cultivating the type of ethical climate conducive to effective military action.
The most pressing issues in army leadership and management include the establishment of an organizational climate that is solution-focused, built on a solid ethical footing. More specific issues at stake in army leadership relate to the ways current managers cultivate the talents and skills in their subordinates, recognizing high achievers or those with high potential and promoting leadership development within the army. Leadership development is not always presented or promoted effectively within the army, which impedes the ability of the organization to fulfill its goals. Personal experiences with both effective and ineffective leadership development and transition… Continue Reading...
Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
Nursing turnover is one of the most important issues facing the health care industry today. Turnover rates increase costs for health care facilities and decrease the quality of care for patients, as new nurses constantly need to be trained and a lack of experience throughout the department can mean that patients suffer ultimately from a continuous rotation of novices (Twibell, 2012). Han, Trinkoff and Geiger-Brown (2014) have shown that various factors can impact turnover rates: nurses can be burned out by working too many shifts or consecutive… Continue Reading...
written. According to Ahmad & Ibrahim (2015), these three cohorts are now making up most working environments, and it is the responsibility of leadership and management to help bridge the gap between these cohorts by adapting to the needs of each group. Implementing EI skills is an effective way to adapt to these diverse needs and show a supportive approach to the individuals of the different generational backgrounds.
Bringing the generations together and uniting them via the organizational culture should be the aim of management, and as Butts (2015) shows, managers who take a personal interest in their workers, reach out to them, and address issues by utilizing an intergenerational lens are better… Continue Reading...
believed that leaders are made through training but all of them are the same because they should have certain leadership and management characteristic for them to accomplish their duties (Armstrong, 2016). The same thing applies to the nurse leaders, as they should have certain characteristics of leadership and management for them to be successful in their assigned duties and responsibilities. Nurse leader should be committed to excellence by focusing on the individual goals and targets or goals and targets set by the institution. Being a leader, a nurse should set some priorities such that the nurse and the other employees can be committed to working towards achieving or meeting… Continue Reading...
practitioner applies nursing concepts in daily activities that focus on delivery of high quality patient care. As a nursing leadership and management student, my shadowing experience involved observing WW, a nurse manager of a cardiac progressive unit. This paper provides a discussion of the shadowing experience with this nurse manager, which focused on identifying leadership styles she utilized to accomplish daily activities in the unit and enhance patient care. The discussion includes a review of the position, credentials, and leadership styles of the nurse manager. This paper also includes an explanation of how the nurse manager handled a conflict using the leadership style. An explanation regarding how the shadowing… Continue Reading...
Case Study: Avoiding Partnership Pitfalls
On its official website, La Piana Consulting identifies its core mission as improving leadership and management practices within the nonprofit sector so that nonprofits can change the world. As noted in the Andreasen & Kotler (2007), La Piana is motivated by his belief that nonprofits function best when they are run like for-profit organizations. Strategic planning, business planning, corporate restructuring, change management, and governance are all examples of services La Piana’s firm provides to nonprofits that have been, until now, traditionally associated with for-profit entities.
Some of La Piana’s client firms include Habitat for Humanity, which it enabled to engage in organization-wide restructuring… Continue Reading...
and poor monitoring of patients. In that regard, therefore, a multidisciplinary, multifaceted intervention approach was proposed with the identified areas of concern being leadership and management, human resources, quality assurance processes, communication, physical design, and policy drafting.
1.1.2. Prioritization of Improvement Opportunities
Here, the most critical improvement opportunities were identified. This was particularly important given that an attempt to tackle all the identified issues at the same time was likely to be overwhelming and therefore prone to failure. For this reason, only a few interventions were identified as being worthy of immediate attention. The identified areas of concern that were taken into consideration on this front were inclusive of
· Leadership and management… Continue Reading...
productivity. Literature extensively shows that employee productivity is often driven by factors relating to the work environment such as working conditions, compensation, leadership and management style, organisational culture, interpersonal relationships, career-growth opportunities, as well as management support (Alias, Rasdi & Ismail, 2013). Employee productivity may further be driven by factors unique to the individual such as personality, character, determination, and work experience. Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management
Organizational Analysis -- The Organization
The hospital is well recognized and has been named a top 100 Heart hospital and top 100 hospitals nationally. The organization also has a nationally ranked children's hospital that has newborn and pediatric intensive care services. Sanford Medical Center is a level II trauma center that is supported by AirMed transport services that cover a three-state area. The services offered within the facility include:
• 3D Mammography
• Allergy & Immunology
• Behavioral Health
• Breast Health
• Cancer/Oncology
• Children's/Pediatrics
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redundancy, inefficiency, and potential security breaches. The risks with mandatory interagency collaboration can be managed and mitigated through effective leadership and management. Failures in interagency partnerships have highlighted the primary areas of concern, which include role clarity and control over programs and services (Byles, 1985). Poor communication, lack of genuine collaboration, and power struggles emerge when the interagency partnerships are poorly designed, or when there are no clear guidelines for project and task management (Byles, 1985). Learning from mistakes in past interagency partnership failures has helped policymakers and leaders to construct more effective means of designing and maintaining these relationships.
Interagency partnerships do benefit from being ensconced in law… Continue Reading...
