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MHA 601: PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive Systems
Professor: Tricia Devin
December 10, 2012

Post-modernist/complex adaptive systems are modern theories of management that deal with relationships within the organization and how the organization is structured. As in all positions of leadership, managers in these organizations have to possess tools necessary to keep their part of the organization running smoothly. Many of these managers employ the postmodernist complex adaptive systems theory because it allows for less rigid boundaries during the planning and implementation process as well as constantly reminding the manager that the staff is a critical component to the organization as well. Being in a position of leadership means that it is up to that person to handle any problems that may arise during the lifetime of the organization. This paper focuses on ten possible errors that can be found in health care organizations. For each of these errors, I will discuss what makes it an error and what way the error can be avoided. The first error that will be discussed is “failing to account for employees' ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effort they are required to use.” The first criterion that proves this to be an error is that the failure to account for an employee's ability to learn is failing to uphold the limits of knowability aspect of this theory. In this aspect a manager overlooking an employee's ability to learn anything new about a machine that employee uses is failing to make allowances for ongoing learning. To avoid this error, the management should create a panel of employees that operate the machine to brainstorm all types of ideas for better