{"title":"Organizational/office politics training: a managerial necessity.","authors":"S K Ellson","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability of managers to succeed in health care organizations depends in part on their \"political\" skills. Memorial Hospital of South Bend, a 526-bed tertiary care facility, supports the professional development of its managers and secretarial staff by offering an in-service program to (1) sensitize participants to the need for political skills, (2) suggest techniques to succeed politically, and (3) emphasize the importance of ethical political actions. The in-service is upbeat and concrete and focuses on solving real problems of participants. This article has described an in-service program that was taught to over 250 managers and secretarial staff from 1985 to 1989.</p>","PeriodicalId":79669,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare education and training : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Education and Training","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of healthcare education and training : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Education and Training","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ability of managers to succeed in health care organizations depends in part on their "political" skills. Memorial Hospital of South Bend, a 526-bed tertiary care facility, supports the professional development of its managers and secretarial staff by offering an in-service program to (1) sensitize participants to the need for political skills, (2) suggest techniques to succeed politically, and (3) emphasize the importance of ethical political actions. The in-service is upbeat and concrete and focuses on solving real problems of participants. This article has described an in-service program that was taught to over 250 managers and secretarial staff from 1985 to 1989.