- DEFINITION OF MORAL:
- Moral is the psychological phenomenon closely related to leadership and group functioning.
- Moral can be judge directly
- Moral is composite of feelings, attitudes & sentiments that contributes general feelings of satisfaction
- Moral is involved in every thing that makes a job satisfying.
- TYPES OF THE MORAL:
- High Moral: Moral is high when the people are fully satisfied.
- Low Moral: Moral is low when the people are not satisfied with their job.
- MEASUREMENT OF THE MORAL:
- Moral Survey: They are conducted through the questionnaires.
- Some Moral indicators: Such as: Absenteeism, Quality record, Medical Record.
- FACTORS AFFECTING ON MORAL:
- Personal factors: Such as: structure of organs, Goal of organ, Nature of work, Compensation.
- Organizational factors: such as intelligence, Physical health, Social
- WAY OF BUILDING MORAL:
- Appropriate Style of leadership:
- Participation in decision making
- Avoid monotony of work
- Working with informal leader
- Working condition
- Opportunities
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JOB SATISFACTION
A. DEFINITION OF JOB DESCRIPTION:
It is a pleasurable emotional state or response to a job/ situation which can not be seen but can be felt, which is determined by degree of achievement and expectations.
- FACTORS DETERMINING JOB SATISFACTION:
- Personal factors
- Work
- Working condition
- Working group
- Supervision
- WAY OF MEASURING JOB SATISFACTION:
- Rating scale
- Critical incident
- Interview
- Action tendencies
- HOE TO IMPROVE JOB SATISFACTION:
- By paying handsome salary
- By providing job security
- Providing opportunities for learning purpose
- Trying to increase the responsibility of the workers in the job
- Supervision should be democratic
- Perception of satisfied worker can be change by furnishing the correct information.
JOB DESCRIPTION
A. DEFINITION OF JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Job description explains work things to do job individual or way to distribute task among workers.
- Job description help to prevent arguments between the workers and authority leader.
B. CONTENTS OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Job title: Such as Nurse, Midwife and Tutor
- Date of stating job:
- Job summary: Main responsibility
- Duties: Workers has to perform
- Relation: Job holders
- Qualification: Required job, or training.
Review and appraisal: Statement should state clearly that who has this responsibility.
ORGANISATION
A. DEFINITION OF ORGANISATION:
Organization is a process, in which leader arranges/ distributes the task work fairly among the people/ members so that all workers carry equal work load and can use their special skills and talents.
B. PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISATION:
- Definition
- Objectives
- Command
- Responsibility
- Authority
- Span of control
- Balance
C. ORGANISATIONAL CHART:
- President
- Prime Minister
- Governor
- Chief Minister
- Chief Secretary
- Secretary Health
- Director General
- Divisional Director
- Principal, Vice-Principal
- Nursing Tutor
- Nursing Student
SUPERVISION
A. DEFINITION OF SUPERVISION:
- Supervision is a process of ensuring that staff performs their duties effectively.
- Supervision is a process by which the performance of the workers is improved in order to achieve the goals by the objectives of programmed.
- DEFINITION OF SUPERVISOR:
A person who does the work of supervision.
- TYPES OF SUPERVISION:
- Autocratic Style
- Democratic Style
- Laissez fair (Anarchic) Style
- METHOD OF CONTROL ON SUPERVISION:
- Instructions
- Using work schedule
- Visits by supervisor
THINKING
A. DEFINITION OF THINKING:
- Stimulation of brain for anything is called Thinking.
- To use the mind in active way to form new connected ideas.
- MODES/ FORMS OF THINKING:
Deliberate thinking takes three basic forms:
- Analyzing: A Greek word “analus = resolution into simple parts”. Means tracing of things to their sources and the discovery of general principles underlying specific phenomenon.
- Synthesizing: A Greek word “sunthesis = result of building up separate elements”. Or putting together of parts so as to make up a complex whole. All synthesis process are creative.
- Valuing/ Evaluation: A French word “evaluar” means thinking about something in relation in values & standards. The perception & response of values is associated with a wide range of emotions and feelings which vary from individual to individual.
- TYPES OF THINKING:
J.P GUIL FORD suggested the types into following:
- Converging thinking: In this type, we select a single correct solution out of several alternatives.
- Diverging (Creativity) thinking: in this type, we generate as many different solutions as possible.
- LEVELS OF THINKING:
According to the Sigmund Freud, the mental activity of an individual categorized into three levels as:
- Conscious Level: Conscious mind is concerned with immediate present awareness. It is involved in deliberate thinking, problem solving and decision making
- Foreconcious level: Foreconcious level mind is the store house of the memory. It is possible to recall data facts and experience which can readily become conscious.
- Unconscious level: Below the level recall lies a store house experience through the desires & feelings which once conscious, but are completely forgotten now.
- CREATIVE THINKING:
- It is a way of creating new ideas.
- It leads to the nature in flexibility of choice & it gains in quality of decision.
