Strategic Initiatives for Dealing with Employee Shortage and Organizational Culture in NHS

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Executive summary
In this study, it has been identified that employee shortage and improper organizational culture
have become the major concern for NHS. In order to deal with the situation, different strategic
initiatives have been adopted by the company. However, due to some internal challenges such as
lack of mentoring, lack of financial backup, improper organizational culture, lack of employee
engagement and others issues, NHS can face challenges to implement the strategic initiatives. In
that case, transformational leadership strategy, Herzberg’s Two factor theory of motivation and
personality development framework have been suggested to be avoiding such issues in NHS.

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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Area 1: Leadership and management..........................................................................................3
Area 2: Training and development..............................................................................................5
Area 3: Talent management.........................................................................................................6
Conclusion and recommendations...................................................................................................8
Reference list and bibliography.......................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The term strategic initiative indicates the process for achieving the core benefits for
sustaining in the competitive business environment (Walter, Lechner and Kellermanns 2016). In
order to contribute in bringing the success in an organization, through the strategic initiatives,
engagement of people needs to be highly appreciated. Managing people in the workplace, can
help to improve the organizational culture as well as business growth. On the other hand,
strategic initiatives are also important for bringing effective leadership practices in the
workplace. Depending on such practices, the performance efficiency can be introduced in the
workplace. The purpose of this study is to highlight the current situation in UK’s National
Health Service. In the study, it has been identified that NHS is recently dealing with several
strategic challenges. Due to improper organizational culture and wages structure, dissatisfaction
among the employees has been increased. As a result, increasing employee turnover rate has
influenced. Analyzing the current situation in NHS, it has been identified that due to shortage of
staffs, increasing workload and improper management initiatives, it has become challenging for
NHS to achieve its goals. In the given case study, it has been analyzed that due to discrepancies
between the responsibilities and wages, the challenging situation for the company has been
increased.
Discussion
Area 1: Leadership and management
Leadership is being considered as an important function in management that helps to
maximize the organizational efficiency (Tepper et al. 2018). Analyzing the current situation in
the NHS, it has been identified that traditional ‘heroic’ leadership style is being practiced in the
organization. However, dealing with the emerging issues, it has become necessary for bringing