Final

Consider the following scenario:

You are a manager of a large rehabilitation center that provides short-term care rehabilitation services on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Your center is proposing a new addition of long-term care services, and with this expansion, you must hire and train several new employees.

Develop a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on the organizational structure of the rehabilitation center described in the scenario above. Create the presentation for the audience you selected in Week 2.

Address the following in your presentation:

The effects of organizational structure on communication

What are appropriate communication methods for managers within this organization?

What is the importance of these communication methods within this organizational structure?

What internal relationships must be considered?

What external relationships must be considered?

The steps involved in organizational planning and functions of management

What steps are used to plan and implement change within the organization?

How might these steps be applied to the scenario?

Strategies and methods needed to influence organizational change and to minimize conflict

What are strategies that might be used to bring about change in the organization?

How might strategies be used to prevent or to minimize conflict?

What strategies might be applied if conflict does arise?

What is the manager's role in conflict management?

The ethical issues considered important in today's health care organization

How might ethical issues alter your way of conducting change in the organization?

The effects of financial and human resource management controls

How might financial and human-resource control issues affect your decision-making process?

The analysis of the administrative process needed to track outcomes and improve quality

What environmental influences related to health care may affect outcomes and quality within the organization?

How will the implemented change be tracked or evaluated?

List major points in the slides. Include detailed explanations in the speaker notes section that correlate to each point.

Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.

Include at least five to seven references to support your presentation.