- There are four aspects of creativity:
- Ideas or product created
- Process of creating
- Person of creator
- Environment of creative thinking
- STEPS OF CREATIVE THINKING:
There are five steps of creative thinking:
- Stimulus: Creative thinking does not occur in vacuum. It needs some stimulus to work on.
- Exploration: As diverge thinking, increasing quality of idea and allow adequate time.
- Planning: As defining information gathering information & making thinking visible.
- Activity: It is doing some thing with one’s ideas that counts in life.
Review: Some times it should be set a side for evaluator or review.
MOTIVATION
DEFINITION OF MOTIVATION:
- The word motivation (Latin; Motives=move), motivation is an inner impulse that induces a person to act in a certain way
- Motivation is a process which starts with a need that activates behavior or a drive that is aimed at an incentive.
- Need: Needs are created when physiological or psychological imbalance occurs.
- Drive: That setups to diminish or relieve needs
- Incentives: Anything that will alleviate a need or reduces the drive.
- Motivation is a process which starts with a need that activates behavior or a drive that is aimed at an incentive.
- MOTIVATOR:
A person who stimulate the people for inner impulses, which induce a person to act in a certain way
- TYPES OF MOTIVATION:
- Extrinsic Motives: Motive that is experienced from external like: to get position, or good marks.
- Intrinsic Motives: Motive that is fulfills through the inner needs of the person like, satisfaction, this is the best form of the motive.
- LEVELS OD MOTIVATION:
- level 1: to obtain the necessities for life such as: food, shelter, rest, safety and clothing.
- level 2: To safety, social needs such as: love, friendship, & respect.
- Level 3: To develop a nurse for personal satisfaction such as Talents and abilities.
- FACTORS OF MOTIVATION:
- Nature of the work
- Responsibility
- Achievement
- Recognisation factor
- Self improvement
- Advancement
- DEMITIVATING FACTORS:
- Inadequate salary
- Bad working condition
- In-effective administration
- In-competent supervision
- Poor inter-personal relationship
- Personal qualities of leader
- THEORIES OF THE MOTIVATION:
There are three theories, proposed during the 1950, they are:
- MASLOW NEEDS:
- Physiological needs as Hunger, Water, Air, Shelter
- Safety needs as Safety
- Social needs as love & affection
- Self esteem as High status in society
- Self actualization as Self respect
- X & Y THEORY:
Dougles Macgregor proposed two destruct of the nature of the human being such as: basically negative view as “X” & positive view as “Y” theory.
- MOTIVATION HYGIENIC THEORY:
Freed Rick Herzberg states that an individual relation to his/her work is a basic one and that his/her attitude to work cab be every well determined success or failure.
According to this theory the factors are leading to job satisfaction are separated and distinct that leads inter-personal relation working condition & salary have been characterized by Herzberg as Hygienic factor.
- MOTIVES:
A person is stimulus promoting a person to act in a particular way. Every action has a motive behind it. Motivation is consist of =Motive + Action
- EXAMPLES OF MOTIVES:
- Wish or Desire
- An idea
- A need e.g.,; Hunger, Sex
- Some interest
- An emotion
- A reward
- A goal
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION
A. DEFINITION TO COMMUNICATION:
- Communication is described as mode of verbal and non-verbal response.
- Communication is described as transmission and reception of messages.
- PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- To initiate action
- To learn
- To exchange ideas
- To win commitment
- To convey message
- To inquire something
- To enlarge understanding
- To help others
- To reduce tension
- To change attitudes
- To solve problem
- To update the facts
- ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- Sender
- Receiver
- Messenger
- Channel (Media)
- Feed back
- TYPES OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- DOWNWARD COMMUNICATION:
- Communication through superior to the sub-ordinates.
- UPWARD COMMUNICATION:
- Communication through sub-ordinates to the superior.
- HORIZONTAL COMMUNICATION:
- Communication between equal status personalities.
- LATERAL COMMUNICATION:
- Communication through third party.
- STEPS OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS:
- THINKING: Process begins with thought, ideas & feelings
- ENCODING: When ideas converted into the words, symbol by the sender
- TRANSMITTING: Message transmitted via the channel
- PERCEIVING: Receiving of the message through the five senses
- DECODING: Message is put into some understandable form by the receiver
- FEED BACK: Replying of the message either positive or negative.
- ACTION: Conclusion of the message if understandable positive result achieved, if not respectively negative result achieved.
