...NURSING AND HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT ISSUES Time management strategies in nursing practice Susan Waterworth New Zealand MSc RGN RNT Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, Submitted for publication 24 July 2002 Accepted for publication 20 April 2003 Correspondence: Susan Waterworth, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: susanpw@xtra.co.nz W A T E R W O R T H S . ( 2 0 0 3 ) Journal of Advanced Nursing 43(5), 432–440 Time management strategies in nursing practice Background. With the increasing emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness in health care, how a nurse manages her time is an important consideration. Whilst time management is recognized as an important component of work performance and professional nursing practice, the reality of this process in nursing practice has been subject to scant empirical investigation. Aim. To explore how nurses organize and manage their time. Methods. A qualitative study was carried out, incorporating narratives (22 nurses), focus groups (24 nurses) and semi-structured interviews (22 nurses). In my role as practitioner researcher I undertook observation and had informal conversations, which provided further data. Study sites were five health care organizations in the United Kingdom during 1995–1999. Findings. Time management is complex, with nurses...
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...of the most important skills that an organization can have. Creating and implementing budgets are the most important activities a public administration can undertake. No public program can exist without fund. Budgeting was defined as "a valuation of receipts and expenditures or a public balance sheet, and as a legislative act establishing and authorizing certain kinds and amounts of expenditures and taxation" (Schiesl, 1977). Budgeting is a collective process in which operating units prepare their plans in conformity with corporate goals published by top management. This means budgeting is a number of activities performed in order to prepare a budget. A budget is a quantitative plan used as a tool for deciding which activities will be chosen for a future time period. A budget is a document that shows how a government agency or public organizations intend to spend resources on activities that accomplish public purposes. A budget is a critical document in the operation of any modern public organization. It has an explicit meaning and it has several expected components. In simple terms, a budget is a financial plan that carries forward the financial implications of carrying out a particular planned response to the anticipated operating conditions in a future period, normally a year. The budgeting process is an essential component of management control systems, as it provides a system of planning, coordination and control for management. It is often an arduous process, however...
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...Strategy development by using SWOT - AHP Dijana Oreski1 1 Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Pavlinska 2, Varazdin, Croatia Abstract –This paper employs combination of SWOT analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in strategic planning for tourism of small mid-european city Varazdin, which is located in the north west of Croatia. SWOT analysis identifies internal and external factors which are prioritized by expert in tourism domain by means of AHP. The prioritized SWOT factors are used in strategies formulation using TOWS matrix. Results indicate that proactive communication strategy and isolation strategy with effective marketing promotional strategy were the best strategies that could have been implemented. Keywords – SWOT, AHP, strategy formulation. cases in the strategic management process. One of them is the SWOT analysis. This article explains the SWOT analysis, provides the theoretical background and an overview of the application of the SWOT analysis. As some authors have identified weaknesses of the SWOT, analysis is combined with a method for multi-criteria decision analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in order to avoid these disadvantages. Therefore, in the second part of the paper AHP method and SWOT AHP hybrid method are described. Following the basic steps method, SWOT AHP is applied to the example of the city of Varazdin strategic marketing plan definition. 2. SWOT analysis SWOT is an acronym of strength, weakness, opportunities...
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... The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine social and ethical issues within the global market. This document will also review how international management and cultural diversity are pertinent to the success of an organization that is operating in a foreign country. Based upon the above mention, this paper will focus on examining and providing frameworks and strategies that implement the concept of corporate social responsibility and cultural diversity. A number of factors are identified in the study, using literature reviews and numerous online research engines. Introduction Business firms that operate in foreign countries face an assortment of ethical and social challenges. These challenges run from fair treatment of employees, stakeholders, and customers, product safety, plant safety, advertising practices, human resources management, environmental problems, business practices, corruption, bribery, kidnapping, torture, and even murder. Therefore, organizations are increasingly concerned about how their actions affect the environment and social welfare. This in turn creates a demand by employees, consumers, investors, lenders, governmental agencies, and other stakeholder groups for demanding firms to operate in an ethical and socially responsible manner. Nevertheless, organizations cannot wantonly abandon their profit maximization aims while internalizing societal goals. As with other organizational decisions, ethical and social decisions...
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...issues discovered and discussed are strategic planning, organization, finance, project management, a project team, and project resource allocation and are presented in the information below with recommended resolutions. Week 1 Issues Issue #1 The first issue identified by Strategy One is in the area of strategic planning. CanGo has been a successful company to date by being a trail blazer and leader in the online retail resource vertical. In order for CanGo to continue its success, remain a leader and expand its offerings, strategic planning must be implemented in the management of the company. “The strategic management process is made up of four elements: situation analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation. These elements are steps that are performed, in order, when developing a new strategic management plan. Existing businesses that have already developed a strategic management plan will revisit these steps as the need arises, in order to make necessary changes and improvements.” (Bushman, 2007) There is an admitted lack of planning in the current organization. By documenting the trending in what has been successful; CanGo will be able to remain an industry leader as long as this planning is a priority in deciding the future vision of CanGo. Issue #2 The second issue identified by Strategy One is in the area of organizational planning and goals. CanGo’s management and employees have already expressed plans and ideas...
