Impact of Leadership Styles in Healthcare Practice

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P4 Explain how theories can support aligning style of management to different contexts
in healthcare practice
Impact of Autocratic Leadership in Healthcare Practice
Effective leadership of healthcare experts has been observed as crucial for reinforcing
client participation, staff engagement and quality of services (Cope and Murray 2017).
According to Stolt et al. (2018), service quality has been recognized as imperative element
for attaining high productivity levels within healthcare settings and has been explained as the
extent to which the potential of attaining the desired health outcomes has been elevated and
aligned with the informed and restructured professional knowledge within healthcare
services. While, there can be found various types of leadership, four types have been evident
to align with BAHS current situation namely, authoritarian, democratic, bureaucratic and
laissez-faire. Studies found that authoritarian leadership style has been perceived regulative,
as leaders tend to make judgements without seeking opinions from staffs and show lack of
collaboration with other employees. Furthermore, leaders following such leadership style
typically exhibit dominance and authority towards other employees, thus leaving no or less
scope for other employees to propose opinions and restraining their abilities (Sfantou et al.
2017). While, on the other hand, the laissez-faire leadership style primarily encompasses
leaders who do not make judgements, thus causing employees to work devoid of any proper
direction or management. However, there can be found practical approach resulting in rare
modifications (Khoshhal and Guraya 2016). Autocratic leadership in healthcare practice has
been illustrated when leaders indulge into decision-making procedures regardless of
considerations of other essential factors. By obtaining insights from BAHS case, it has been
found that Miss Brent with an experience of 20 years has been following autocratic
leadership style and consequentially restricted ideas and opinions of other staffs in support of
service improvement. Ellis (2016) has opined that autocratic leadership styles typically lead

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to ego clash with highly experienced and knowledgeable experts further reducing teams’
creativity, skills and capacity.
Impact of laissez-faire leadership in Healthcare Practice
Meanwhile, laissez-faire leadership style has been unconstructively related to
healthcare management and culture. Stolt et al. (2018) have noted that higher total structural
authorization level linked to a complex safety level and allowing healthcare organizations
have been essentially adding to constructive effects on nursing quality of care. Furthermore,
Sfantou et al. (2017) have found that higher group culture has been linked to elevated safety
environment overall, but hierarchical principles have been linked to reduced welfare climate
signifying that overall organizational culture is highly essential for organizations’ safety and
staff morale. At this juncture, while evaluating leadership styles of three newly employed
managers and application of practical operational management of teams in BAHS, Miss
Jones, Miss Brent and Mr Baktu must empower newly staffed employees and continuously
stimulate their overall efficiency, thus increasing greater degree of innovation and elevate
reduced level of staff morale. According to theoretical explanation of laissez faire leadership,
every individual under this approach contributes to the team thus increasing his or her level
of inclusion and participation to the organization by developing individual exceptional
approach both individually and as team (Stockham 2016).
Impact of democratic leadership in Healthcare Practice
However, on the other hand, through democratic leadership approach, healthcare
leaders and managers include other nurses in the decision-making procedures during
implementation of procedural changes. Furthermore, to capitalize on the efficacy of
democratic leadership, healthcare leaders must provide proper guidance to their employees to
develop specialized as well as unintentional associations with each other, further giving scope
to direct countenance of discrepancy in opinions related to client service quality,