- GENERAL TYPES OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- Direct verbal communication: face to face communication
- Indirect verbal communication: mass-media communication
- Non-verbal communication: facial expressions, gestures, general appearance
- Formal communication: official communication
- Informal communication: grape wine, rumors communication
- One-way communication: communication in auto-cratic style
- Two-way communication: communication between or among the people
- Writing communication: paper communication work
- Para-language communication: tone of voice firm, volume, speech rate
6. Abstract communication: communication which you can not feel but can observe as Painting, photo etc
- MEDIA USED FOR COMMUNICATION:
- Oral Media:
- Speeches
- Television
- Meetings
- Public system
- W ritten Media:
- Letters
- Manuals
- Newspaper
- Description of procedures
- Reports
- Magazines
- Posters
- FACTORS AFFECTING ON COMMUNICATION:
- Feed back
- Trust
- Expectations
- Values
- Status
- Compatibility
- Emotions
- Language
- Time pressure
- Non-verbal selection
- Over-load
- BARRIERS OF COMMUNICATION:
- Filtering
- Emotions
- Language
- Time pressure
- Non-verbal
- Selective
- Over load
- Short circuiting
- Distortion
- PATTERNS OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION:
- Chain pattern
- Y-pattern
- Wheel pattern
- Circle pattern
- Oval pattern
- All channels (Bazar/ Market)
- CHANNELS OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- Speech way communication
- Sound way communication
- Action way communication
- Taste way communication
- Smell way communication
- Touch way communication
- Silence way communication
- Mannerism way communication
- SKILLS OF THE COMMUNICATION:
- Telling skills
- Asking skills
- Listening skills
- Understanding skills
- Convincing skills
- Observing skills
- WAYS OF IMPROVING COMMUNICATION:
- Try to clarify the ideas
- Ensure that, there is true purpose of communication
- Positive tone of voice create interest
- Learn proper term of address
- Try to develop good relationship
- Get avoidance from the hate
- Be simple
- Be honest
- Try to share personal experience & belief
- Explain purpose of your organization & follow up your communication
- Elevate effectiveness of the message
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
A. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGER AND LEADER:
| No: | Manager | Leader |
| 1. | He/She is appointed by higher authority | He/She emerged from the group |
| 2. | He/She is head of formal group only | He/She is seen every where (formal\ informal) |
| 3. | He/She derives authority from the organized | He/She may not have authority |
| 4. | He/She may be functional without follower | He/She may not functional in the absence of follower |
| 5. | He/She is responsible to achieve goal | He/She simply gets other to follow the plan |
| 6. | He/She is organized | He/She is not organized |
| 7. | He/She does not generate new ideas | He/She generates new ideas |
| 8. | He/She pays great attention to detail | He/She degrades the detail |
| 9. | He/She focuses on structure and system | He/She focuses on the people |
| 10. | He/She relies on control | He/She responds trust on members |
| 11. | He/She has short range prospective | He/She has long range of view |
| 12. | He/She asks How & When? | He/She asks What & Why? |
| 13. | He/She is formal | He/She is informal |
| 14. | He/She accepts the existing stage & tries to wait it | He/She challenges existing stage & tries to develop it |
B. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP:
| No: | Management | Leadership |
| 1. | Management is formal (Official) | Leadership is informal (unofficial) |
| 2. | Management is designed position within organization | Leadership is an achieved position |
| 3. | Management is an assigned role | Leadership is an attained role |
| 4. | In Management, Manager receives the power from the organizer | In Leadership, Leader receives power from the followers. |
| 5. | In Management, People follow due to the job | In leadership, people follow on the voluntary basis |
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
A. DEFINITION TO MANAGEMENT:
- Management is defined as supervision of work and implementation of work.
- Management is defined as carrying out work in planned manner and at the planned time is called Management.
- Management is defined as supervision of an activity in all subjects.
- Management is explained as doing work in a better manner is known as management.
- management is explained as all possible resources, to ensure proper implementation work
- Management is defined as to organize and use the resources (people, money, and things) of an organization to achieve its goal.
- Management is an art of managing, handling, controlling with the directing.
- DEFINITION OF THE MANAGER:
Manager is a person who carries out the management.
- ELEMENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT:
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Selecting
- Directing
- Controlling
- Decision Making
- FUNCTION OF THE MANAGEMENT:
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Staffing function
- Organizing function
- Decision Making
- Managing
- MANAGEMENT NEEDS/ RESORCES:
- Man/ People resources (Reversible resource)
- Money resources (Reversible resource)
- Time resources (Irreversible resource)
- Equipment resources (Reversible resource)
- Drug resources (Reversible resource)
- Paper work resources (Reversible resource)
- Space resources (Reversible resource)
- PRINCIPLES OF THE MANAGEMENT:
- Objectives
- Learning from experience
- Division of labor
- Delegation
- Substitution of resources
- Convergence of work
- Functional determine structure
- Management by expectations
- Shortest decision path
- FACTORS EFFECTING ON MANAGEMENT:
- Institutional structure
- Institutional objectives
- Task factor
- Environmental factor
- Social structure
- People factor
- MANAGERIAL SKILLS:
- Technical skills:- such as: Policies, Controlling, Evaluating, Monitoring etc.
- Conceptual skills:- such as: his/her task related to objectives of organization.
- Human skills:- such as:- to work with & through people with motivation
- MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH TEAM:
A group of the people working together to give health care to the individuals and families in a community is called a health team.
- STEPS OF HEALTH TEAM:
- Understanding the community
- Understanding their problems
- Planning
- Implementation the plan