Human Services Administration & Management Internship

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Discussion Board Organizational Change

Attached is a link to a newspaper article discussing the merger of Sentara, a local healthcare system, and Cone Health, a large hospital system in North Carolina. Try to put yourself in the place of a Healthcare Manager currently employed by the Cone Healthcare System. Your area of responsibility is the Outpatient Diagnostic Services facility for Cone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/sentara-seeks-merger-with-nc-hospital-chain-combined-revenue-would-be-115-billion/ar-BB17ViWw

As with any organizational change, your staff is going to have questions and concerns. As part of this discussion:

  1. Address and consider the following:
  • Describe at least two concerns that the current employees of Cone might have regarding the merger.
  • Discuss the psychological rationale or theories of motivation (e.g. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg etc.) that trigger these concerns
  • Discuss the challenges as a manager that you will have in addressing the concerns