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Implications of Change in Healthcare Delivery System on nurse leadership

Technology drives most of the healthcare delivery system and the changing technology has resulted in the transforming face of modern healthcare system. The practice of nursing becomes quite dynamic when seen in purview of the technological advancements and their implications (Melnyk et al., 2012). For example, genetics and genomic field has encountered a substantial change as large number of diseases, risk factors, therapies and treatments have genomic elements which are influenced by lifestyle and environmental factors, thus having a greater impact on nursing practice. This compels the nurse leaders know more about genomic and genetics to effectually teach and ...

Expert systems are a particular type of Knowledge Based Systems. Their name comes from two sources: one, that “they are able to learn by themselves” and the other, that the knowledge they manage comes from expert’s consultation. (Tyler) Typical applications of expert systems include tasks such as medical diagnosis, fault localization equipment and interpretation of measurement results. The expert system needs to solve problems that require for their solution expertise in some specific area. Thus, the expert system should have this knowledge in one form or another. Therefore, they are also called systems based on knowledge. However, not ...

Management Practices

Management Practices

Introduction

Henri Fayol is well-known for the five management functions he identified like planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling (Golden Pryor & Taneja, 2010). These factors are important to practice to achieve the key processes of management, including planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling organizational activities (Grebner & Mattingly, 2016). According to DuBrin (2011) the managers perform the managerial functions in order to achieve goals like managing and leading employees and retaining key employees, etc. McDonald’s is the organization for which I worked also practice the earlier described management functions.

Planning is one of the key managerial activities of ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

This research paper is one which is meant to show my individual leadership assessment and further to show how the findings from my test may be advantageous in an instance that I am able to advance in my nursing practice. Assessing Emotional Intelligence

Authentic Leadership

Authentic Leadership is the defined as the kind of leadership that leads to the proper and more comfortable working environment for the various staff of the hospital or institution (Shirey, 2006). However, these styles of leadership may differ in one way or the other, depending on whether the style is transformational, transactional or an authentic leadership ...

Literature Review

Research Questions Discuss the effectiveness of narcissistic leaderships? Can it deliver positive results to the business in long term? Discuss the paradox of dark side of leadership? What is the best way to analyze the dark side of leadership? Charismatic leadership is well-known and propagated by several authors as an effective means for motivating employees and delivering results. In their article, Shamir and Howell have provided evidence to the fact that charismatic leadership emerges as an effective tool in several situations and organizations having an unstable business environment does not allow charismatic leaders to prosper (1999 p. 278). Kodish ( ...

According to SimplyHired (2010), job seekers use three basic types of resumes. These are functional, chronological, and mixed (hybrid). The purpose for each of these resumes and their differences are given below.

Functional resume

A functional resume focuses more on the acquired skills rather than the type of positions held before. A few essential areas of experience are highlighted on a functional resume including responsibilities held and achievements for each position. When writing about personal experience, an individual should be keen to provide a lot of context specifically aiming the job one is applying. The functional resume will be necessary when a person wants ...

PART 1: Dark Leadership

Introduction Dark leadership is defined as the “systemic and sustained behavior by an organizational leader that violates the organizational interests by denting and /or sabotaging the organizations tasks, resources, goals and effectiveness and/or the motivation , wellbeing or job satisfaction” (Sankar,2003, p.112). In recent years, organizational leaders have gained much recognition as agents of entrepreneurship and change. As much as many tend to focus on the positive elements associated with leaders certain liabilities or risks are also entailed (Herbst, 2014). These very behaviors have the power to produce problematic or devastating outcomes for their organizations. This usually takes ...

Management

LA-1 The strategic decision making of the business plays an important role in the success and sustainability of the business in a long run. There are certain elements which affect the strategic decision making of the business such as shareholders, government, financial signals and all other important stakeholders. However, only the directors of the business have the power of making and implementing the strategic decisions of the business. The directors of the business are the individuals who are in a position to direct the business in a most favorable ways. Therefore, in the strategic decision making of the business, the directors ...

Managing People at Work

Employment relations involve maintaining the relationship between the employer and employee so that they remain motivated, productive, and full of morale. Managing people at work is related to employment relations since how an employer deals with employees at work and reprimands them greatly reflects on their productivity, motivation and morale. Regarding the employee conditions at schools, the government is doing a very poor job on employing good policies of employment relations. This has happened because over the years very few reforms have been made to improve on the working conditions of teachers and supporting staff regarding independent decision making at ...