Exam 24: Organization in Nonindustrial Settings: Health Care, School Systems, the Public Sector, and Family-Owned Businesses

What does the text recommend for linking OD interventions to issues of strategic importance in health care?

According to the text, OD practitioners can make a significant contribution in effective job and work designs in health care settings.

Public schools have well developed professional learning communities with effective vision statements and collaborative processes promoting unity and ownership.

Discuss the initial meetings with the family business client. Include key questions and strategies for the OD consultant to prepare for a successful intervention.

According to the text, which of the following is not a trend in health care?

Opportunities for OD practitioners in the public school system include

Describe how OD interventions could facilitate integration among the various stakeholders (physicians, pharmacies, hospitals, insurance companies) within the health care system.

As outlined in the text, which of the following does not describe a "family first" value system?

How would OD interventions need to be adapted to fit the public-sector organization?

Effective OD interventions in the public-sector recognize that the political domain and the administrative domain of the public agency share the same values.

OD efforts can help public schools build sustainable leadership capacity.

Professional learning communities involve which of the following groups?

One of the keys to the success of the family business consultant is to establish a trusting relationship.

Describe an OD intervention in the public school setting. Include practices that set a strategy, encourage collaboration, foster community engagement, and develop leadership.

The main purpose of the public-sector organization is

When OD practitioners work with the public-sector organization, it may be difficult to get various stakeholders to agree on a common goal.

OD interventions in health care must be seen as relevant and necessary to the life-and-death matters in operating in a health care organization.

OD practitioners working in the public-sector need to recognize which of the following features of the public-sector organization

One of the principal advantages of a family business is