The Importance of Applying Managerial Theories and Practice in Health

Service Sector

The healthcare field is at a point of considerable importance. On the one side, it encounters
competing neighbours more and more popular among patients. Super-fast aging population,
as well as the increasing number of chronic diseases, lead to increase in the number of people
who need hospitalization, take the doctor’s consultation, and use healthcare services.
However, the taxing factors such as debts, a deficit in staff number and a complex regulatory
system hamper providing efficient and simplified care.

This struggle is evident in the headlines: news channels begin to report the problematic
factors, for example long waiting queues, high healthcare costs, and even physician
stress/burnout. The fact of the matter is clear - the pre-existing pattern of administration is no
longer a responsive agent of the ever-changing health industry.

However, a powerful solution exists: the orderly use of theories and methodologies that had
already been validated. Such systems, developed under the influence of business management
during decades, can become tools to facilitate execution of healthcare management in all its
complexity.

Whether the framework of organizational activities or queue system is used, healthcare

environment is where these principles are refined because managers have to deal with unique
issues. Unlike as in any other business, the healthcare facilities are the ones that should
concentrate on patient welfare to the first. Losses to treasury must be economical while the
need for more advanced treatments and technologies is upheld. Such regulations and ethical
implication are additional aspects that bring more intricacy to the issue. In this regard, the
healthcare workforce comes in different guises and each of them may be trained in a specific
way and need individual motivational approach.