THEORETICAL MATRIX Use Appendix A (attached) create a matrix theoretical change models. Include theoretical change models matrix. The matrix include model: • Name theoretical model • Description theoretical model 200 words • Description type change situation theoretical model applies 200 words.
Matrix of Theoretical Models
Theoretical Change Model
Description of Theoretical Model
(200 words each box)
Type of health care change situation where model best applies
(200 words each box)
Systems theory
Systems theory suggests that organizations are complex, adaptive systems greater than the sum of their parts. Organizations cannot always be logically analyzed in terms of their ability to accept or reject change. Organizational behavior is hard to predict. Systems are in dialogue with the environment, and changes in the environment can produce changes in the system but "some type of [exterior] energy is required" otherwise organizations grow static (Iles & Sutherland 2001). Also, "players within a system have a view of that system's function and purpose and players' views may be very different from each other" (Iles & Sutherland 2001). This can also complicate change, since managers' perspectives may be different than employees' perspectives.
The theory is flexible to some degree because it promotes two types of change. "Hard Systems promote a sequential, staged approach to change. The stages are numbered and the sequence provides the orderliness, characteristic to this methodology" (Iles & Sutherland 2001). When the need for change is agreed upon, this approach is acceptable. In contrast, Soft Systems approaches are used when there is a great deal of disagreement about how to deal with the change. Soft systems approaches are less sequential in nature and are highly dependent upon building consensus (Iles & Sutherland 2001). They are more appropriate when human-focused decisions are necessitated.
One of the most serious problems in healthcare today is that of recruitment and retention of new nurses, to address the nursing shortage. Many healthcare environments are severely understaffed, and understaffing is linked to nursing burnout and a spike in employee attrition. There are a number of complex environmental reasons that there is a nursing shortage. First and foremost, many nursing educational programs are understaffed,...
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