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ALHLT 3933 - Healthcare Management | Effective Management Assignment

   

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Reflective Analysis of Leadership Issue toCo-ordinate and Collaborate amongstStakeholder Groups in HealthcareOrganisationTask 2: Reflective JournalStudent Name:Student ID:Subject Name: Effective Management in Health AssessmentSubject ID: SNPG902Date Due:Professor Name:1 | P a g e

Introduction Healthcare management includes diversified plethora of activities including leadership, administration and general management involved across hospitals, network of hospitals, public health systems and various health care systems[ CITATION Che163 \l 1033 ]. Healthcare management involves health services and medical management encompassing a diversified rangeof professionals and services. Healthcare managers and leaders require covering diversified range of services and procedures such as to deliver quality services. Every domain of healthcare is unique in their people, processes, structures, quality and so on. The varied range of services barely occurs in specific standardized manner, thus management of diversified services in the hospital environment problems and opportunities needs to be handled. The scope of the current study deals in understanding diversified management issues that are faced by managers and leaders in healthcare services[ CITATION And111 \l 1033 ]. Analysis of specific management issues in healthcare will lead to effective management and rendering services in an efficient manner. Specific contemporary management issues will help arrive analyse situations and connect theories with situation for arriving at suggestions to overcome the situation. Management issues pertaining to leadership, communication, multi-cultural framework, decision-making, setting priorities in operations and strategic management setting and other issues are analysed from relevant journals[ CITATION Cal083 \l 1033 ]. Reflection from issues that has been faced in healthcare organisations from leadership are analysed and suggestions for improvement are provided in the reflection journal. A personal case of leadership issue faced in integrating and collaborating amongst varied stakeholder groups is analysed here. 2 | P a g e

Analysis of Journal Leadership has an integral role in conduct of any organisation as leaders manage the most criticalresource namely, human resource[ CITATION Yod14 \l 1033 ]. Across healthcare, there remains large dilemma regarding the appropriate management style of leadership that needs be integrated. Various relevant journals in healthcare reflect a diversified range of leadership style, which have been covered in the course. There are various forms of leadership as transactional, transformational, front-line, postmodern, contrarian, meta-modern, servant, team-leadership, autocratic leaders, cross-cultural leaders, democratic leaders and so on. In the purview of the current situation, we will analyse transactional, servant and transformational leadership only for ease of analysis[ CITATION Sch0712 \l 1033 ]. Transactional leaders are one who are focused on primarily organisational objectives and promotes productivity from its workers by means of rewards and punishments. Transformative leader on the other hand acts as a change agent and takes calculated risks for the organisation. Servant style leaders are those who care for others, upholds ethics, is supportive of others success and leads by example. G. L. Cummings (2008) article, Factors contributing to nursing leadership: a systematic review. In the Journal of health services research & policy, pages 240 to 248 icnludes a systematic review of factors in nursing leadership[ CITATION Cum081 \l 1033 ]. One of the most integral stakeholder in healthcare constitutes nurses, hence co-ordinating and understandign their needs is a prerogative for delivery of quality health services to patients. Thus, this article identifies the factors that are critical in determining effectiveness in nursing leadership. E. K. Kelloway (2010) article, Leadership development as an intervention in occupational health psychology. In journal Work & Stress, pages 260 to 279 analyses the impact that leadership has in promoting health psychology amongst various stakeholder groups[ CITATION Kel102 \l 1033 ]. Leadership in healthcare has multi-farious roles, one of the critical roles being that of engagement with 3 | P a g e

employees, doctors, nurses and other staffs. More a leader is enagagged with internal stakeholders, more he is able to identify the potential issues or challenges that can arise in their service delivery. Thus, adapting a participative form of leadership rather than a transaction form of leadership can help attain objectives. K. R. Nielsen (2008) article The effects of transformational leadership on followers’ perceived work characteristics and psychological well-being: A longitudinal study. In journal Work & Stress, pages 16 to 32 analyses characteristics of a transformational leader and his impact in healthcare organisations [ CITATION Nie08 \l 1033 ].While transformative leadership remains to be one of the key methods by which leadership across healthcare organisation can function, servant style of leadership has also been found to be effective in determining efficiency of productivity across healthcare sector. Self-ReflectionManaging of healthcare is a vast and diversified field encompassing several doctors, nurses, staffs, patients, patient parties and other relevant internal stakeholders. Role of a leader is to co-ordinate and collaborate amongst them such that organisational objectives along with its goals can be achieved appropriately[ CITATION Gil074 \l 1033 ]. In my course, I have gained immense knowledge as there has been huge transfer of learning. The course content has covered various issues and key topics regarding leadership encompassing various case studies. As leadership includes vast range of topic, its application is also immense in nature hence it becomes very difficult to learn and apply the same. In this course, I have learnt various ways in which services are delivered across to patients and ways in which patient parties are dealt with. Another integral aspect of the service delivery includes managing of internal stakeholders[ CITATION Bar085 \l 1033]. Though there are several issues that has been taught and highlighted in the course, while 4 | P a g e

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