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Benefits and Costs of Group Meetings

A must for every nurse administrator is a book by Robert L. Veninga entitled The Human Side of Health Administration. Veninga has synthesized a wealth of information in the fields of management, communication, and organizational behavior that have particular relevance to health care delivery systems and, more specifically, direct application to the actual work that nursing, hospital, and public health administrators undertake. Each chapter identifies several administrative concepts, explains the rationale of each, and then demonstrates how these concepts apply to the real-world work of human service administration. From the book's chapter on “Competency: Developing Productive Committees” comes this excerpt on the benefits and costs of group meetings. It will help you make your meetings as productive and effective as possible.