...Recognizing the Need For, Impacts and Benefits of Effective Delegation in the Work Place CASSANDRA C. SMITH Graduate Research Thesis Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan Dr. Thomas Marx Senior Service College Fellowship (SSCF) 2011-2012 Midwest Region Published by Defense Acquisition University 28 Mar 2012 Submitted to Lawrence Technological University (LTU) College of Management in partial fulfillment of the degree of Masters of Science in Global Leadership and Management Submitted to Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Midwest Region in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the Senior Service College Fellowship (SSCF) Program UNCLASSIFIED: Distribution Statement A Approved for public release Report Documentation Page Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to a penalty for...
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...Effective Delegation Erik Blashak Clarion University of PA Nurs 340: Nursing in Transition September 19, 2016 Effective Delegation as a Nurse Manager Gaudenzia, Common Ground is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The facility is a 34 bed in-patient, non hospital, drug and alcohol rehabilitation. It is also licensed for dual diagnosed clients, and has a ten bed detoxification unit. There are ten female beds and twenty four male beds, including the detoxification clients. The client turnover rate is very high, and this adds pressure to the nursing department. There are two registered nurses and four licensed practical nurses on staff. At least one nurse is on duty twenty four hours a day. There is one nurse manager who works on the floor. The average nurse ratio is 17:1. The reason it is so high is because most clients are medically stable once they are done with detoxification. There are many nursing...
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...Application MGT/330 Oren Gilbert May 29, 2011 Abstract In this paper we will analyze the functions of management at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Looking at the four management functions (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) and how the functions are affected by internal and external factors. An explanation of how globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics affect the four management functions will are discussed. Lastly how managers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital use delegation to manage each function (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling). As well as how each factor (globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics) is affected managerial delegation. External/Internal Factors This paper is based on the St Jude’s Children Research Hospital. St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital was started in 1962 by founder Danny Thomas. Thomas’s goals were to change the lives of all the children that would walk through the hospital doors. He created a hospital that specialized in research and treatment of catastrophic diseases and illnesses. It was not until 2005 that St Jude’s added on a massive expansion that heightened the hospitals efforts to find cures, treatments, vaccines, and rehabilitation for children. This paper will include an explanation of how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management, and how management uses delegation to control factors and functions. Some of the factors and...
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...------------------------------------------------- Does delegation help or hurt nursing? A Research Paper April 11, 2013 Fiona Molloy Dr. McDonnell HAS 420 April 11, 2013 Fiona Molloy Dr. McDonnell HAS 420 Fiona Molloy Dr. McDonnell/Bill Miller HSA 420 Does Delegation Help or Hurt Nursing? Chapter One: The History of Nursing. The first nursing school was established in India in about 250 B.C., and only men were permitted to attend because men were viewed to be more pure than women. If you think of a woman dressed in scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck and a clipboard in her hands, you aren’t alone. An overwhelming majority of nurses in the United States today are women. However, nursing began as a practice reserved for men. It wasn’t until the 1800's that nursing became an organized practice. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and 38 volunteer nurses were sent to the main British camp in Turkey. Nightingale and her staff immediately began to clean the hospital and equipment and reorganized patient care. Nightingale pushed for reform of hospital sanitation methods and invented methods of graphing statistical data. When she returned to Britain, Nightingale aided in the establishment of the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army. As a woman, Nightingale could not be appointed to the Royal Commission, but she composed the Commission’s report. (Travel Nurses of America, 2010) Completed, the report was over 1,000 pages in length and included detailed...
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...the centralization or decentralization of decision rights concerns the locus of the authority to make decisions affecting the organization. (Colombo & Delmastro, 2008) The question of the determinants of the allocation of decision rights in firms has received considerable attention from different streams of economists and strategy scholars over the last couple of decades. The information processing stream ( see Radner & Marschak, 1972; Harris & Raviv, 2002; Sah & Stiglitz, 1986) contends that hierarchical organizations that centralize the decision-making function can suffer from organizational failures, consisting in leaks that arise in transmitting information from the top to the bottom of the hierarchy and vice versa. Benefits of delegation than arise because of inefficiencies in intra-firm communication (Keren, Levhari, & Kerent, 1979) implementation delays (Radner, 1993), fully exploitation of economies arising from local capabilities and specialization tasks (Bolton & Dewatripont, 1994) and high opportunity costs of highrank managers (Harris & Raviv, 2002). Conversely to the information processing stream, which emphasizes the costs of information processing and transmission, the decentralization of incentives stream (Aghion & Tirole, 1997; Dessein, 2002; Rajan & Zingales, 1998) focuses attention on the incentive costs that arise with decentralized decision-making (Colombo & Delmastro, 2008). Aghion and Tirole (1997)...
