Principles of Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care

This presentation discusses the principles of leadership and management in the context of the health and social care sector. It covers key theories, such as behavioural theory and scientific management theory, and highlights challenges faced by leaders and managers, including workforce shortage and regulation compliance. The presentation draws insights from Treetops Care Ltd.

Principles Of Leadership
And Management
TASK 1

Table of Content
◦ Introduction
◦ Key leadership and management theories
◦ Challenges the health and social care sector presents to leaders and managers
◦ Conclusion
◦ References

Introduction
Management is the procedure of planning,
organising and directing the activities and
resources of the organisation to attain particular
goals effectively and efficiently. While,
leadership is delineated as an ability of an
individual or a group of person to guide,
influence the people or employees in the
organisation to work properly to achieve goals.

Key leadership and management
theories
Leadership theory
Some of the leadership theories in context to Treetops Care
Ltd is explained below:
Behavioural theory
Great Man theory
Theory of Transformation

Continue
Management theory
Some management theories opt by Treetops Care Ltd
to enhance their business profitability are as below:
Scientific Management Theory
Administrative Management Theory
Human relation theory

Challenges the health and social care
sector presents to leaders and managers
In health and social care, leaders and managers are facing huge challenges in order to recruit, select,
develop, stimulate and retain workforce. In Treetops Care Ltd, leaders and managers faces mentioned
below challenges:
Workforce shortage
Technology
Regulation and compliance

Conclusion
From the above presentation, it has been concluded that the leadership and management both
plays an important role in order to achieve success, profitability and goal of the organisation.
Leadership theories that are applied in a health and social care company are behavioural theory,
great man theory and theory of transformation.

References
Bush, T., 2020. Theories of educational leadership and management. Theories of Educational
Leadership and Management, pp.1-208.
Bush, T., Bell, L. and Middlewood, D. eds., 2019. Principles of educational leadership & management.
Sage.
Parkhi, S. S., 2019. Lean management practices in healthcare sector: a literature review. Benchmarking:
An International Journal.

Thank You