General management topics: Management competencies
Closing competency gap
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Closing the Management Competence Gap
GL Filerman, Human Resources for Health 2003, 1:7
The success of any organized health program depends upon effective management. Management development for health systems, particularly at the first line of supervision, must be
given much higher priority by senior leaders and for investment.
Human resource development leaders must be the advocates for making the investment in managerial competence.
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Strengthening Management in Low-Income Countries
pdf, 551kb
2005, WHO/EIP/healthsystems/2005.1
Effective strategies, the Montreux challenge, past experiences and current practice; weaknesses in management support; tracking progress
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Managerial competencies of hospital managers in South Africa: a survey of managers in the public and private sectors
Rubin Pillay, Human Resources for Health 2008, 6:4
There is a lack of management capacity within the public sector in South Africa - a great need for further development of managers, especially in the public sector. The onus is on administrators and management educators to make available training that is contextually relevant in both design and delivery.
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Introducing Excellence
2003, European Foundation for Quality Management
An excellence model; fundamental concepts of excellence, self-assessment and performance improvement; standards related to each part of the model
(16 pages, pdf 1MB)
en français: Introduction à l’Excellence
en español: Introducción a la Excelencia
em portugés: Indrodução à Excelência
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Promoting Institutional and Organisational Development: A Source Book of Tools and Techniques
David Wilson and Lindsay Beaton, 2003, UK Department for International Development
Impact analysis; change forecasting; open systems model; SWOT; problem tree analysis; risk management matrix; benchmarking; business process reengineering; change management; force field analysis; stakeholder management; monitoring and evaluation
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Learning for Performance: A Guide and Toolkit for Health Worker Training and Education Programs
pdf, 610kb
"Catherine Murphy, Lucy Harber, Nancy Kiplinger, Amanda Stang and Judith Winkler. 2007, The Capacity Project, USAID
Performance improvement; instructional design; the importance of understanding the human resources for health context; maximizing the success of learning interventions
A Step-by-Step of Process of Learning for Performance
Step 1. Learning goal
Step 2. The learners and their work setting
Step 3. Resources and requirements
Step 4. Job responsibilities and major job tasks
Step 5. Essential skills and knowledge
Step 6. Learning objectives
Step 7. Learning assessment methods
Step 8. Learning activities, materials, approaches and the instructional strategy
Step 9. Materials development
Step 10. Preparation for implementation
Step 11. Implementation
Step 12. Assessment
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Capacity, Change and Performance
Heather Baser and Peter Morgan with Joe Bolger, Derick Brinkerhoff, Anthony Land, Suzanne Taschereau, 2008, The European Centre for Development Policy Management
competencies and capabilities; the influence of context and its interactions with capacity; what works why and when; sequencing and timing; capacity, performance and results; capacity assessments and monitoring and evaluation; future trends and challenges in capacity development; summaries of 8 case-studies that are the basis of the report
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Management Effectiveness Programme
WHO Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean
The MEP has been introduced by a number of countries of the Region including Iran, Syria and Egypt. who have adapted its elements according to their own specific strategy for improving the management of health care services and health outcomes.
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Introduction to Strategic Management
Susan Scribner, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Health Sector Reform Initiative (LASHCR)
Forward-thinking, outwardly focused, performanced based
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Systems Practice, Managing Complexity
Open University
Systems thinking; different perspectives; boundaries; models and maps; emergence
(Web page with links to sections of self paced learning programme)