Becoming a Multi-Department Manager

Becoming a Multi-Department Manager

To Earn Full Credit: You must have three posts in this discussion: (1) Your Initial Answer post (your answer to the discussion question) must be posted by midnight Mountain Time (MT) of Wednesday. Your Initial Answer post must be 200+ words. (2-3) Your two Reply posts (your reply to any of my posts, fellow student posts, or combo) must be posted by midnight MT of Saturday. Feel free to have your Reply posts before your Initial Answer post. Your Reply posts must be 50+ words each. Just three posts are needed. Please share personal examples whenever possible, and please post as early in the week as possible, so our discussion can go as far as possible. Becoming a Multi-Department Manager You are the Director of Respiratory Therapy. You’re employed by a 200-bed community hospital, an institution sufficiently small that you represent the only level of management within your department. You have been in your position for about four years now. Following some stressful early months, you are beginning to feel that you have your job under control most of the time. A possibility talked about and argued about for years…..the merger of your hospital with a similar institution about 20 miles away……has become reality. One of the initial major changes undertaken by the new corporate entity was realignment of the management structure. In addition to placing the new corporate entity under a single CEO and CFO, the realignment included bringing each clinical function under a single manager. Because of your BSRC degree, and your leadership abilities, you are chosen to manage both departments. Yes, there is a significant raise attached to the additional responsibilities. Effective next Monday you will be running a combined department in two locations, consisting of more than twice the number of employees you have been accustomed to supervising. Instructions: Generate a list of the ways in which you believe your responsibilities and the tasks you perform are likely to change because of the merger and your resulting new larger role. Hint: It may be helpful to make lists of what you imagine to be the circumstances before and after your appointment. For example, two obvious points of comparison involve number of employees (which implies many necessary tasks) and travel inherent in the job. After individual lists have been generated and posted, compare these lists to see what you can learn. What initial concerns come to mind as you begin your new expanded management role? What will be some of your top priorities during the first 90 days in the new position? And what are some practical strategies which you will want to explore, and perhaps implement, as you begin to manage the two departments? Please share personal observations and lessons learned where possible.

You must have three posts in this discussion: (1) Your Initial Answer post (your answer to the discussion question) must be posted by midnight Mountain Time (MT) of Wednesday. Your Initial Answer post must be 200+ words. (2-3) Your two Reply posts (your reply to any of my posts, fellow student posts, or combo) must be posted by midnight MT of Saturday. Feel free to have your Reply posts before your Initial Answer post. Your Reply posts must be 50+ words each. Just three posts are needed. Please share personal examples whenever possible, and please post as early in the week as possible, so our discussion can go as far as possible. Becoming a Multi-Department Manager You are the Director of Respiratory Therapy. You’re employed by a 200-bed community hospital, an institution sufficiently small that you represent the only level of management within your department. You have been in your position for about four years now. Following some stressful early months, you are beginning to feel that you have your job under control most of the time. A possibility talked about and argued about for years…..the merger of your hospital with a similar institution about 20 miles away……has become reality. One of the initial major changes undertaken by the new corporate entity was realignment of the management structure. In addition to placing the new corporate entity under a single CEO and CFO, the realignment included bringing each clinical function under a single manager. Because of your BSRC degree, and your leadership abilities, you are chosen to manage both departments. Yes, there is a significant raise attached to the additional responsibilities. Effective next Monday you will be running a combined department in two locations, consisting of more than twice the number of employees you have been accustomed to supervising. Instructions: Generate a list of the ways in which you believe your responsibilities and the tasks you perform are likely to change because of the merger and your resulting new larger role. Hint: It may be helpful to make lists of what you imagine to be the circumstances before and after your appointment. For example, two obvious points of comparison involve number of employees (which implies many necessary tasks) and travel inherent in the job. After individual lists have been generated and posted, compare these lists to see what you can learn. What initial concerns come to mind as you begin your new expanded management role? What will be some of your top priorities during the first 90 days in the new position? And what are some practical strategies which you will want to explore, and perhaps implement, as you begin to manage the two departments? Please share personal observations and lessons learned where possible.

