MANAGEMENT THEORIES AND HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

A Comparative report on the major similarities and differences of Peter Drucker and Frederick Taylor in Management theories, concepts, and practices related to Health Care Management

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the similarities and differences between Fredrick Taylor and Peter Drucker's contribution in the field of healthcare in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is to do the comparative study between these scientists, It also discuses the similarities and differences between the scientific theories of theses scientists.

A Comparative report on the major similarities and differences of Peter Drucker and Frederick Taylor in Management theories, concepts, and practices related to Health Care Management

Introduction

Fredrick Taylor and Peter Drucker's work in the field of health care is very significant. Both of these management theorists did their contributions that coincide with each other. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the broadly defined health of communities through education, promotion of healthy and productive lifestyles, and fulfillment of society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.

It is for this reason that former U.S. surgeon general C. Everett Koop stated that “healthcare matters to all of us some of the time, [but] public health matters to all of us all the time.” Public health is inherently a multidisciplinary study. Schools of public health encompass a wide array of fields, including biostatistics, environmental health, toxicology, epidemiology, genetics, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, health policy development and analysis, health services management, health education, health behavior, health communications, immunology, nutrition, global health, and human development.

Thesis Statement

This thesis focuses on the contributions of Fredrick Taylor and Peter Drucker's towards scientific management in Healthcare. It also focuses on the similarities and differences between the theories of these scientists.

Discussion and Analysis: Management theories, concepts, and practices related to Health Care Management

Early movements in public health centered on sanitation and hygiene, arguably since the growth of ancient cities and certainly since the Industrial Revolution. Although the etiologic understandings were often wrong, 19th-century doctors correctly recognized that hygiene plays a critical role in the maintenance of good health. In the 19th century, doctors widely believed that disease spread through miasmas, or noxious gases, thought to arise from sites of organic decay. Proponents of the miasma theory stressed cleansing and scouring as methods of prevention. Although Anton von Leeuwenhoek had viewed microorganisms in the 17th century, germ theory did not gain credibility until the 1835 work of Augustine Bassi and did not gain dominance until the work of Louis Pasteur in the 1860s.

Since the rise and domination of large complex organizations in our society, scholars and practitioners have focused on understanding the conditions that motivate employees to effectively serve the goals of these organizations. Early on, many scholars believed that employees could be primarily motivated to serve the goals of organizations with the effective use of monetary incentives. Perhaps one of the early most influential scholars to promote the value of monetary rewards was Fredrick Taylor ...