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PLANNING IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS 4

Planning In Healthcare Organizations

Brittany Ranck

Rasmussen College

Author’s Note: This paper is being submitted on Saturday, April 8, 2017 for Kim Sanders class, Healthcare Management Capstone.

Planning In Healthcare Organizations

Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) is a healthcare organization that helps in improving the quality of healthcare service given to patients around California. The organization should devote to planning because of the following reasons. Planning helps the entire team to operate under a vision and not circumstances. That is, advancing and sharing a vision through an involvement procedure can have a powerful impact on all levels of healthcare organization (Cumming & Worley, 2014). The workforce is inspired by a clear vision that expounds a compelling future state, and it can only be achieved through planning. Besides, the components of organization behavior have been given more attention today. Planning can help in employee motivation and engagement. Institute for Medical Quality needs planning to achieve employee engagement through planning as it is among the key factors that enhance a company’s performance (Cumming & Worley, 2014).

Three things that companies can achieve through planning

Achieving goals and targets

Many health organizations have something they need to complete. It may be simple to state goals and objectives but making the needs something more than a mere piece of writing. Besides the existence of the targets do not take organizations to where they want to be. Taking time to plan whether is starting at the employee or management level helps in identifying what should be worked on and what is going to move the organization closer to their goals (Bryson, 2011)

Organizational collaborations activities

Team unity, corporation and cooperation are paramount for delivery of high-quality patient care, excellent service and organizational performance (Bryson, 2011). However, for a healthcare organization to achieve effective collaboration, corporation and team cohesion, planning is needed.

Accountability and transformational leadership

Bryson (2011) indicates that transformational leadership is the kind of leadership that transforms the culture of an organization and inspires the workforce to perform better. What can better way this can be achieved rather than planning? Planning takes organization, accountability as well as teamwork. Therefore, healthcare firms cannot afford to ignore planning.

References

Bryson, J. M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (Vol. 1). John Wiley & Sons.

Cummings, T. G., & Worley, C. G. (2014). Organization development and change. Cengage learning.