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Inspiring Excellence in Doctoral Nursing Education Through Partnership: Incorporating an Innovative Change Model to Improve DNP Project Outcomes
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Franklin University, a leader in educating working adults, formed an academic practice partnership with OhioHealth. Integrating the OhioHealth Change Management Model (CM) into the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program marks a deviation from a theory-based project to a more theory-to-practice model for managing organizational change. The CM provides leadership-driven DNP students with access to an innovative, real-world approach to prepare to transform organizations, systems, and healthcare through evidence-based interventions. Purpose
The CM is a novel, goals-focused, data-driven approach used to manage people while implementing evidence-based practice, policy, or business change in an organization. The model includes Identifying executive leaders and stakeholders and building a change plan. This presentation discusses how using this model during an organizational change will contribute to the successful implementation of DNP evidence-based practice projects. Methods or Processes/Procedures
A five-goal, three-phase approach to managing organizational change, the innovative OhioHealth CM focuses on the emotional and psychological impacts of the process, tools, and techniques necessary to address managing people during change. The focus is on creating change by communicating the purpose and value. Results
The CM follows an organized, structured approach that increases adoption and benefits to the organization. The model inspires and stimulates interprofessional collaboration and follows the course of change in an organization using surveys and tools to course correct as needed. Conclusions/Implications for Practice
CM will help drive adoption and sustainability for projects. The model enables students to recognize, categorize and drive change efforts that will enable them to achieve their project targets and position them for success in the ever-changing world of healthcare. The CM supports the plan, do, study, and act framework for quality improvement. Summary recommendations. Integration of the OhioHealth CM components as part of the DNP project will maximize the likelihood of the organization adopting the change
Decision-Making Process in The Face Of Uncertainty: School District Leaders During The Pandemic
No full textThe twenty-first-century school leader (district-level and building-level leaders) operates in a world where it is not only the result of educational decision-making that matters but also the process of decision-making. Current accountability regimes focus on the process just as much as the product, and the exponential growth of accountability in education suggests that process will increasingly be at the forefront of education leaders’ minds in the future. By utilizing a framework of turbulence theory and moral agency, this qualitative study first examined school district-level leaders’ decision-making process when faced with a “wicked problem.” Second, the research study sought to find differentiating characteristics of school district leaders who closed schools prior to a governor’s school closure state mandate. Third, the researcher examined the perceived effects of early school closure decisions as an outcome of COVID-19 on building-level leaders, teachers, and parents in the state of Georgia. Given the new and unexplored nature of the research problem, a bottom-up, narrative inquiry approach was adopted to investigate the lived experience of district and building level leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic and the early decision to close a school prior to the Governor’s school closure state mandate. Grounded on the study outcomes a strategic initiative action plan as well as the School District Leadership in Time of Crisis (SLTC) framework is presented
Context and culture: A phenomenological study of blue-collar workers in two multicultural workplaces
No full textLabor shortages in blue-collar occupations have become a significant challenge for firms throughout the United States. Naturally, as employers seek to address those shortages, one of the solutions has been the recruitment of immigrant workers. Multiple languages, mores and cultures within the diverse workforces present unique challenges within workplace cultures. Research suggests that intergroup contact between distinct groups, such as racial or ethnic groups, when certain conditions are in place, can have a positive impact on relationships between members of those groups. Additionally, diverse workplace management studies identify management practices that may enhance diverse workforce outcomes. This qualitative grounded theory study explores the question: How do blue-collar workers, both immigrant and U.S.-born working alongside one another, experience their workplace culture? It consists of responses from 15 participants to semi-structured interviews conducted via electronic communications technology (due to COVID-19 restrictions limiting direct researcher/participant contact). The study took place between the months of June and October of 2022. A new theory, the inverse contact outcome theory, was generated. The theory states that, contrary to what might be expected in diverse blue-collar workplaces, a) positive contact outcomes such as reduction of prejudice and conflict may result among same status blue-collar workers from diverse backgrounds despite the lack of institutionally supportive conditions whereas b) negative contact outcomes of prejudice and conflict may not be mitigated among same status blue-collar workers from diverse backgrounds despite the presence of institutionally supportive conditions. The study also revealed that diverse workforce management approaches that include customized socialization, enhanced communication, and status-based hierarchy mitigation, are essential to positive diverse workforce management practice
