Use of Q Methodology by Public Relations Practitioners for Strategic Hospital Planning
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Abstract
This case study demonstrates how public relations practitioners can apply Q
methodology to strategic planning activities in health care settings.
Utilizing planning activities which took place in an Indiana hospital in
1993 (and given the fictional name of Riverbend Hospital for this
study), practitioners arrived at three stakeholder sets of perceptions
concerning health care reform fort he hospital. These perceptions then
became the focus of the strategic plan (corporate objectives) created by
the hospital's administrative staff in 1994. The authors suggest that Q
methodology is a research technique that can be employed successfully
by public relations practitioners in finite strategic planning
environments.
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Popovich, K., & Popovich, M. (1994). Use of Q Methodology by Public Relations Practitioners for Strategic Hospital Planning. Operant Subjectivity, 17(3/4). Retrieved from https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/osub/article/view/9011
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