Betty Smith, a unit clerk, has come to see you, the nurse-manager of the medical unit, to complain of flagrant discriminatory practices against female employees of University General Hospital. She alleges that women are denied promotional and training opportunities comparable to those made available to men. She shows you a petition with 35 signatures supporting her allegations. Ms. Smith has threaten to forward this petition to the administrator of the hospital, the press, and the Department of Labor unless corrective action is taken at once. Being a woman yourself, you have some sympathy for Ms. Smith’s complaint. However, you believe overall that employees at University General are treated fairly regardless of their sex.
Ms. Smith, a fairly good employee, has worked on your unit for 4 years. However, she has been creating problems lately. She has been reprimanded for taking to much time for coffee breaks. Personnel evaluations that recommend pay raises and promotions are due next week.
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My plan will be to first slate for a meeting with the staff one week prior to the evaluation. This will be important for me to be able to capture their worries and as well as certain on the allegations made. The second step of the plan will be asking for recommendations on what might be the solutions. Creating a framework that that will be used in evaluating continuous happenings in the organization will be the next step in the plan. This will ensure that in future, issues will be dealt with and mitigated easily. The rationale behind that is to ensure that a clear framework is set. On evaluation, it will be expected to measure everything on the expected performance levels against the actual performance. A deficit in that will call for training, motivation, performance appraisal and more so on helping them understand the need for being productive (Landy, Zedeck, Cleveland, (2017). I believe this will come in handy as the situation at workplaces always calls for continuous improvement. Most of my decisions will be advised by the prevailing conditions at workplace, regulations and the situation at hand. Finally,
