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The changes in the health care environment result from a combination of factors (increasing costs of health care, changing societal values, advances in treatment therapies, technological innovation, changing demographics, and many others). Cost is a major factor involved in changes in the delivery of health care delivery and support services. It is, therefore, imperative for health care delivery and support organizations to develop procedures that will lead to more effective and more efficient operations.

When health care delivery and support organizations implement changes designed to lead to more effective and more efficient operations, the human resource complement in the health care field is inevitably affected. When governments change regulations affecting the functioning of health care delivery and support organizations, again the human resource complement in the health care field is inevitably affected.

Regardless of how laudable changes implemented by health care delivery and support organizations or government may be in intent, such changes may also be highly disruptive for specific

components of the health care sector, and such disruption may lead to se

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white males comprised 47 percent of the American workforce in 1984, that population group was expected to contribute on 15 percent of new entrants into the labor market between 1985 and 2000 (Johnston and Packer, 1987, p. xxi). While there will be some diminution in the quality of the American workforce by the year 2000, most employers now know that, rather than "spending much of their energy reacting to conditions presented by the media and government reports," they must "better define the demand side of their own workforce equation" before rushing into programs that may become white elephants and albatrosses (Kucker, 1992, pp. 3740). Most employers are proceeding carefully in the development of plans that are tailored to their own labor demands for early in the next century. In some companies, the actions being taken do react the imperatives included in the WORKFORCE 2000 report because those imperatives are generally consistent with the projected labor demands of their own firms for the early years of the coming century (Burns, 1989, pp. 2530). Other employers, however, are selectively engaging in education, retraining, managerial sensitivity orientation, work schedule refinements, and other suggestions emanating from t
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