Different management styles are being used around the globe in order to provide services and customer satisfaction, allocate work assignments, and gain profits. Some managers use the management style of fear, some use a passive approach and some are more involved with their employees in finding ways to trouble shoot situations. Here we are going to talk about the transformational management style of values-based management. The theory is a relatively new concept that has real advantages, challenges, and rewards. I am going to help explore these issues and how it is beneficial to the nursing process once applied.
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Managing By Values is a book narrated in the third person. …show more content…
This means much more than knowing what one likes to eat, or favorite kind of book to read; it means figuring out one’s personal biases, beliefs, and values. By first doing this and being aware of it, a person can then understand how to approach different situations while controlling their emotions (Blanchard & O’Connor, 1997). Having these changes start from the top of the business or organization allows for a trickle-down effect to all other branches that will produce better communication along both horizontal and vertical communication axis (Blanchard & O’Connor, …show more content…
If the basic necessities are not adequate, any number of stresses can overload the person, the patient, and the team. By having nurses understand and come-together with certain basic beliefs, values and goals pertaining to the job, conflicts can be managed with a more constructive and bettering attitude. In order to give the proper patient-centered care that is required of nurses, we need to have flexibility with patients and recognize their values and preferences (Mills & Spencer, 2005). By using the values style of management a nurse manager is able to be more of a team player than a dictator of rules and regulations; they become facilitators of conflict management. By understanding the core issues of the situation, and having a non-opinionated approach, the nurse manager is able to have the individual parties come to an agreement, and then the manager can lend aid to whomever needs it in order to achieve the necessary outcomes of the day without using an authoritarian approach (Buchko, 2007). Switching to a values-based form of management is a key first step in giving empowerment to the other nurses because they feel that it was their decisions that made the difference. The resulting culture will be one of motivated and efficient nurses because of the self-worth and this will help to increase productivity, safety, and profits of the nursing