Organizational Theories 1
To understand how health-care organizations function in today's complicated health-care landscape, nurse leaders and manages need to be knowledgeable about
What are organizational theories
Suggests that relationships are the key to everything
What is complexity theory
Principles of organizational design and leadership and management approaches that prevent patient harm and promote quality and safety
What is High-reliability theory
Nurse leaders and managers need to ensure a safe and healthy work environment by....
What is understanding the structure and culture of a health-care organization
Describes an organizations overall purpose
What is Mission statement
Organizational theory can provide a framework to....
What is bring people together to accomplish work.
General system theory is based on two types of systems
What is an open system and a closed system
High reliability refers to
What is consistent performance of a complex organization delivering high-risk services at high levels of safety over time.
Outlines who is accountable and responsible for the work in an organization and subsequently helps define working relationships.
What is Organizaional structure
Statement of beliefs, values, concepts, and principles that reflect the ideas, convictions, and attitudes of the organization
What is philosophy
When did organizational theories become prevalent?
What is the industrial age
In complexity theory nurse managers and leaders must balance three areas of tension
What are efficient and effective, accountable for staff competency and knowledge, and responsible for stability and change.
Mental orientation that is continuously evaluating the environment, tracking small failures, resisting oversimplification, and maintaining resilience.
What is Collective Mindfulness
Formal line of authority from the top to the bottom of an organiztion
What is chain of command
SWOT stands for
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
These theories need to reflect pattens, purposes, and processes, and require a continuum-based, person- and outcome-driven system design.
What are contemporary organizational theories
A complex organization that operates in complex, high-risk domains and consistently deliver services without serious accidents or failures.
What is a High-Reliability Organization
Operates in complex, high-risk domains and consistently deliver services without serious accidents or failures.
What is a High-Reliability Organization (HRO)
Formal yet recognizable group philosophy that guides behaviors of its members
What is organizational culture
Bringing vision to the planning process, seeing relevant opportunities that are emerging, and creating a desired future.
What is Futures thinking
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
What is general systems theory
Senge identified 5 disciplines that organizations need to adopt and practice to become learning organizations
What are systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, and team learning.
After redesigning systems and changing processes an organization can become highly reliable when....
What is when everyone in the organization embraces a high-reliability mindset and strives for patient safety by committing to zero harm.
A continuous, systematic process of making risk-taking decisions today with the greatest possible knowledge of their effects on the future, organizing efforts to carry these decisions out, and evaluate efforts with reliable feedback mechanisms.
What is Strategic planning
The ANCC integrated the 14 Forces of Magnetism into five components
What is Transformational leadership, Structural empowerment, Exemplary professional practice, New knowledge, innovations, and improvements, and Empirical quality results.