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Module 2 Assignment 5

Module 2 Assignment 5

Q Overview Complete the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument by linked here. You will be including the numerical and visual chart results as an appendix in your paper. Click here to download an editable template of the chart in MS Word to insert your results. Watch this tutorial to see how to create or edit the chart in MS Word. Using the information from your assigned readings, the self-paced tutorial and your completed OCAI assessment, discuss the following in a 2-3 page paper. Title page, references, and OCAI appendix not included in the page count. Paper should be double-spaced using APA format. Two (2) peer-reviewed journal and at least one (1) assigned course reading references. 1. In which quadrants did you note the greatest difference between current culture and future culture? What organizational changes are needed based on your OCAI scores? 2. In what quadrants do you see a need to increase emphasis? Decrease emphasis? 3. What does it mean to change in your identified quadrant (greatest difference between now and future)? What will happen if change does not occur in this quadrant? Would these changes be substantial, transformative, incremental or evolutionary? Why? Identify two (2) specific, actionable strategies that are critical to changing culture with two (2) short-term and two (2) long-term goals. How will you measure success of these goals? Points: 40 References Minimum of three (3) total references: at least one (1) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed journal references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information). Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases. Style Unless otherwise specified, all the written assignment must follow APA 7th edition formatting, citations and references. Number of Pages/Words Unless otherwise specified all papers should have a minimum of 600 words (approximately 2.5 pages) excluding the title and reference pages. Instructions To be successful, complete the following steps in order: STEP 1. Review the instructional materials and finish learning activities in this module. STEP 2. Click here to download the rubric. STEP 3. Create a new Word document, write your paper based on the above overview. STEP 4. Refer to APA book and rubric for correctly formatting the paper. STEP 5. Save the document with the filename: "Lastname_Firstname_Module_2_Assessment_5" (Example: Smith_Jill_Module_2_Assessment_5.docx) STEP 6. Submit the document by clicking the link on the left titled "M2 A5 WA: SUBMISSION AREA - ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ASSESSMENT" Note: You will have three (3) attempts to submit a written assignment, only the final attempt will be graded. For each attempt you will receive a SafeAssign originality report. This will give you a chance to correct the assignment based on the SafeAssign score. Click here to view instructions on how to interpret your SafeAssign originality report. Got questions? Please post them to the 'QUESTION & ANSWER FORUM' in Blackboard.

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Healthcare organizational culture is unique from other organizational cultures. Each organization has its own social system with values and goals that make up the culture, the “way of doing things”. Within organizational culture you will find subcultures, groups with shared interests that perform similar tasks with similar rules, dress, rituals, and language. Nurses can be a subculture as well individual units within a facility.