Description

I. Background

You are a female Hospital Case Manager at a large and growing primary care medical group in Central Florida. You love your job, have been in this position for two years and oversee case management for Medicare patients in the hospital. The group has approximately 20,000 patients under management at 14 medical centers. Your position is based at the corporate office in Orlando. As background, you:

– Coordinate and help manage patient hospitalizations

– Implement post discharge planning and case management

– Design and execute a program to intervene with patients to help avoid unnecessary admissions and read missions

– Work with primary care physicians and staff to ensure coordinated care

– Work with hospitalists and nurse practitioners to monitor patient hospital visits

You manage a competent staff and you like most of your colleagues. Your husband also has a good job with the same organization. You are both eager to get promoted and stay with the group for your entire career. You were the first woman hired in your management position and your colleagues all say they are happy to have a woman on staff, especially you being so qualified. They have welcomed you and seem genuinely pleased that you are part of the management team.

Some unsettling things have occurred over the past year:

A group of male managers exercise together several times a week and have lunch on other days. They never invite you to join them. You are starting to feel that decisions are being made informally at these get togethers that are pushed through at monthly management meetings with little or no input from you.

One of your senior managers often comments about the way you look, complimenting you when you wear a skirt instead of jeans. He doesn’t talk about anything professional with you.

Some women who work for you want your advice about how to handle male colleagues with one feeling that she is being sexually harassed. You want to help and do but this is taking up a great deal of your time. You try to discuss the issue with a senior manager who simply says, “Get use to the corporate world.”

You look at pay in the group and notice that male managers at your level are making $15,000/year more than you for the same job. This does not seem right to you.

II. Orginal Post

Questions:

Which behaviors are inappropriate or unfair?

What is the risk of addressing these behaviors?

What is the risk of not addressing these behaviors?

Who should you approach?

Are there ways you can protect yourself against possible unfairness in your position?

Instructions

Answer all questions and support your answers with your opinions and/or outside information.

Report should be 3 paragraphs or less. Use at least one credible source of your information.

Use correct APA Style – references page, etc.