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...Running Head: Developing cross cultural capability Developing cross cultural capability [Name of the student] [Name of the institute] Developing cross cultural capability Introduction In the field of research, the challenge of international cooperation increasingly intense led in 1993 to further reflection on the concepts of intercultural management. With the work of Hofstede (1980) and Ouchi (1981), comparative research on management has been very stimulating. Then this research have specialized on topics such as intercultural management or Eurocentric. The axis emerges clearly in the Europe of the Common Market; it is learning to cope with unique challenges issued to management. Once the recognized need, the way chosen to advance in this area, is the course of this study: we sought to describe the practices, including their advantages and disadvantages, using existing typologies willingly. In this case the eye is focused on large tourism companies, but is not always clearly stated. In these large tourism companies, one can discern various articulations of intercultural management. Schreyögg, for example, distinguishes between corporate cultures and global polycentric (1991). Polycentric, are those which, in different countries, come in different forms, thus focusing on "indigenous constructs", those that are global, over national borders, are a unique brand image with a single form articulation, thus settling on "indigenous constructs"...
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... Prof. Monstade February 04, 2012 Leadership Cumulative Essay Introduction This essay will give insight into the author’s point of view on several facets of nursing today. The information provided will speak to lessons learned in the Everest College Nursing program. Topics covered shall consist of a reflection of the personal nursing philosophy, impact and concepts of the Nursing Code of Ethics and how it applies to Nursing as a profession, the concept of patient centered care, use of technology in documentation, and the leadership aspects that are considered as a new graduate. Leadership aspects entail team leading, delegation, and role transition from graduate to RN. This is the point of view of the author and information given here will be both objective and subjective. Nursing Philosophy In a previous paper written, the reflection of this student’s own nursing philosophy seemed to coincide with that of Florence Nightingale as well as Dorothy Orem. Orem’s school of thought leans toward the nurse having a large hand in aiding a patient to achieve total self-sustainability. Dorothy Orem’s theory is actually three separate theories that work synergistically. These theories are the theory of self-care, theory of self-care deficit, and the theory of Nursing systems. This works well for a patient, when achieved, due to the self-care aspect. Someone whom is actively involved in their own progress displays an inherent will to do well by oneself. This promotes...
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...Delegation When it comes to delegation, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses relays that nurse managers have specific duties: Nurses in management and administration have a particular responsibility to provide a safe environment that supports and facilitates appropriate assignment and delegation. This environment includes orientation and skill development; licensure, certification, continuing education, and competency verification; adequate and flexible staffing; and policies that protect both the patient and the nurse from inappropriate assignment or delegation of nursing responsibilities, activities, or tasks (American Nurses Association, 2015). How I accomplish these duties as the manager of the department...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Paper Team A CJA/474 June 2, 2015 Katherine Gustafson Motivation and Empowerment Paper “The essence of empowerment is to release, rather than ignore or underutilize, employees’ experience, initiative, knowledge, and wisdom. Employee performance is a major factor that leads to the success or failure of a business (K. Fracaro, 2006)” The components of empowerment are defined as the four ingredients “powering” empowerment are: participation; delegation; capitalization; and trust. The foundational values of trust are depending on participation; delegation, and capitalization to form this fractional structure (P. Whisenand J. McCain, 2014). We are the architects building a structure of empowerment, trust is a moral duty that gives this foundation the strength to hold up the other components to the structure. Empowerment is built on an employer’s trusted relationship that allows the development of ideas invoking the enhancement their employees’ skills, motivating them to be responsible and accountable for their actions giving way to molding a positive competence and satisfaction for the work completed. Management exercise the art of sharing information and rewards, sparking the willingness to have the initiative and make decisions and solving problems along with improving the services and performance of the employee. Empowerment is a theory collectively formed by conjoining components resembling community development, economics, and studies of social...
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...states and given to the central government. Also, the Federalists supported the division of the government into three branches. Federalists and Anti-Federalists had completely different views as to how the country should be governed. They each had ideas that would help the country, and make it better. Federalists wanted a strong, central federal government, a central bank, and an army. They were in the favor of the people and not just who ruled. In the Federalist paper no.39 it states: “It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppression by a delegation of their power, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.” The federalists also wanted to separate the powers of the government into different branches so that the government could be kept under control. It’s stated in the federalist paper no.59: “It is evident that each department should have a will of it is own and consequently should be so constituted that the members of the other… but great security against a gradual concentration of the...
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...University of Miami Scholarly Repository Management Faculty Articles and Papers Management 1-1-2013 Team leadership: The Chilean Mine Case Terri A. Scandura University of Miami, scandura@miami.edu Monica M. Sharif Recommended Citation Scandura, Terri A. and Sharif, Monica M., "Team leadership: The Chilean Mine Case" (2013). Management Faculty Articles and Papers. Paper 13. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/management_articles/13 This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Management at Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Management Faculty Articles and Papers by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact repository.library@miami.edu. Scandura, T.A. & Sharif, M.M. (In Press). Team leadership: The Chilean mine case. In C.M. Giannantonio & A.E. Hurley-Hanson (Eds.), Extreme Leadership: Leaders, Teams and Situations Outside the Norm (pp. XX-XX). Northampton, MA: Edward Edgar Publishing. TEAM LEADERSHIP: THE CHILEAN MINE CASE TERRI A. SCANDURA Department of Management School of Business Administration University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 33124 scandura@miami.edu MONICA M. SHARIF Department of Management School of Business Administration University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 33124 msharif@miami.edu 1 Team Leadership: The Chilean Mine Case Terri A. Scandura & Monica M. Sharif University of Miami Introduction The world watched...
