Discussion 04: Declining Morale

HA4300D – Healthcare Management and Supervision

Discussion 04: Declining Morale

Discuss two significant reasons for the decline in the morale of health care workers in recent years. Elaborate on how you, as a health care supervisor, would enhance the morale of your employees, including how your strategies would be incorporated in official policies. Include a brief example of how you would measure the effectiveness of your morale enhancing initiatives.

Assignment 04: Overcoming Coaching Pitfalls
· In two to three pages, provide actual examples of how you have observed or directly experienced each pitfall in your workplace.
· For each pitfall and accompanying example, provide a statement indicating how you would avoid or overcome that pitfall.
· You may also present your response using a table format:

Supervisory Pitfalls

Observation of pitfall in current or former workplace

How I would avoid or overcome this pitfall as a supervisor

One Size Fits All – (A cookie-cutter approach to coaching all employees)

The Know It All – (Believing that s/he is never wrong)

No Time – (Neglecting the individual coaching process because of a perceived lack of time)

Stereotyping – (Labeling employees: above average, below average, etc.)

Inappropriate focus – (Addressing attitude, personality, or character rather than outcomes or behavior)

Inflexible – (Failing to allow some leeway in how things get done)

Overusing criticism or undeserved praise

Offering excessive amounts of unsolicited advice

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