Leadership week one response 1 – Factors that influence organizational cultures
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Nursing
Academic Level Master
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Respond to Mollys post in one of the following ways
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings
Discussion #1
I currently work at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, MS. Memorial is a not-for profit hospital with 303 beds and 70 clinics. According to Memorials mission and vision, Memorial is “governed by a Board of Trustees, strategic decisions are based on six core strategies: Customer Satisfaction, Growth, Work Environment, Finance, Quality/Patient safety/information Technology (IT) and strong hospital/physician relationship” (Memorial Hospital, 2017). I have been a nurse for 19 years but have been in a leadership role for the last 3 years. Attending meetings daily with hospital administrators is something that is new for me. Being involved in decisions that affect the entire culture of the facility can be overwhelming. “The culture of an organization is how they do things” (Watkins, 2013). I have found that customer satisfaction is a big part of Memorial’s vision and it is a high priority for administrators. Growth is also something that is a high priority. The administrators are frequently buying clinics in our surrounding area to offer more services to patients in a broader area. I have also noticed that finance is a huge topic lately. Because we are not-for profit and depend on government reimbursement, changes are frequently made for nursing staff so that reimbursement is higher. The climate of our organization lately has not been positive. Most of the staff at our organization have been there for many years and have seen years with no merit increase and shift differentials being taken away. At the same time, we have also seen administrators buying 10-15 clinics in surrounding areas. It’s difficult for staff to see money spent on buying clinics when we do not get a merit increase for years. The staff has a very negative attitude when asked to go above and beyond in the daily duties when they are not receiving anything in return. We have lost 30 employees in one year in my department due to lack of merit increases and due to other hospitals in the area offering to pay more per hour. Due to the negative climate in our organization, it would be beneficial for administrators to change the culture of our organization.
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CoastalMedical Associates, Salisbury, MA. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2012d). Factors that influence organizational cultures:
Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, (2017). Memorial: about us. Retrieved from
www.gulfportmemorial.com/about-us
Watkins, M. (2013, May). What is organizational culture? Retrieved from
https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-cultur
