Organizational Adaptation and Survival
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
• Present the concept of the organization as a total system.
• Describe the evolution of the total system approach to management.
• Describe the development and characteristics of the formal organization.
• Identify the approaches to the classification of organizations and apply these to the healthcare organization.
• Introduce the concept of the clientele network and describe the application of these components to the healthcare organization.
• Identify the need for organizational survival as a fundamental goal of organizational effort.
• Describe selected management strategies used to enhance organizational survival.
• Analyze the phases of the organizational life cycle and relate these to the functions of the manager.
• Describe the development and characteristics of corporate culture and its relationship to organizational life cycles.
• Provide information for developing a management reference portfolio.
