Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care : Assignment

Leadership and management in health and social care

Running Head: Report
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
A. Management and leadership.....................................................................................................3
Role of management in Health care and social care........................................................................4
Management theories.......................................................................................................................5
Scientific management theory......................................................................................................6
Elton Mayo Theory......................................................................................................................6
Role of the leadership theory in Health and social care..................................................................8
Transactional leadership theory.................................................................................................10
Transformational leadership theory...........................................................................................10
B. Synthesize leadership and management theories....................................................................11
Management theories.................................................................................................................12
Leadership styles or theories......................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16
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Running Head: Report
Introduction
This report outlines the role of the management and leadership in the social and health care. Both
the terms are similar in some aspects and both the concepts are very important for the
performance of the organization. The management and the leadership are the most widely used
concept for the delivery of the social and healthcare services. The main motive of these concepts
is to influence the people and manage the people to achieve the goals of the organization. The
main purpose of this study is to reflect the role played by the management and leadership in the
social care and delivery of the health services and also portrays the different theories and models
associated with these concepts. However, there are many traits and theories are associated with
the process of the leadership and the most common attributes or traits used by the leaders are
determination, intelligence, self confidence, charisma and integrity. Therefore, the leadership and
management have a great impact on the organizational performance (WHO, 2010).
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Running Head: Report
A. Management and leadership
Both the concepts are same in some aspects and different in the case of skills, duties and the
behaviors. Both the concepts complement each other. It is the fact that a good managers are
good leaders and to become good leaders, a person must have the managerial skills.
Management ensures that the all the available resources in the organization are properly utilized
or not and apply all the managerial skills and management strategies to achieve the optimum
results. A good manager can be a leader to achieve the best output. Therefore, all day to day
activities are managed well by the managers in order to produce the desired results. The main
attributes that a manager should have are as follows:
 Perfect organizational skills
 Have the Clarity of the tasks and mission of the organization
 Must have the skills to Delegate the authority
 Must be able to communicate about the expected outcomes and tasks in an effective way.
 Negotiation of the regulatory processes (Dodson, 2017).
Leadership is the quality that a person has to influence others and motivate them to achieve the
organizational goals and objectives. A leader sets a vision what they can achieve and builds
strategies, how to achieve and also communicate this with the others to reach the goals. Coming
to the attributes that a good leader must have are:
 Creative in nature
 Flexible
 Ability to motivate and influence other people
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