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HSA501 Week 5 Discussion

Power Plays and the Abuse of Power in Health Care Organizations” Please respond to the following:

Suggest the major issues that you believe are the basis for most of the organizational power struggles within health care facilities. Propose a method that a health care facility could use to alleviate power imbalances within the organization.

I feel that the major issues that are the basis for most of the organizational power struggles within health care facilities are based in communication breakdowns. I think that different are within health care facilities have different ideas of what is most important and shoot for those goals. For example, physicians are most worried about patients and not costs. Hospital administrators are more focused on profits and costs and saving money. If a facility does not do a good job of conveying their goals company-wide, everyone will not be on the same page. It is most important however, to help all the departments see how the goals are beneficial to their needs and will fit within their own departmental goals. These both need to work together. One idea is to have a meeting of the minds so to speak, by bringing together the department heads to have a facility-wide meeting to bring everyone’s goals and ideas together.

Assess the importance of preventing power abuse within health care organizations. Propose two (2) effective negotiation approaches that the leadership within a health care organization could use to move situations involving power abuse to a productive conclusion. Justify your response.

Power Plays and the Abuse of Power in Health Care Organizations” Please respond to the following: 1. Suggest the major issues that you believe are the basis for most of the organizational power struggles within health care facilities. Propose a method that a health care facility could use to alleviate power imbalances within the organization.

Money, I think is the key to a lot of power struggles within a healthcare facility. Healthcare is a business just like any other. It needs to obtain a certain amount to run smoothly. I think money drives most of the struggles. Everyone wants to figure out a way to cut costs and provide the same or less care while getting paid the same. Some of these cuts cause major problems within the system, from shortages in staff to insufficient patient care. This in the end may cause a loss of money instead of the intended purpose cost savings.

2. Assess the importance of preventing power abuse within health care organizations. Propose two (2) effective negotiation approaches that the leadership within a health care organization could use to move situations involving power abuse to a productive conclusion. Justify your response.

It is important to prevent power struggles to keep from the negative effect of loss of authority, loss of trust from employees and loss of trust from patients. Power struggles breakdown the trust of people who are affected by it. Ways to avoid power struggles 1. Being proactive. Paying attention to the dynamics within the healthcare facility and watching the employees react and physicians. You can see when something is starting to go wrong and start assessing solutions before it grows out of hand 2. Compromise. Talking to all sides involved in the conflict and hearing them out. Knowing why all are struggling and what they think can make the situation better. Giving each side a little will help elevate the struggle between them. Both sides think they won at least a bit. References: J. (2013, August 06). Manage Conflict and Resolve Problems by Negotiating. Retrieved July 27, 2018, from http://judylarkins.com/news/manage-conflict-and-re…