Leadership in Public Health

This assignment examines leadership and management within the Public Health sector. It involves analyzing the roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers, comparing different leadership theories, and evaluating leadership skills through interviews with two public health professionals. The report summarizes key findings and provides a critical evaluation of leadership concepts in the context of Public Health.

Public Health Professionals

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Role and responsibility of a leader to that of a manager.......................................................1
1.2 How role and responsibility of leader and manager are different in public health industry. 3
Role of leader and manger in an organization ...........................................................................3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Describe the two leaders you interviewed from the Public Health industry. Explain their
roles and responsibilities.............................................................................................................4
2.2 Responses that received in two interviews............................................................................4
2.3 Critique the responses of the two interviews by applying what you have learned so far
about Leadership theories...........................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Leadership Skills Inventory in Northouse.............................................................................5
3.2 Results against Rowitz’s Public Health Leadership Principles.............................................5
3.3 Strengths, based on your analysis. .......................................................................................5
3.4 Identify areas that needs would like to improve, based on your analysis.............................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
In a business organisation manager and leaders are play most important role who provide
their effective services to their company. In health care organisation their role and responsibility
are getting change according to public issues and different diseases. In this process they needs to
make effective changes that build awareness easily. For this government of a country also build
various initiative to organise various program to spread effective awareness in front of public.
This report is based on theories, styles, approaches and strategies of leadership in public health
care services (Baum, 2016). This project report is based on NHS which is a public health care
organisation and build different kind of initiative to spread effective awareness in front of
different public mode. This report will presenting role and responsibility of a leader and
manager, how these are different in the Public Health industry, interviewed of two leaders from
the Public Health industry, its responders and critical evaluation about Leadership theories. At
last this report will show results of the Leadership Skills.
TASK 1
1.1 Role and responsibility of a leader to that of a manager
In a business organisation manager and leader both are play most important role to
provide their effective services to employees and customers. They a both are very different to
each others as well as their work and responsibility. One most important role and responsibility
of them is to make specific role according to structure and motivate their worker toward specific
goal for future success.
Manager – They are a specific personality in organisation who works to create different
objectives and goal in organisation. They have a specific workforce who follows their direction
and procedure in effective manner (Frenk, 2010). Manger of various firm has lots of duty to
control excess activities and build affirmative working environment for employees. There are
different kind of role and responsibility of manager are given below - Provide direction to employees:- This term refers to that aspect in which the manager
have to provide correct direction to its staff members. This will facilitate to put overall
efforts of people into single way in appropriate manner to attain better outcomes from
hard-work of employees. The organisation have to make sure that their workers are
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performing in correct manner or not. It is necessary because if people are working in
correct direction then only their efforts are valuable fir organisation otherwise not. Focussed on workers:- It is essential to take care of all of people working in an
enterprise because it is important to render healthy environment to make them feel
comfortable. Then only they work effectively as well as efficiently. Managers have to
make sure that expectations of an employee should be completed from firm regarding
their job (Stuckler, Basu and Suhrcke, 2010). Manage procedures:- It is essential to manage various kind of activities and procedures
which are necessary to organise in their company. It is essential to do management of
operations in order to complete their expected targets or objective in time. They have to
make sure that these processes are capable to generate better outcomes.
 Execution of vision:- The firm have to execute several plans to conduct various kind of
procedures or activities which are able. It is necessary to apply effective blue print plans
to generate desired outputs from them to attain better productivity. For this, managers
have to modify their techniques to implement these tasks to more successfully.
Leader:- It can be defined as person who has unique qualities of leading and inspire people by
their innovative technique. This will facilitate to encourage them for working more effective as
well as efficiently. Leaders have that capability to build faith and trust factor amongst their team
members as well. They will make several creative techniques to enhance productivity on regular
basis and support people in various aspects. Vision:- Leaders have special quality to make several innovative visions to expand
growth of both personal as well as professional career. This will motivate employees to
enhance their performance which results in attaining better productivityu and profitability
as well (Dimaggio, 2013). Inspiration and communication:- It is roles of leader on which they have to convey
detailed information about forthcoming projects to be completed. They have to direct the
efficiencies and capabilities of people into correct way to generate desired outputs. Ability to challenge:- Leaders hare ready to implement various innovative techniques and
methods to complete suitable process. They have ability to bear challenge and put efforts
to prove their decision right by creating better profits.
