Leadership Behaviors and Trust in Nursing: A Team Dynamics Analysis

This essay explores the critical role of leadership behaviors in fostering trust within nursing teams, highlighting behaviors that build trust such as over-communication, compassion, and fairness, while also identifying behaviors that undermine trust, including favoritism, ego-led leadership, and superiority. The consequences of mistrust, such as lack of teamwork, job dissatisfaction, and failure to report errors, are discussed, emphasizing the impact on patient safety. Strategies for developing trust, including encouraging credibility, emphasizing respect, and empowering team members, are presented. The essay also outlines the skills and qualities of a good team leader, such as consultative approach, openness to communication, empathy, and flexibility, and differentiates between a good leader and an effective leader, noting that a good leader focuses on doing the right thing and nurturing followers. The provided solution is available on Desklib, where students can access a wealth of academic resources, including past papers and solved assignments.

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Leadership Behaviours
That Build Trust within a
Team
 Over Communication
 Compassion
 Treating People
Fairly
(Goleman, 2017).

Leadership behaviors that
undermine trust within a
team
 Favouritism
 Ego-led leadership
 Attitude of superiority
(Greenbaum et al., 2015)

Consequences of Mistrust to
A team leader on patient
safety
 Lack of teamwork
 Job dissatisfaction and team
ineffectiveness
 Not reporting of errors
(Jameson, 2012;Boulware et al., 2016;Reeves et
al., 2011)

Strategies for developing
trust among team
members
 Encourage a culture of
Credibility
 Emphasize respect
 Communicate

Strategies for developing
trust among team
members...
 Empower team members
 Establish Team Values and
Goals
(Deneckere et al., 2012)

Skills and Qualities a
Good Team Leader
 Less bureaucracy (Helliwell, & Huang,
2011).
 Consultative Cicolini, Comparcini, &
Simonetti, (2014)
 Openness to communication (Grol,
2013).

Skills and Qualities a
Good Team Leader…
 Empathy
 Supportive
 Inspirational
(Grol, 2013).

Skills and Qualities a
Good Team Leader…
 Flexible
 Interpersonal skills

A Good Leader or an
Effective Leader:
Differences
A good Leader:
Does the right thing as opposed to
getting things done
Responsible
Reduce collateral damage

A Good Leader or an
Effective Leader:
Differences..
A good Leader:
Acquire staff, but nurture followers
Leave the organization much better
(Gächter et al., 2011)

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