Relationship Competence for Healthcare Management — Peer to Peer

Healthcare organizations depend on managers to build effective peer relationships to manage complex patient needs. Today, top management is fighting the many headed monster Hydra from Greek Mythology. The organization is steeped in conflict between peers. But, as soon as one problem is resolved, two more have grown in its place. These appear to be personal conflicts, but instead follow patterns of dysfunction. This book provides the conceptual frameworks for identifying these and for developing peer to peer relationship competence in the healthcare organization.

JENNIFER LANDAU is a Senior Lecturer at the Bocconi School of Management of Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare, Italy. She does healthcare management research on patient quality of life and organizational change. She is a contract professor at State University, Department of Medicine, on physician-patient communication and relationship management.

ELIO BORGNOVI is Professor of Public Management at Bocconi University, Italy, and Director of the Institute of Public Administration. He was Dean of the Bocconi School of Management for eight years and President of the Italian Association of Schools of Management. He has extensive strategic experience in developing healthcare management policy, tools and practice for the Italian National Healthcare System.