title: Meeting the challenge of change.
abstract: Health-care organizations and the physicians who work in them today face unprecedented change. This change can be managed successfully through proper use of four organizational practices: strategy, organization design, organization culture, and human resource practices. A fifth practice, pursuit of continuous improvement and personal mastery, allows the physician to adapt personally to change. This article describes how physicians may use these practices to meet the challenge of change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA. ddd100f@viper.mgb.odu.edu
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010820:Physicians / Q000458:organization & administration; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration