Elizabeth Layman

Analysis of Case Study by Elizabeth Layman (2011),"Job Redesign for Expanded HIM Functions." Goal setting brings about changes and improves performance. In the case study by Elizabeth Layman, she analysis the theory of goal setting. In her research she identified the principle of goal setting which is clarity, challenge, commitment, feedback and task complexity. Her research showed that the achievement of goals is related to these five goal settings. Goals should be clear and specific. Clarity is about knowing what you are trying to achieve. When goals are specific that mean they are measurable and we should be able to measure the goal’s outcome. For example, they goal is to change the electronic health records and have a constant change in the health care delivery system and to carry out these changes in the case study it talked about “Working smarter which would become the reasonable alternative” and to help all departmental members to work smarter, by redesigning work and jobs. To redesign work is to revise in appearance, function or content and in the case study I see how managers and directors use the indicators of change to monitor they environment. Environmental monitoring provides evidence to support
The more difficult the goal, the more effort you will put in. The result is difficult and challenging goals lead to higher performance. The principles of job enrichment which is the technique that allows the workers more control over how they perform their own task is applied in this case at the departmental level. All the department work hard to achieved the result that they needed. The work is seen in all of the department's goals and at levels of the employee section weather in duties, a task an assignment, and responsibilities for a group of employees. The total amount of all department’s jobs equals the