Health care executives be physician or non-physician: qualification in health care management is crucial.

Primarily, how well organization performs and handles the tough challenges does depend on how well the health care manager is educated and trained. The managers are expected to integrate modern business management practices with clinical and healthcare knowledge in hospital and health care institutions. All managers, irrespective of what they manage, perform four generic tasks (planning, organizing, leading and controlling). Planning involves defi ning goals and mapping out ways to reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information resources aimed at achieving desired goals; leading involves motivating others to achieve organizational goals and controlling involves measuring performance and monitoring progress relative to objectives.1 Effi ciency of health care managers can be greatly increased through education in management studies e.g. public health, health care, hospital management, health administration and many more in health care management science discipline.