NURS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Systems Theory, Interpersonal Relationship

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS 200
• Professor: Keith King

Document Summary

Professional change includes examples such as changing jobs. Organizational change often causes the most stress or concern affects the organization"s culture, structure, technology, physical setting and human resources. Lewin"s force field model of change: unfreezing, movement refreezing. Emphasizes participation in designing and planning: diagnosis of the problem, assessment of the capacity to change, assess motivation and resources, select progressive change objective, choose appropriate role of change agent, maintain change. Emphasizes planning to help overcome the resistance to change: build a relationship, diagnose problem, acquire resources, choose solution, gain acceptance, stabilization and self-renewal. Also allows for the rejection of initial change and later change adoption. Theory also works in reverse, believes change is a reversible process: awareness. Power-coercive: applies power through legitimate authority, economic sanctions and political clout. Uses the individual"s need to socialize in the workplace to gain satisfaction. Gain power by skill in an interpersonal relationship. Assumes humans are rational beings and use knowledge to embrace change.