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This article presents solutions to the changes occurring in the world of healthcare. It also presents solutions to address the problems arising from those changes. It talks about how “implementation of electronic health records and constant change in the health care delivery system have altered the nature of work in Health Information Services (HIS) Departments” (Layman E, 2011). These new systems call for changes needed in current processes of all departments in healthcare organization. Companies have to respond by restructuring jobs and the departments. Through job enrichment or job redesign, both performance and motivation of employees can be altered in order to meet these current changes in the field of HIS.
According to our text job redesign is defined as giving employees more control over how they perform their work, thus increasing their own responsibility. This in turn lifts some of the load of reaching the goals of the organization from management (Carpenter M et al, 2009 p336).
How are the principles of goal setting applied in this case? …show more content…
goals in order to improve overall efficiency of HIS departments. Goal setting has been shown to increase employee performance as well as motivation (Carpenter M et al, 2009 p337). Goal setting is needed in this case because there is an increase in the amount of work needed to be done to keep up with government standards as well as decrease loss of productivity. The goal laid out by the article is: to restructure the operations, roles, systems, and processes, in order to improve efficiency during to keep up with the new standards put forth in the HIS