Description
To prepare:
- Review Chapter 8 in the course text. Focus on Kurt Lewin’s change theory, and contrast it with other classic change models and strategies.
- Reflect on problems, inefficiencies, and critical issues within a specific department, unit, or area in your organization or one with which you are familiar. Select one issue as a focal point for this assignment, and consider a change that could be made to address the issue.
- Think about how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
- Using one of the change models or strategies discussed in Chapter 8, begin formulating a plan for implementing the change within the department/unit. Outline the steps that you and/or others should follow to facilitate the change effort. Align these steps to the change model or strategy you selected.
- Determine who should be involved in initiating and managing the change. Consider the skills and characteristics that are necessary to facilitate this change effort.
To complete:
By Day 7
Write a 3- to 5-page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:
- Identify a problem, inefficiency, or issue within a specific department/unit.
- Describe a specific, realistic change that could be made to address the issue.
- Summarize how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
- Identify a change model or strategy to guide your planning for implementing the change. Provide a rationale for your selection.
- Outline the steps that you and/or others would follow to facilitate the change. Align these steps to your selected change model or strategy.
- Explain who would be involved in initiating and managing this change. Describe the skills and characteristics that would be necessary to facilitate the change effort.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: PLANNED CHANGE IN A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT
Planned Change in a Hospital Environment
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PLANNED CHANGE IN A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT
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Introduction
In the present organizational environment, change is an essential thing for any company to gain
competitive advantage. Organizational change has the major aim of bringing about the members
of the organization to take up the changes which have to be employed to address some business
efficiency (William, 2003). Towards this end, the extent of organizational change is broad and
includes such things as operational changes, culture change and a change in the structure of the
organization or their operations. It is important to know that organizational change offers to
address some present inefficiency that has been noted in the hospital environment in this case.
The problem within the department
Presently in the hospital environment, nurses adopt the use of paper-based approaches to take
care of the daily undertakings in the hospital. This is a recipe for inefficiency which ultimately
brings about low quality of service delivery in the hospital (Kotler, 1996). For example, there is
bound to be human errors, patient safety matters and wrong prescriptions with the use of the
current paper-based approaches. In...
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