Conflict Handling Style

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Conflict Handling Style

This assignment will help you understand conflict at the individual, team and organizational levels.

Using the ————- University Online Library or the Internet, research and identify additional information on handling conflict.

Based on your research and understanding, create a paper in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document that:

Includes a description of change theories, conflict theories, and leader as a change agent.

Integrates how your ability to handle conflict can either enhance or hinder effective leadership in the health care environment.

APA format.

The Evolution of Greek Sculpture

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Question 1. The Evolution of Greek Sculpture

As we learned this week, sculptors in Ancient Greece strove to achieve perfection in the works of art they created. Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, c. 530 BCE
Warrior, found in the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 BCE
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His Sons, 2nd-1st c BCE

Then, in a minimum of 2 well-developed paragraphs, answer the following questions:

  • What specific visual similarities do you observe in these three sculptures?
  • What specific differences do you see? Consider the representation of the figure, facial expression or suggested emotion, additional objects portrayed, and the role of the viewer for each sculpture.
  • How is each sculpture representative of the period in Ancient Greece (e.g., Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic) in which it was created?

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific details about each sculpture.

Question 2. Religious Symbolism

This week, we studied cultures that recognized a pantheon of gods and goddesses, such as Ancient Greece and Rome, and also explored the early artistic objects of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus, wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, c. 50 BCE
Ark of the Covenant and Menorahs, wall painting in a Jewish catacomb, Villa Torlonia, Rome, 3rd c CE
The Transfiguration of Christ, Church of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, 533-549 CE

Then, in a minimum of 3 well-developed paragraphs, address the following questions:

  1. What is the subject matter shown in each work?
  2. What is the belief system or faith represented in each work?
  3. What religious symbols do you observe in each work?
  4. How would the setting of each work have influenced how the contemporary viewer interpreted or understood its meaning?

Be sure to provide citations for any outside sources you reference in this part of your response.

Leaders of health care organizations are face with enormous challenges.

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Leaders of health care organizations are face with enormous challenges. As with other sectors of health care, there are numerous challenges facing ancillary services. As a leader in an ever changing and demanding environment, you must be able to propose solutions and predict probable outcomes. Your proposal(s) must be effectively communicate to staff and organizational leadership.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2015). Ancillary Services. Retrieved from https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp

  • Common ancillary services, provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (n.d.), are listed below:
  • Respiratory Therapy, Social Work (housing, discharge planning, family support),
  • Speech/Language Pathology (speech, language, voice, fluency, cognition, and swallowing),
  • Traumatic Brain Injury etc

You are a director of a hospital ancillary service unit hospital. You have noticed that your unit is faced with the following three challenges:

  1. Slow adoption to technology
  2. Staff shortage
  3. Poor job satisfaction rates resulting in turnover

You are to write a proposal addressing each of the above challenges. Your proposal should have the following sections:

  1. Background: Select an ancillary service from the above list and provide background on the services provided.
  2. Challenges: State the three challenges and identify how they potential could affect your selected ancillary service unit (be sure to support your position with valid sources).
  3. Solution/Outcome: For each challenge identify one solution and describe the probable outcome.
  4. Scope/Plan: Develop a plan to address these three issues and describe phases/timeframe of your plan.

Knowing scientific management theory as defined as supervising by way of focusing on task accomplishments rather than interpersonal relationships

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Knowing scientific management theory as defined as supervising by way of focusing on task accomplishments rather than interpersonal relationships (Huber 2014). Some routines in health care that seem to be inefficient in regards to scientific management are the overwhelming focus on tasks, the evaluations based on tasks accomplished, and the pressure to join committees to add more tasks to nurses’ duties. A lot of times nurses have trouble tending to the needs of their patients because they are so focused on getting the tasks done so as to not get in trouble. Many times tasks are added to the nurses’ workload making it hard to complete everything on time. This causes incidental overtime which is also greatly frowned upon. Finally, the committees are supposed to be a good thing, allowing nurses to participate in shared governance. The issue arises when the requirements for the committees capitalize on the time the nurse should be working or decompressing from the stress of daily work. Some examples of participative decision-making at the hospital that I work at are unit forums and shared governance council. The unit forums allow for nurses and aides in the unit to meet and discuss issues to resolve amongst themselves. Shared governance councils allow for nurses to meet with administration to discuss issues at the bedside that can only be fixed by administration.

Comment 2

The scientific management theory states that humans are motivated by money, and there should be a separation between managers and workers. The expected result is a dramatic increase in productivity of the workers and profits for the organization. Some of the routines in the health care setting that are inefficient is nurse-to-patient ratio and staff retention. I feel the nurse-to-patient ratios are unsafe as it overloads the nurse and nursing assistants in carrying for high acuity patients with a higher prevalence of medical errors and oversight. When staffing is is done according to census instead of census it creates an unsafe environment for the patients and the staff. Without adequate staffing, patient care is inadequate and the patients suffer. Which in turns causes patient surveys to report negative feedback giving the hospital low numbers.Staff retention is important to ensure there is adequate staff to meet the demands of an aging population with numerous chronic illnesses. When facilities ignore the concerns of staff or do not provide attempt to implement change that benefits the staff and the patients, morale falls and staff leave. When nurses feel their safety and license are in jeopardy, they will seek out a better work environment they feel safe in. The facility I work for currently does annual retention surveys that allow its employees to voice any concerns and share what they feel the facility is doing well or could improve on. The nurses are asked various questions in regards to the leaders and managers they work directly under and whether their needs are being addressed. The facility offers committees that focus on allowing staff to have voice. Some include unit base council for each unit of the facility, committee for staffing concerns and safety committees that focus on sentinel events.