Female Entrepreneurship and the Componential Theory of Creativity in Business
No full textThe practical sense of business in female entrepreneurship as it relates to the concept of intrinsic and extrinsic creative behaviors of female entrepreneurs working in the United States is the main focus of this study. The field of female entrepreneurship is growing with the participation of women with or without full-time jobs in standard employment, with or without formal business education, and with or without equal access to financial resources compared to their male counterparts. This study aims to capture the definition of success and how female entrepreneurs perceive success. Utilizing convenience sampling, this qualitative study conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 successful female entrepreneurs in a major Midwest metropolitan area. With dual roles in work and family, the female entrepreneurs engage in a role of chaotic business management and self-branding with a quest for work/life balance. Their pursuit of a lifestyle business brings about a direction of working within an area of great interest, commonly called a passion. This passion allows for exploring what the female entrepreneur enjoys and a quest to produce a profit from that inspiration. Emergent themes resulting from this study are definitions of success, pandemic challenges, entrepreneurial credibility, social networking, business investment, brand management, creativity, innovation, profit design, and authentic leadership. One core result of this qualitative study is a theory called female entrepreneurial design. The female entrepreneur creates an organizational life unique to her personal style and business brand through personal self-care and professional investment
Organizational Resiliency: How A Midwest Community CollegeManaged Student Success During the Covid-19 Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has challenged student success and the ability of colleges to deliver the education students need for the workplace. The purpose of this qualitative dissertation case study was to investigate how the organizational resiliency of a Midwest community college impacted student success during the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the contributions of static and dynamic resiliency characteristics and dimensions. Exploration and analysis of the resilient characteristics and dimensions of student success focus on the key factors of instructional modality, instructor-student engagement, and socioeconomic influences. Conclusions are based on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with the college’s senior leaders triangulated with information from public documents and a student survey. The researcher concludes that the college’s static resiliency components of solid planning and infrastructural preparation for probable events, a longstanding collaborative commitment to achieving key elements of student success, and effective internal communication processes produced the robust capacity for flexibility and innovation that distinguishes dynamic resiliency. Innovations that accelerated decision processes, faculty and staff encouraged to experiment based on regular feedback, and energetic action on non-academic stresses had positive effects on student success during the COVID-19 pandemic. One result was that for the fiscal year 2021-2022, the college awarded the highest number of degrees in its history to all students and to African American males, with 99 percent of students rating the quality of their education as good to excellent
Elements of The Online Experience That Create Organizational Affinity Among Adult Distance Learners
No full textHigher education institutions face an ongoing struggle to identify new and expanded sources of revenue outside those generated through enrollment. Alumni represent a continuing and substantial source of philanthropic funding to help solve this challenge (CASE, 2019). To effectively engage alumni, development officers must understand how alumni view their connection to the institution and how to capitalize on that connection to direct their giving behaviors toward that institution. As an increasingly accepted mode of delivery, alumni who studied online present a growing opportunity for customized, segmented outreach efforts. However, limited research exists on the factors that impact an online student\u27s connection with their higher education institution and whether those factors contribute to becoming a donor. Therefore, this qualitative study explored alumni perceptions of what lived experiences contribute to their sense of affinity in an online learning environment. Data was collected through interviews with alumni who studied online at a mid-west four-year private university. Findings from this study are offered to advance insight into organizational identity factors that may serve as an impetus to become a donor
Financial Planning: What the Social and Brain Sciences Have to Offer
Get PDFThis paper addresses the potential linkage of the disciplines of financial planning and the social and brain sciences from the combined perspectives of a financial planning expert and a business psychologist. It seeks to offer practical guidance on how to utilize insights from recent research and practice in the social and brain sciences to address the issue of effective financial planning in a time of multiple widespread international crises. The article will review the traditional approach to financial planning, indicate where the profession appears to stand now, describe advances in social and brain science, and provide some practical tools for use by practicing financial planners. The paper will conclude with a summary of its key points