Which of the Following Statements Accurately Describes the Value Discrepancies

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements accurately describes the value discrepancies between helping professionals and bureaucrats?

• A) Helping professionals believe that the primary goal of bureaucracies should be to survive, while the actual goal of bureaucracies is to serve clients.
• B) Helping professionals resist change and are most efficient when no one is "rocking the boat," while bureaucracies strive to change to meet the emerging needs of clients.
• C) Helping professionals believe bureaucracies should personalize services to each client and convey to them that "you count as a person," while bureaucracies are highly depersonalized systems in which clients (and employees) do not count as persons but are only tiny components of a mammoth system.
• D) Helping professionals believe that power should be held by top executives, while in bureaucracies the clients have considerable power in the system.

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