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...to corporate strategy/strategic supplier selection analysis, Collaboration methods and mechanisms INTRODUCTION Organizations are operating in an environment characterized by continuous economic, social, natural and political disruptions to their sources of supplies and services/ consumers and markets. To survive in this turbulent and highly competitive market place, these organizations must continually monitor their competitive positions alongside their internally controllable functional strategies to ensure they are proactively aligned with the overall corporate strategy. To succeed therefore in this fact evolving global competitive business environment, an innovative business concept Supply Chain Management was introduced to help align the functional strategies with the overall business strategies and suppliers. During World War I and II, the success of a firm was not dependent on what it could sell, since the market was almost unlimited. Instead, the ability to obtain from suppliers the raw materials, suppliers and services needed to keep the factories and mines operating was the key determinant of organizational success. Consequently, attention was given to organization policies, strategies and procedures of the supply chain functions which resulted to activities termed logistics, souring, procurement, material management. By the open of 1970’s, organizations faced two most challenging problems: an international shortage of almost all basic raw materials needed to support...
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...HOW WILL MANAGER AND LEADERS NEED TO ADAPT TO THRIVE FOUR YEARS FROM NOW? NAME COURSE TUTOR DATE Leadership can be described as a character that is individualistic or with a difference, but rather it is depicted by many as shared, global, strategic, complex, dyadic, and rational. Businesses, non-profits, educational organizations and government agencies need the type of leaders who can navigate some complex and changing situations in the future effectively. Some of the questions that most of the leaders in business need to ask themselves are what they need to do, and they should access whether they are equipped to do the tasks that await them. For any leader in an organization to develop and build strength in leadership for the future, they will first need to know all the elements in leadership that will be valued and needed in the organization that they work. The other aspects that should be under consideration are the roles that the organization is likely going to consider as critical. The point may be obvious, but it is an aspect that future leaders need to understand because most companies spend a lot of time and money when trying to define the needed competencies. Before determining the extent to which some of the today’s leaders are equipped when we consider some of the challenges that they are likely to face in the future, there is the need to gauge some of the current leadership strength. Some of the trends include strategic planning, employee development, resourcefulness...
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...Digimation pioneered the introduction of digital technologies into anime production processes, which was very labour intensive. It worked on subcontracted productions and accumulated expertise with the digital technologies in anime production. With the highly recognized GONZO brand and the advanced digital animation technology of Digimation, backed up by the creative and talented employees of both companies, the merger was expected to go well and produce good results. However the merger did not seem to work well and internal tensions begin to build in the organization. In December 2000, Ishikawa, then CEO of the holding company GDH, contacted and involved Mr. Takaya Kato and Mr. Soichi Kariyazono of Apax Globis Partners & Co. (“Globis”), one of the VCs, to identify the existing issues and investigate possible solutions so as to maximize the impact of the merger and sustain the growth of GDH. They identified a number of management issues relating to internal communication/relationships, job positioning, daily...
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...strategy into results. Books and articles on strategy outnumber those on execution by an order of magnitude. And what little has been written on execution tends to focus on tactics or generalize from a single case. So what do we know about strategy execution? We know that it matters. A recent survey of more than 400 global CEOs found that executional excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders in Asia, Europe, and the United States, heading a list of some 80 issues, including innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth. We also know that execution is difficult. Studies have found that two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. Nine years ago one of us (Don) began a large-scale project to understand how complex organizations can execute their strategies more effectively. The research includes more than 40 experiments in which we made changes in companies and measured the impact on execution, along with a survey administered to nearly 8,000 managers in more than 250 companies. The study is ongoing but has already produced valuable insights. The most important one is this: Several widely held beliefs about how to implement strategy are just plain wrong. In this article we debunk five of the most pernicious myths and replace them with a more accurate perspective that will help managers effectively...
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...aligned with its strategic priorities helps the organization achieve business success. The challenge: achieving alignment and sustaining it over the long term. High Performance: As Unique as a Company Itself One of the most striking characteristics of highperformance organizations is the level of harmony between business strategy and organization culture that they manage to achieve and sustain over time. A manufacturer competing chiefly on cost and efficiency, for instance, requires a culture very different from that of a luxury goods retailer for which personalized customer attention is the ultimate differentiator. “High performance” means different things in companies competing on different strategic priorities across industry sectors. In short, the right high-performance environment is one that helps a company achieve a specific set of business requirements. In a high-performance organization, workplace practices must actively influence the employee behaviors needed to execute its strategy and reinforce its market focus. behaviors of leaders are critical in establishing a culture that aligns with the business strategy. But, certainly, this is easier said than done. In fact, many companies’ cultures are not aligned with their business objectives, because their leaders, who by and large focus on the financial and operational aspects of the business, simply allow corporate culture to evolve. In some cases, the responsibilities of day-to-day management intrude, or leaders do not...
