Survival of the Fittest - Article Example

Synopsis Synopsis Mark S. Learner in his article (Survival of the Fittest) s, negative economic conditions have adversely affected every one including the health care system which is experiencing high number of layoffs (Lerner, 2009). He further adds that individuals can obtain job security in four ways. An individual has to prove to his/her managers that they are the only one within the organization who has the desired skills required to do a particular job. For example: if the health care official is working in one area of a technology used in health care settings, he/she should learn to even work in other areas to attain complete expertise over the technology.

This will help the employees in saving his/her jobs because health care administrators are already looking to retain only those employees who can work in more than one area. Secondly managers have to motivate employees by participating in two way communication with them. Thirdly employees can continuously get involved in the process of improving the quality of the service by providing clean and safe environment to patients and other officials of the health care system. Lastly, administrators of health care system should try to reduce their cost by negotiating with suppliers and it is the right time to do so as suppliers they are ready to negotiate due to bad economic conditions. Mark S. Learner states that an individual who is responsible for carrying out activities should try to take the credit for what he has done otherwise his activities and importance will be undermined.

OpinionLerner states that an individual has to show his technical abilities in order to save his/her job. In my opinion this is not completely true because an individual can not perform all kinds of jobs related to a field and if he/she will try to do so, he will feel over burdened and employees of health care settings are already over burdened because organizations are practicing layoffs. ReferencesLerner, M. S. (January 01, 2009). Survival of the fittest. Radiology Management, 31, 5.)