Health Leadership and Management

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Introduction
Effective leadership and its traits are one of the vital or the essential component of the
health care system and furthermore has an extensive range regarding the function for the
improvement or the development of the effectiveness and the quality of the productivity of
the organization. The context of the leadership has the similar features in all the industries of
Australia although the factor of the health specifically has been recognised for its purposes
and the complexity (Hutchinson et al., 2015). The leaders and the nurses and also the
managers of the health care system of the Australian organization strive for the improvement
of the clinical and the quality of the life indicators and furthermore the wellbeing of the
system of the health. According the research the quality of the health leadership has a direct
effect over the quality of the patient care and thus is a very essential factor towards the
support of the best practises. The traits of the leadership and the management in the health
care organizations tends to affect the people (Cooke & Bartram, 2015). Their level of
satisfaction, the trust in the management, their commitment and the effectiveness of the
individual and the team helps in the improvement of the climate and the culture of the
organization. The thesis statement of the assignment highlights on the significant leadership
and the management challenges faced in the organization, The National Health and Medical
Research Council of Australia. The assignment illustrate the details of the health care
organization from the view of a health care professional working in the urgent care of the
triage based Australian unit of the organization in discussion.
Key issues
The health care organization has been facing numerous issues and challenges in the
recent time. According to the study and the research by various authors the health care system
includes the issues such as the balancing of the increase in the burden of the chronic disease

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with the development of the primary healthcare, the improvement of the health outcomes for
the aboriginal and the Torres strait islander people and the other relevant groups. Furthermore
addressing of the financial issues that has been influencing the timing, the nature and the
length of the care, the lack of the improvement of the sustainability and the improvement of
the health care givers in the workforce are some of the major challenges. The National Health
and Medical Research Council of Australia furthermore faces challenges regrading the
ensurement of the continuous focus over the quality and the safety in some of the inpatient
wards within certain hospitals and lacks the building of the respect and the co-operation
among the diverse professional and the organizational approached that has been operating
within the system of the health (World Health Organization, 2016). Apart from the above
stated issues that has been prevalent within the organization, some of the major issues are the
complexity and the linked up failure of the nature of the organization for addressing the
patients and the families in case of mid night emergencies, lack of the private, public and the
not for profit health services that includes the aged care, the pathology, the dental clinics, the
GP clients and the mental and the child health care services.
Organizational culture and safety
The concept of culture plays a very important role since it sets the targets of the
associations within the workplace. For the health care organization of discussion, the
strengthening of the safety culture has remained to be one of the biggest challenges that is
faced by the current day’s organizations of health care. According to the reports and the
statistics, it is one of the most necessary challenges that needs to be overcome by the health
care organization for thriving. This is because in the highly demanding environment of the
health care organization, the lives of the people are within the hands of the health care team
and it is thus critical to have some of the high performing teams. According to the research
study by Agarwal et al. (2016) it is essential for the pioneers to value their work within the

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health sector since it promotes a effective and sustainable culture within the workplace that
readily affects the outcomes to the actions and the patient centred health.
Leadership skills and traits play a very essential role and have a powerful influence
regarding the health care organization’s culture and its safety (D’Andreamatteo et al., 2015).
There lies various of ways where the skills and the behaviours of the leaders can influence the
organization, the success of the leaders in the health care organization depends on the ability
for helping for shaping and upholding the culture of the organization.
Leadership and management theories
The health care professionals and the nursing leaders play a very essential role in the
health care organization. The leadership management strategies with their skill sets and the
leadership behaviour drastically affect the performance and the influence over the outcomes
of the patient. In the discussed organization, it is thus essential to note that several styles of
the leadership that are generally found in the workplace as well as their impacts on the health
care staffs and those who are under their care (Bismark et al., 2015). This section of the
assignment will highlight the major or key leadership styles that are important and relevant
within the health care organization in discussion for the improvement of quality regrading the
health care services to the publics of Australia.
The transactional leadership theory - This style of the leadership management is essential
for the promotion of the compliance of the leaders of his or her followers through both the
rewards and the punishments. This theory of the leadership mainly focuses on the role of the
organization, supervision and the performance of the group (Jeon et al., 2017). These leaders
generally pay attention to the followers work for finding the faults and the deviations. Finally
these leadership model is effective for the health care organization in case of the crisi and the