Designed to provide health professionals with an integrated theoretical and empirical approach to strategic management through the incorporation of managerial, behavioural and organizational skills into a consensus model. These concepts are important in health service management from a strategic perspective.

This book endeavours to provoke and stimulate professionals to examine the behavioural, professional, environmental and structural factors under-pinning health care management and, thereby, to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to strategic management in health service organizations.

The book should be of immense benefit to the students of business management, health care management as well as for those practising in this field.

The text covers 13 major management areas:

• Strategic management

• The middle manager

• Managerial effectiveness

• Policy and structure

• Professional health service organizations

• Inter-professional relationships in health care

• Change management

• Leadership in health service delivery

• Motivation and the environment

• Strategic involvement

• Organizational commitment

• Organizational culture and values

• Strategic consensus.