Building Organizational Capacity in Health Care

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BUILDING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY IN HEALTH CARE
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Introduction
There is an increasing amount of awareness in the importance of leadership in the
field of healthcare. Most theories of leadership were generally formed for the setting of the
business and then were applied to the field of healthcare. However with increasing complex
situations, the health care organizations are starting to recognize the importance of leadership
practices. This paper aims to identify the roles of the leaders in bringing about the change in
the workplace environment. It further discusses about the leadership styles and
implementation of the change using the change management models. Additionally the
barriers of change that is faced is mentioned in the paper along with the facilitators of change,
and what the leaders are to do for proper flow of the change.
The behaviour of any person which includes directing activities in order to move
forward towards a goal is called leadership (Al-Sawai, 2013).The major aspects of leadership
includes influencing the activities that requires to be conducted in a group and coping with
any kind of change that is required in the workplace. When considering the case of health
care professionals it is seen that the concept of leadership is both that well developed among
the healthcare setting. Even studies show that very little evidence exists for the leadership
initiatives taken for the improvement of the patients or the organizational developments
(Aarons, 2015). Within large organizations such as the medical organizations, the need of
leadership is desired which requires to capitalize on the notion of diversity in the organization
as a whole. The emergence of leadership will also help in efficiently utilizing the resources
while designing the processes of management along with encouraging individuals to target
towards some common goals.

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Leadership in the health care
There lie various leadership approaches that can be adapted to the settings of the
health care in order to effectively optimize the system of management in an environment
which is largely complex. The approaches of leadership include collaborative leadership,
transformational leadership, shared leadership, conflict management, ethical leadership,
distributed leadership, and healthcare leadership whose results is functional oriented (Carter,
2013). The theory of transformational leadership puts emphasis over the working of the
people more efficiently with an established sense of mission. It is required for the leaders to
initiate communication of their vision in such a way that is, exciting, meaningful and
develops unity and a nature of collective purpose within the community of individuals. The
context of collaborative leadership plays role when a cooperative procedure occurs and each
and every individuals try to work collaboratively for their mutual benefit. It involves
information for the communicating with the co-workers and associated organizations, so that
they can initiate in making their own decisions that are informed. This joint strategies of
communication elevate and facilitate the healthcare management by initiating encouragement
of conversation among multiple stakeholders; knowledge sharing and experiences; and
furthermore decrease in the level of complexity that is present among healthcare settings
(Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018). Conflict is seen as a persuasive force that exists among
the organizations of healthcare and as gaps in the development of communication, there exist
higher probability of failure in the practices at the workplace. The leader of healthcare must
thrive to implement some of the suitable approach for initiating handling of conflict in all the
stages in order to create a positive outcome for all who are involved. Shared leadership
reflects a system of management which is of team-level or the leadership that enables to give
power to the staff in the processes of decision-making. Shared leadership generally results in
the adoption of leadership behaviours of individual staff members, greater autonomy, and

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improved outcomes of patient care (Marquis & Huston, 2015). According to distributed
leadership theory, the goal of the leader is to initiate formation of an ethos whereby the
individuals are enabled to complement towards individual’s strengths and offset towards one
another's weakness, with the quality of leadership distributed throughout the environment or
the field of organization. Practicing effective leadership tends to have significant effect on the
healthcare staff regarding their employment life, outcomes of the patient, and an
organizational fate. A good and an efficient leader must therefore have goals, behaviours and
values that will not bring any harm and will always tend to respect the rights of all the parties.
This concept is included on the notion of ethical leadership.
Some of the categories of challenges which clinicians face while dealing with the
complex setting of the services of modern health care include: requirement of diverse
changes, rising expectations of the patients, and accelerating cost of treatments and new
interventions. The main focus by the functional results-oriented leadership style on the
organizational process imply specific role of the concept of leadership and required skills that
is necessary for the effective delivery of the targeted results of the group on the basis of
fulfilling the requirements of the three areas that includes individuals, tasks and the team
(Mosadeghrad & Ferdosi, 2013).
Role of leadership in the Organizational change
For the proper workplace functioning and performance of an organization effective
leadership has become very important. Leaders who are intelligent enough show skills and
knowledge for effective and efficient management of the tasks required on a daily basis in the
workplace environment. In order to bring about effective changes, efficient leadership skills
is of prime importance. This requires competent leadership that can be put to use for handling