In assessing the internal environment, the strategic planning team at Pacific Hospital discovers that 90% of staff members have no idea what the current mission statement means. This is most likely related to:
a. The level of abstraction inherent in mission statements.
b. Development of the statement by the ad-ministration team with no other staff in-volvement.
c. Outdated goals and objectives contained in the mission statement.
d. Failure to provide action statements within the mission statement.
B
A mission statement reflects the beliefs of the organization in relation to those it serves and ser-vices it provides, and it communicates the direction of an organization. Covey (1990) believes that the process of developing the mission statement is vital to an organization's success and should involve everyone.
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