WEEK 5 Flashcards
What Is Diversity?
Having or being composed of different elements
What is culture?
4 points
- The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour
- Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
- Shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
- Can be racial, religious, geographical, organizational
What is Cultural Competence?
The ability to interact effectively with people of various racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, and social groups
How can we work towards cultural competence?
It is an ongoing process… often tackled by learning about patterns of behaviour, beliefs, language, and customs of particular groups
Describe the outcomes of Cultural Safety
2 points
- based on respectful engagement that recognizes and strives to address power imbalances inherent in the healthcare system
- results in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where people feel safe when receiving healthcare
What is cultural humility?
What does it involve? What is the result? 3 points total
- Process of self reflection to develop and maintain respectful processes and relationships built on mutual trust
- Involves humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding the experience of another
- Results in understanding personal and systemic biases
Understand Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing Sunrise Model
At top: Worldview and cultural and structural dimensions impact the following factors:
* technological factors
* religious and philosophical factors
* cultural values, beleifs, and lifeways
* political and legal factors
* economic factors
* educational factors
*all of the above influence each other and influence who we are as a person, and therefore, influence care expression and practices
In centre, three circles of generic/folk care, nursing care, and professional systems
* Influence and are influenced by individuals, families, groups, communities, or institutions in diverse health
* Three circles influecne are are influenced by care decisions and actions
Decisions and actions are influenced by the three circles AND…
* cultural care preservation and maintenance
* cultural care accomodations and negotiation
* cultural care repatterning and restructuring
All factors influence and are influenced by culturally congruent care for health, wellbeing or dying
Process of relational leadership involves:
knowing, being, and doing in each of the 6….
- Purpose
- Inclusivity
- Empowerment
- Sources of power
- Ethics
- Process Orientation
List the 5 Sources of Power
- reward
- coercive
- legitimate
- reference
- expert
Sources of Power:
Describe and give an example for Reward
- Person with reward power has influence over distribution of incentives
- Can be applied through favoritism - diminishes morals of others
- ex. Receiving a bonus for achieving certain metrics
Sources of Power:
Describe and give an example for Coercive power
- If you don’t do a certain action, you will receive a certain consequence
- Want to avoid, but there are times where leaders leverage this
- ex. Being fired for not receiving a COVID vaccine
Sources of Power:
Describe and give an example of Legitimate Power
- Big L leadership - speaks to hierarchy in an organization
- Leader assigns tasks to employees who work under them
- ex. Being in a management position / actual position of power
Sources of Power:
Describe and give an example for Reference Power
- derived from interpersonal relationships
- person cultuvates relationships with others in their organizations - power built within interpersonal communication and relationships
- possessed when they are respected by others - speaks to personal connection with key people in organization
- ex. relationship with CEO, respected by colleagues
Sources of Power:
Describe and give an example of Expert Power
- Someone who has power because they are an expert on something
- Highly valued becuase of the knowledge they possess
- Deemed as indispensible to the organization
- ex. Clinical Nurse Educator, Suzanne, PhD
What does being “process oriented” mean?
Being intentional and thoughtful about how a group goes about being a group
Name the 6 Dimensions of Relational Leadership
- Relational leaders are authentic - share motivations and goals openly
- Relational leaders are empathetic - understand other’s experiences, perspectives, and feelings
- Relational leaders foster mutuality
- Relational leaders tend to the quality of the relationship
- Relational leaders are sporting and honorable
- Relational leaders find meaning in relationships
What is a worldview?
4 points
- A view of the world, used for living in the world
- Mental model of reality
- A comprehensive framework of attitudes and ideas about the world, ourselves, and life
- A system of beleifs, a system of personally customized theories about the world and how it works
How do worldviews affect leadership
4 points
- Lens has inherent biases within it
- Can shape our values and beliefs
- Influences the way you act and respond in certain scenarios
- Can affect the role and approach you take in leadership
What is Diversity Intelligence?
The capacity of individuals to recognize the value of workplace diversity and use this info to guide thinking and behaviour
What happens without diversity intelligence?
**, 4 points
- Adverse relationships with colleagues and clients/patients
- Productivity lessens
- Hostile work environment
- Attrition
List the 6 characteristics of leaders who have diversity intelligence
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- Examine their preconception/views of normative behaviours
- Accept, value, and motivate protected class members
- Recognize and reject stereotypes
- Focus on quality of work
- Embrance diverse learning/work styles
- Create a culture of trust
Diversity Intelligence Results In…
Leaders with diversity intelligence create a sense of belonging and uniqueness and results in:
* Followers perception of belonging and being valued for uniqueness
* Full participation of employees and inclusive leadership
Compare Indigenous Worldview vs. Western Worldview
Indigenous Worldview:
* collectiveness
* wealth is shared
* natural world is more important
* silence is valued
* land is sacred
* generosity amongst community
Western Worldview
* individualism
* accumulate wealth for the self
* laws of humans are most important
* nature is within human control
* silence needs to be filled
