I need a response to another students paper, the original prompt was :

Topic: Evidence-Based Leadership Practices

You are considering accepting a new position as a leader. However, prior to accepting the position, you are going to perform an organizational assessment.

How would you design an organizational assessment to establish the current state of:

shared governance,
culture of the organization,
and safety of patient care?
What do you expect to see in each of these areas if they are functioning well?

What will you do to assess if each these areas are functioning well?

It needs to include a bible quote

Description

As a leader it is important to be able to see both aspects of the business world. This means that as a leader you should be able to see the functional parts of your business as well as the parts of the business that are not functional. It can also be said that it is just as important for a leader to understand the culture of the organization that they are in charge of leading, so that they may be an effective leader. Our textbook states that the culture found within an organization is created from the tone of the relationships between the leaders and the followers of the organization (Neely-Barnes & Lennon-Dearing, 2017). The best way to determine where your functional dysfunctional aspects are within your organization would be to create an organizational assessment tool to help you evaluate the business.

Organizational Assessment Format

As mentioned above, it is important for a leader to know the functional and dysfunctional areas of his or her business, and to effectively do so, an organizational assessment is needed. The first area of organizational assessment that I would start with would be, shared governance. Do the people of your business feel that they are being heard and included in the implementation of new policies? This is an important part of being a leader within a business. I feel the best way to approach such a topic is to follow the same set-up demonstrated in an article concerning how nurses felt concerning their control in their workplace. The nurses were sampled and asked for their perceived decision making on 21 different topics (Gerard et Al, 2016). I choose this method because this way whoever is surveyed does not feel as though they will be penalized for giving an honest answer. If shared governance is working correctly then the workers will feel that they have a large amount of say in how their workplace is managed.

The next area in which I would look into to see if workers were satisfied would be the culture of the workplace. I believe the best way to conduct this kind of research would be to use an outside source, such as a survey website, to conduct an anonymous survey of each employee to see how comfortable they are with their boss and coworkers. Do the employees feel as though they are taken care of by the company? Do they feel they can go to their boss with an issue? Do they feel as though they can count on coworkers to help them? There are so many things within a work environment that makeup the work culture, but there are some larger items that can help change it if it’s not a positive one. I do think that the way one article conducted interviews is definitely not the way to go about it due to the fact that it is much harder for someone to be honest if they are faced with that person or worried it could get back to that person what they said (New Online, 2019). If this tool was to be seen as successful, I would expect to see fewer call out days and sick days from employees because on the whole, they are happier.

The last area in which I would do an assessment would be patient safety. I would do this from the viewpoint of the care giver, i.e. the nurses. I would do this because many times the patients may not know what our standards for patient safety are, therefore cannot give a clear definition of whether or not our safety standards are effective. There is one article that mentions we are using far too many alarms now a days and the nursing staff is becoming “fatigued” to the alarm bells (Ruskin et Al, 2015). This could pose a problem for safety regulations, and in this case I would like to cater my assessment to ask the nursing staff to fill out an anonymous report of how many safety protocols they use one patient per shift, then how we could reduce the number without compromising safety but being more efficient. My hope is that if this works effectively, that we can come up with a new way to streamline patient safety without compromising safety and without taking up too much of the nurses time.