DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT –HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
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DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT –HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Twanisha Yvette Neal
MGMT878 – 2202C- 01 – Advanced Career Strategies for the Scholar-Practitioner
Unit: Historical Landscape of Your Concentration and Field
Unit 3 Individual Project
Instructor: Roland Livingston
Due Date: Sunday, March 20, 2022
Skilled leadership continues to be in high demand, especially in the health care field of management and leadership. Leadership in health care is a necessity that determines the success of an organization (Barr & Dowding, 2016). In health care management and leadership, several aspects remain relevant and valuable in the field, such as leadership styles and theories and the role of leaders in attaining their aims.
Leadership styles and theories
Several aspects of healthcare leadership have remained relevant such as the leadership styles. Leadership involves individuals influencing groups towards activities intended to achieve specific goals. Theories developed have increasingly become relevant in the dynamic field of health care, especially when coping with change. Situational and contingency theories are examples that consider the needs of the employees or the workers in an organization are critical in the health care provision. There are also interactional leadership theories relevant from 1970 till the present and focus on leaders’ interactive relationships with the people they lead and the surrounding (Al-Sawai, 2013). In addition, an emerging theory associated with supportive leadership implies that the supportiveness of leaders and their relationship with employees ensures more satisfaction at work, especially at a personal level.
Health care systems need leadership styles that capitalize on the diversity to encourage the department’s specialties to work towards a common goal. Health care professionals’ leadership styles include transformational leadership, which emphasizes that people need a sense of mission increase in motivation (Barr & Dowding, 2016). The managers should have a division that they collectively aim to achieve and can empower others towards the same goal through their ability to influence attitudes. There is also the collaborative leadership that evolves corporative process where individuals are focused on working together for mutual benefit (Al-Sawai, 2013). So, the leadership styles such as transformational leadership remain relevant, and the theories continue to guide the field toward achieving the best in management and leadership.
Roles of leaders in the organization
The nature of health care organizations demands competent leadership and management of the employees. The complex environment of a health care organization needs leaders with skills that help them perform their roles and responsibilities. The responsibilities of managers include planning and organizing duties, controlling operations, directing employees, and facilitating effective decision making in the facilities (Alčauskienė, Vitkienė & Grigaliūnienė, 2019). A manager should have several critical competencies: interpersonal skills, technical ability to perform tasks, and conceptual skills. Conceptual skills involve solving and analyzing problems critically to apply the appropriate strategy to increase productivity and solve the problems. Interpersonal skills help in communication in the organization towards goal achieving. The leaders and managers are responsible for ensuring high performance through meaningful, time-oriented, and measurable objectives that reflect operational and strategic focus or directions in the organization (Buchbinder & Thompson, 2010). Thus, the roles of the leaders include strategizing towards a common goal, and the skills needed are conceptual, interpersonal, and technical skills.
Leadership and management in health care have continued to remain relevant and impactful through various aspects such as Leadership styles and theories, and the role of leaders have for the success of an organization in achieving its goals. The ideas in the matter include interactional leadership theories that remain as they focus on the relationship the leaders share with their surroundings and the subordinates. Relevant Leadership styles include supportive ones, which give the leaders to focus on developing in their own personal and professional levels. Health care management and leadership have a significant role in developing strategies necessary to attain the goals and maximum productivity and develop skills required for sustainability in the field.
References
Al-Sawai, A. (2013). Leadership of healthcare professionals: Where do we stand? Oman Medical Journal, 28(4), 285-287. doi: 10.5001/omj.2013.79
Alčauskienė, A., Vitkienė, A., & Grigaliūnienė, V. (2019). Significance of head nurses – Nursing administrators’ leadership styles in health care. Health Sciences, 29(6), 179-182. doi: 10.35988/sm-hs.2019.123
Barr, J., & Dowding, L. (2016). Leadership in health care. London: Sage Publications.
Buchbinder, S., & Thompson, J. (2010). Career opportunities in health care management. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.