Foundations of Health Care Management Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods offers an innovative, concise, reader-friendly introduction to health care management and administration. It addresses the need for new skills in managers of health care facilities and for those planning to enter health care management positions. The book covers such critical topics as leadership training, change management, conflict management techniques, culture building, quality improvement, and communications skills, as well as collaboration in the improvement of population health. Foundations of Health Care Management also concentrates on innovations and describes steps in the transition to more decentralized and creative approaches to the management of health care facilities. The book covers physician management from the physician's viewpoint, a valuable perspective for health care managers. The book serves important dual purposes for faculty and students by providing both insights into the health care field as well as foundational content on essential management and leadership competencies. A full set of support materials is available for instructors at the book's companion Web site.

""A Foundation in the Principles of Management" gives readers a firm understanding of important principles of business management. These principles serve as building blocks for future business courses in the major. The initial chapters introduce the history of management and familiarize readers with different management roles and functions. Students then learn about ethics, an increasingly important focus in today's business education. The book addresses planning and decision-making, and how to effectively handle change, innovation, and conflict. Readers also explore management in distinct scenarios and environments including managing communication, work teams, human resources, and service and manufacturing operations. Specific topics include interview formats, the history of management, the four functions of management, organizational structure and design, and strategic planning. Each chapter features clearly defined objectives to focus and enhance learning, a summary to support retention and review, and discussion questions that can be used to facilitate classroom interaction or to serve as outside assignments. Informative, interesting, and accessible "A Foundation in the Principles of Management" is designed for introductory courses in management and business. Daniel Kipley holds a D.B.A. and an M.B.A. in strategic management from Alliant International University in San Diego, California, as well as a Masters in management from the University of Redlands, California. Dr. Kipley is a professor at Azusa Pacific University, where he has been nominated for the university's Distinguished Research Professor award . Ronald Jewe earned his Ph.D. in organizational leadership at Regent University and his M.B.A. from Arizona State University. He is a professor, the Undergraduate Chair, and the Associate Dean in the School of Business and Management at Azusa Pacific University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in management, leadership and business ethics. Roxanne Helm-Stevens has a D.B.A. in strategic management from Alliant International University and an M.B.A. from Azusa Pacific University. She is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Management Programs at Azusa Pacific, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior, management, business and employee development."

Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.