The STEP Way for Nursing Leadership and Management: An Innovative Evidence-Based Knowledge Development Approach for the 21st Century

Jumaa, Mansour Olawale

Friday, July 15, 2011: 8:50 AM

Mansour Olawale Jumaa, DProf, RN, CMgr, FWACN, FCMI, MBA, MSc, (Econ), (LSE)
Centre for Knowledge at Work UK, Burgess Hill, United Kingdom

Learning Objective 1: Understand the role of work based learning in practice-based knowledge development in nursing

Learning Objective 2: Know what the STEP Way represents for nurses managing change and leading people

The aim of this paper is to argue that work based learning has the potential to provide the nursing profession with a unique opportunity to develop a new kind of evidence based knowledge partnerships with patients and key stakeholders in the health care industry.

The paper draws upon the extensive applications of the CLINLAP Work based learning Model (Jumaa 2005) by nurses in the UK (Alleyne and Jumaa 2007, Phillips 2005) and in Africa (Jumaa and Rendell 2007). The Model was developed through an Action Science work-based research at Middlesex University, England (Jumaa 1997) and validated by two professional work based learning doctorates (Alleyne, 2002 and Jumaa 2001).

This is a timely development as the White Paper for the NHS in England, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, (DH 2010), demands this type of purposeful intellectual partnership proposed by the STEP Way. The STEP Way is a synthesis of and an integration of the contents of the CLINLAP/LEADLAP Model, the Chartered Manager process (www.managers.org.uk) and the STTI’s Board Leadership Development programme (http://www.nursingsociety.org/LeadershipInstitute/Omada/Pages/omada_main.aspx). The STEP Way is the S.T.E.P. Management and Leadership Development Process -Stakeholder focus; Technology based; Experiential learning and Personal development

The STEP Way can predict success and explain failure at work. Two case studies will be presented to demonstrate successful application of the STEP Way. At the core of a successful implementation of the STEP Way is the use of power at work and the significant role of resources and capabilities to manage change and the influence of the cultural paradigm from the cultural web: power structures within and outside organisations; organisation structures; control systems; rituals and routines; stories and symbols to lead people (Johnson, Scholes and Whittington 2005). New ideas for research and development are expected to emerge from the discussions.

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