MHA 543 Wk 1 Discussion – Variables Influencing Employee Retention

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What are the variables that influence an employee’s decision to leave or stay at an organization (Hint: It’s not just money.)

Please include sources/references to support your perspective.

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

MHA 543 Wk 2 Discussion – Leadership and Health Care Employee Engagement

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Assess your Leadership Skills

Review the questions in the Appendix 3: Glossary. (2007). Guide to Organisation Design, 302–315 page 5 under the heading ‘Gallup Q12’ from the University Library.

Ask yourself these 12 questions to measure employment engagement and contemplate why these questions are effective.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Do you consider yourself an engaged employee?
• Did these questions make you think of anything that can be done at your organization to increase employee engagement and performance?
• Would you add any questions to the list?
• How can managers in the health care industry utilize these questions?

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

MHA 543 Wk 3 Discussion – Leadership Traits and Workforce Management

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What are the best and worst traits of leaders you have worked with?
• How did these traits affect your productivity and engagement?
• What is more important for leading people: hard knowledge of the area you are running or soft people skills?
• What leadership skills do researchers value the most within the health care sector?

Include sources/references to support your perspective.

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

MHA 543 Wk 4 Discussion – Multigenerational Workforce

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Much attention is given to the multigenerational clinician workforce. But what about the multigenerational administrative workforce? Are the challenges similar?
• What about interactions between multigenerational clinical and administrative workforces?

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

MHA 543 Wk 5 Discussion – Leadership Traits

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• How does the Emotional Intelligence of a leader build trust and a sense of group identity? Why are these two qualities important to the working team?
• Do you think there is a positive correlation between the Emotional Intelligence of a leader and employee retention? Why or why not?

Provide sources to support your perspective on this issue.

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

MHA 543 Wk 6 Discussion – Succession Planning

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What does succession planning entail and what are its essential steps?
• Are there any disadvantages to using a nine-box grid for succession planning? Would you have any difficulty in categorizing anyone who reports or has reported to you into one of the boxes? If you never managed a team, think about employees you have worked with in the past and how you would categorize them.
• Do you think most people frequently move from one box to another or do most people tend to stay in one box for long periods of their careers?

Provide sources to support your perspective on this issue.

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.