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Interview a health Care Leader

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Interview a health Care Leader

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Running head: INTERVIEW A HEALTH CARE LEADERInterview a health care leaderName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1INTERVIEW A HEALTH CARE LEADERIntroduction: Health care environment is constantly changing with the implementation of healthreforms, adoption of health information technology and greater emphasis on disease preventionand health promotion. In the presence of such demands, the role of leaders in health careorganizations determines the success of the health care institution. Hence, the presence ofappropriate leadership style and motivation capabilities is necessary for leaders to handlecomplex work process in hospital setting (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, (2018).This paperprovides an insight into the leadership style and capabilities of Tracey Moyer, a director of CutisCare LLC South west region by analyzing the interview response of the leader. Leadership style communicated by leader: CutisCare, LLC mainly provides wound care services such as compression therapy,topical treatments, negative pressure wound therapy and many other wound care relatedtreatments in USA. After reviewing Tracey Moyer’s response from the interview, it has beenfound that she has used her transformational leadership style to help CutisCare achieve highquality care benchmark. This was identified when she was asked what leadership style shefollows to encourage her employees to perform. Tracy responded that she assesses everyemployee’s strength and weakness and use their skills accordingly to ensure that each woundhealing center reach their maximum potential. The leadership trait exhibited by Tracy is similar to that of transformation leadershiptheory as the theory states that leadership is exhibited when a leader interacts with others tocreate strong relationship and use their inspirational nature and charismatic personalities to
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2INTERVIEW A HEALTH CARE LEADERtransform their followers (Rolfe, 2011). Hence, such leaders focus on identifying changes neededin an employee and implementing strategies to improve their job performance. This approachhelped Tracy to effectively utilize the strength of each employee and work on their weak pointsto bring valuable and positive changes in employees. Transformational leadership style isdemanded in health care organization as such leaders possess the right skills to adapt to changesin health care environment and develop desired competencies in their employees (Munir et al.,2012). Motivational strategies used by the leader: When Tracy was asked what strategies she takes to motivate her employees, she hadresponded that she is in charge of a large and diverse group of staffs, she had mainly tried toempower and motivate her employees by rewarding them for their performance and creating aflexible workforce. Leadership is often linked with motivations role as leader’s action tomotivate employees creates the pathway for a motivated workforce and this in turn contributes tothe success of organization (Low, 2018). The analysis of interview response also reflected thatTracy’s ultimate desire was also to motivate their employees to perform. Hence, motivationalstrategies like effective reward system and appreciation of staff’s work acts as a form of extrinsicmotivation for followers. Evidence has shown strong fit between transaction leadership andextrinsic motivation as both are based on same concept of empowering followers (Wang, Kim &Lee, 2016).. Extrinsic motivation strategies like rewards have been found to be an effective wayto boost employee performance. Secondly, motivational strategies like empowering workers byredesigning jobs and providing them flexibility in work influence’s employee’s will to performand achieve the set goals of the organization (Cerasoli, Nicklin & Ford, 2014). Hence, it can be
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