Discussion 1

There are some conflicts that one would face as an Ashford Medical Center CEO especially when dealing with developing new programs. You are charged with the task of developing a new program that would address medical, health, and nutritional needs of a community and to project what will happen for the next ten years. The text states that there are limits of knowability. Those parameters are simple, no one is clever enough to make since of where the healthcare system is going on any level. In other words, there are limitations to what people know in health care organizations and these limitations cannot always be overcome by getting more facts or waiting longer.

For example, I do not believe anyone could have predicted that numerous amounts of people would become affected with the Norovirus virus over a course of six weeks in the city of Dallas, Texas. As a result, of the outbreak of this infectious virus, people were increasingly hospitalized. Consequently, nurses and doctors had to work extensive hours to give medical attention to the sick.

As managers you are faced with dealing with the inevitability of change of our health care systems. According to Plsek and Greenhalgh (2001) in The Challenge of Complexity in Healthcare, The roles people play in healthcare organizations continuously change, so when you think of an organization as a set of roles, that is correct, but who plays them and what those roles are is continuously subject to change.

Some of the most complex problems with any organization is that its mechanisms could be found in disseminated form. People may have their own urgencies and usually try to attain power too. Such conflicts might be observed in similar or different departments. The most unfortunate thing is that the more high-ranking the person the greater is his or her ego. Hence; conflict might arise when the implementation of such plan duties of all medical personnel both clinical and non-clinical need to be determined as, there...