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...TIME SAVERS AND WASTERS SYNTHESIS Time wasters are those who cannot manage time efficiently, they don’t even notice that wasting time may result to loss of productivity in the company. Thus, there are plenty of studies that have been conducted at the individual and in the organization. Moore presents ten most common time wasters given by 3, 000 managers, about 80 percent of the middle-level position. The time wasters that Moore is tackling about are the difficulties in interferences. Here are the following: the telephone – the problem of these is the wasting of time due to the frequency and the length of calls. Example is the responding all call even though some of them are not important because of these some important things that needed to be done will be left behind. One way to eliminate time wasting of it is to screen the incoming calls by secretary; holding all calls or shutting down telephone during important periods is a solution for this. Meetings - is also a time wasting when it is “too long and too many” or “ineffective and indecisive”, one alternative solution to avoid time wasting during meeting is to reduce the number of meetings; have an agenda with a purpose of the meeting preparing the involvement of the constituents. Reports – paper works, report writing, memos, and etc. can also cause time wasting, in order to avoid time wasting on the report better forms control and paper work simplication programs; more on prevention than stopping the process. ...
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...Personal Responsibility: Making Of A Great Student Responsibility has been defined as “answerable or accountable, as in for something within ones own power, control or management”(Dictionary.com, 1996). Within our own lives, we have everyday responsibilities from family life and finances, to schoolwork and making a living. We can simply call those Personal Responsibilities. Those with the successful ability to manage the personal responsibilities of everyday life, tend to be the better students, being that they have less stress, better time management, and more time for concentration on their school work. Stress Management Stress is an everyday part of life that sometimes seems unmanageable and is always unwanted. Although there is no actual definition to stress, the best understanding one can have of stress is “a condition or feelings experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize”(Rosch, 2011). We all have different ways of dealing with stress. Some use a long walk, or the gym to get out frustration, which releases endorphins and can alleviate the symptoms of stress. Some step away from the situation that’s causing the stress, and come back to it with a clear mind. Anyway that you can find to alleviate stress will help put things back into perspective and make even the most seemingly impossible tasks become attainable. I use a few hours of my day, everyday, to go to the...
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...TIME MANAGEMENT "There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) health and free time for doing good." (Bukhari 8/421) Introduction 1. There is no mystery about managing time. Managing time is really managing how we live. Time is non renewable and non extendible precious resource. Everyone has 24 hours a day and 168 hours each week to perform his duties. To get maximum output from these hours, planning and implementation of planning is required because only planning to manage time is useless if one does not follow it. So time management is a key to success in this life. Managing time is just something one does for own psyche to make own day easier. Time management at grass roots level is the building block for the success and achievement of that organization because individual time management increases the output and collective improvement of the output leads to high achievements of the organization. 2. In the Army, as institution it has a critical significance owing to the nature of its job. Individual trained in better time management during peace are likely to produce good results during war and collectively effective control over time could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Aim 3. To carry out an appraisal of modern ideas / techniques on time management, highlight its significance and application in the Army and make relevant recommendation for ensuring better time management. Sequence 4. The Paper encompasses the following:- a. Part...
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...www.itrb.gov FOREWORD The Information Technology Resources Board (ITRB) is pleased to issue Managing Information Systems: A Practical Assessment Tool. This instrument is designed to assist Federal agencies in understanding how to strategically apply information technology to achieve their missions and deliver services and products. The Assessment Tool contains a broad array of questions in nine areas from which to evaluate information technology systems: mission and vision, customers, business focus, executive direction, capital planning, project management, performance management, acquisition, and architecture. These questions reflect the ITRB members' extensive on-the-job experiences, as well as insights gained from assessments of critical information systems across the Federal government during the past several years. This is a preview version of the Assessment Tool, which will continue to be enhanced over time. Comments or suggestions for improving it should be sent to: Ginni Schaeffer Interagency IT Strategies Division 1800 F Street N.W. Room 2227 Washington, DC 20405 Additional information on the ITRB is available at www.itrb.gov Arnold Bresnick Chair Information Technology Resources Board ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Information Technology Resources Board (ITRB) Arnold Bresnick, Chair Department of Agriculture Valerie Wallick, Vice Chair Department of the Navy Sandra Borden United States Coast Guard Kenneth Byram Federal...
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...INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT With the fall of East European Socialist-Bloc and opening up of the Asian markets, the trade barriers began falling during the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990’s. This development lead to organizations having a supply chain, that criss-crossed the whole globe. The proliferation of trade agreements has thus changed the global business scenarios. The Integrated Supply Chain Management (ISCM) is now not only a problem of integrated logistics (as a process) but also demands that the supply chain management (SCM) must look into the ramifications of these arrangements on the cost of transportation (including tariffs or duties) of products within a trade zone and outside it, besides, developing logistics strategies. The field has thus developed in the last few years for bridging the gap between demand and supply vis-à-vis efficiency and cost trade-offs. The SCM now not only involves the “management of logistic function”, as was done in the past (to achieve internal efficiency of operations) but, includes the management and co-ordination of activities, upstream and downstream linkage(s) in the supply chain. The integrated supply chain management, in particular include : Planning and Managing supply and demand; Warehouse Management; Optimal Inventory control; Transportation and Distribution, Delivery and customer’s delight following the basic principles of supply chain management viz. working together;...
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