Management at Baxter Healthcare

Management at Baxter Healthcare

Organization is a big management function at Baxter Healthcare. It takes a tremendous amount of organizing to run a successful organization year in and year out. There are many branches of the organizing function of management that are used in daily, monthly, and yearly activities. For the management of my organization, organizing is as critical aspect of planning for the present and future as any. In this paper I will discuss the importance of knowledge and technology in the organizing aspect of my organization and how they play a role in current and future activities.

Organizing is defined as the assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve goals (Bateman & Snell, 2004). The aspect I want to first discuss is how knowledge plays a big role in the organizing function of management in my organization. This is extremely important for organizing an organization because management has to obtain as much knowledge as possible. Here is a quote I will share that I have in my office from management “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge" (Thoreau, n.d.). They have to know about their plans for the future, their employees, competitor’s plans, changes in their market, and what to expect from the customer. They also have to try and plan for the unexpected things that happen to an organization. My organization starts the knowledge process by attending a convention called Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). It is a meeting of medical device organizations and customers who are there to preview and review existing and new products. It gives my organization a chance to know what is out there presently and what is on the horizon for our competitors. Baxter Healthcare uses this convention as a steeping stone for planning in the future. They will involve a large amount of management to go around to the different booths of other companies and find out what their products are all about. That gives the organization an idea of what we are up against and what we have to plan ahead for. It is here were organizing comes into play with management for gaining all the knowledge possible to achieve maximum success. It is also a very important function for management to organize ...

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...in their market and the advances Baxter has made puts my future and the organization’s future on the path for a very successful future.

The affect that knowledge and technology have not only has an organizing function of management, but on the company as a whole is enormous. Without those two aspects however, the management team at Baxter Healthcare would not be able to provide the insight or have the tools to establish such a great company and work environment. For a company to be part of the big players in this industry these two aspects have to be a must and fortunately for me and the organization they have done a great job of utilizing these tools!

Works Cited

Bateman, T. S. & Snell S. (2004) Management: The New Competitive Landscape.

Chapter 1, 17, New York: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved June 13, 2005, from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/content/eBookLibrary/content/Print.aspx?assetid=05bf80b9-1ab5-44cd-baba-4d2d5e73be30&assetmetaid=6d130ccd-14e8-4845-b7d5-680e75c0228a

About AAMI. (2005). Retrieved June 13, 2005, from

http://www.aami.org/about/index.htm

Knowledge Quotes.. Retrieved on June 13, 2005, from:

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/knowledge/