Administration category: 6852 books
Learning to Lead
A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
Leadership is an activity that not only manifests itself in formal positions, but also bubbles up in various places within an organization. Perhaps given the importance of leadership to any endeavor, the literature on this topic has burgeoned. Yet among these titles, Learning to Lead stands out as...
by Leisha DeHart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape...
AdMinistry
The Nuts and Bolts of Church Administration
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Shepherding the church requires up-to-date knowledge of budgets, insurance, financial management, personnel organization, audits, and legal liability. These responsibilities are complex and ever-changing. While as pastor, you are called to be a faithful steward of the church’s resources and an effective...
Healthcare Management Engineering: What Does This Fancy Term Really Mean?
The Use of Operations Management Methodology for Quantitative Decision-Making in Healthcare Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic decision-making power of management engineering methodology is systematically compared to traditional management reasoning by applying...
by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising...
Evaluating Investments in Health Care Systems
Health Technology Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book focuses on the innovative and more critical management approach adopted in the PA (Public Administration) in order to identify and describe the main models and instruments to economically evaluate the decision making process in accordance to the specific conditions such as efficiency, effectiveness,...
by Christina Chow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Universities are viewed by many as institutions that should impart quality education to enrolled students and foster a learning environment, which, in turn, would benefit the accumulation of knowledge worldwide. Enhancing university education is at the top of most governmental agendas. In this knowledge-driven...
The Essential Department Chair
A Comprehensive Desk Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR
This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic administration: for instance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. Written for senior healthcare leaders, it will provide new tools, processes, examples and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems....
Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Quality Innovation, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018. These mistakes are preventable, but the number of deaths has been increasing for the last two decades instead of decreasing. This book describes how to prevent deaths at very low...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This publication provides an overview of 145 successful innovations in governance and public administration from 50 countries that received the United Nations Public Service Awards, which is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. The purpose of this book is to disseminate,...
by Dr Joseph S. Sanfilippo, Dr Eric J. Bieber, Dr David G. Javitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In a rapidly-changing healthcare industry, the American College of Physician Executives affirms: "These days, it isn't enough to be a good doctor. Whether you're working in a group practice or hospital, in insurance or any other health care setting, you also need business know-how and skills if you...
by Deana P. Farris
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
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Best Practices for Faculty Search Committees
How to Review Applications and Interview Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The essential guidebook for effective faculty hiring committees
Best Practices for Faculty Search Committees presents a clear, direct action plan for faculty and administration involved in hiring. Written by a veteran university administrator, this book lays out a step-by-step process for selecting...