Modern Organizations Health

Modern Organizations Health

Grantham University

HSN521

Professor David Gurule

The four major dimensions of the Supervisor's role are:

The supervisor must be a good boss, a good manager and a team leader of the employees in the unit. This includes having the technical, professional, and clinical competent to run the department smoothly and ensure that the employees carry out their assignments successfully. Secondly, the supervisor must be a competent subordinate to the next higher manager: in the most instances, this person is an administrator, a center executive, or a director of a service. Ultimately the supervisor's boss reports owners of the organization or the board of directors or trustees.

Third, the supervisor must link the administration and the employees. These are laboratory scientists, ultrasound technicians, and clerical support staff sees their supervisor who is perhaps the chief technologist as the administration. The employee communicates their concern to the administration through the supervisor, and the supervisor communicates the goals and policies established by senior administration. The supervisor filters the employees' concerns into categories (i.e., those that the supervisor should address, those that the supervisor's boss should address, and those that should be should be passed on to immediate subordinates and to those working on the frontline. Goal and policy communications must be shared with all staff because the supervisor must make certain the work gets done to achieve those goals.

Forth, the supervisor must maintain satisfactory working relationships with the directors, leaders and peer supervisors of all other departments and services. The supervisor must foster a collegial relationship and coordinate the department's efforts with those of other departments to reach the overall goals and objectives of the institution. The supervisor must help the organization provide the best possible service and patient care regardless of which department or service gets credit.

1. Dominant factors impacting the current healthcare system today are the change in healthcare delivery methods; challenges of supervision by supervisors due the decentralized environment; rapidly changing reimbursement environment which affect resources to pay for new technology; the pay for performance contract which pays clinicians based on their ability to meet specified quality and efficiency measures; cuts in reimbursement, and shortage of nurses whose expertise are crucial to efficient healthcare.

3. The four major dimensions of the supervisor's role are planning,

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