Leadership Theories and Practice

This assignment delves into various leadership theories, including behavioral and trait theories, and analyzes their relevance to managing human resources in a healthcare setting like St Margaret's Nursing Home. It examines the impact of leader behavior on employee motivation, performance, and retention. The text highlights key traits of effective leaders in healthcare and emphasizes the importance of fostering positive working relationships through trust, communication, and understanding diverse perspectives.

Managing Human Resources in Health and Social Care
Behaviour theory of leadership-
This theory defines the leader's behaviour for management, their employees. The leader must
motivated their employees for work harder and they define how to carry out the task, the leader of the
organization notify the difficulty of organization and how to solve them, the leader must have maintained the
environment of organization. The great leader always have the passion to achieve goals and motivate their
employees to how to achieve goals in life. According to this theory the St Margaret's Nursing home leader
must create the behaviour environment that employees not left the job form there, and they become
passionate for there work, leader behaviour for employees is the most important things in organization.
4.2 Analysing working relationship that could be managed
In the St Margaret's Nursing home working relationships
depend on their environments, if the environments is not good
employees cannot manage the responsibility and they left job. In
the St Margaret's nursing home the leader's provide facilities to
employees, if the employees are satisfied for their work they can
manage all the responsibility of nursing home. Nursing home
having those staffs who are responsible for their duty and who are
the eligible for there working experience. The most effective way
of managing relationships by trusting tour employees to carry out
the role of high standard.
On the other hand the St Margaret's nursing homes leader should
workforce, be honest, considerate and the value their employees,
opinion and value, nursing home leader should promote culture of
openness within their team and strive to understand the different
background and perspectives of team members. The leader should be
focus on communication between the manger and the team member.
The St Margaret's nursing home's leader has ability to maintain eye
contact and attentiveness are all effective ways to develop and
maintain a working relationship. If the St Margaret's nursing homes
leader have those abilities then the staff are motivated for work and
there responsibilities so they don't left from there responsibilities and
job.
4.1 Discussing theories of leadership
Theories of leadership- The leadership functions of management is too attested by various theories, behaviour theories focused on discovering the
constant relation between leadership behaviour and the group performance, and the Trait theory identify the physical, mental and personality traits of various
leader. The following theories are:
Traits theory of leadership-
In this theory refers to leader's physical ability and specific traits on leadership ability. This theory includes physical traits such as appearance
energy and height, intelligent and ability traits such as adaptability, aggressiveness and self confidence, task related traits such as achievement, drive and
initiative, social related traits such as interpersonal skills, cooperative and administrative ability. In this context including St Margaret's nursing home that the
leader have always prepared for mentally physically for the challenges, the leader have must appoint employees in St Margaret's Nursing home who are
eligible for handworks and the employees who works extra hour in nursing home. The leader's of nursing home give the attractive salary for staff who worked
in nursing home.
4.3 Evaluating how development has been influenced by
management approaches
My own development has been influenced by varied
approaches of management. Among such approaches, first one
is use of performance appraisal of mine. By analysing this,
strengths and weaknesses are clarified to me and as such, I'm
encouraged to focus on my weaknesses to transform the same
into strengths. Moreover, by effectively highlighting
weaknesses, I have then concentrated on my training and
gathered information for improving upon my deficiencies.
Moreover, self-directed approach is also used by me to effectively work upon weaknesses in
the best possible manner. Team working has been improved by utilising management
approach by Tuck man. Trust between me and my fellow members has been become strong
enough and as such, efficiency is achieved. Apart from this, it is evident that leadership at
some stages become poor and as such, after some time skills may be hired from successful
leaders in order to accomplish efficiency. This has helped me to achieve good leadership
skills. Furthermore, I'm able to guide new employees and as such, my leadership abilities
have enhanced as well. Thus, my own development has been effectively influenced by
management approaches.