively. Managers have to first assesses or project where the organization is and how it can improve. Organizing must be done in order to determine what course of action the company will take; they also have to plan to satisfy internal and external factors that may arise. Leading involves motivating staff to maintain a positive and effective work environment, build interpersonal relationship and to solve problems. Controlling is a set of standards which maps out the plan and assigned task to help staff achieve the company’s set goals. (Pakhare, 2011) The most important role for a health care manager and leader in a diversified health care industry...
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...Roles and Functions Tm Anderson HCS 325 Stephanie Bryson Roles and Functions Managers in a healthcare organization have many roles and functions. Sound management is important to the survival of any healthcare organization. Keeping team members informed on a daily basis is important; also healthcare managers need to plan meetings, create work schedules, and confirm team members have the appropriate skills to be productive (Johnson, 2005). There are two types of administrator, the generalist and the specialist. The generalist is responsible for managing an entire facility. The specialist is responsible for the operation of a specific department. Healthcare administrators are also responsible for developing, and expanding programs for research, preventative medicine, medical and vocational rehabilitation, and community health and welfare (Brewer, 2002-2004). An important role of a healthcare manager is having the skills to accomplish the goals of the organization and the confidence to see it through. Trust of the other team members is another important part of the healthcare manager. Managers are expected to perform roles that fall into other categories, these include interpersonal, informational, and decisional. The interpersonal role involves connecting with people at the work place as well as outside the workplace. Informational role is giving, receiving, and analyzing information. Decisional involves using information to make decisions to solve problems and address...
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...Roles and Functions Lonesa C. Walls HCS 325 December 5, 2011 Marcia Baker Roles and Functions The role of a health care manager covers many aspects. They are required to keep their staff on task, as well as encouraging them in positive ways to do their jobs. They control the organizing and planning for their team. Their team reports to them if they have any issues with the job and the healthcare manager is responsible for handling any situations. “They must create the work environments in which individuals and groups contribute to organizational productivity,” which is called accountability. (Lombardi, Schermerhorn, & Kramer, 2007) Healthcare managers must take responsibility for the accomplishments of its members and for the indiscretions of the team also. What makes a good manager is one who recognizes the good in his or her staff, but they are also able to point out when mistakes are made and rectify the problems. The most important role as a health care manager is valuing diversity. It is important for diversity to be present in any company. The ability to get along with a person of a different race, age or religion is one of the best qualities a manager can possess. Companies recognize that diversity in the workplace can make or break them. “Today’s workforce is increasingly diverse not only in demographics, but also in cultural traditions and lifestyles. This presents both a challenge in terms of required employer support and an opportunity with respect to...
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...Roles and Functions Paper HCS 325 Roles and Functions Paper A health care manager is someone who is in charge of running a medical office or a department within a hospital. Health care managers are responsible for keeping track of the doctors, and other hospital workers, as well as ensuring t hey all have the things necessary to be successful. Health care managers are responsible for keeping their team members informed of what is expected of them, as well as passing along information in times of crisis. Health care managers are expected to keep facilities running by recruiting, training, and keeping track of team members. Managers must plan meetings, coordinate among the other teams in a given work environment, plan work schedules, and keep tasks and goals clear for individuals. I feel the most important role a health care manager has is first making sure each team member has the things they need to be a productive member, and secondly planning to help make crisis situations easier to deal with. A health care manager must help make disaster plans on how to deal with needing to deal with more patients, as well as how to have the help in the hospital to care for the patients already there should something happen. From this course I hope to leave with a better understanding of how to plan for, and react in emergency situations. I also expect to learn how to better organize the medical personnel for situations in which a quick response is required. I am hoping to have a...
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...Functions and Roles of Law in Business LAW/421 December 16, 2013 Jane Schneider Functions and Roles of Law in Business I believe that the functions and role of laws in businesses and society are very integrated and important. Laws are used in order to ensure that businesses don’t monopolize the market just as an example. Laws are also very important because they ensure that businesses treat their employee’s correctly, they are used to regulate the relationship between employees and the business they are working for. There are a few different types of laws that protect the people as stated in our text book The Legal Right of Business e1: Substantive laws provide individuals with rights and create certain duties. Procedural laws provide a structure and set of out rules of pursuing substantive rights. Also stated in The Legal Right of Business e1 are the differences between public laws and private laws. Our text book The Legal Right of Business states: Public laws are those derived from some government entity (legislature/executive and administrative regulations (state or federal administrative agencies). Private laws are recognized as binding between two parties even though no specific statute or regulation provides for the rights of the parties. The most common example is a contract for services. Laws have always been created in order to keep the balance between companies and employee’s even as possible. Laws that are created keep the interests of both parties as a priority...
