Strategy thinking

HCM 415 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

In order to successfully respond to circumstances in your healthcare organization, you must first be able to appraise your organization, its mission, its vision, and its values. To provide you with experience doing this, you will assess the situation as described in your selected case study. You will read your case study carefully and develop a short paper that provides a summary of the case study. In the summary, be sure to address the following:

A. Provide a brief summary of the circumstances and the problem(s) faced by the healthcare organization. Highlight details you believe to be of particular relevance.

B. Provide an interpretation of the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Consider how the industry, the organization, and/or the stakeholders define key terms within the organizations mission, vision, and values and how the definitions clarify the meaning.

C. Discuss how the organization’s interpretation of its mission, vision, and values impacts the circumstance it faces. Consider how the mission and vision relate to the situation outlined in the case study.

Guidelines for Submission: This short paper should be between 1 and 3 pages, not including cover page and references. This paper should be in APA format.

Critical Element Exemplary (100%) Proficient(90%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Summary Meets “Proficient” criteria, and summary is exceptionally clear and concise

Briefly summarizes the circumstances and problems faced by the healthcare organization by highlighting details of particular relevance

Briefly summarizes the circumstances and problems faced by the healthcare organization, but does not provide details that are relevant, or the summary is too wordy

Does not summarize the circumstances and problems faced by the healthcare organization

35

Interpretation of Mission, Vision, and

Values

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and connections between key terms and meaning are particularly clear

Provides an interpretation of the organization’s mission, vision, and values by defining key terms used and clarifying the meaning

Provides an interpretation of the organization’s mission, vision, and values by defining key terms, but the meaning is not clear or is illogical or definitions of key terms are incorrect

Does not provide an interpretation of the organization’s mission, vision, or values by defining key terms

30

Impact of Mission, Vision, and Values

Meets “Proficient” criteria and clearly relates the mission, vision, and values to the situation outlined in the case study

Discusses how the organization’s interpretation of its mission, vision, and values impacts the circumstance it faces

Discusses how the organization’s interpretation of its mission, vision, and values impacts the circumstance it faces, but connection between mission, vision, and values and the situation faced by the healthcare organization is unclear or illogical or lacks detail

Does not discuss how the organization’s interpretation of its mission, vision, and values impacts the circumstance it faces

30

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

5

Total 100%