UTMB The nurse leader Your experience Organizational Analysis

Part 1:

Overview: Organizational Analysis The Organization

The major assignment for this course is analysis of your organization (or an organization that you have worked for if you aren’t currently employed). In this assignment, you will report the organization’s mission, philosophy, and administrative structure. You will compare and contrast what you find with the characteristics of organizations you have learned about in the lectures and presentations and in your own investigative reading.

Complete this assignment to demonstrate your analysis of the big picture of your organization.

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function.

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.

Part 2: Overview: Organizational Analysis The Nurse Leader

The major assignment for this course is analysis of your organization. In this assignment, you will analyze your nurse leader’s characteristics and behaviors regarding others in managing, leading, and communicating. By respectfully, but critically, critiquing these attributes of the nurse leader you have been “shadowing,” you can identify the attributes that you consider most and least effective, and most and least similar to the way you see yourself managing, leading, and communicating.

Complete this document to record your analysis of your nurse leader.

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function.

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations

Part 3:

Overview: Organizational Analysis Your Experience

During the span of this course, you have been shadowing or have interviewed a nurse leader, observing and reflecting on skills, behaviors, and strategies that the leader exhibits. You have also assessed and reflected on your leadership and management styles and skills. Now you will gather those thoughts in a more formal retrospective of your experience in the course. You may notice that the rubric for the previous assignment is similar to the rubric for this assignment. Keep in mind that the previous assignment you were presenting an analysis of the leader/manager that you shadowed and with this assignment you are presenting an analysis of the overall experience (which does include the time spent with your leader/manager).

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communications patterns using specific management situations.