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...When it comes to roles and functions of health care manager the leadership and management responsibilities are becoming more on them due to the economy, and the growing industry, plus the growing number of patients that is put on the health care manager. This paper will discuss what is the most important role or function, the definition of the role and application of management functions and also what I am going to gain from taking this class. Health care management is a growing industry. Health care mangers are in the leadership position and it is their responsibility to make their facility successful and run smoothly. There are four functions or roles of management. Planning is ongoing, management does strategic planning, analyzing internal which is has to do with the facility that is ran by the health care manager and the external is the resources that is not in the facility these are problems which can be for the good or bad of the facility. This is where the manager will find out which is where the manager finds out the weakness and the strengths. Organizing is the second function of the functions or roles of management. This is where the manager will put all the resources in place where it will useful for where the manger determines where to put each staff member and even the external resources. Controlling is the health care manager keeps track of each employees work performance. The health care manager will also be keeping comparison...
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...Roles and Functions University of Phoenix HCS/325 I believe that Health Care Management in today’s society is based upon organizing, leadership skills, and communication skills upon many other things. Organizing is an important step in Health Care Management because without having every little thing organized, there would be no one that would be able to get their job done. It is the Managers job to assign tasks for the day for employees to keep them busy and get their jobs done (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007.). It is also the Managers job to watch over the employees to make sure that their jobs are being done correctly and in a timely manner so that patients are well taken care of from the time that they get there until the time that they leave. Leadership skills is another important step in Health Care Management. It is up to Management to take that leading position to show other employees that they are above them and that if they need anything they can come to them and ask. It is the managers job to help the employees with anything that they need, especially if they have any questions about their jobs or how they are performing them. Management should show employees that they pay attention to them, as well at critique them on how well they or doing their jobs, or how they could change the way that they are doing their job to make it that much better. Communication skills is also important within Health Care Management because without communication there is nothing...
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...1. Roles and Function Paper Vickie Swan Axia College of University of Phoenix 2. The Roles and Functions of a Healthcare Manager Healthcare Management is the profession that provides leadership and direction to healthcare organizations that will deliver healthcare services, and are appointed to positions of authority where they shape the organization by making the important decisions. Decisions such as, relating to recruitment and the development of staff, spending of the financial resources, acquisitions of technology and service additions or reductions , decisions made by healthcare managers affects the overall performance of the organization. Managers must consider two domains as they carry out various tasks makes decisions,( Thompson, 2007a). The domains are termed external and internal. The external refers to the influences and resources that exist outside of the organization and internal refers to those areas of focus that managers need on a daily basis. The internal domain areas reflect the operation of the organization. Managers implement six management functions. Planning- requires the manager to set direction and determine what needs to be accomplished. Organizing- refers to the overall design of the organization, determining positions, teamwork assignments and distributing authority. Staffing- refers to acquiring and retaining human resources, developing and maintaining staff activities and performances, taking appropriate...
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...Graduate Studies Division Case #7 ROLE FUNCTIONS Statement of the Problem PCSO The lateral transfer of an employee from a Technical Department to one of clerical was a challenge. The job item is technical in nature but the assigned work was more of monitoring, consolidating and organizing of vital documents. Having been used to doing system procedures in the computer with paperless works for more than a decade was a complete turnaround when transferred to a new division, who caters to numerous papers for processing. The transfer was a result of organizational change, but there were no proper turnover of the assignment. Stacks of contracts were piling up, no proper data was given, no specific function and job responsibility, in totality everything is unclear. However, the main function is to organize and consolidate, match data with the branches’ data under Visayas, which is the role the management expected the employee to fulfill and perform. There is however a confusing part as to what and where to start. In addition, another workload was given by the Branch Head to generate technical reports needed by the Visayas branches and head office Manila, which is supposed to be the main corresponding function of the employee in relation to his position. But because of the abundant pending contracts to be processed with so little time to organize, a conflict of which should be prioritize is a problem. It is a choice between the job assignment assigned by the Office of...
