Analyzing Leadership Theories and Approaches in Healthcare Settings

This report provides an overview of leadership theories and their application within the health and social care sector. It begins by discussing transactional and transformational leadership theories, as well as Fiedler's Situational Contingency model. The report then examines how working relationships can be managed effectively within the context of a healthcare environment, emphasizing the importance of clear roles, trust, and communication. Finally, it reflects on how the study of these management approaches has influenced the author's own leadership development, highlighting the skills gained and areas for improvement, and how the author can leverage their experience and qualifications to lead a team and maintain strong relationships. The report concludes with a list of relevant references.

Unit 13: Managing Human Resources in Health and
Social Care
4.1 Presenting the theories of leadership
Transactional leadership theory: This mostly focuses on
supervision, organization and the performance of the employees.
By following this leadership style, leaders will easily promote their
employees through reward and punishments. But on the other side,
they did not accept the changes and keep the things same. They
mostly pay attention to the fault and deviations of their employees
rather then motivating them.
Transforming leadership theory: This theory is basically
used to create high- performance that helps to lead a team and
achieve all defined goals and objectives of a company. Using this
theory, leaders of the company will have good visionary, inspiring,
risk takers. They also posses inspirational motivation and through
their creative ideas they encourage their employees to raise their
working efficiencies.
Fiedler's Situational Contingency: Under this, leaders opt
different leadership style as per the situation. Such that leaders of
St Margaret Nursing Home opted different leadership styles and
the theory states that because of leadership behaviour is fixed
effectiveness which can be improved by restructuring the task and
as a result, the goals and objectives of the company are achieved.
4.2 Presenting how working relationships may be managed
In St. Margaret Nursing Home,leaders must divide or allot the
work to every individual so that each person can feel their responsibility
and as a result relationship can be managed. Every person in a team must
be aware related to their roles. Trust is another effective approach which
help to manage the working relationship.
For example, people who are honest, trust worthy can easily manage their
work with each other and they can also share their experience of success
as well as failure with their co- workers.
If employee will have good communication and interaction skills
which help them to keep interacting with each other and share their good
as well as bad experience with each other. Through contingency
management, leaders as well as employees also manage their work as well
as relationship so that it will help them to achieve all defined goals and
objectives as quick as possible.
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4.3 Evaluating how own development influenced by management approaches
Through management approaches, I found that I am lacking of some
leadership skills which needs to be overcome and this can be possible through
training which helps to enhances my leadership skills. As I have good
confidence and skills which help to take a better decision for my future
growth but on the other side, having good knowledge related to my work,
which will further help to raise my working efficiencies. A good
understanding related to the field work will also help to lead a team and build
a strong relationship with each other. As I have the abilities to adapt sudden
change as per the environment which will help to communicate or to convey
the message to others. A good working experience as well as qualification
also helps to lead a team in an effective way so that it will help to maintain
good relationship with each other and sharing views with each other so that it
will assist to grab opportunity.