Summary Of Job Redesign For Expanded His Functions By Elizabeth Wayman

In examining the article, “Job Redesign for Expanded HIS Functions,” by Elizabeth Wayman, we see interesting challenges for Health Information Services departments, as their mandate to organize complicated, expanding amounts of data within a digital context is pushed for rapid implementation. It is a managerial challenge that might seem overwhelming to some managers, and the pressure is high. As well, both privacy and shared access demands are crucial, and it is information with many categories and cross-categories compiled together. Wayman writes that simply urging health information professionals to work harder or to “work smarter” results in extraordinary amounts of workplace stress in this complicated situation, and so other systems must be developed (Wayman, 2011). However, the need to see results is not only important, lives could depend upon it. To accommodate this, the work itself must be redesigned. In approaching goal-setting, Wayman writes that, “leaders can examine their departments' alignment to achieve organizational goals at four different levels. In terms of scope, from most extensive to least extensive, these four levels are re-engineering, restructuring, work redesign, and job redesign" Wayman, 2011.)

The description of goals also describes a four-fold framework for motivation, involving goals that “energize,” “provide challenge,” “give direction,” and “think outside the box” (Carpenter, 2009). In this case, the principles of goal setting are applied through not only monitoring new functions for Health Information Professionals but predicting them and preparing to meet the goal of implementing organizational change in