Leading and Managing in Nursing 5th Edition by Patricia S. Yoder-Wise
Leading and Managing in Nursing 5th Edition by Patricia S. Yoder-Wise
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Chapter 08: Understanding and Designing Organizational Structures
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
MULTIPLE CHOICE
| a. | Being responsive to changes in the environment. |
| b. | Being bureaucratic. |
| c. | Creating permanent professional boundaries. |
| d. | Delineating structures for all decision making. |
ANS: A
Shared decision making across organizations can lead to growth and responsiveness in meeting emergent needs.
REF: Pages 141, 142, 153
TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
| a. | Not be directed by nurses. |
| b. | Be virtual organizations. |
| c. | Be designed to maintain nursing standards of practice. |
| d. | Be entitled to have client care departments. |
ANS: C
Professional nursing departments of the future will be focused on patient care outcomes and delivery of services.
REF: Pages 150, 151
TOP: AONE competency: Knowledge of Healthcare Environment
| a. | Promote professional medical authority, autonomy, and responsibility. |
| b. | Need a degree of flexibility to engender success. |
| c. | Be essential for self-governance. |
| d. | Provide for the establishment of medical committees. |
ANS: B
Centralized decision-making structures that emphasize high control and rules and regulations that lay out expectations can be slow to respond to emergent trends.
REF: Page 144 TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
| a. | Is a simplified organizational structure. |
| b. | Has both a functional manager and a service or product-line manager. |
| c. | Arranges departments strictly according to function. |
| d. | Promotes harmony in organizational decision making. |
ANS: B
Matrix structures are complex, integrated organizational structures that involve both functional and service or product-line managers. In this structure, team members or teams from various functional departments may combine to complete a project or program, thereby becoming responsible to both their functional department manager and their product-line manager. Harmony or disharmony cannot be assumed.
REF: Pages 147-149 TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
| a. | Has many divisions of labor. |
| b. | Best fits long-term care units. |
| c. | Has a mixture of the characteristics of various organizational types. |
| d. | Places the authority for decision making closest to the places where workers perform. |
ANS: C
Hybrid structures include characteristics of various organizational types and reflect the needs of the situation and the environment.
REF: Page 150
TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
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