Managing Health Care Organizations: Where Professionalism Meets Complexity Science
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Health Care Management Review
- Vol. 25 (1) , 83-92
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004010-200001000-00010
Abstract
This article examines the intersection of professionalism and complexity science as a source of new insights for improving the health care industry from both a clinical and business point of view. Viewing health care organizations as professional complex adaptive systems suggests eight leadership tasks for addressing the circumstances that engulf health care. Managers who adopt this view will be able to create new levers for positive movement in their organizations.Keywords
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