Career Management Case Study

• How are the principles of goal setting applied in this case?
Goal setting is a powerful tool that can be used to motivate and challenge yourself further towards meeting your career management goals. Well set goals are clear and you can objectively determine whether or not the goal has been reached.
According to Locke and Dr. Gary Latham, they identified five principles that were important in setting goals that will motivate others. These are: clarity, challenge, commitment, feedback, and task complexity.
In HIS departments case, they had applied these five principles.
1. Clarity
To assist all departmental members to work smarter, health information managers and directors can redesign work and jobs. However, work and job redesign can be time-consuming tasks. This case study integrates concepts from organizational theory, behavior, and context theory in a concise format. Included are indicators

For this periodic assessment, managers and directors may use indicators of changes in work to determine whether a rearrangement is warranted. These indicators fall into three types: sector changes, organizational changes, and employees' perceptions.
• How are the principles of job enrichment applied in this case?
According to Herzberg, the principles of job enrichment are as follows: Removing some controls while retaining accountability; Increasing the accountability of individuals for own work, Giving a person a complete, natural unit of work; Granting additional authority to employees in their activity; Making periodic reports directly available to the workers themselves rather than to supervisors; Introducing new and more difficult tasks not previously handled; and Assigning individuals specific or specialized tasks. (Herzberg, 1968)
From the case study, “Job Redesign for Expanded HIM Functions”, these principles were applied