Health Sciences 3400A/B Chapter 2: Health Policy - Chapter 2 Note.docx
5 Jan 2015
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King: people conform as a part of every day life and as consequence of, traditional authority doing things. socialization, charismatic authority, based on intense commitment to a leader and their ideology or other personal characteristics, ex. Challenges to rational model: problem definition, the precise nature of the problem is not always clear cut, this model has been criticized in relation to specifying values and objectives, whose values and aims are to be adopted, no organization is homogeneous, assumption that all possible strategies can be considered, many alternatives may be foreclosed. Simon suggested that simplify decision making in two ways: they find routine ways to deal with recurrent problems so as not to have to assess, decision makers do not aim to achieve optimal solutions to problems; rather they each problem in a comprehensive matter, not subject to scrutiny strive for satisficing", meeting satisfactory standards.
