Diversity Management and Nursing Leadership Philosophy
In the last two decades, influx of nursing professionals from the different part of the world into the United States has created a diversity work environment within the health organizations. The issue has made leaders facing challenges to manage the workforce that compose of professionals from different cultural background. To manage a diverse health environment effectively, a leader must develop a leadership philosophy that should be accepted by all workforce. The transformation and transactional leaderships have been identified as the effective leadership styles to manage a diverse work environment to achieve organizational objectives. However, a leader needs to be culturally competent to develop a strategy to manage workers effectively. The study illustrates the challenges that nursing leaders in the Saudi Arabia hospitals face in the work environments since nursing staff in the region are composed of workers from different countries and different cultural background. The study recommends that nursing leaders should enhance their greater understanding on Purnell model of cultural competence to manage their organizations effectively.
Introduction
A growing body of evidence in the nursing practice reveals that healthy working environments enhance staff satisfaction, improved patient outcomes, staff retention, and organizational performances. Health organizations that intend to establish a healthy work environment should put in place a strong nursing leadership practice at all level of organization, especially at the patient point-of-care. With a recent change in the healthcare environment within the last two decades, the influx of immigrant nursing professionals into the United States has increased responsibilities for staffing, diversity management, and regulatory compliance. Faced with increased market competitions, and the aim to satisfy the needs all workers from different cultural background, healthcare organizations need effective nursing leaders to manage different cultural diversity challenges. Essentially, diversity management drives market growth and unlocks innovation. Organizations that manage workers' diversity effectively have been proved to enjoy innovation within the work environment. (Hewlett, Marshall, & Sherbin, 2013). Despite the benefits that healthcare organizations stand to derive from the application of the diversity leadership management,...
A leader must be able to strike a balance between practicing efficient business and providing compassionate care in the multicultural and diversity healthcare environment.
The objective of this study is to develop the "nursing leadership and diversity
management philosophy" using the "Larry Purnell Model of Cultural Competence." The study also discusses my
core values that include communication,
integrity, and
passion. Moreover, total quality management is my management philosophy.
Nursing Leadership and Diversity Management Philosophy
An advent of
global economy and advances in
technology have brought people from different part of the world closer together leading to a change in diversity workplace. An increase in the diversity workforce has made nursing leaders to shoulder new responsibilities of managing the staff diversity to increase customer loyalty, retain and attract quality workforces. (Sherman, Pross, 2010).
"Employees of firms with 2-D diversity are 45% likelier to report a growth in
market share over the previous year and 70% likelier to report that the firm captured a new market." (Hewlett, Marshall, & Sherbin, 2013).
A term leader is defined as the ability to influence others through interpersonal skills and
effective communication. Avoka, Florence, Ofei, et al. (2016) define leadership as the process or art of influencing people to achieve organizational goals. However, leadership involves different styles. A leader must demonstrate one of the effective leadership styles to drive up innovation and enhance quality health systems within the healthcare environment. Leadership styles displayed by nursing managers play a significant role in
job satisfaction within the multicultural environment. Castle, & Decker, (2011) believe that DON (Director of Nursing) and NHA (Home Administrator) consist of the
leadership team who influence the quality healthcare delivery within the multicultural health environment. According to the authors, DONs have the ability to deliver better quality than Home Administrators.
Avolio and Bass (1994) argue that the
transformational leadership is one of the effective leadership styles in the diversity work environment. Transformational leadership styles encompass the inspirational motivation, individual consideration, idealized behavior, idealistic attributes and intellectual stimulation. However, transformational leadership…
