Leadership Theories and Effective Team Performance in Health and Social Care

Health and Social Care Leadership

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Understand theories of leadership utilised in health and social care settings..............................1
Motivation and performance theories in the health and social care sector..................................3
Features of effective team performance within the health and social care sector.......................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leader is an individual who can lead or command the group or the organisation and
leadership is a state or position from which the action is taken for the organisation. The
individual who are working in leadership in the healthcare and social care sector play an
important role in order to ensure that high quality services is provided to every people as well as
play a crucial role in order to development and growth of the organisation. This project report
contain some information about theories of leadership which can be helpful in maintaining as
well as developing the trust of the employee's for the organisation. The project report also cover
some leadership style techniques in order to influences the outcomes. The project report also
includes some motivation factor as well as the theories which helps in influencing the people
and their performance in the healthcare and social care sector. Lastly the project report includes
the effective team performance.
MAIN BODY
Understand theories of leadership utilised in health and social care settings
Those person who is working in healthcare and social care department as a leader can
play a very crucial part in the organization in order to ensure that high quality services is
delivered to each individual as well as assist the organization to grow and flourish. The
healthcare and social care leaders work in a various changing field which characteristic is that
they need a constant propulsion in order to deliver a most effective and efficient high and safe
quality of care to everyone as possible. In order to achieve the efficient and safe quality care to
everyone, the leader must lead the administrative and clinical team while managing effective
resources (Ayman and Lauritsen., 2018).
There are many leadership theories involve in healthcare and social care department are
great man theory, big bang theory, trait theory, style theory, contingency theory, transformational
leadership theory, transactional leadership, authentic leadership.
 Transactional leadership- This leadership highlighted the value of organization,
supervision as well as the group performance. The relationships views between the
healthcare executive and staff as transactional can be identified by this leadership. The
healthcare executive use the motivational tools such as rewards or punishment etc. in
order to encourage the compliance in their directives.
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