Leadership week 9 response 2 = Leadership Styles
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Please respond to Precious post in one of the following ways Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings
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Leadership Styles
Leadership style can be viewed as a way or manner in which leaders lead and conduct their business. Leaders are not judged by their traits but by what they do and what leadership style they use. Though some theorists may argue that leaders are born not made. Perhaps, leaders are both born and made (Marquis, & Huston, 2017). It is important for a nurse leader to assess and evaluate his or her leadership style to see if it is meeting the goals of the organization and working well with others. Great leaders can change their leadership style to accommodate the needs of the organization depending on the circumstances at hand. Leadership role calls for nurse-leaders to develop skills and competences that are geared towards successful leaders and become partners with other healthcare professionals in meeting patients’ needs. According to Marquis and Huston (2017), Leadership skills can and should be integrated as they are learned.
Having worked with many leaders in the healthcare organization, I came to realize that leadership is not as easy task. Leading involves making sacrifices that would benefit others. The leaders I have worked with exhibited democratic authoritative, and laissez-faire leadership styles. I remember when I asked for one week of absence to enable me take extra week to travel out of country for family related reasons, my manager then refused to allow me the time to take an extra week off and asked me to trade with another staff to cover for my absence. I wasn’t pleased with the decision but cannot change it. This nurse- leader wants whatever she says to be final, and has a hard time changing her decision. Such leadership style is autocratic in nature. There are float nurses who could cover the shift but the manager wants to exercise her authority. Another leader I had with another organization is easy going and allow staff to make their schedule and indicate if they have any specific day they wanted off and wouldn’t want any changes made. The manager would let you know ahead of time that if two people are asking for same day off, that it can only be possible if the unit is covered. She tries to work with everyone and utilizes both democratic and authoritative leadership styles. Democratic leadership style draws on people’s knowledge and skills and creates a group commitment to the resulting goals. It works best when the direction the organization should take is unclear, and the leader needs to tap the collective wisdom of the group (Wall Street Journal Staff, n. d.). Another nurse manager used the Laissez-faire leadership style. He allows employees to make their schedule and cared less about whether many staff members took off at the same time. He was ready to use agency employees to staff his unit if short staffed. Unfortunately, he didn’t last in the position and was made to resign.
Leadership styles according to Wall Street Journal Staff (n. d.), are not something to be tried on like so many suits, to see which fits. rather, they should be adapted to the particular demands of the situation, the particular requirements of the people involved and the particular challenges facing the organization. Graham and Melnyk (2014), noted that there is a tremendous need to grow nursing and other healthcare leaders who have the knowledge, skills, and dedication to improve the quality of healthcare through innovation, enhance patient outcomes, and develop other leaders who are competent and quick to address the most pressing issues of healthcare and health today. As the needs in the healthcare sector are growing, nurse leaders should also adopt leadership styles that would enhance patients’ outcomes. Nurses as future leaders must be vision oriented, innovative and very passionate to pursue and accomplish their missions in today’s dynamic healthcare environment. I plan to use a combination of democratic and authoritative leadership style.
It is important for leaders to know in what situation to use the kind of leadership style that fits the occasion. Being able to discern the situation before applying any leadership style will help shape who I would be as a leader. Some people may see your kindness as a sign of weakness and attempt to abuse the situation, in that case the leader can use authoritative style to set limits and get the situation under control. Positive patients’ outcomes can be achieved with adequate staffing. It is imperative that patient care units are adequately staffed. When nurse leaders provide adequate done staff would be happy doing their job, and it affects the quality of care patients are receiving. Nurse managers who had a clear leadership style that was related mainly to a transformational or transactional leadership model experienced fewer management problems than nurse managers with a composite leadership style. There is a connection between nurse managers’ attitudes towards the existing organizational culture and the leadership model adopted (Azaare, &Gross, 2011).
References
Azaare, J., & Gross, J. (2011). The nature of leadership style in nursing management. British
Journal of Nursing, 20(11), 672-680.
Graham, S., & Melnyk, B. M. (2014). The Birth of a healthcare leadership academy: Lessons
learned from The Ohio State University. Nurse Leader, 12(2), 55–74.
doi: 10.1016/j.mnl.2014.01.001 Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing:
Theory and application (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Wall Street Journal Staff, (n. d.). Leadership Styles. Retrieved from:
http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-leadership-style/how-to-develop-a-
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