Description
Discussion: Workplace Environment Assessment
How healthy is your workplace?
You may think your current organization operates seamlessly, or you may feel it has many issues. You may experience or even observe things that give you pause. Yet, much as you wouldnât try to determine the health of a patient through mere observation, you should not attempt to gauge the health of your work environment based on observation and opinion. Often, there are issues you perceive as problems that others do not; similarly, issues may run much deeper than leadership recognizes.
There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively? In this Discussion, you will examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark (2015).
Review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.
By Day 3 of Week 7
Post a brief description of the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Based on the results, how civil is your workplace? Explain why your workplace is or is not civil. Then, describe a situation where you have experienced incivility in the workplace. How was this addressed? Be specific and provide examples.
By Day 6 of Week 7
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by sharing ideas for how shortcomings discovered in their evaluations and/or their examples of incivility could have been managed more effectively.
Required Readings
Marshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
Chapter 5, âCollaborative Leadership Contexts: Networks, Communication, Decision Making, and Motivationâ (pp. 121â144)
Chapter 9, âCreating and Shaping the Organizational Environment and Culture to Support Practice Excellenceâ (pp. 247â278)
Chapter 10, âBuilding Cohesive and Effective Teamsâ (pp. 279â298)
Select at least ONE of the following:
Clark, C. M., Olender, L., Cardoni, C., & Kenski, D. (2011). Fostering civility in nursing education and practice: Nurse leader perspectives. Journal of Nursing Administration, 41(7/8), 324â330. doi:10.1097/NNA.0b013e31822509c4
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Clark, C. M. (2018). Combining cognitive rehearsal, simulation, and evidence-based scripting to address incivility. Nurse Educator. doi:10.1097/NNE.0000000000000563
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Clark, C. M. (2015). Conversations to inspire and promote a more civil workplace. American Nurse Today, 10(11), 18â23. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ant11-CE-Civility-1023.pdf
Griffin, M., & Clark, C. M. (2014). Revisiting cognitive rehearsal as an intervention against incivility and lateral violence in nursing: 10 years later. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 45(12), 535â542. doi:10.3928/00220124-20141122-02
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Document: Work Environment Assessment Template (Word document)
Required Media
TEDx. (2017, April). Jody Hoffer Gittell: The power of a simple idea [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7nL5RC5kdE
Laureate Education (Producer). (2009a). Working with Groups and Teams [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Sample Solution
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The United States is home to probably the most famous and productive sequential executioners ever. Names, for example, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, and the Zodiac Killer have become commonly recognized names because of the terrible idea of their violations. One of the most productive sequential executioners in American history is John Wayne Gacy. Nicknamed the Killer Clown due to his calling, Gacy assaulted and killed in any event 33 adolescent young men and youngsters somewhere in the range of 1972 and 1978, which is one of the most noteworthy realized unfortunate casualty checks. Gacy’s story has become so notable that his wrongdoings have been included in mainstream society and TV appears, for example, American Horror Story: Hotel and Criminal Minds. Criminological science has, and keeps on playing, a significant job in the explaining of the case and ID of the people in question. John Wayne Gacy’s history of sexual and psychological mistreatment was instrumental in provoking specialist’s curiosity of him as a suspect. John Wayne Gacy was conceived on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Being the main child out of three youngsters, Gacy had a stressed relationship with his dad, who drank vigorously and was frequently damaging towards the whole family (Sullivan and Maiken 48). In 1949, a contractual worker, who was a family companion, would caress Gacy during rides in his truck; notwithstanding, Gacy never uncovered these experiences to his folks because of a paranoid fear of revenge from his dad (Foreman 54). His dad’s mental maltreatment proceeded into his young grown-up years, and Gacy moved to Las Vegas where he worked quickly in the rescue vehicle administration before turning into a funeral home orderly (Sullivan and Maiken 50). As a funeral home orderly, Gacy was vigorously associated with the treating procedure and conceded that one night, he moved into the pine box of a perished high school kid and touched the body (Cahill and Ewing 46). Stunned at himself, Gacy comes back to Chicago to live with his family and graduates from Northwestern Business College in 1963, and acknowledges an administration student position with Nunn-Bush Shoe Company. In 1964, Gacy is moved to Springfield and meets his future spouse, Marlynn Myers. In Springfield, Gacy has his subsequent gay experience when a collaborator unsteadily performed oral sex on him (London 11:7). Gacy moves to Waterloo, Iowa, and starts a family with Myers. In any case, after normally undermining his significant other with whores, Gacy submits his initially known rape in 1967 upon Donald Vorhees. In the coming months, Gacy explicitly mishandles a few different young people and is captured and accused of oral homosexuality (Sullivan and Maiken 60). On December 3, 1968, Gacy is indicted and condemned to ten years at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. Gacy turns into a model detainee at Anamosa and is allowed parole in June of 1970, an insignificant year and a half after his condemning. He had to migrate to Chicago and live with his mom and watch a 10:00PM time limit. Not exactly a year later, Gacy is accused again of explicitly ambushing a young kid however the adolescent didn’t show up in court, so the charges were dropped. Gacy was known by numerous individuals in his locale to be an eager volunteer and being dynamic in network legislative issues. His job as “Pogo the Clown” the jokester started in 1975 when Gacy joined a neighborhood “Happy Joker” comedian club that consistently performed at gathering pledges occasions. On January 3, 1972, Gacy submits his first homicide of Timothy McCoy, a 16-year old kid heading out from Michigan to Omaha. Guaranteeing that McCoy went into his room using a kitchen blade, Gacy gets into a physical quarrel with McCoy before wounding him over and over in the chest. In the wake of understanding that McCoy had absentmindedly strolled into the live with the blade while attempting to get ready breakfast, Gacy covers the body in his slither space. Gacy conceded in the meetings following his capture that slaughtering McCoy gave him a “mind-desensitizing climax”, expressing that this homicide was the point at which he “understood passing was a definitive rush” (Cahill and Ewing 349). Right around 2 years after the fact, Gacy submits his second homicide of a unidentified young person. Gacy choked the kid before stuffing the body in his storeroom before covering him (Cahill 349).>
