Error Avoidance in Postmodern/Cas
Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive System
Charles Holloway
MHA601 Healthcare Administration
Dr. Ona Johnson
July 2, 2012
In this new emerging world that we live in today managing healthcare organizations have been force to develop new ways to manage Healthcare organization From these changes of healthcare organizations the postmodern complex adaptive system has evolved. Before the development of this theory healthcare organizations have been unable to manage healthcare in an efficient and productive manner. From this inefficient management managers began to face new challenges which lead to poor choices, managers made for the companies they represented. In the following paragraphs I will show ten scenarios and the poor solutions made by management. I will identify the errors they made and show better solution by applying postmodern complex adaptive system theory. First managerial error according to Johnson (2010a) “failing to account for employees’ ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effect they are required to use. “(page 80). In this example management expects the employees’ to follow step by step procedures to perform his job. The problem with this view is that it puts limit on how the employee can to perform his job. It takes the view that management knows the most efficient way to perform the job. The solution this problem is allowing employees the freedom to develop new and more efficient ways to perform their jobs. The postmodern/CAS has the same mindset in that managers must develop strategies for taking advantage of this ongoing learning . Another example for employees to provide an efficient and ongoing learning process is by joining a communities of practices is as stated by Wenger(2006 ) “are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they
Charles Holloway
MHA601 Healthcare Administration
Dr. Ona Johnson
July 2, 2012
In this new emerging world that we live in today managing healthcare organizations have been force to develop new ways to manage Healthcare organization From these changes of healthcare organizations the postmodern complex adaptive system has evolved. Before the development of this theory healthcare organizations have been unable to manage healthcare in an efficient and productive manner. From this inefficient management managers began to face new challenges which lead to poor choices, managers made for the companies they represented. In the following paragraphs I will show ten scenarios and the poor solutions made by management. I will identify the errors they made and show better solution by applying postmodern complex adaptive system theory. First managerial error according to Johnson (2010a) “failing to account for employees’ ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effect they are required to use. “(page 80). In this example management expects the employees’ to follow step by step procedures to perform his job. The problem with this view is that it puts limit on how the employee can to perform his job. It takes the view that management knows the most efficient way to perform the job. The solution this problem is allowing employees the freedom to develop new and more efficient ways to perform their jobs. The postmodern/CAS has the same mindset in that managers must develop strategies for taking advantage of this ongoing learning . Another example for employees to provide an efficient and ongoing learning process is by joining a communities of practices is as stated by Wenger(2006 ) “are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they
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