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...Roles and Functions Paper HCS/325 Mosunmola Adeyemi September 15, 2014 Roles and Functions Paper Management in healthcare comes with many different roles and functions. A healthcare organization manager has many private responsibilities as well as organization responsibilities. In order to carry out different roles and functions, managers need to possess several key competences which refer to a state in which an individual has the requisite or adequate ability or qualities to perform certain functions. The functions that managers in health care need are planning, organizing, controlling and leading (Buchbinder & Shanks, 2012, p. 5). Leading Leading is the most important role or function of the health care manager. The function of leading is important in keeping the organization maintained because without good leadership, the morale of employees can drop which can lead to goals not being met. Leading is the process of arousing people’s enthusiasm to work hard to fulfill plans and accomplish objectives. Therefore it will take a manager who has excellent leadership skills to invoke employees to want to do a job well done. A strong leader will understand that not every employee is the same, that there will be criticism, and that some employees will need an extra push in order to meet the goals of the team. A strong manager is assertive, confident, has good listening skills and able to make quick decisions based on everyday changes and in emergencies. A good manager...
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...Roles and Functions Paper The roles and applications of the management functions are what keep a business flowing. The world we live in is filled with both dramatic uncertainty and opportunity. A manager must responsibilities require them to work in and create an environment that will promote empowerment, teamwork, self-management, promotes participation, and involvement, higher performance, greater efficiency, lower cost and more. Therefore, this reading will define 10 roles of managerial duties and provide the definitions of management functions within the management process. Along with discussing the most important function in management function as well as discuss what I want to gain by taking this class. Managerial Roles The simplest ways to define the positions and importance of managers within a workplace, is to use Henry Mintzberg's systematically divided description of managerial work. Mintzberg's describes the nature of managerial work in 10 roles. Mintzberg, according to Lombardi and Schermerhorn (2007), believes that managers fall into three categories the first being interpersonal where managers roles involve interaction with people during and after work. The second is informational roles and involves the receiving, analyzing, and receiving of information. The third is decisional roles and involves using information to make decisions, address opportunities and solve problems. The ten managerial roles fall under the three categories listed above as follows: •...
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...Roles and Functions HCS/325 Date Eleanor Milo Roles and Functions There are four main different functions that a manager will practice in a health care setting. These four functions are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. “Planning is the process of setting performance objectives and determining what actions should be taken to achieve them. Organizing is the process of arranging task, finding resources, and coordinating the activities and groups to implement groups. Leading is the process of arousing people’s enthusiasm to work hard to fulfill plans and accomplish objective. Controlling is the process of measuring the work performance, comparing results to objectives and taking corrective action as needed” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007,). I felt that these managing functions applies to everyone when doing a job. When doing a job have to plan ahead of time so there would not be any problems. I work as a cook and I have to plan for events ahead of time so when the food is prepared correctly and I have to make sure everything in stock that we need. I also have to organize how I am going to cook the food, present the food on a plate after it is finished and how to make sure the food goes out of the kitchen in a timely manner. I also have to help lead some of my coworkers so they know how to start the process of making an event function correctly. My manager make sure that he controls all his employees so that he has time to do other things that...
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...Roles and Functions Roles and Functions Juanita Ransom October 15, 2012 HCS/325 Lauren A. Schneider Roles and Functions 2 Roles and Functions In today’s health care organizations medical care requires that a manager has knowledge and the abilities to manage within the medical care realm. A manager is anyone in an organization who supports and is responsible for the work performance of one or more other persons (1.3 Managing in the New Workplace, Ebook Collection Chapter 1). The management would include planning, arranging, leading, and controlling of a company. They may manage an entire facility or specialize in managing a specific clinical area or department. They may even manage a medical practice for a group of physicians. Health care managers generally work in office settings in healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, and group medical practices. This is a very important position for any healthcare facility and must be near perfection to ensure that the organization runs smoothly. A health care manager should not be only able to make decisions about the staff but for the organization as a whole as well. Most important decisions are not cut and dried and that means having to think through the angles thoroughly, taking other people’s perspectives into account (The Guardian, 2012). Developing a quality work environment...
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