Project Management Approaches
There is no one correct way to design [or manage] an organization. More important is that the design or configuration [and therefore, the management approaches] selected furthers the goals of the organization.
—Kurt Darr, “Introduction to Management and Leadership Concepts, Principles, and Practices” (in Burke and Friedman’s Essentials of Management and Leadership in Public Health)
As you have examined in this course, there are various methods a health care administrator may choose when planning, implementing, evaluating, and revising approaches to successfully manage an HSO. As a current or future health care administrator, the approaches you use in an HSO will depend not only on situational analyses but also on your expertise and experiences with these varied approaches.
This week, you examine project management approaches used in HSOs. You consider the strengths and weakness of these project management approaches and explore strategies health care administrators might exercise for value contribution.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
· Analyze project management approaches used by health services organizations
· Analyze strengths and weaknesses of project management approaches for health services organizations
· Analyze management approaches for value contribution in health services organizations
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Longest, B. B., & Darr, K. J. (2014). Managing health services organizations and systems (6th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
Chapter 11, “Controlling and Allocating Resources” (pp. 558–569)
Schwalbe, K., & Furlong, D. (2013). Healthcare project management. Minneapolis, MN: Schwalbe.
Chapter 1, “An Introduction to Project, Program, and Portfolio Management in Healthcare” (pp. 1–39)
Mir, F. A., & Pinnington, A. H. (2014). Exploring the value of project management: linking project management performance and project success. International Journal of Project Management, 32(2), 202-217.
Spaulding, A., Gamm, L, Kim, J., & Menser, T. (2014). Multiproject interdependencies in health systems management: A longitudinal qualitative study. Health Care Management Review, 39(1), 31-40.
Required Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2015c). Project management [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.
The Transcript Video
Project Management
Program Transcript
JAMES R. LANGABEER: Project management is very key to operations
management. Your job is not to maintain status quo. Your job is to make
improvements.
NARRATOR: Dr. James Langabeer and Ronald McDade explain why project
management is a necessary skill for operations managers. And they point to the
value of data in managing a project.
JAMES R. LANGABEER: To make improveme