Assignment: Leadership Responsibility

Length: 3-5 pages

In a paper of 3-5 pages, develop a mentorship and succession plan for a health care organization.

• Discuss the importance of a mentorship and a succession plan for a health organization.

• Discuss the barriers in establishing a mentoring program in health organizations regarding gender, ethnicity, age, and race, and include methods to reduce those barriers.

• Develop a mentorship program that includes the following steps:

o Defining clear strategic goals
o Careful selection of mentors
o Confidentiality
o Training of mentors
o Politically correct mentors
o Committed to the long-term role of being a mentor

• Develop a succession plan for a health care organization to include a mentorship program, starting years before leaders are needed, and developing leaders for all levels of the organization.

• Relate your plan to a behavioral leadership, a trait leadership, or a contingency leadership model.

• Locate a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed articles that support your paper.