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• Organizational Culture And Values
• Introduction

Organizational culture describes a system of common or shared assumptions, beliefs, and values within an organization (Benson & Dundis, 2003).

– It functions to govern people’s conducts and behaviours at their places of work or within their organizations

– Shared values substantially influence people’s job performance, actions, and their commitment as well as to productivity

– Every single organization has a distinct culture to guide its members’ behaviours and conducts

• Organizational Values and Nurse Engagement
• Organizational values substantially influence nurses, depending upon how they bring into line to individual beliefs, assumptions, and beliefs.

– Organizational Values and beliefs that support nurses’ values will positively influence the nurses (Van et al., 2014)

– Organizational Values that are contrary to nurses’ values will negatively influence nurses’ outcomes and performance (Gershon et al., 2004)

• Organizational values can function to enhance or boost nurse engagement
• Work engagement is a constructive affective motivational state of satisfaction or fulfilment (Van et al., 2014).
• Organizational Values and Nurse Engagement, Cont’d
• Work engagement can be manifested as absorption, vigor, and dedication
• Motivated nurses dedicate and commit themselves to an organization’s objectives and goals (Benson & Dundis, 2003)
• Nursing engagement is directly associated with improved patient outcomes and safety
• Committed or dedicated nurses offer quality healthcare service(s) to patients and
• Effectively collaborate with their colleagues to make sure patients are provided with quality healthcare services (Suter et al., 2009).
• Respect helps nurses to effectively and efficiently work if their organizations promote such values (Gershon et al., 2004), and this leads to enhanced or improved patient outcomes and patient safety (Van et al., 2014).
• Effective Communication Overcomes Workplace Challenges
• Gershon et al. (2004) state that good communication methods and techniques help in overcoming work place challenges.
• Clarity of information assists nurses to effectively and efficient manage time
• Good listening skills assist nurses to understand their patients’ messages and themselves clearly
• Communicating with respect assists in overcoming challenges associated with workplace diversity
• Leaders and managers influence their juniors’ from diverse backgrounds support and help realize an organization’s ,objectives and goals.
• Effective Communication Inspires Collaboration
• Effective communication techniques influence collaboration and cooperation among nurses (Gershon et al., 2004)
• Communicating with respect functions to enhance good relationship among nurses,
• Nurses effectively collaborate with one another because of trust, respect, honesty, and transparency
• Openness and honesty encourage positive associations among nurses.
• Effective Communication Inspires Collaboration, Cont’d
• Being open to other people’s thoughts and opinions promote teamwork (Van et al., 2014)
• Nurses collaborate and cooperate with one another to realize a shared/common goal (Suter et al., 2009)
• Practicing patience during communication encourages collaboration and cooperation
• Effective Communication Promotes Operative Problem Solving
• Workplace diversity, according to Gershon et al. (2004), can assist in effective problem-solving
• This needs god communication capabilities and skills
• Effective communication also functions to promote respect and trust
• Encourages people’s contribution during a problem solving process
• Good listening capabilities and skills take into consideration various viewpoints to effectively and efficiently solve problems (Suter et al., 2009)
• Understanding and taking into consideration nurses’ opinions and viewpoints assist in effective and efficient problem solving
• Comprehending a situation is needed to effectively solve a problem
• Instance In My Professional Experience
• My organizational values stressed on respect as well as evidence based practice
• These functioned to align nurses’’ trust, respect, and quality of healthcare provided to our clients
• The alignment significantly influenced nurse involvement/engagement and patient outcomes (Suter et al., 2009)
• Nurses respected, honoured, and valued each other, thus promoting good collaboration and relationships
• They communicated with each other transparently with trust and respect
• Instance In My Professional Experience, Cont’d
• Collaboration and cooperation among nurses increased their dedication and motivation, and enhanced their job performance and productivity (Van et al., 2014)
• They provided quality health care services
• Nurses equally respected and maintained patient autonomy, honoured patients’ views
• They also employed the best treatment alternatives based upon evidences that they gathered from each patient
• This promoted the quality of healthcare that was given to the patients, thus promoting patients’ wellbeing and health (Suter et al., 2009)
• Conclusion
• Organizational culture has the ability of influencing nurses’ conducts, behaviours, and actions, hence influence nurses’ productivity, job performance, and commitment at their workplaces.
• It functions to determine patient’s health outcomes and safety
• Health care institutions ought to develop as well as maintain values that foster and promote quality health care to patients
• They ought as well to align to their nurses’’ values so that they can achieve effective outcomes.