Administrators are not our Parents

50 minutes ago, Davey Do said:

 we can suffer from cognitive dissonance if our supervisors act in ways foreign to our expectations.

When administrators at Wrongway Regional Medical Center did not follow protocol as stated, for example , in P&P or the Code of Ethics, a common belief was:

"Administration can do whatever it wants wherever it wants at anytime".

1 hour ago, Davey Do said:

If our parents and teachers pretty much fulfilled their responsibilities, we can suffer from cognitive dissonance if our supervisors act in ways foreign to our expectations.

Knowledge is power and if knowledge is taken away from us we can feel powerless. 

One supervisory method is for those in power to institute protocols or sanction actions without declared rationale. This can cause us to feel upsettedness without a point of reference, allowing those in charge to have the upper hand.

12 minutes ago, morelostthanfound said:

It's all about the money. 

Bottom line agreement, MLTF.

However, adhering to certain standards, such as not putting personalities before principles, quality administrators can manipulate their media and meet goals without compromising their integrity.

6 minutes ago, morelostthanfound said:

They (administrators) adhere to certain expected and professional standards up to the point that it impacts the bottom line, $$$

Specific, empirically gained, objective factual evidence to support your premise, MLTF?

14 hours ago, Davey Do said:

Specific, empirically gained, objective factual evidence to support your premise, MLTF?

11 hours ago, JBMmom said:

VERY difficult to find since no one's going to publish any study

Empirical: based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

The request wasn't for factual information that was the result of an objective study- the request was for first hand examples of the aforementioned premise.

16 hours ago, morelostthanfound said:

 the bottom line, $$$

A manipulator can be defined as one who manipulates their media in order to achieve a desired goal.

Although the term manipulator connotes negativity, In a sense, we are all manipulators. Everyday, we manipulate something or someone in order to meet our wants and needs.

22 hours ago, Davey Do said:

adhering to certain standards... quality administrators can manipulate their media and meet goals without compromising their integrity.

In the early days of St. E's Hospital being bought out by a conglomerate to become Wrongway Regional Medical Center, there were many meetings with the CEO and other administrators.

St. E's was a so called non-profit business, good to a fault, that was losing money and the general employee consensus was that the conglomerate was an evil, money hungry for-profit giant ogre.

But one administrator said something along the lines of, "Every business is a for-profit business. Employees need to be paid, equipment must be bought and maintained, from those profits".

I could get behind that; that made sense to me. This administrator had just manipulated my way of thinking toward the positive. And, in the ensuing years, a lot of resources were put back into Wrongway in order to improve the facility and its services. Easily, MILLIONS of dollars were invested for improvements. For the first time in years, employees were given raises!

The actions matched the words and all was right in Mudville! The administrators were like my parents! When my parents said something would happen, it happened!

But, then, everything changed...