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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Organizational Effectiveness

Name

Institution
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Organizational Effectiveness

Topic

Leadership and management traits and theories necessary for managing a multidisciplinary and

multicultural health care organization to promote organizational effectiveness.

Outline

a. Issue/Problem Statement

At its simplest, organization effectiveness refers to the efficiency with which an

association such as a business or a company is able to meet its objectives. In particular,

organizational effectiveness is about each individual role, what he knows and how he can

perform better while in the line of duty. In other words, organizational efficiency can be

described as the capacity of a company to produce the expected results with very minimum

utilization of energy, money time, human and material resources. For that reason, this paper

seeks to establish how a healthcare organization can be improved win order to realize its

effectiveness in delivery and provision of services to patients.

b. Why was this issue selected?

Apparently, everyone is connected to health care: on a day to day basis individuals go to

hospital, clinics and other medical facilities to look for assistance from doctors, physicians,

nurses, psychiatrists and other medical professionals. Therefore, improving the effectiveness of

health care centers will not only help organizations to look better, but also help to improve

human health.

c. The perspective of approach and Scope of the paper

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Notably, this research paper is primarily based on peer reviewed articles. In a more broad

term, this research stems from poor delivery of services in hospitals, clinics and other health care

institutions. Specifically, this research will however, focus on how leadership and management,

decision making, change and learning, group effectiveness, self organization and adaptive system

can be used to improve the overall performance of a health care institution.

Accordingly, leadership and management skills are essentially required to run any type of

organization whether a local, multidisciplinary or multicultural organization. Thus, the effective

leadership skills requires that each and every organization will enhance and promote its

effectiveness. As we speak, many health care institutions are experiencing lots of issues that

include performances issues, financial issues, recurring issues, health plan issues among other

issues. For that reason, more leadership skills and qualities are, therefore, required in order to

increase the effectiveness and efficiency of a health care organization.

Decision making on the other hand provides a platform in which doctors, nurses and

other medical practitioners can make decisions, thus, enabling them real time to make good

decisions, improve the quality of decisions, creating new ones, replicating relevant experiments

and implementing their results at the end that results to organization effectiveness (). Change and

learning in health care institutions allows stakeholders to learn, adopt, change, and align

themselves with day to day activities and leverage this knowledge to create effective delivery of

services to patients. As a matter of fact, group effectiveness is an important strategy that creates

ways in which stakeholders in a health care organization will work well together, particularly in

contribution of new ideas and innovations. Specifically, group effectiveness promotes an

environment of respecting others values and opinions while focusing on the organizations goals

and objectives.
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Conclusively, focusing on organizational effectiveness plays a pivotal role in the overall

development of health care institutions. Particularly, it examines alignment between provisions

of medical care and improves them. Also, it improves the trade-offs that exist between reliability,

quality and speed in addressing patients needs. Additionally, there are strategies for higher

adoption rates in the institution particularly when stakeholders interact and share relevant ideas.

Finally, organizational effectiveness facilitates, catalyses, initiates capability building between

structure, process and people. Apparently, patients response, profitability, and increase in the

number of customers enquiring services from a health care organizations can be used to measure

or assess the level and position of a medical care institution.

Annotated Bibliography

Stiggelbout, A. M., Van der Weijden, T., De Wit, M. P. T., Frosch, D., Lgar, F., Montori, V.

M., ... & Elwyn, G. (2012). Shared decision making: really putting patients at the

centre of healthcare. Bmj, 344.

According to this article medical practitioner are faced with varying problems when a

patient presents himself of herself to them. What follows after patients visits in a clinic is

that the doctor to come up with a varied solution regarding the health problem. At times,

doctors must try different methods thinking that they will help the patience. As such,

Stiggelbout et al. recommends shared decision making as the only way to identify the

precise ailment a patient might be suffuring of. on that notes, the authors of this articles

advocates for body screening consulting the managements until the exact solution to a

disease is established.
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Ferlie, E. B., & Shortell, S. M. (2001). Improving the quality of health care in the United

Kingdom and the United States: a framework for change. The Milbank

Quarterly, 79(2), 281.

In particular, this article stems from increased concerns and interests over improving the

quality of health care in the united Kingdom and the United States. Apparently, according

to this article, there are several approaches that management in a health care can use to

improve the prevailing condition in provision of services to patiets, according several

approaches discussed in details in this article and that can help to achieve healthcare

effectiveness in both countries includes: Giving attention to issues of leadership, culture,

team development, and information technology at all levels of the health care institution.

Anderson, (2009). Guidelines on multicultural education, training, research, practice, and

organizational change for psychologists.

Similarly, Adersson (2009), discuses the importance of how medical institutions should

be improved on a day to day activities. Specifically, the author focuses on how to

improve the skills of psychologists in delivery services to their clients either in private

clinics or in public health care organizations. on that note, Anderson (2009) was clear on

the fact that psychologists must receive the relevant training in psychology. Apparently,

apart from getting involved in intensive research, psychologists must participate in

multicultural education and be familiarized wit effective leadership skills required to

achieve organizational change for psychologists.

Choi, S., Jang, I., Park, S., & Lee, H. (2014). Effects of organizational culture, self-

leadership and empowerment on job satisfaction and turnover intention in general

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hospital nurses. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration, 20(2), 206-

214.

The author of this article focuses on how to achieve job satisfaction in medical clinic by

improving the effectiveness of nurses. As such, according to a research that was done and

involving 286 nurses from three general hospitals, organizational effectiveness was

realized as a result of the following measures. Implementing positive correlation among

nurses, promoting self-leadership, and empowering nurses through learning and training.

Accordingly, there was increased job satisfaction, also the number of patients increased

drastically in the hospitals and the reputation of the hospitals improved when the above

mentioned measures were implemented in the three hospitals.

Mitchell, G. E. (2012). The construct of organizational effectiveness: Perspectives from

leaders of international nonprofits in the United States. Nonprofit and Voluntary

Sector Quarterly, 0899764011434589

From a conceptual analysis of stakeholders in a health care organization several models

have been conceived articulating how effectiveness can be achieved in health care. As

such, Mitchell (2012) argues that effectiveness can comprehensively be attained by

critically analyzing and judging stakeholders such as doctors, nurses and others while in

their line of duty. In that regard, more emphasis is directed towards helping stakeholders

understand their roles in the organization and making them realize the importance of

working as a team in achieving common goals and objectives. Also, stakeholders are

encouraged to respect each other and, therefore, develop mutual and positive contacts

among them.
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References

Anderson, (2009). Guidelines on multicultural education, training, research, practice, and

organizational change for psychologists.

Choi, S., Jang, I., Park, S., & Lee, H. (2014). Effects of organizational culture, self-leadership

and empowerment on job satisfaction and turnover intention in general hospital

nurses. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration, 20(2), 206-214.

Ferlie, E. B., & Shortell, S. M. (2001). Improving the quality of health care in the United

Kingdom and the United States: a framework for change. The Milbank Quarterly, 79(2),

281.

Mitchell, G. E. (2012). The construct of organizational effectiveness: Perspectives from leaders

of international nonprofits in the United States. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector

Quarterly, 0899764011434589

Stiggelbout, A. M., Van der Weijden, T., De Wit, M. P. T., Frosch, D., Lgar, F., Montori, V.

M., ... & Elwyn, G. (2012). Shared decision making: really putting patients at the centre

of healthcare. Bmj, 344.

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