Democracy in the Caribbean or The Health Care Supervisor on Productivity

Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic, and Social Perspectives

Author: Jorge I Dom nguez

Regional experts have long noted the surprising rate of democratization in the Caribbean. Ten out of the twelve English-speaking Caribbean island-states -- among a total of sixteen independent Caribbean nations -- have maintained relatively stable democracies since independence, a better rate of success than that of Latin America. In Democracy In The Caribbean sixteen Caribbean area specialists offer both global and regional perspectives in an effort to explain why this is so.

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Provides both an analysis of the origins of the region's current strengths and weaknesses and a basis for meeting the policy challenges of the future. The volume is organized in three main parts. The first examines the interaction between the area's social evolution and its politics. The second presents four cases that address common problems as well as national idiosyncracies. The final section addresses the questions for policymakers posed in the preceding chapters. The final chapter sets forth a strategy and a program to be undertaken by the nations of the Caribbean to deal with the range of political, social, security, and economic problems described in the study. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Health Care Supervisor on Productivity

Author: C R McConnell

This collection of articles from The Health Care Supervisor addresses what productivity is and why productivity is important. The book emphasizes that productivity is an ongoing concern, not just a special interest, and that productivity improvement is every employee's job.

LouAnn Schraffenberger

This is a collection of articles that have previously been published in The Health Care Supervisor, addressing the subject of productivity in health care environments. The articles are organized into four sections: establishing baselines, tackling productivity improvement, involvement for improvement, and other dimensions of productivity improvement. The purpose is to collect in one easy-to-reference book a sizeable number of articles that provide both a theoretical and practical approach to productivity measurement and improvement. The primary audience is health care supervisors and administrators. A secondary audience may be health administration undergraduate and graduate students. Other business students interested in health care management may also find this book useful. The 19 articles were published between 1983 and 1992 in the journal The Health Care Supervisor. The authors are management consultants, health care executives, professors, and health care planners. The articles are easy to read and well-illustrated and referenced. The subject of productivity is always of interest to health care supervisors and managers. This book provides that audience with one easy-to-read reference book. All aspects of productivity measurement and improvement are included in the articles, starting with what to improve and how to measure it, moving on to the importance of involving all employees in the process, and concluding with other considerations for the productivity-minded manager.

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Reviewer: LouAnn Schraffenberger, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P (Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt)
Description: This is a collection of articles that have previously been published in The Health Care Supervisor, addressing the subject of productivity in health care environments. The articles are organized into four sections: establishing baselines, tackling productivity improvement, involvement for improvement, and other dimensions of productivity improvement.
Purpose: The purpose is to collect in one easy-to-reference book a sizeable number of articles that provide both a theoretical and practical approach to productivity measurement and improvement.
Audience: The primary audience is health care supervisors and administrators. A secondary audience may be health administration undergraduate and graduate students. Other business students interested in health care management may also find this book useful.
Features: The 19 articles were published between 1983 and 1992 in the journal The Health Care Supervisor. The authors are management consultants, health care executives, professors, and health care planners. The articles are easy to read and well-illustrated and referenced.
Assessment: The subject of productivity is always of interest to health care supervisors and managers. This book provides that audience with one easy-to-read reference book. All aspects of productivity measurement and improvement are included in the articles, starting with what to improve and how to measure it, moving on to the importance of involving all employees in the process, and concluding with other considerations for the productivity-minded manager.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Establishing Baselines
	The Imperative of Assessment	3
	Is Productivity Coming Into Its Own - Again?	13
	Performance Auditing for Health Care Supervisors	24
	Work Smarter, Not Harder	35
	Cost Containment: A New Way of Life	48
	Survival Through Productivity Improvement	60
Pt. II	Tackling Productivity Improvement
	Human Work Performance: It's Not As Simple As You Think	75
	Revising the Production Process: When "More" is Not the Solution	84
	Productivity and the Supervisor	95
	Productivity Monitoring for Every Supervisor	106
	The Impact of Nonwidget-Producing Activities	119
	Work Simplification: A Supervisor's Challenge	133
Pt. III	Involvement for Improvement
	Human Resources Management: Keystone for Productivity	145
	The Importance of Japanese Management to Health Care Supervisors: Quality and American Circles	152
	Quality Control Circles: A Supervisor's Tool for Solving Operational Problems in Nursing	163
	Involving Employees in Change, Productivity, and the Future	172
Pt. IV	Other Dimensions of Productivity Improvement
	Incentive Compensation and the Health Care Supervisor	189
	Video Display Terminals: A New Source of Employee Problems	201
	Improving Productivity in the Health Care Industry: An Argument and Supporting Evidence from One Hospital	209
	Index	225