Exam #3 Flashcards

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Leadership

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A process through which an individual attempts to intentionally influence people to accomplish a goal

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Trait theory

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  • 1930
  • Leaders are born with certain qualities that are suitable for leadership roles
  • traits and characteristics
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3
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Behavior theory

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  • 1940
  • Leaders exhibit certain behaviors that make them good leaders (its not where they are, its what they do)
  • Leadership styles
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Skills theory

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-1950
-Leaders develop certain skills that accounts for leadership effectiveness
-Katz core skills:
Technical skills
Conceptual skills
Human skills

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Contingency theory

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  • 1960
  • No single way of leading
  • Contingent, it depends
  • Depends on the leader, followers, and situation
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Servant leadership

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  • Being a servant first and a leader second

- To make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served

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Collaborative leadership

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  • Used to form alliances, partnerships, and other forms of inter-organizational relationships
  • Leads people from other organizations to a common purpose
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Transformational leadership

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  • Leaders strive to inspire and empower others
  • Appeal to the greater good for everyone
  • Challenge the norm
  • Revitalize the organization with change
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Transactional leadership

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  • Leader transacts a deal with the followers based on exchange
  • Followers provide work
  • Leaders pays and rewards follower
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Theory X

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  • Dislikes work
  • Are lazy and stupid
  • Motivated extrinsically
  • Lack self-discipline and must be directed
  • Want security
  • Don’t want responsibility
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Theory Y

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  • Like meaningful work
  • Are creative and capable
  • Are motivated intrinsically
  • Have self-control and can direct themselves
  • Want to contribute and participate
  • Want responsibility
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12
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How managers think

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Authority- Bureaucratic, individual, and shared
Responsibility- Individual and group
Work relationships- Hierarchical, bureaucratic
Loyalty- To the organization

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How Physicians think

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Authority- Professional, individual
Responsibility- Individual
Work relationships- Peer, collegial
Loyalty- To patients, clients

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Professional Bureaucracy

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An organization in which authority is based on highly specialized education, training, and expertise of professional workers

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Motivation theory

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A single approach to motivate will not work for everyone or fit every person forever. It will change over time.

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16
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Content theories

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(Internal)

  • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  • Alfred’s ERG
  • McClelland’s learned needs
  • Herzberg’s two factors
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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  • Workers try to satisfy lower needs before higher needs
  • Needs may overlap
  • Self-actualization
  • Esteem and recognition
  • Belonging and friendship
  • Safety and security
  • Physiological
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Alderfer’s ERG

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-Must pursue higher needs before lower needs

  • Growth- Accomplishment of personal goals
  • Relatedness- Family, friends, clubs, others
  • Existence- Food, water, shelter, protection
19
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McClelland’s learned needs

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  • People grow up learning and acquiring three needs:
  • Achievement
  • Affiliation
  • Power

-Workers strive to fulfill these needs in different amounts

20
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Herzberg’s two factors

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  • Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
  • Not opposite ends on scale
  • Workers are motivated by things that increase satisfaction
21
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Process theories

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(External)
-Focuses on the context in which work is done and how people think and feel about work.

  • Vroom’s expectancy
  • Adam’s equity
  • Locke’s goal setting
  • Skinner’s reinforcement
22
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Vroom’s Expectancy

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  • Based on work effort, performance, and outcomes
  • Outcomes valued by workers
  • Good out comes, more motivation
23
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Adam’s equity

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  • Based on peoples desire to be treated fairly
  • Based on workers inputs and outcomes
  • Motivation is affected by fairness compared to other workers
24
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Lock’s goal setting

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  • Goals motivate people
  • Increase motivation when its:
  • Specific
  • Challenging and attainable
  • The goal and how to attain
  • Feedback on goal progress
25
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Skinner’s reinforcement

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  • People are motivated by consequences (reinforcements)
  • Rewards and punishments
  • Motivated to earn rewards and not punishment
26
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The importance and significance of change and change management in a HCO

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  • External environment is always changing and HCO’s must change to survive and thrive in their environment.
  • Internal factors as one change leads to another (cascade effect)
  • Radical, revolutionary and large scale
  • Incremental, Evolutionary smaller change
27
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  1. Unfreeze
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  • Clear out old ideas
  • Explain why change is needed
  • Motivate people to want to change
  • Make people feel dissatisfying with current
  • Alter how people think about the situation
  • Help people see the better future
  • Lead people to see change is better
  • That change is possible
28
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  1. Move/Change
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  • Establish new methods for change
  • Reorganize work, jobs, tasks
  • Exert energy and effort to overcome inertia
  • Set control mechanisms to measure performance
29
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  1. Refreeze
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  • Link new method to organization
  • Reward and reinforce
  • Make change new norm
  • Usual daily routine
  • Stabilize new way
  • Inertia sets in
30
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Third party payers

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-Private, self, and public insures

31
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Private insurer

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Members make periodic payments of fixed amounts to a private or commercial insurer (Blue Cross, Aetna) and have unlimited access to healthcare services, regardless of costs

32
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Self insurers

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Typically large groups that act as an insurer

33
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Public insurers

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Government i.e. Medicare & Medicaid