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 Honesty and Integrity:- Leaders have to consider factor of trust and confidence amongst
their team members so that they become loyal to their superior. This will facilitate to to
fulfil instruction quickly in correct manner to generate desirable outputs.
Manager and leader have their own roles and functions having different way to conduct them. It
is necessary because both have their own importance in an organisation for attain more
productivity as well as profitability.
1.2 How role and responsibility of leader and manager are different in public health industry
A leader is being followed by his team, his purpose is to achieve an objective. A leader has to
command his team to accomplish the task. His responsibilities to motivate, conscientiousness,
self assurance, tough mindset. Leader should has creative thinking, psychologically maturity,
that can face the tough situation (Bjegovic, 2013).
A manager is not the leader, he controls the operations and structure. He have the right to
take final decision. He is the part of administrative body. He commands all the policies and
regulations that cannot be omit by anyone.
Role of leader and manger in an organization
Role of leader
There are specific role of leader in an organization: Leader renders directions with a
vision that is important to emphasize the work flow. It develops other strategies that taken out
through the task to produce the final product. Another responsibility is to communicate direction.
It keep engage people in implementation. It motivates people to encourage, so that they can
work more efficiently and pay loyalty towards the organization.
Role of manger
Manger's core functions are- setting goal, planning, plan budget, allocation of resources.
He organizes the structure, communicate his plan to reinforce, assigning the responsibilities to
the staff, and develops policies, procedures. Monitoring and controlling the cycle.
Role and responsibility of leader and manager in public health industry
There are difference in the role and responsibilities of leader and manager in public
health industry (Rosenbaum, 2011).
Leader roles and responsibilities contribute to public health industry are as follows-
Vision- It offers the clinical advances in understanding and managing health issues. It
provides technical advances in biomedical and management technologies.
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Influence – It broadened its operations beyond traditional approach. It emphasizes on
opportunities and relationships.
Engaging patients -The system is design with concept of whole person care,
communication, patient support, which allows the patients to reach their needs with quick
response.
TASK 2
2.1 Describe the two leaders you interviewed from the Public Health industry. Explain their roles
and responsibilities.
Public health industry is includes range of companies that provide services to public.
Through this process they can easily spread awareness about various disease and problems that
faces by individual person. In this process a interview program is conducted for two leaders as
health minister and health secretary as -
Interview with Health minister (Jeremy Hunt) – An interview program was conduct to
analyse different kind of information about health industry and its initiative. As per some
question they provide specific information about NHS program that conduct to spread different
kind of information that can be useful for individual person. At some question about public
health professional, they said that, they both are working as important element of NHS who
analyse information about specific topic that needs to be initiate publicly (Henderson and
Thornicroft, 2013). The key responsibility of health minister of UK is to frame policies relating
to healthcare which assist government is resolving major problems like affordable healthcare
services (Dimaggio, 2013). He has to play a significant role in the programmes which basically
focus on improving the quality of healthcare service by using latest technology.
Interview with CEO of NHS (Simon Stevens) – In interview program some questions
are asked on public health issues and these are what can be done to analyse difference between
mental and physical health problem? NHS is biggest healthcare organisation of UK and as a the
CEO of this organisation, main responsibility of Simon Stevens is to check that whether all the
division of NHS are accomplishing their responsibilities and increase number of hospitals in
order to make quality service available at more locations (Bjegovic-Mikanovic and et. al., 2013).
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2.2 Responses that received in two interviews
Interview with Jeremy Hunt was very productive. He is a man with an aggressive vision
and he understand that focusing on research and development is very important for ensuring
quality services to the public. At the same time, he is also optimistic about technology and he
want to bring radical changes in both cities and villages by using latest technology of providing
effective healthcare service. Simon Stevens, the CEO of NHS, is mainly focusing on executing
the policies which is made by government. By talking with him, one thing was very clear that he
is basically interested in signing deals with NGOs and other care-home because he feels that
NHS cannot provide fine services without taking support of others. They have limited
technology and signing deals with those organisation who have latest technology will be
beneficial for them and their public also (Stuckler, Basu and Suhrcke, 2010).
2.3 Critique the responses of the two interviews by applying what you have learned so far about
Leadership theories
According to Brassolotto and Baldeo, (2014) leadership is a core process that needs to be
done through effective manner to provide guideline and direction to employees in effective
manner. Through this an organisation can easily attain their core objectives and goals effectively.
