Managing Care in Context

Klappentext "Managing Care in Context" looks at the different contexts in which care takes place and considers the impact of policy! practice and organizational contexts on managers working in health and social care. Informed by extensive consultation with managers and users of care services! contributions to the book are made by academics! managers! researchers and practitioners. "Managing Care in Context" helps aspiring! new and experienced managers to understand what their role is! how it has developed and how to face the challenges of the future. Zusammenfassung Managing Care in Context looks at the different contexts in which care takes place and considers the impact of policy, practice and organisational contexts on managers. It explores the complexity and diversity of the management task and the role Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Managing to Care 2. What Service Users Say About Services and the Implications for Managers 3. Managers! Managing and Managerialism 4. Managers and the Law 5. Managers and their Organisations 6. Managing Environments 7. Quality Matters 8. Workers! Professions and Identities 9. Theories for Understanding People 10. The Morally Active Manager 11. Managing for Outcomes 12. Taking Account of History

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• Authors: Dorothy Atkinson, Dorothy Henderson Atkinson, Jeanette Henderson, Jeanette (Open University Henderson, Jeanette Atkinson Henderson, Henderson and Atkinson
• Assisted by: Dorothy Atkinson (Editor), Dorothy (Open University Atkinson (Editor), Jeanette Henderson (Editor), Jeanette (Open University Henderson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2003
• EAN: 9780415298681
• ISBN: 978-0-415-29868-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system