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High-Level Overview

This assignment will require devoted inquiry, assimilation, reflection, and refinement in order to achieve the highest possible score.

Research paper format - 2,500-3,000 words (about 10 pages double-spaced)

Think of it as a professional white paper - addressing an issue in healthcare - grounded in theory (not your opinion)

Proper use of grammar and spelling
You have to pick one of the following SIX options to write about - will review that later

Requirements

2,500-3,000 words for BODY OF THE PAPER
APA Format
In-text citations (Lord, 2018)
Proper reference formatting
10 (minimum) or 40 (maximum) references, with at least 10 being from scholarly academic journals (peer reviewed journals)
New York Times - non-scholarly
Health Affairs - scholarly (peer reviewed)

Option 1:

In Chapter 2, we explored topics of diversity and the challenges of diversity in the healthcare sector. In this case, you have been asked to join the hospital's task force for developing a plan to increase the organization's workforce diversity from its current 10 percent level to 30 percent over the next five years. What recommendations would you make as a member of the task force?

Possible Deliverables for Option 1:
- Summarize the existing landscape as it relates to diversity in healthcare and in the US in general
- Explore why healthcare organizations may not be as diverse as they should be
- What is diversity today (i.e. sex, gender, race, ethnicity, education, culture)
- Find some theories to substantiate your work on improving diversity
- Explore some of the challenges and opportunities as it relates to diversity
- These are only ideas - that if I was writing the paper, I may try to address. I am just trying to give you ideas.

Option 2:

In Chapter 3, we explored topics of attitudes and perceptions. More importantly, we discussed how attitudes are formed and changed. We then explored through Attribution Theory how we may equate certain qualities to individuals that may or may not be based in reality. There was recent research from Harvard about "Exploring the Challenges Facing Women Leaders in Health Care," that shared some insights into the discrepancy of women in leadership roles in health care.

In this assignment, you are tasked with helping young women enter into leadership roles in your healthcare setting. In this paper tell them what the environment looks like for women; what are some of the biases surrounding female leaders, and using theoretical justification what strategies they can use to overcome some of these barriers.
Possible Deliverables for Option 2:

- What does the healthcare environment look like for women?
- What are some of the bias or attitudes toward women leaders?
- What benefits do women bring to leadership roles?
- Identify strategies to increase women in leadership roles - using established theories
- Address the case inquiries in full, being absolutely certain to do so not as a layperson, but as a healthcare organizational behavior expert, making sure to reference theory, findings in scholarly articles, etc. to justify your positions. Merely providing personal opinions which are unsupported is insufficient and will be grounds for failing this assignment. You must use the tools offered in your readings, coupled with those acquired by additional research, to address the case professionally.

Option 3:

Chapter 3, explores general concepts of organizational behavior, including the all-important area of workplace communication. We all know that communications excellence is essential for productive institutional operations, so it is fitting for this to serve as the focus of our practitioner application. Specifically, you are to place yourself in the role of Administrator for a soon-to-be-established primary care practice. Your CEO has asked you to lay the foundation for successful administrative operations. Among other things, it has been requested that you direct attention to designing a workplace communications framework which will facilitate for productive operations. As you are the administrative expert, specific decisions are your responsibility. Your task is to design and describe in detail this workplace communications framework.

Possible Deliverables for Option 3:
- Explore the importance and challenges of communication in a healthcare setting
- Describe the process of communication using a theoretical basis
- Find unique ways that communication could be improved (i.e. if you only write about memo's you will not do well on this paper)
- Explore barriers to communication and how you will address and overcome these issues
- Address the case inquiries in full, being absolutely certain to do so not as a layperson, but as a healthcare organizational behavior expert, making sure to reference theory, findings in scholarly articles, etc. to justify your positions. Merely providing personal opinions which are unsupported is insufficient and will be grounds for failing this assignment. You must use the tools offered in your readings, coupled with those acquired by additional research, to address the case professionally.

Option 4:
Chapter 4, we explored various theories of motivation (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer's ERG theory, Herzberg's Two Factor Theory, McClelland's Three Needs Model), which is something that's important for you to understand as a healthcare executive. We also explored job design and employee satisfaction. In this option, you are Chief Operating Officer of a local not-for profit hospital. The tension in your facility is at an all-time high due to pressures to discharge patients early, lack of professional staff, financial constraints, and an upcoming accreditation. With all this going on, you notice that one of your super-star employees who has always been great is starting to slip. Over the past three months, you have noticed that this employee is not as productive; is auguring with the treating physicians, and they are
audibly complaining that "no one listens to me" or "I don't get paid enough to deal with this *&^%."

This employee was once a highly motivated, productive member of your staff. The environment is more stressful than it has ever been but what can be done to motivate this employee to their prior "self" Within the principles of the content theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and Alderfer, develop a motivation plan.

Possible Deliverables for Option 4:
- Address the case inquiries in full, being absolutely certain to do so not as a layperson, but as a healthcare organizational behavior expert, making sure to reference theory, findings in scholarly articles, etc. to justify your positions. Merely providing personal opinions which are unsupported is insufficient and will be grounds for failing this assignment. You must use the tools offered in your readings, coupled with those acquired by additional research, to address the case professionally.

Option 5:
Chapter 6, we discussed Expectancy Theory and how it can impact an individual's level of motivation. We also explored Equity Theory in conjunction with Satisfaction-Performance Theory. Lastly, Goal- Setting Theory and Reinforcement Theory were introduced to show motivate and change behavior.

In this case, you are the administrator of a local hospital. You are trying to implement a new process in the hospital and for the most part everyone has accepted the change EXCEPT for this small group of doctors. This group of doctors don't seem willing to understand the importance of your change. When you have spoken with them, they often state that they will try harder to be compliant, but ultimately don't change their behavior. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation, you are exploring theories on motivation and behavior change. Develop recommendations (based on a sound theoretical understanding) to motivate these physicians to improve their compliance.

- Address the case inquiries in full, being absolutely certain to do so not as a layperson, but as a healthcare organizational behavior expert, making sure to reference theory, findings in scholarly articles, etc. to justify your positions. Merely providing personal opinions which are unsupported is insufficient and will be grounds for failing this assignment. You must use the tools offered in your readings, coupled with those acquired by additional research, to address the case professionally.

Option 6:
Finally, Chapter 7. In this chapter we introduced attribution theory and attribution styles as it related to motivating employees. In this case, you are hired into a department and one of your first assignments is to conducted performance reviews. When you review your predecessor's work - all employees had relatively strong evaluations (so there were no low performers and no superstars). You have decided to allocate the raises equally to among all your employees. These raises will probably be disappointingly small. You are deciding to break the news to your staff in the least demotivational way possible and you have the following options:

1) Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises but based on the budget - this was the best you could do

2) Explain to the staff that you could have gotten them larger raises is their performance levels had been higher

3) Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises but that their previous manager had failed them by rating them all equally

4) Explain to the staff that these small raises are fair, given the equal performance raises

In this paper, you have to explain what attributions are being communicated in each of these explanations. These explanations need to delve into whether they were internal or external, stable or unstable, ect.

From a motivational standpoint, you have to explain the pros and cons of each of these explanations. Finally, you have to justify which response or combination of responses would be the least demotivational for the staff.
END OF CHOICES

In order to successfully complete this assignment, you will have had to take the ONE of the scenarios listed above and address it in full, and submit your work in accordance with the instructions contained herein.