NR 534 Week 6 Assignment; Part II Reduction in Workforce-Deciding - Part A Leadership Restructuring

What challenges were presented in making these choices? Not knowing unit needs or personal performance with direct reports and peers. Section B: Table 2: Human Resource Manager Work Metrics with Related Information The word is out that the RIF is going to occur though no details of the process have been shared with the employees. You’re getting calls frequently from some of the staff who want to know if they are in danger of being dismissed or sharing reasons why they can’t be. Since making your preliminary decision of who to let go, and before you’ve made any announcements, you record the information you received from some of the staff and placed it in your table. Now the table includes the size of the units where each of these positions is located which will be important in the reorganization, and some of the personal information gleaned from telephone calls you’ve received. Having these pieces of information causes you to question your original decisions. The shaded area contains the information now known to you and is not part of the table that came from HR. With the new information that is now in the table, how are your preliminary decisions changed? For the HS position I stand firm in my choice. Confirmation with low performance and disengagement due to personal family issues solidified my decision. My decisions will change based on feedback from HR. Who will you choose? My final choice for RIF is HS3, UM2, UM4, UM5, UM6, CN3-7. Rationale? What changes did you make to your original decision? UM.3 is protected, as her position is protected under FMLA and her recent medical history explains her possible low performance due to high-risk pregnancy. I will swap her elimination with UM.5, as she has only been in her position for 9 months. My original decision removing CN1 was changed due to her having certification in AONE, I switched her RIF to CN3 as she only has three years with the organization and CN1 has 5 years and certification. What was your approach to making the selection? My approach to making these decisions, were based on performance evaluation, retrieved information and certification, then years of service to the organization. How easy or difficult was it to make your decisions with the additional information? Based on the information given the choice was very difficult, I had to retain a nurse that was protected by FMLA when there was another nurse that had more potential with commitment to the organization. What challenges were presented in making these choices? The only challenges I am presented with was that a specific number of leadership personnel had to be cut and I feel that a few of them remain assets to the organization. The rest of the decisions were obvious to make based on the facts presented. What role did ethics play in your choices? Ethics for my choices involved not taking personal relationships of family members or friends in consideration for keeping a person in the