Week 3 Article
The purpose of this article is to identify industries outside of healthcare that have deployed innovative management techniques, operational processes, or technology to improve their workforce and how these same techniques can be applied to hospitals.
Operational Practices
The University of Saint Mary has determined eight best practices in business management that can be tailored to improve the workforce of hospitals. The University of Saint Mary (2018), provides the following eight operational practices and descriptions:
Engage Workers
Through worker engagement employees can become more productive, less passive, and more responsible through a created sense of ownership and worth.
Reward Effort
Recognizing employees for a job well down makes them feel valued as part of the team. Providing rewards or incentives motivates employees to achieve more and builds loyalty to the organization.
Be Vulnerable
By getting to know employees personally is a best practice for managers. By organizational leaders being vulnerable they can build the team by allowing subordinates to speak freely and question the status quo, resulting in higher levels of trust.
Seek Clarity
Leaders need to provide a clear sense of the company’s vision, values, and goals. By asking questions such as why do we exist; how do we behave; what do we do, how will we succeed, and who must do what?
Create Cultural Cohesiveness
Cultural cohesiveness deals with developing a sense of shared values, developing engagement, and the development of productive and efficient practices.
Focus Team Effort
Making sure the team dynamics and goals are contently reassessed will ensure best practices are implemented while achieving the best results possible.
Hold Regular Meetings
By incorporating functional meeting with a specific agenda an organization can significantly enhance operational considerations. In most circumstances companies have meeting just to check a block rather than actually use the gathering as a formal means of updating, improving, planning, and executing organizational requirements.
Technology
Hainstock (n.d.), mentions that in today’s workplace technological advancements are critical to retaining the best talent through telecommuting, career development, and improved communication and collaboration. Other benefits of technology for improving the workforce include increased sharing and collaboration, providing a clearer view of individual and team strengths and weaknesses, and providing detailed feedback (Straz, 2015).
References
Hainstock, J. (n.d.). 5 Ways to Use Technology to Improve Employee Engagement, Collaboration
and Retention. Retrieved from http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2017/03/23/5-ways-
to-use-technology-to-improve-employee-engagement-collaboration-and-retention/
Straz, M. (2015). 4 Ways to Use technology in the Workplace to Motivate Employees. Retrieved
from https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2429
University of Saint Mary. (2018). 8 Best Practices in Business Management. Retrieved from
https://online.stmary.edu/mba/resources/8-best-practices-in-business-management
The purpose of this article is to identify industries outside of healthcare that have deployed innovative management techniques, operational processes, or technology to improve their workforce and how these same techniques can be applied to hospitals.
Operational Practices
The University of Saint Mary has determined eight best practices in business management that can be tailored to improve the workforce of hospitals. The University of Saint Mary (2018), provides the following eight operational practices and descriptions:
Engage Workers
Through worker engagement employees can become more productive, less passive, and more responsible through a created sense of ownership and worth.
Reward Effort
Recognizing employees for a job well down makes them feel valued as part of the team. Providing rewards or incentives motivates employees to achieve more and builds loyalty to the organization.
Be Vulnerable
By getting to know employees personally is a best practice for managers. By organizational leaders being vulnerable they can build the team by allowing subordinates to speak freely and question the status quo, resulting in higher levels of trust.
Seek Clarity
Leaders need to provide a clear sense of the company’s vision, values, and goals. By asking questions such as why do we exist; how do we behave; what do we do, how will we succeed, and who must do what?
Create Cultural Cohesiveness
Cultural cohesiveness deals with developing a sense of shared values, developing engagement, and the development of productive and efficient practices.
Focus Team Effort
Making sure the team dynamics and goals are contently reassessed will ensure best practices are implemented while achieving the best results possible.
Hold Regular Meetings
By incorporating functional meeting with a specific agenda an organization can significantly enhance operational considerations. In most circumstances companies have meeting just to check a block rather than actually use the gathering as a formal means of updating, improving, planning, and executing organizational requirements.
Technology
Hainstock (n.d.), mentions that in today’s workplace technological advancements are critical to retaining the best talent through telecommuting, career development, and improved communication and collaboration. Other benefits of technology for improving the workforce include increased sharing and collaboration, providing a clearer view of individual and team strengths and weaknesses, and providing detailed feedback (Straz, 2015).
References
Hainstock, J. (n.d.). 5 Ways to Use Technology to Improve Employee Engagement, Collaboration
and Retention. Retrieved from http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2017/03/23/5-ways-
to-use-technology-to-improve-employee-engagement-collaboration-and-retention/
Straz, M. (2015). 4 Ways to Use technology in the Workplace to Motivate Employees. Retrieved
from https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2429
University of Saint Mary. (2018). 8 Best Practices in Business Management. Retrieved from
https://online.stmary.edu/mba/resources/8-best-practices-in-business-management