Operative goals can indeed be explicit, meaning they are clearly stated and understood, or implicit, meaning they are implied or understood without being directly stated. This flexibility allows organizations to navigate and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities.

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Operative Goals

Question 17

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Operative goals:

A) are the general purposes of the organization as put forth in the charter, annual reports, public statements by key officials and other authoritative pronouncements.
B) can be explicit or implicit.
C) are the substitution of a legitimate goal with another goal that the organization was not developed to address, for which resources were not allocated and which it is not known to serve.
D) involve the condition where the external environment provides an agency with the appropriate status or authorization to perform agency functions and pursue agency goals.

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