Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

What defines success or failure of today’s organization is the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall behavior of an organization.  To be globally positioned with a competitive edge, it is imperative that organizations embrace change to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders and retain highly skilled employees.  The organization’s leadership has an empirical need to identify a new set of desired behaviors and develop a strategic plan that collectively leads to organizational behavior that is effective and efficient to achieve its stated goals and improved organizational performance.  Whatever the new final set of desired behaviors are, top management has to decide to proceed with implementation of the identified needed set of behaviors, develop the plan on how it has to be achieved and provide resources for the change initiative.  Supervisors lead and facilitate the employee's  performance of desired behaviors that will result in improved eff...

Hoch & Kunreuther (2005), claimed that there is growing proof of evidence confirming how emotions play a significant role in our decision-making process most especially when there are inconsistent outcomes.  According to Shiv (2011), it is of utmost importance to invoke emotion to develop our decision confidence.  He further stated that with decision confidence comes with a passion that is very persuasive, where our confidence is contagious, and most importantly, the emotion that emerges from our decision has a huge impact in the extraction of the utility from our experience.  It has a direct bearing on our motivation and engagement in the successful performance of our critical tasks. At Adventist Health System, all staff and leaderships are encouraged and empowered to adopt a behavior of producing or involvement giving them stakes in the decision-making or leading initiative that has a direct effect on their jobs or positions in the organization.  The cultur...

           In the 21 st century, organizational leaders are in dire need to be able to deal with the chaotic world that is full of diverse competitors and innovative advancement.  According to Canfield and Smith (2011), for organizations to compete in the 21 st century, they must innovate and to innovate they must be open to change, doing new things and stopping processes and procedures that are no longer helping the company to be competitive.  In short, deciding to innovate and improve are now business imperatives.  Two fundamental strategies that can contribute to improving our organizational performance are process improvement and consistent development of leadership team. Innovation in the 21 st century is apropos of actionable creativity.  For me, 21 st -century enlightenment starts whenever we discover that there is a better way to enhance our current processes, thinking, behavior and business operations.  The realizatio...

As a health care organization, health care reforms and the consumers’ shift to value are pushing organizations like mine to deliver enhanced outcomes and patient experienced at a reduced cost.  We are under pressure from regulatory agencies to align our patient care standards and initiatives in providing high-quality patient care with cost efficiency.  Organizations like mine are trying to reassess our existing capabilities and technology to manage our workforce, finances, and elevate our standard of patient experience re-defining focus on investments to best approach the challenges we face and expand for the future.             While different research in innovation has provided a higher understanding and perception of the social, economic and individual benefits extrapolated from new technologies, there has been minimal significance in the dialogues regarding the probability of detrimental effect that innovation may i...

According to Heimans and Timms (2014), organizations that are traditional and want to harness their competency to new power must 1) evaluate their status in the environment of shifting power, 2) channel their most brutal pundit, and 3) cultivate their capacity to mobilize.  Our brains are phenomenal storage for data and system retrieval that lean towards repetition and patterns.  Original new ideas originate from paradigms that are crossing by accident where the capacity of our self-organizing brains goes to work in a peculiar unification or merging that tirelessly try to make sense of an unprecedented combination. The ground for success is based on different components for one strategy to ensure that all business start-ups would succeed.  Utilizing a lean method start up would result in lesser failures rather than traditional methodologies.  The lean start-up methodology shows or teaches us how to drive, steer, and turn new business start-ups, telling us when to ...

Driving innovation is becoming to be paramount that it gives organizations stronger position from competitors, it generates consumers’ favor or appetite apropos to the organizations’ offering, and innovation magnifies organizations’ capacity to impact the global  market.  Although innovation is geared towards increasing efficiency and reducing the cost for the customers, we also have to keep in mind that innovation is a result of the creativity of the human minds.  Incentivising employees for their creative work in not enough to boost advancement in technology and employee morale, retention, and development.  Open communication that is built on trust and acknowledging the employee’s creativity and contribution is of utmost importance to continually promote and encourage innovative and creative thinking within the organization. According to Canfield & Smith (2011), for   organizational leaders   to compete, they   must   innovate and to in...