PUBH6031 Week 7 Quiz Latest 2021

QUESTION 1 Decision making and resource allocation are important to managing the strategic planning process in a public health organization. This is important because:

                a.            Decision making ensures the organization stays on the track that its leaders have predetermined

                b.            Creating a plan is an investment of resources committed to improving the organization

                c.             Strategy-making processes are organizational-level phenomena involving key decisions made on behalf of the entire organization

                d.            All of these are correct.

QUESTION 2 Kotter suggests eight steps to transform organizations in dynamic situations. Communicating the Vision is best described by:

a.            Getting rid of obstacles to change, changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision and encouraging risk taking and nontraditional ideas, activities and actions

b.            Planning for visible performance improvements, creating those improvements and recognizing and rewarding employees involved in the improvements

c.             Using increased credibility to change systems, structures and policies that don’t fit the vision, hiring, promoting and developing employees who can implement the vision, and reinvigorating the process with new projects, themes, and change agents

d.            None of these is correct.

QUESTION 3       Goals are:

a.            Broad statements of direction derived from strategies

b.            Specific statements that align organizational resources

c.             Action steps representing the final level of planning

d.            None of these is correct.

QUESTION 4       Operational planning—including development of strategies, goals, objectives, and action steps—is how the organization intends to achieve its goals.

  True

  False

QUESTION 5       The art and science of planning must be embedded in the culture of the public health organization in order to positively impact population health status and meet health challenges at the local, state, regional, national, and even global levels.

  True

  False