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Homework: Western Medical Enterprises Applicant Questionnaire

Introduction

An understanding of one's own approaches to leadership, motivation, collaboration, and ethical situations is important to the evolution of an effective leader. An introspective lens can help emerging leaders better understand and hone these important skills.

Preparation

Use the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire to complete this homework

Scenario

Imagine that over the past few months you have participated in several organizational projects and met many new people. The opportunities to collaborate and demonstrate your emerging skills as a leader prompted you to think about applying for a new position. After exploring online job postings, you prepared a resume and submitted the application to Western Medical Enterprises. A few days later you received the following email:

Dear applicant,

Thank you for your interest in employment at Western Medical Enterprises. We have received your application packet. The next step for all potential employees is to provide a narrative response to the questions in the attached document. Please return your completed document to me by replying to this email.

Once we receive your responses, we will review them and notify you of the next steps.

Good luck!
Sincerely,
Thomas Hardy
Human Resources Recruiter
Western Medical Enterprises

Instructions

Respond to the scenario by completing the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire [DOCX] . Be sure to follow the prompts in the document and, when complete, submit it for this homework.

You will use one of the following to complete Section 2 of the questionnaire:

1) Levitt, D. (2014). Ethical decision-making in a caring environment: The four principles and LEADS. Healthcare Management Forum, 27(2), 105-107.

2) American College of Healthcare Executives. (n.d.). ACHE code of ethics.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following homework criteria:

I. Competency I: Apply qualities, skills, and practices used by effective health care leaders.

1. Analyze one's own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one's profession.

II. Competency II: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.

1. Analyze one's own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.

III. Competency III: Apply ethical codes and diversity best practices in health care organizations.

1. Analyze actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma, using an ethical code.

IV. Competency IV: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.

1. Convey clear meaning in active voice, with minimal issues in grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanical errors.

Directions: Provide responses to the two sections below. The expectation is that each response is from 1-2 pages in length (not including the information already present in this document which is approximately one page).

Section I: Leadership and Collaboration Experience

Briefly describe an instance where you were required to lead and motivate a team of professionals to collaborate. It does not need to be in a health care setting. If you have not lead a team of professionals before, use a different example.

Next, analyze your approach to the challenge using specific examples. It is not important whether or not your efforts were successful. What is important is the approach you take to appraisingyour leadership and collaboration decisions and actions. Do the following:

A. Analyze your leadership of the project. Consider the following:

1. What was the purpose or shared vision of the team?

2. The effectiveness of your leadership approach and style. Did you get "buy in" from stakeholders?

3. Decision making processes and outcomes? What were your good decisions? What would you have done differently?

4. How did you communication your vision, values, decisions, information, et cetera?

B. Analyze your approach to fostering collaboration and motivation among stakeholders. Consider:

1. How well you facilitated member or participant collaboration and engagement with one another. Did participants communicate effectively?

2. Actions you took to motivate people to realize your vision or tactics. Did the team or participants feel motivated and energized by you? Why or why not?

Section II: Ethics Experience

Briefly describe an ethical dilemma that that demonstrates your application of ethical principles in the health care setting. Next, analyze your response or actions (even if there were none) to the event against one of the reference points below. Were your inactions or choices supported by the chosen framework? Be specific and include two references citing one or more of the following:

A. Any workplace code of ethics (consider choosing one from a place you work or have worked).
B. The professional code of ethics for your profession.