title: Managing health care organizations in an age of rapid change.
abstract: Health care managers find their work increasingly difficult, due in part to rapid environmental change that plagues organizational life. Management practices and attitudes that may have been appropriate in previous eras are ineffective today. A study was conducted among managers in the Ministry of Health, State of Bahrain, seeking information about current trends in the macro or external environment that affect the Ministry of Health, as well as internal environmental pressures that may be similar or different. This article provides a clear picture of the context in which managers perform their work and offers recommendations for coping with change in dynamic, complex organizations.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health, State of Bahrain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benjamin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: al-Alaiwat
mesh_terms: D001445:Bahrain; D002017:Budgets; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007256:Information Systems; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017749:Total Quality Management