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...Decentralization, deconcentration and devolution: what do they mean?1 Compiled by Elizabeth Linda Yuliani2 Decentralization with its various types has been implemented in many countries, and the terms have been widely used. However, the same word is often used to describe different things. Interpretations vary, and have led to different conceptual frameworks, programs, implementation and implications. Such differences have invited debates and discussion. This document lists definitions of decentralization, deconcentration, devolution and other related terms used in papers presented at the Interlaken Workshop on Decentralization, 27-30 April 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland. As this is a work in progress, there may be many parts needing improvement/changes. We look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions (L.yuliani@cgiar.org). Decentralization Definitions and descriptions of decentralization used in the papers include: • “Decentralisation is usually referred to as the transfer of powers from central government to lower levels in a political-administrative and territorial hierarchy (Crook and Manor 1998, Agrawal and Ribot 1999). This official power transfer can take two main forms. Administrative decentralisation, also known as deconcentration, refers to a transfer to lower-level central government authorities, or to other local authorities who are upwardly accountable to the central government (Ribot 2002). In contrast, political, or democratic, decentralisation refers to...
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...The purpose of this paper is to take a look at a qualitative research study that was done by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. This particular study titled Missed Nursing Care; A Qualitative Study, took a look at the most commonly missed nursing interventions and why they were missed. It also looked at the correlation to the omission and nurse to patient staffing ratios. This study is significant to nursing practice as a whole, because it affects patient outcomes, nursing satisfaction, as well as malpractice issues and hospital payouts. The hypothesis of the study stated there was a common theme in hospitals of repeated omissions in patient care and that it has a direct correlation to patient outcomes and hospital stay length. The study which was qualitative in nature, focused on two hospitals that were geographically separated and had a range of 210-458 occupied beds on a medical surgical unit at any given time. 107 RN’s, 15 LPN’s and 51 Nurse Assistants were assigned to 25 different focus groups. The research was designed so that the subjects were separated and promised confidentiality about their responses. The groups were further segregated so no retaliation could occur between the groups of workers, for instance RN’s could not be in a group with Nurse Assistants. In addition, they were also given the option to make responses on paper in secret to items they had fear of retaliation. Surprisingly, the same themes and reports came up time and time again in the...
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...External/Internal Factors Paper Rafael Caraballo MGT/330 22 October 2012 “We have always believed that building strong leaders is a strategic imperative. When times are easy, leadership can be taken for granted. When the world is turbulent, you appreciate great people.” – Jeff Immelt, GE Chairman and CEO Internal and External factors play a great part in the four functions of management. These factors can impact these four functions in many ways. The company that we chose to write about is General Electric known as GE. We will explain how internal and external factors affect the four function of management, which are; planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Bateman & Snell,2009). We will also explain how these factors, along with delegation, affect globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics. General Electric was founded in 1892 by Thomas Edison, Charles Coffin, Edwin Houston, and Elihu Thomson. These four men had an idea of bringing “good things to light.” GE is an advanced technology, services, and finance company taking on the world's toughest challenges they are dedicated to innovation in energy, health, transportation, and infrastructure (GE, 2011). The major planning for General Electric is their Marketing Plan. GE's marketing function is about delivering superior business impact and results. We rigorously focus on customers; measure and assign accountability; attract, develop, and retain best-in-class talent, and methodically align...
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...Running head: ADN vs. BSN ADN vs. BSN ADN vs. BSN When I read the assignment for this paper, I thought the answers were clear cut and easy. As I was researching for the paper, I found that I was becoming extremely defensive in the cases where studies were attempting to prove Associate-Degree Registered Nurses were not as competent as Baccalaureate-Degree Registered Nurses. I felt personally attacked. When I asked myself why I was taking this course to further my education and proceed towards obtaining a Baccalaureate-Degree, the answers became clear and obvious once again. In researching the differences in competencies of nurses prepared at the associate-degree level verses the baccalaureate-degree in the nursing field there was little evidence to show a significant difference in initial practice. Both ADN and BSN nursing graduates are required to pass the same National Licensure Council Examination (NCLEX). BSN and ADN nurses initially practice at a similar level. (Davis-Martin & Skalak, 1992, p. 27). In the both ADN and BSN nursing programs students are prepared with courses in ethics, nursing process, critical thinking, accountability, and basic understanding of cultural diversity among the nursing curriculum. Yet there are some basic preparation differences. BSN prepared nurses are required to take courses in liberal arts and humanities which create a well diverse or well-rounded student. The BSN program also requires courses in community health, and more...
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