An eight page paper which looks critically at a case study requiring analysis and decision-making, and offers an overview which might be used by the CEO in the example as the basis for a presentation on policy-making to the organisation's staff. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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from the way in which this case study has been structured and formulated that what is required is not, necessarily, a series of specific solutions to the various problems which
have been presented. Instead, there are a number of different issues which are inter-related, and which need to be identified before an overview of the situation can be offered.
It would be useful for the Executive Assistant to suggest, for instance,
ways in which the problems should be prioritised, and to offer ways in which they might successfully be tackled. It is evident, for example, that there is a degree of
common purpose amongst the staff at the hospital. They are agreed that good and effective patient care should be a priority, and from this perspective, the CEO is aware that
they have a common motivation which should be encouraged. However, the way in which the staff feel their policy should be implemented varies from department to department, and in some
instances from individual to individual within departments. One of the first tasks
facing the Executive Assistant is to decide which of the various and interconnected issues which have been presented by the CEO are, in fact, genuine problems, and in what order
it would be best to deal with them in terms of their respective urgency.
According to the CEOs statement, there are two major areas which in which the hospital is experiencing difficulties, the first being the increasing financial losses and the second