Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : theory and application / Bessie L Marquis and Carol Jorgensen Huston.

Contents
Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning: requisites for successful leadership and management
Classical views of leadership and management
Twenty-first-century thinking about leadership and management
Ethical issues
Legal and legislative issues
Patient, subordinate, workplace, and professional advocacy
Organizational planning
Planned change
Time management
Fiscal planning
Career planning and development in nursing
Organizational structure
Organizational, political, and personal power
Organizing patient care
Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination
Socializing and educating staff in a learning organization
Staffing needs and scheduling policies
Creating a motivating climate
Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication
Delegation
Effective conflict resolution and negotiation
Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws
Quality control
Performance appraisal
Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.