Discussion Seminar

Tuesday 22^nd May 2012

 How do we use management knowledge in managing health care?

Where commercial, clinical and management knowledge coexist – is it ceaseless struggle or uneasy truce?

Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford

10.30am – 4.00pm

The research team from Oxford University and King’s College, London have been investigating the behaviour of health care managers (from both the private and the public sector) in their use of and engagement with management knowledge.

This is their opportunity to share with the field some of their reflections and findings from a 2 and a half year study and to have a debate with seminar invitees about their own experience.

This event will be of interest to both clinical managers and general managers; and colleagues holding responsibility for organizational development, leadership development and management learning.

As well as hearing from the research team about their investigations with a set of widely diverse health care organizations, there will be plenty of opportunity for debate and exploration of the implications for practice.

Topics for round-table discussion are likely to include – knowledge leaders and their role; the significance of “fit” between knowledge and context; the facilitative potential of systems and interactions; implications for the future in a pluralist health care economy.

Project website http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/health/research/pages/management.aspx

For further information feel free to contact Janette McCulloch on jmcjem@aol.com or 07737 101372.