The Emerging

Interprofessional Leader
The Workplace Health Strategy

By: Kiranjeet Gill

BHSW 3002 - Workplace Health Strategy
- The company (TechData) suffered huge losses due to a musculoskeletal disorder known as lower back pains

(LBP)

- One of the leading causes for Tech Data revenue loss concerning LBP is low productivity, high cost of

disability, and benefits for employees, including medical expenses, sick leave, and worker’s compensation

- Another cause for TechData’s loss of revenue is the mental health conditions suffered by employees

- Payroll is another cause for TechData’s loss of revenue. This is because absenteeism and presenteeism cost

the company a fortune.

Interprofessional Collaboration
 - Creating meaningful relationships in the
workplace
- IPC also promoted employee success through
education, training, and improvement of
working conditions
a) The role IPC played in the process of
- The key team members involved during this
developing business case report healthy strategy initiative included all
managers and employees of TechData

B. How IPC was instituted /
implemented, exhibited, altered,
maintained, enhanced, supported.
- Through Qualitative and Quantitative
method
- The employee survey was conducted
quarterly for all employees
- Performance based interviews were done
- Created Questionnaire
- Performed awareness and prevention
surveys based on the feedback of
department leaders
Competency Framework

- The two most relevant competency domains in TechData survey are

interprofessional communication and interprofessional conflict
resolution.

- In interprofessional communication, employees and department

managers share their input on pertinent issues plaguing their
respective departments, such as low productivity and high
operational costs

- Interprofessional conflict resolution is where employees and

department managers brainstorm ways of dealing with pertinent
issues
Interprofessional Education
(IPE)
 - IPE is where members from different professions
a. Role of IPE collaborate to promote social care, health, and seek
to learn from each other.

- It allows to share knowledge, hace understanding,

shared values and respect for other professionals

- When students learn IPE before entering into their

professional careers, they develop values of working
in interprofessional teams

- It results in a collaborative approach based on

teamwork to promote quality healthcare and patient
outcomes
 - I worked with students and teachers from different

faculties to sensitize the public

- For example, some people dealt with designing

and printing the pamphlets for COVID-awareness

campaigns

- Some were involved in planning the online

B. how you have been involved with
training events, and others were involved in
your local post-secondary academic distributing masks, free water tanks, and

institution(s) in an IPE capacity sanitizers.

Leadership
Organization and Self
 - Democratic Leadership
- This is where a team of people work
together with a leader to implement

Style of leadership critical decisions

dominant during health - It involves multiple opinions,

strategy Initiative creativity, forums that encourage
feedback, and a change in routine
 - Two leadership principle are responsibility and
working as a team
- These principles leads to effective
leadership
- Two leadership domains are relational and

Two Leadership inspirational domain

- Rational domain: the team leaders
Principle and expressed their concern for the team’s best

Domains -
interests
Inspirational domain: the team leaders
encourage their team to improve workplace
safety, productivity and lower operational
costs
 Leadership
Organization
One can measure the impact of the organization's
leadership towards employee change in terms of
productivity, operational costs, and absenteeism. The
organization relied on employee feedback and followed
up on their concerns to promote employee behaviour
change. Employees became more productive because of
the education and training sessions. The workforce was
also motivated by improved work conditions, which led
to low absenteeism rates due to sick leaves.
Self
In experiential learning, employee change is
achieved through role-plays and case studies
(Grimard, 2019). For example, I encouraged
employees to practice new behaviours, like
adjusting their seating posture to avoid lower
back problems, in new settings. This is how their
team leaders are able to identify challenges and
provide feedback.
 - One of the potential challenges that may have

affected the health strategy initiative is stereotyping

- This is involves discrimination based on an

Interprofessional employee’s status, example is gender stereotyping

- I as part of the interprofessional leadership team

Collaborative resolved this issue by insisting that all people would

Challenges be allowed equal opportunities to express their

concerns

- I also emphasized that we would treat all employees

equally irrespective of their differences.

Thank You
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