Applied Modern Management Theory

The principal of Modern Management theory that can as applied to

Healthcare settings in my opinion are the Institutional theory. In this theory as defined

By Scott as “institutions consist of cognitive, normative, and regulative structures and activities

That provide stability and meaning to social behavior …”30, p.34. Scott has further broken down this

definition into three pillars of institutions: the regulatory, the normative and the cognitive pillar.

The regulator pillar is a set of rules, sanctions, and laws set up for organizations to be regulated.

In a healthcare facility there are also rules, laws and sanctions set up by agencies to regulate and

to make sure the facility is being run in a way to provide safe, quality care. One example of this is

how HIPPA regulates healthcare organizations. In the normaltive pillar pressure is applied by society

of what is expected and viewed as being appropriate and what is not. The healthcare organization is

also pressured by society to make sure the quality, professional and safety measures are held to a

standard that is within the norm. The cognitive pillar infers that organizations should look and act

similar by “…rules that constitute the nature of reality and the frame through which meaning is

made.”30,p 40. If we look at different healthcare facilities we will fine that they are all very similar.

Reason being that they are all run and regulated by the same agencies making them safe for the

patients they provide care too. These patients expect to be treated with the same quality and

professional care. In summary making the institutional theory the best choice for the healthcare

setting.

Working at my hospital has allowed me to understand how all the pillars of Scott

operate in the...