Justifications for the change, including why addressing it will have a positive impact on your organization/workplace

Justifications for the change, including why addressing it will have a positive impact on your organization/workplace

Change Implementation and Management Plan

An executive summary of the issues that are currently affecting your organization/workplace

One of the issues that was observed within the organization, which also came out in the workplace civility assessment is low levels of teamwork. Currently, the employees prefer to work independently with no indication of any form of teamwork. This to some extent, increases the likelihood of organizational conflicts.

The lack of teamwork can also be attributed to the leadership in place. The organization currently leans towards a more transactional form of leadership which focuses more on tasks, with very minimal teamwork in place (Marshall & Broome, 2017). Therefore, the intervention selected will help to resolve this issues.

A description of the change being proposed

The change proposed will include a redesigning the organization, specifically the nursing unit to factor in teams as core components of achieving high levels of efficiency and productivity. In the change, nurses will be placed into small effective and diverse teams, with the team leaders answering to the overall nurse leader in a given shift. Training on teamwork and transformational leadership will also be conducted to orient the nurses on what is expected of the as pertains to the new model.

Justifications for the change, including why addressing it will have a positive impact on your organization/workplace

Studies have linked teamwork with better productivity and low burnout among the nursing staff. In a study by (Halm, 2019), it was noted that high levels of teamwork helps to reduce the individual workload and work-related stress thus reducing the burnout phenomenon amongst nurses. Teamwork is also linked with high levels of employee satisfaction (Buljac-Samardzic et al., 2020). Patients also benefit from teamwork, given that teamwork is linked with reduced incidents of missed care events and medical errors (Marguet & Ogaz, 2019).