First Activity:
Organizational Chart – mention an organization/ hospital structure. People at all
levels in an organization must constantly make decisions and solve problems.
Nurses make good manager, good managers must make decisions and act on
them. The entire planning process involves manager in a continual series of
decision making situations and to what goals and opportunities to pursue.
Second Activity:
1.) State complaints of patients, get the data from the office of the Nursing
Service Department of DWUH and LPH.
e.g. Complaints of patients
- how did the nurse manager answered/ managed the complaints.
Non-programmed decisions, on the other hand, are made under new or unusual
conditions and require creative thinking.
Def. of Creative or
Critical Thinking – is the ability to question philosophically and exercise careful
judgment when evaluating a situation. (Tomey)
Questions to Answer:
1. What is wrong?
2. Where is improvement needed?
Third Activity:
A student is made to present his on views of his decision of enrolling at the
VSU, it was a decision you made 3 years ago? Why VSU? Do you think you are
closer to you goals, what happened along the way, what were the activities,
decisions that you have made.
ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS
A. RATIONAL – Based on the premise of common goals, technical competence
and sequential process to achieve goals when individual values are
consistent with organizational values.
a.1 feedback
a.2 strength deliberate method
a.3 weakness unrealistic expectations, lack of time narrow thought process.
F. CYBERNETIC MODEL
1. Needs assessment
2. Program implementation
3. Results assessment
Fourth Activity:
Students are made to explain the collage that they have made in the
organizational models.
Advantages:
1. Group deliberation
2. Sharing
3. Unanimity of decisions helps increase the support and confidence of
subordinates
Disadvantages:
1. It is a group that is held responsible
2. A committee decision is slow, ponderous process
- please read on Committee functioning page 63 (Tomey)