Transformational Leadership: DaVita and Coastal Medical Center

This report delves into the concept of transformational leadership, examining its core principles and practical applications within the healthcare industry. It defines transformational leadership as a style that inspires and motivates employees to drive innovation and positive change. The report provides a real-world example of transformational leadership by analyzing the case of DaVita, highlighting how the company has leveraged this leadership style to achieve growth and adapt to the changing healthcare landscape. Furthermore, the report discusses the potential benefits of implementing transformational leadership in strategic planning, using Coastal Medical Center as a case study. The analysis explores how this leadership approach can help healthcare organizations enhance employee morale, improve performance, and align individual responsibilities with organizational goals, ultimately contributing to improved patient care and overall success. The report references several academic sources to support its arguments and provides a comprehensive overview of the topic.

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Transformational leadership in health care industry
The transformational leadership theory is something where the leader is known for
working with the specific organization in order to identify needed change, creates a vision in
order to guide the change throughout the organization. The transformational leadership style is
known for serving the employees with huge amount of motivation, increases the morale and
allows better job performance to the employees. However according to the author Bergerum,
Josefsson & Wolmesj (2019) the main concept of transformational leadership was first brought
in or started by the author James V. Downtown in the year of 1973, which was further expanded
by the author James Bur in the year of 1978. Therefore this concept of leadership style is known
for particularly being more effective in terms of increasing the company production of bringing
in effectiveness among the employees working in the company. This model of transformational
leadership is known for thus encouraging the leaders to demonstrate authenticity, build strong
leadership skills and develop creativity as an idea which help the employees to follow the same
suit.
The transformational leaders in the organization increases the job performance of the
employee so as by connecting the employee morale and identifies the importance of the goals in
the company. Transformational leaders act as a role model for the followers to take great
ownership of work and understanding the strength in the organization. The leaders are also
helpful in a way by enhancing the performance of the employees and align the self
responsibilities with the goals of the company or particular business organization (Batalden
2018).

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According to the author LoBiondo-Woo, Haber & Titler (2018) the transformational
leaders can be defined as those who try to encourage, inspire, and as well as motivate the
employees in order to innovate and create a beautiful change which will in a sense help in
bringing growth and change in the particular business company. It is thus accomplished by
setting an example in the extremely strong executive level through the sense of cooperation and
independence in the organization.
The best thing about the transformational leaders are that these types of leaders are known for
initiating the change within the organization so as by inspiring and motivating the employees or
the followers they are leading, without micro changing the whole process. According to the
author the transformational leaders are known for building good trust and bonding with the
active employees who love to take authority over various types of decision in the assigned jobs.
Therefore it is also that it is that management style where the employees are given more room in
order to think something big and better than the other process. The employees with the help of
transformational leadership style will be able to look into the near future and find new and
creative solution to the old problems occurring in the management.
Taking for the example of Davita working with transformational leadership in the
healthcare industry can be said that with the help of transformational leadership at the core of the
business the company will be able to prosper with new growth among the competitors working
in the same market of health care industry. With the help of transformational leadership the
company will also be able to adapt the legacy business and bring a new life to the business
operation in the health care industry. The firm will be able to see a new growth with the financial
status of the company.

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The best example of transformational leadership in the company Davita is the former
CEO Kent Thiry. He is known for serving as the role of employee engagement in the company
for more than 20 years now. The CEO lastly before joining the health care industry had
previously served a near bankrupt company named as Total Rental Care as by creating a new
identity and setting various types of new values in the day to day operations of the business.
Transformational leadership in the company will be able to bring out the potential present in the
employees working for the company (Bowman & Guest 2017). The transformational leadership
style will be helping the company so as by bringing in a creativity in the business operation of
the day to day performance in the business. With the help of creativity and innovative ideas in
the business the employees will be able to solve any business problem at a glance thus helping
the company in order to sustainable throughout its operation in the market.

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