Health Maintenance Organization (HMO): A healthcare system that assumes or shares both the financial risks and the delivery risks associated with providing comprehensive medical services to a voluntarily enrolled population in a particular geographic area, usually in return for a fixed, prepaid fee.

 

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Organization Planning: The process of transforming an organization’s goals, objectives, philosophy and mission into practices and policies.

Organizational Design: The process of establishing and arranging the elements of an organization’s structure.

Organizational Behavior Modification Theory: A motivational theory suggesting that an individual will behave in a manner that helps him or her avoid potential negative outcomes and achieve agreeable outcomes.

Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): A cartel of oil-producing countries.

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