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Social Science Clinic => Business => Management => Topic started by: colton on Jul 7, 2018
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Reward power and coercive power are commonly used to influence others. The effective use of rewards for staff nurses is all of the following except:
a. increased salary for obtaining the next rung on the clinical ladder.
b. formal recognition before one's nursing peers at an awards ceremony.
c. one additional paid day off for each year you are with the organization.
d. increased workload for displaying excellence in patient care outcomes.
Question 2
Provide an example of each of the following: a) Push strategies b) Pull strategies c) Persuasion strategies d) Preventive strategies e) Preparatory strategies
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3
A nursing instructor has just completed teaching the nursing students about the six areas of health needed for a holistic approach to good healthy living. On the quiz the instructor asked the students to identify the six areas.
Which answer by students would indicate to the instructor that additional teaching is needed? a. physical c. professional
b. interrelationships d. emotional
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Answer to Question 1
D
Meaningful rewards exist beyond monetary ones; for example, formal and personal recognition of
loyalty and commitment to the organization with more paid time off. Increased workload is not seen as
a reward in most instances.
Answer to Question 2
Correct answers should include:
a) Push strategiesthreaten or force others to change behaviour through assertiveness, sanctions, or blocking through non-cooperation
b) Pull strategiespositive motivation to influence behaviour through recognition, benefits, or the satisfaction of needs and goals
c) Persuasion strategiesappeal to logical reasoning or convincing others about behaviour in relation to goals
d) Preventive strategiesdesigned to prevent an issue from arising and may involve focusing attention elsewhere, avoiding a topic, or leaving it off an agenda
e) Preparatory strategiesaimed at preparing the ground or creating the conditions favourable to other strategies and range from the way in which someone dresses to create an impression, to ordering the agenda in a favourable way, to simply pouring on the charm
Answer to Question 3
B
The six overlapping areas of health that have been noted to be interrelated and necessary for a holistic
approach to good healthy living are physical, social (not interrelationships, but they do fall under this
category), professional, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.