Under the NICU Department Director is the Assistant Director, Rose. The NICU Assistant Director, is the first line of management, and collaborates daily with the staff and customers of the department. As the primary leader of the NICU, she constitutes the main and direct leadership for department. Her primarily focus is on the day to day productivity looking at efficiency and effeteness and quality of the department. Rose, herself has a set full-time Monday thru Friday schedule created by the Department Director, but has control of the department employees staffing and scheduling, including approving vacations and days off. Other responsibilities under Rose’s position include completing performance evaluations, maintaining employee competencies …show more content…
These functions are often reliant on each other to be fully carried out, I will elaborate on each one as separately to describe how she uses them in her leadership practice and how they are routinely performed in her job functions.
Controlling. Controlling is the fourth function in the management process. Controlling. Means monitoring employees’ activities, determining whether the organization is moving toward its goals, and making corrections as necessary (Daft, 2014).
Rose is responsible for many roles which could be placed under the practice or function of controlling. As a first line manager she routinely monitors all the employee activities, specifically related to scheduling and time managing. In collaboration with the organizations human resources department, she monitors and tracks attendance and leaves of absences or unscheduled time off. She also controls scheduling of vacations and education commitments. Her practice of controlling also monitors staff’s hours worked and those in excess of hours which result in overtime, and determines whether it was justified or could have be