Week 7 Module 4
WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT
How healthy is your workplace?
You may think your current organization operates seamlessly, or you may feel it has many issues. You may experience or even observe things that give you pause. Yet, much as you wouldn’t try to determine the health of a patient through mere observation, you should not attempt to gauge the health of your work environment based on observation and opinion. Often, there are issues you perceive as problems that others do not; similarly, issues may run much deeper than leadership recognizes.
There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively? In this Discussion, you will examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
To Prepare:
· Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark (2015).
· Review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.
BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 7
Post a brief description of the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Based on the results, how civil is your workplace? Explain why your workplace is or is not civil. Then, describe a situation where you have experienced incivility in the workplace. How was this addressed? Be specific and provide examples.
BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 7
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by sharing ideas for how shortcomings discovered in their evaluations and/or their examples of incivility could have been managed more effectively.
Your Discussion is on the Workplace Environment Assessment:
· You will Review the Resources and examine Clark’s Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory. (2015).
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. Then review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.
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Do not place the Work Environment Assessment Template in your main posting, and do not attach it to the discussion board.
By day 3, Wednesday, post your main posting:
· Be sure to post a brief description of the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Based on the results, how civil is your workplace? Explain why your workplace is or is not civil. Describe a situation where you have experienced incivility in the workplace. How was this addressed? Be specific and provide examples.
By day 6, Saturday, respond to two peer replies and have three different days.
· This is a reminder that this is your last discussion board inquiry in this course.
