Write a 3–4 page response to an employment questionnaire requiring a self-evaluation of your leadership, collaboration, and ethical experiences.
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Introduction
An understanding of one’s own approaches to leadership, motivation, collaboration, and ethical situations is important to the evolution of an effective leader. An introspective lens can help emerging leaders better understand and hone these important skills.
Preparation
Use the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire [DOCX] to complete this assessment.
Scenario
Imagine that over the past few months you have participated in several organizational projects and met many new people. The opportunities to collaborate and demonstrate your emerging skills as a leader prompted you to think about applying for a new position. After exploring online job postings, you prepared a resume and submitted the application to Western Medical Enterprises. A few days later you received the following email:
Dear applicant,
Thank you for your interest in employment at Western Medical Enterprises. We have received your application packet. The next step for all potential employees is to provide a narrative response to the questions in the attached document. Please return your completed document to me by replying to this email.
Once we receive your responses, we will review them and notify you of the next steps.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Thomas Hardy
Human Resources Recruiter
Western Medical Enterprises
Instructions
Respond to the scenario by completing the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire [DOCX]. Be sure to follow the prompts in the document and, when complete, submit it for this assignment.
You will use the following to complete Section 2 of the questionnaire:
· Assessment 4 Activity: Self-Assessment of Leadership, Collaboration, and Ethics.
Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be evaluated.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
· Assessment 5 Example [PDF].
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills, and practices used by effective healthcare leaders.
o Analyze one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one’s profession.
· Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.
o Analyze one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.
· Competency 3: Apply ethical codes and diversity best practices in healthcare organizations.
o Analyze actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma, using an ethical code.
· Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
o Convey clear meaning in active voice, with minimal issues in grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanical errors.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Analyze one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one’s profession.
Distinguished
Analyzes one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one’s profession against an accepted leadership model.
Proficient
Analyzes one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one’s profession.
Basic
Describes one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience, using personal core values of one’s profession.
Non Performance
Does not describe one’s own leadership qualities and actions relative to a specific experience or address personal core values of one’s profession.
Criterion 2
Analyze one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.
Distinguished
Analyzes one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders, comparing them to one or more proven techniques.
Proficient
Analyzes one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.
Basic
Describes one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.
Non Performance
Does not describe one’s own leadership and motivational techniques used to foster collaboration among stakeholders.
Criterion 3
Analyze actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma, using an ethical code.
Distinguished
Analyzes actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma in great detail that references specific elements of the code to help assess actions taken.
Proficient
Analyzes actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma, using an ethical code.
Basic
Analyzes actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma, but does not use an ethical code.
Non Performance
Does not analyze actions taken in response to an ethical dilemma.
Criterion 4
Convey clear meaning in active voice, with minimal issues in grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanical errors.
Distinguished
Produces complex and concise text that conveys clear meaning, with strong grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, and mechanical decisions. Enhances flow and meaning of text by using strong active voice throughout.
Proficient
Conveys clear meaning in active voice, with minimal issues in grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanical errors.
Basic
Interrupts meaning due to errors in sentence structure, grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanics. Additionally, presents several instances of passive voice.
Non Performance
Obstructs meaning due to errors in sentence structure.
