title: Design planning to meet goals in health service organizations. Concepts and illustration.
abstract: The performance of health service organizations is affected by the existence of multiple, often conflicting performance goals, and by various social-psychological processes that characterize the particular structure of the organization. This paper proposes a systematic, management-based methodology for identifying those "best" values for a set of social-psychological processes that enhance achievement of a set of organizational performance goals. The approach is illustrated with data from selected county health departments in North Carolina.
mesh_terms: D006298:Health Services Administration; D009657:North Carolina; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D013597:Systems Analysis