Leadership in healthcare management

The essay analyses different contemporary healthcare leadership styles that can be implemented in Life Pharmacy in New Zealand. It suggests ways to overcome organisational issues in the disability sector in the Healthcare centre of Aotearoa. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership style. Internal and external factors affecting leadership are also discussed.

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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

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allocating tasks for every Healthcare workers depending upon their individual capability and
experience (Berg & Karlsen, 2016).
The concept of leadership and management varies from one individual to another. The
concept has been used in various other fields of human efforts like politics, social works,
business and academics. According to Messick and Kramer, the characteristics of the leadership
level relies upon the personal capabilities and it often affects the characteristics of the
circumstances and organization’s culture (D’Andreamatteo, Ianni, Lega & Sargiacomo, 2015).
The main goal and vision of any health care organization is to serve humanity and promote a
healthy environment through out. Besides these health care organizations also run after
increasing the profit margin and the status in the competitive business market of health
organizations. For achieving certain targets, often health care organizations issue inadequate
measures to challenging ends (Mah’d Alloubani, Almatari & Almukhtar, 2014). The
organizations maintain the health status of individual, they provide services and jobs, buy
required equipment, drugs and other goods that contribute for an increase in the status of health
of individuals of the society and the economy at large (Bolman & Deal, 2017). The satisfaction
level of the patients and the availability of access of the doctors, nurses, equipment, operational
departments to their immediate needs broadly determines the effectiveness of the procedure
(Clifford, McCalman, Bainbridge & Tsey, 2015). The action of the managers of the health care
organizations or the hospitals contribute largely for the growth of the organization. The effect of
the trait of the leadership on the performance of the hospitals and the health care organization is
huge and it contributes largely in the economic growth of the society and the nation(Ginter,
Duncan & Swayne, 2018).

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Some of the internal and external factor within and Healthcare organisation that can
ultimately affect the style of leadership are: Internal: Mission, Leadership, Communication,
Organizational Structure, Learning. External: Organizational environment, organizational
resources, role of the employees, culture of the organization, sociological factors, technology,
economic and political factors (Bolman & Deal, 2017). Communication and the ability to
incorporate with the organizational culture and promoting effective leadership strategies for the
success of the organization for proper and standard health care of individuals denote the style of
effective leadership (McKeown & Carey, 2015).
Life Pharmacy in New Zealand works on the quality of medical care and they consider
three main things: Structure of the organization: Physical characteristics, executive leaderships,
design of the organization are some of the main considerations. Procedures: Treatment and
diagnosis are the two main considerations. Outcomes: The main outcomes are the quality of
services, mortality and morbidity (Bawafaa, Wong & Laschinger, 2015). The contextual
influence on leadership on organizations such as Life Pharmacy in New Zealand are many. It
leads to optimum efficiency in operation for the health care organization to operate at ideal
efficiency level. The role of leadership provides an additional dimension since it elaborates the
responsibility and quality of the other components of the range. The level of leadership should
efficiently promote the culture of the organization that effects the success range of the
organization in the long run (Zingg et al., 2015). Some of these factors also contributes to the
ways that can be used to overcome the organisational issue in the disability sector in the
Healthcare centre. People hesitates to work in disability sectors and many believes that only
disabled people works in healthcare for disabled. Lack of proper equipment, findings,
maintenance and workers often targets the patients’ health (Gopee & Galloway, 2017).

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Understanding the methods of leaderships, practises and skill sets provides maximum
advantages while practising leadership in the health care organizations (Ginter, Duncan &
Swayne, 2018). Some of the important factors affecting leadership are poor communications,
inconsistent decision making, development of disorganized talents, poor socialization or
relationship building skills (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017). Developing leadership skills and
confidence is a continuous process. Some of the ways to overcome the lack of leadership and
leadership confidence are: Employees should communicate well with one another, they should
also interact with the patients’ family and understand their concerns, it is also the duty of the
floor leads to maintain a formal relation with the nurses and doctors of the healthcare
organization. Management of cost for each and every patient should be noted and it is also the
duty of the managers to check if the patients re being provided with quality services and effective
remedial medicines (Mah’d Alloubani, Almatari & Almukhtar, 2014). The managers should also
look after the operation and marketing plan of the healthcare organization for increase the profit
margin and status of the organization (Bawafaa, Wong & Laschinger, 2015).
The culture and the behaviour of the organization is a field of multidisciplinary subjects
that includes sociology, psychology, economics and the study of individuals of the society. The
influence of the leadership skills on the health care organization, Life Pharmacy in New Zealand
is profound. The leadership skills can either form or destroy the organization’s operational
efficiency. The goal of the Life Pharmacy in New Zealand is to provide high quality care and
services to the patients with due professionalism. In the long run, proper leadership skills can
provide the correct atmosphere for the growth of the organization and build on its achievements
and success.

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