Assignment Questions
1. Compare the process of clinical integration at IH with the improvement process in your local settings. Intermountain Healthcare (IH) is considered as one of the top leaders in healthcare industry because of its professional in not only facility but also services. Through IH clinical programs, office building, comprising of nurses, physicians, staff members, administrators, financial personnel, group practices, and operations, etc.…show that IH is really a high quality health care provider in market service area. To achieve the purposes that IH has set, the hospital got to work together and the team work dedicated their efforts to improve the quality and update equipment to satisfy the needs of patients. One …show more content…
Hodgkinson (2000) sees organizational learning as the coming together of individuals to enable them to support and promote each other's learning, which will eventually benefit the organization. This recognizes the importance of utilizing the outcomes of individual and group learning for the good of the organization. Sun and Scott (2003, p. 204) define it as "the learning process used in the organization. It deals with the question of how individuals in an organization learn". (Ions, & Minton, …show more content…
This concept serves as part of the foundation of the survey instrument entitled the Learning Organization Practice Profile, which delves into six constructs: (a) vision and strategy, (b) managerial practices, (c) climate, (d) organizational and job structure, (e) individual and team practices, and (f) work processes.
To answer the question of the case, after doing the research on the two definitions, there is an interaction between organization learning and organization learning, I think they both support each other. In an organization, individual work hard to gain the goals however, each individual needs to link each other to create a strong group and this leads to improve the strength of the firm. Last but not least, if all employees are good but the company has bad management, this will ruin the company or vice versa, if company has good management but worse employees; there will be bad also because the company will not gain high productivity. Luckily, it has been over twenty years however, IH still stays right on the track and becomes one of the top models for clinical integration in the
1. Compare the process of clinical integration at IH with the improvement process in your local settings. Intermountain Healthcare (IH) is considered as one of the top leaders in healthcare industry because of its professional in not only facility but also services. Through IH clinical programs, office building, comprising of nurses, physicians, staff members, administrators, financial personnel, group practices, and operations, etc.…show that IH is really a high quality health care provider in market service area. To achieve the purposes that IH has set, the hospital got to work together and the team work dedicated their efforts to improve the quality and update equipment to satisfy the needs of patients. One …show more content…
Hodgkinson (2000) sees organizational learning as the coming together of individuals to enable them to support and promote each other's learning, which will eventually benefit the organization. This recognizes the importance of utilizing the outcomes of individual and group learning for the good of the organization. Sun and Scott (2003, p. 204) define it as "the learning process used in the organization. It deals with the question of how individuals in an organization learn". (Ions, & Minton, …show more content…
This concept serves as part of the foundation of the survey instrument entitled the Learning Organization Practice Profile, which delves into six constructs: (a) vision and strategy, (b) managerial practices, (c) climate, (d) organizational and job structure, (e) individual and team practices, and (f) work processes.
To answer the question of the case, after doing the research on the two definitions, there is an interaction between organization learning and organization learning, I think they both support each other. In an organization, individual work hard to gain the goals however, each individual needs to link each other to create a strong group and this leads to improve the strength of the firm. Last but not least, if all employees are good but the company has bad management, this will ruin the company or vice versa, if company has good management but worse employees; there will be bad also because the company will not gain high productivity. Luckily, it has been over twenty years however, IH still stays right on the track and becomes one of the top models for clinical integration in the