PHCM9701 Health Leadership and Workforce Management
Task
Rationale for assessment This assignment provides the opportunity to demonstrate skills in analysis and formulation for strengthening workforce engagement in your workplace through appropriate health leadership strategies.
Task description Identify a workforce issue in your organization that needs attention.
Please select one from the following list: Workplace conflict Poor staff motivation Workforce shortages Ineffective teamwork Low workforce retention Poor performance Negative workplace culture Bullying/Harassment Identify the factors contributing to the issue and drawing on the literature from health leadership and from workforce engagement propose a health leadership strategy for improving the issue.
You can choose to focus on a specific staff problem, team or group performance issue or take a wider scope for a work unit or the organization. You need to provide a clear argument for why you have selected this particular workforce issue given your organizational context and its impact on the workplace and how you will address staff engagement through effective health leadership approaches. It is expected you will demonstrate conceptual understanding and application of both leadership theoretical literature and workforce engagement research within a health service context.
Please note: Students not currently or recently working in a health service setting should do the alternative assessment task below. It requires a straight essay response with a scholarly argument.
"Discuss the evidence for effectively improving one of the issues listed below with reference to both health leadership and workforce engagement literature" Workplace conflict Poor staff motivation Workforce shortages Ineffective teamwork Low workforce retention Poor performance Negative workplace culture Bullying/Harassment In responding you can choose to focus widely on the evidence base in in the health services sector or you might choose to narrow your discussion say to the evidence in nursing or hospital settings.
Make clear in your introduction the scope of your focus for the essay. Learning outcomes addressed Discuss the key characteristics and changing influences on the health workforce across a range of health service settings and the implications for health leadership and management practices. Drawing on recent research literature, critically evaluate and discuss health leadership and management theories, approaches and practices for effectively managing others at the individual, team and organisational level.
Identify and analyse workforce issues within your own area of practice and propose relevant evidence - informed leadership strategies to enhance workforce engagement for improved performance.
Provides a clear explanation of the workplace context of the health workforce issue. Identifies the features of the health workforce Issue and a clear analysis of its impact on the workplace.
Provides evidence of critically interpreting relevant health workforce engagement and leadership literature for addressing the issue. Provides appropriate
leadership strategies informed by evidence. Provides a succinct and clearly written response using an appropriate style and scholarly approach.
Assessment criteria Assessment 3 will be assessed against the following specific criteria: Identified the features of the health workforce problem/issue needing to be addressed Provided a clear explanation of the context and impact of the workforce problem/issue Critically evaluated and explained the relevance of the health workforce engagement and leadership literature for addressing the issue Proposed appropriate health leadership strategies using the research literature to address the issue for improving workforce engagement Provided a well-structured, succinct and clearly written response using evidence-based argument from scholarly sources and using appropriate referencing format
