Leadership in healthcare management

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
Leadership in healthcare management
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The purpose of the given essay is to analyse different kind of contemporary Healthcare
leadership that can be implied in Life Pharmacy in New Zealand. It is important to analyse the
internal and external factor within and Healthcare organisation that can ultimately affect the style
of leadership. The given essay will also suggest ways that can be used to overcome the
organisational issue in the disability sector in the Healthcare centre of Aotearoa. It is also
important to discuss the strength and weakness of each kind of leadership that can be
implemented within the given situation (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017).
According to Delmatoff and Lazarus (2014), leadership is considered to be the behaviour
of an individual, which help them to guide the pathway of other people. The Life Pharmacy of
New Zealand is currently facing issues in providing proper Healthcare service to the client due to
lack of proper leadership. The importance visionary leadership need to be highlighted in the
given context. According to Jumaa and Alleyne (2017), the visionary leadership is one of the
best technique to inspire and motivate people to overcome all kind of challenges in the work
process. The Healthcare centre of New Zealand Aotearoa are currently facing high level of
challenges in the disability sector. With the help of visionary leadership it is possible to provide a
proper direction to the Healthcare workers. This will motivate them to follow a fixed pathway
(Bawafaa, Wong & Laschinger, 2015).
The democratic leadership can also be used in the given context, which will aim to
respect the needs of every stakeholders within the Healthcare organisation (McDonagh,
Bobrowski, Hoss, Paris & Schulte, 2014). It can help to enhance the participation of the junior
Employees. This can improve upon the workforce of the by boosting the overall productivity in
the Healthcare service. This is also best for the clinical settings within New Zealand.
Nevertheless, the main drawback of Democratic style of leadership in Healthcare practice is due

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to the time consuming factor. The leaders take extra time to execute a decision as it is important
to collectively gather feedback from the stakeholders (McKeown & Carey, 2015).
High level of stress and work pressure is common within the workers of a health care
centre. With the help of Affiliative style of leadership, it is possible to understand the issues
encountered by individual workers (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018). The leader also need to
build effective relationship with the junior workers, which can motivate them to provide the best
effort by overcoming all stress related challenges. The affiliated leadership also encourages
effective communication, which is considered to be one of the essential part of best health care
service (Vann et al., 2014).
The purpose of commanding leadership is to impose higher level of pressure to the
workers, which can help to improve the productivity within an organisation. In the context of the
health care centre the commanding leadership will be least effective due to the fact the quality of
service will be overlooked by the supervisor (Nging & Yazdanifard, 2015). The main purpose of
implementing commanding leadership is to gain added competitive advantage in the market,
which is often achieved by overlooking the loopholes within the service.
There is also the chance of implementing the pace setting leadership. Here the Healthcare
workers can be driven by the strong urge to overcome a fixed target. Nevertheless, this may not
be applied in the Life Pharmacy as this style of leadership can often overlooked the element of
teamwork and collaboration.
There is also the coaching style of leadership, where the supervisors act as personal
Counsellor to identify the strengths and weaknesses of every employees (Gopee & Galloway,
2017). In the context of the Healthcare Centre this style of leadership can be effective in