relating to education as the budget process for the coming year

began. This corporate objective read: Corporate objective III: To

educate health care professionals within the enterprise to meet

the health care needs of society and to define $5-$year plans to

meet educational needs for the several professional groups. The

corporate objectives were dis$-$ tributed and discussed at a

meeting with middle managers. The responsibility for

developing departmental objectives for the coming year was

delegated to the manag$-$ ers. Community Hospital culture was

par$-$ ticipative in nature, and the flowchart in Figure $5-1$

describes the communication process as the managers shared

the vision with the teams and the team leaders em$-$ powered

individual employees to offer suggestions. $1.$ Develop ongoing

educational objec$-$ tives for health information services to meet

corporate objective III for the coming year. $2.$ Develop ongoing

educational objectives for the major teams in the department

for the coming year