Decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking:requisites for successful leadership and management -- Introduction to management and management decision making -- Developing leadership -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient,subordinate,and pofessional advocacy -- The planning hierarchy and strategic planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development -- Organizational structure -- Understanding organizational, political,personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Preliminary staffing functions: employee recruitment, selection,placement, and indoctrination --Meeting staff socialization and educational needs for team building -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies --Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational,interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation --Managing conflict -- Understanding collective bargaining,unionization,and employment laws -- Quality control --Performance appraisal -- Problem employees: rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or mentally impaired

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