Your Initial Answer post must be 200+ words. (2-3) Your two Reply posts (your reply to any of my posts, fellow student posts, or combo) must be posted by midnight MT of Saturday. Feel free to have your Reply posts before your Initial Answer post. Your Reply posts must be 50+ words each. Just three posts are needed. Please share personal examples whenever possible, and please post as early in the week as possible, so our discussion can go as far as possible. Becoming a Multi-Department Manager You are the Director of Respiratory Therapy. You’re employed by a 200-bed community hospital, an institution sufficiently small that you represent the only level of management within your department. You have been in your position for about four years now. Following some stressful early months, you are beginning to feel that you have your job under control most of the time. A possibility talked about and argued about for years…..the merger of your hospital with a similar institution about 20 miles away……has become reality. One of the initial major changes undertaken by the new corporate entity was realignment of the management structure. In addition to placing the new corporate entity under a single CEO and CFO, the realignment included bringing each clinical function under a single manager. Because of your BSRC degree, and your leadership abilities, you are chosen to manage both departments. Yes, there is a significant raise attached to the additional responsibilities. Effective next Monday you will be running a combined department in two locations, consisting of more than twice the number of employees you have been accustomed to supervising. Instructions: Generate a list of the ways in which you believe your responsibilities and the tasks you perform are likely to change because of the merger and your resulting new larger role. Hint: It may be helpful to make lists of what you imagine to be the circumstances before and after your appointment. For example, two obvious points of comparison involve number of employees (which implies many necessary tasks) and travel inherent in the job. After individual lists have been generated and posted, compare these lists to see what you can learn. What initial concerns come to mind as you begin your new expanded management role? What will be some of your top priorities during the first 90 days in the new position? And what are some practical strategies which you will want to explore, and perhaps implement, as you begin to manage the two departments? Please share personal observations and lessons learned where possible.

A possibility talked about and argued about for years…..the merger of your hospital with a similar institution about 20 miles away……has become reality. One of the initial major changes undertaken by the new corporate entity was realignment of the management structure. In addition to placing the new corporate entity under a single CEO and CFO, the realignment included bringing each clinical function under a single manager. Because of your BSRC degree, and your leadership abilities, you are chosen to manage both departments. Yes, there is a significant raise attached to the additional responsibilities. Effective next Monday you will be running a combined department in two locations, consisting of more than twice the number of employees you have been accustomed to supervising. Instructions: Generate a list of the ways in which you believe your responsibilities and the tasks you perform are likely to change because of the merger and your resulting new larger role. Hint: It may be helpful to make lists of what you imagine to be the circumstances before and after your appointment. For example, two obvious points of comparison involve number of employees (which implies many necessary tasks) and travel inherent in the job. After individual lists have been generated and posted, compare these lists to see what you can learn. What initial concerns come to mind as you begin your new expanded management role? What will be some of your top priorities during the first 90 days in the new position? And what are some practical strategies which you will want to explore, and perhaps implement, as you begin to manage the two departments? Please share personal observations and lessons learned where possible.

Your Initial Answer post (your answer to the discussion question) must be posted by midnight Mountain Time (MT) of Wednesday. Your Initial Answer post must be 200+ words. (2-3) Your two Reply posts (your reply to any of my posts, fellow student posts, or combo) must be posted by midnight MT of Saturday. Feel free to have your Reply posts before your Initial Answer post. Your Reply posts must be 50+ words each. Just three posts are needed. Please share personal examples whenever possible, and please post as early in the week as possible, so our discussion can go as far as possible. Becoming a Multi-Department Manager You are the Director of Respiratory Therapy. You’re employed by a 200-bed community hospital, an institution sufficiently small that you represent the only level of management within your department. You have been in your position for about four years now. Following some stressful early months, you are beginning to feel that you have your job under control most of the time. A possibility talked about and argued about for years…..the merger of your hospital with a similar institution about 20 miles away……has become reality. One of the initial major changes undertaken by the new corporate entity was realignment of the management structure. In addition to placing the new corporate entity under a single CEO and CFO, the realignment included bringing each clinical function under a single manager. Because of your BSRC degree, and your leadership abilities, you are chosen to manage both departments. Yes, there is a significant raise attached to the additional responsibilities. Effective next Monday you will be running a combined department in two locations, consisting of more than twice the number of employees you have been accustomed to supervising. Instructions: Generate a list of the ways in which you believe your responsibilities and the tasks you perform are likely to change because of the merger and your resulting new larger role. Hint: It may be helpful to make lists of what you imagine to be the circumstances before and after your appointment. For example, two obvious points of comparison involve number of employees (which implies many necessary tasks) and travel inherent in the job. After individual lists have been generated and posted, compare these lists to see what you can learn. What initial concerns come to mind as you begin your new expanded management role? What will be some of your top priorities during the first 90 days in the new position? And what are some practical strategies which you will want to explore, and perhaps implement, as you begin to manage the two departments? Please share personal observations and lessons learned where possible.

By admin in Essays on March 9, 2016