As per those interview it is determine that manager and leader of health care sector can help to
analyse information related to different kind of program and initiative that needs to be done for
public health. Leadership have capability and quality to build belief and reliance factor amongst
their different members as well.
By taking interview of CEO of NHS, the main thing which I learn is that he is a person
who has a domestic leadership style. He take views of others at the time of making decision and
he keep with in other organisation who are not part of NHS. This means that he domestic impose
any work on anybody and listen to the advice which is given by other people (Frenk and et. al.,
2010). On the other hand, Jeremy Hunt taught me that situational leadership is most important
type of leadership is this swiftly changing world. He knew that sometime he has to take advice
from other in order to make right decision but sometime a leader has to make a call without
involving anyone specially at the time of making tuff decision which is generally not liked by
public in short period of time.
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TASK 3
3.1 Leadership Skills Inventory in Northouse
Leadership is a approach that needs to be done to provide motivation and directing and
toe employee in effective manner. These leadership style is very different to each other and these
are related to different situation. There are different leadership approaches are given below -
Skills theory – This theory is related to different kind of skills that a person have.
Through this process they serve different services to their employees (Bongar and Sullivan,
2013). As per this above interview, it is analyse that a person need to enhance their skills and
working approaches in effective manner that increase their working ability for health care
sectors. These sectors are known as services areas that require specific skill in a person.
Situational theory - According to this situation all the person serve various services
according to different kind of situation. So for this it is require that leaders provide their services
in an organisation according to different situations. As per this above interviews, it is analyse
that a leader needs to serve their effective services according to different situations. In health
care sector individuals requires to react on different situations according to its demand and need.
Trait theory – According to me this theory is useful for those person who believe that
leadership can not earn this is a unique quality that a person earn by their birth. These leadership
theories can easily build complexity between trained leaders. As for this a person who serve their
different services needs to analyse their skills timely to getting innovative ideas fro different kind
of treatment and situations. As per the interview of health secretary it is is require that a person
analyse all condition be their personal and practical situations. Through this, they can easily on
them in effective manner
3.2 Results against Rowitz’s Public Health Leadership Principles
Rowitz’s Public Health Leadership is a well known book in which different kind of
principles of leadership are determine. Principle of those leadership skill re related to different
kinds of department that needs specific style to solve various issue and problems easily. Through
this a person can easily understand ethical values and importance of those terms that needs to be
directed inn appropriate manner (Bongar and Sullivan, 2013). Rowitz’s Public Health Leadership
Principles is focuses on three main areas, organisational values, HR systems and organisational
structural job design. From the assessment, it can be analysed that both leaders are serious about
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organisational values and structure but they are not focusing on HR system which is also very
important. Both leaders are working in the field of continuous improvement but they main
concentration is on technology and making alliances. HR system is an important part of Rowitz’s
Public Health Leadership but both leaders are ignoring it. This can be considered as the basic
difference between both of them (Baum, 2016). My assesses shows that both leaders have have
different leadership style but it fit according to the present situation. But, at the same time, both
of leadership style are failing to focus on Human resource.
3.3 Strengths, based on your analysis.
As per my analysis, it is analyse that leaders and manager in different kind of
organisation as are play most important role to provide effective direction and guideline. In
public health care sector, they both are help to build effective program which is initiated for
public and social health awareness. Strength of this research is based on different kind of
initiative and program which is help to provide awareness and welfare terms easily. From the
above analysis, I can ensure that I have good communication skills and this is the prime reason
that I convinced both leaders for having a lengthy conversation with me.
3.4 Identify areas that needs would like to improve, based on your analysis
In an organisation and program lots of changes are needed that are based on public and
government demand. NHS is a well known organisation and for them it is very important to
analyse each and every situation effectively and provide appropriate direction easily. For this I
analyse that leadership a area that needs to be enhance in exact manner to provide effective
guideline to others. Through this a person can enhance quality and approaches of each
individual. One of the area where I can improve in analytical skills. I fail to analyse their
thinking and theories. I asked some questions to them but did not get proper answer. I fell that
this mistake happened because of lack of analytical skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been summarised that manager and leaders are professional
personalities of an firm and organisation who build effectiveness to getting competitive
advantages easily. This project report is based on two different leaders who provide theirs ideas
and thoughts effectively for different kind of terms. This report determine role and responsibility
of a leader and manager, how these are different in the Public Health industry, interviewed of
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two leaders from the Public Health industry, its responders and critical evaluation about
Leadership theories. At last this report will show results of the Leadership Skills.
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