Discussion: Workplace Environment Assessments

Discussion: Workplace Environment Assessments 

Discussion: Workplace Environment Assessments 

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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

wouldn’t 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.

Submission and Grading Information

Grading Criteria

 

To access your rubric:

Week 7 Discussion Rubric

 

Post by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6 of Week 7

 

To participate in this Discussion:

Week 7 Discussion

 

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course

Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

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, “Collaborative Leadership Contexts: Networks, Communication,

Decision Making, and Motivation” (pp. 121–144)

 Chapter 9, “Creating and Shaping the Organizational Environment and Culture to

Support Practice Excellence” (pp. 247–278)

 Chapter 10, “Building Cohesive and Effective Teams” (pp. 279–298)

 

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),

324–330. 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), 18–23. 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), 535–542. 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.