Reflection on Leadership in Nursing

This assignment aims to reflect on nursing leadership, including the description of the leadership style presented, identifying own leadership style, and reflecting on the leadership style selected in the group presentation and contribution to the team presentation.

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REFLECTION ON LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
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The assignment aims to reflect on the nursing leadership. This assignment contains three
parts such as description of the leadership style presented, identify own leadership style and
reflect on the leadership style selected in our group presentation and my contribution to the team
presentation. The following paper will discuss about the above mentioned aspect in details.
My group will present on the laissez-faire leadership. Laissez faire leadership is defined as
the type of leadership where there is minimal supervision of the leaders and the group members
are allowed to take decisions. Such kind of leadership is mostly found in the organizations where
the group members are found to be self-driven and they are motivated to achieve a common goal
for the organization (Skogstad et al., 2015). Research has indicated that this kind of leadership
contains both the advantages and disadvantages. The advantageous characteristics of laissez faire
leadership include-
 As the group members have the responsibility to make decisions they could make
decision which could facilitate their work and make them comfortable to work in the
favorable workplace which reduces the issue regarding the workplace.
 The group members are associated with adequate resources and tools in order to facilitate
their performance and achieve expected outcomes.
 The leaders provide the responsibility to resolve the problem to the group members thus,
the members address the problems at their own.
 The leader ensures that the decision is taken by the all group members and not by an
individual, thus considers the contribution of all group members in the decision making
process (Wong &Giessner, 2018).
However, it has been found that the laissez faire leadership is a leadership style results in
the lowest productivity as the group members may take decision which could be favorable for

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them but not for the production of organization. There may be dissimilarities in the decision of
the group members which may leads to the consequence of conflict in the organization (Skogstad
et al., 2015); (Downe, Byrom, Simpson, 2011). Hence it is important for the group members to
have adequate skills and knowledge to make proper decision that are acceptable for all and unity
among the group members is essential component in order to utilize the laissez faire leadership
style in an effective manner (Downe, Byrom, Simpson, 2011). In addition great deal of trust is
also required for this leadership style to work effectively (Wong &Giessner, 2018).
While recognizing my own leadership or preferable leadership I would like to use the
democratic leadership as I am always open to the ideas of other people and I like to encourage
others so that they could opine their views and believes in order to increase variety in the
democracy (Kaiser, 2017). In order to utilize the democratic leadership it is required for the
leaders to have adequate communication skill, understanding and patience for providing
importance to the ideas of others (Marquis & Huston, 2015). I prefer such leadership style as it is
beneficial for the productivity, quality improvement and improvement of system in the clinical
setting. Using such leadership would help to motivate the members through the appreciation of
their contribution and encourage them to perform with dedication to achieve expected outcomes
(McKeown& Carey, 2015).
However, in case of managing clinical issues I would prefer transformational leadership
in order to ensure that tasks are performed by the members in an effective manner (Marquis &
Huston, 2015). Such leadership includes introducing high level of motivation for the members
with appropriate examples. In transformational leadership the group members learn from the
activities of the leaders and consequently they try to improve their performance in order to make
the organization superior (Banks et al., 2016).

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While describing about my contribution in the team presentation I would like to mention
that our team was organized enough, hence we were able to complete the task within the given
time. Majority of the members have performed effectively in order to carry out the presentation
as planned. However, during some task few team members have been found to show less
interest. In this case the group leader has identified effective solution while using authoritarian
leadership. There was adequate supervision in the role of team leader and he has complied with
the requirements of the team in an effective manner. The person assigned for the task of
questioning has performed well. This is may be due to the work under heavy and effective
supervision.
On the other hand, I have performed my role in researching on the topic of laissez faire
leadership in this team presentation. I attained all the team meetings and discussion in order to
facilitate the group’s ideas. I have tried to perform to the best of my ability and our team member
has motivated me in order to do so. Such contribution of the team leader has helped me to
present quality work and motivated the whole group in order to achieve positive outcomes.

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