Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care Sector

Running Head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SECTOR
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Introduction
The human health and social care is a cumulative term that includes the entire healthcare
sector including public and private facilities and social care organisations and the infrastructure
involved in these aspects (Curtis and Burns 2015). These two terms generally defines the service
and care provided by the nurses and physicians as well as the community care professionals
involved in the care process (Aveyard 2014). As these terms are disciplinary subject, it includes
subjects like sociology, biology, nutrition, law and ethics for the better understanding and good
service provide to the patients by the nurses (Ventola 2014). The foremost aim of a health and
social care sector is to ensure health safety and the required improvement in quality and
coordination and quality of life to the older adults (Brett et al. 2014).
The primary aim of this paper is to provide details of the leadership and management
theories, the challenges associated to these theories while applying them in the care facility.
Besides that, it describes the motivational theories associated with the management and
leadership theories and then describes the influencing factors involved in the process. Finally the
effects of these leadership, management and motivational theories on the performance
management, development and activeness as well as effectiveness of the team involved in the
care process and the role of teams in providing benefit to the healthcare and social care sector
would be discussed.
1.1 Theories of leadership and management
The Great man theory was proposed by Thomas Carlyle who stated that a leader is
man who is endowed with enormous potential to become a leader (Spector 2016). Sidney Hook,
An American philosopher, further explained the impact between the eventful men and the event-

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making man which is generally characterized by the courage that leaders take to change their
associated organization. Hence, it was the basis of the theory in which based on the greatness of
historical leaders, modern strategies are prepared (Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube 2015).
The second leadership theory which will be discussed is the Trait Theory of leadership.
As per this theory, a leader should possess a height of intelligence, attractiveness and self
confidence as well as effectiveness (Ronald 2014). This theory mentions traits such as
adaptability, assertive, cooperative, dominant, self-confidence, dependable, decisive so that
several skills could be developed such as creativity, cleverness, diplomatic ability, persuasive
nature, and social skills. These skills and traits were provided by Stogdil (1974) (Nawaz and
Khan 2016).
The Contingency theory is a type of behavioral theory as per which, one theory or
strategy could work for one situation; however, its effectiveness could not be seen in other
situation (Ronald 2014). This theory further recommends that it is not important for leadership
style to have a precise way of proving itself as the factors upon which this leadership theory
depends, are the quality and situation, and the number and condition of the followers of the
leader (Dartey-Baah 2015).
Another set of leadership theory important for the management of organizations are the
transactional leadership theory and transformational leadership theory. The transactional
leadership theory provides rewards and punishments upon the performance of the employees of
the organization and hence, for management of the organization, using leadership theories, it is
the best leadership style (Storey 2016). On the other hand, the Transformational theory of
leadership helps to identifies itself from the other and previous mentioned theories with contrast

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to the involvement of the each individual in the process of development. Hence, it is the
collective way of attaining growth and development (Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube 2015).
Management in health and social care sector
Management is a process and strategy depending on which, a leader leads his
organization without any fail or mishap and if any occurs, they manage is with efficiency 9
Rosenberg Hansen and Ferlie 2016). The theory of management in health and social care
conceptualize the basic purpose of nurse like describing, explaining and prescribing or predicting
the nursing acts that further encourages the registered nurses to work in a smooth environment. It
is well known fact that leaders cannot be compared with the manager position and vice versa.
Simonet (2015) proposed that to be successful leader nurse from the position of nurse manager,
they need to be aware of some behaviors. First, a nurse manager should respect the profession,
its teams or the nursing group in relation with the art and science of the nursing practice. It
would be difficult to say that a nursing manager is a leader if those values and ethics of the
health care and nursing are not followed or respected (Rosenberg Hansen and Ferlie 2016). The
nursing manager generally handles the demonstration of productivity, ensuring the safety of the
patient and the generation of the revenue. For an effective and visionary nursing management,
quality patient care is must. The process of modeling and role modeling nursing theory can be
applied in nursing management for the better care quality and for the nurse’s satisfaction
(Simonet 2015).
1.2: Challenges of these theories:
In recent world, the nurses working in changing health care environment need a
leadership which can facilitates the direct pathway for making their care process advanced and