Critical Discuss Leadership Style of a Hospital
Module Code: BUSI48020
Group: Cohort C
Module Title: Managing People, Information & Knowledge. 2012/13 Full Year
Assessment Type: Case study analysis
Assignment Title: Critical discuss leadership style according to the case study given.
Student Name: Kuan Shu Yee
Student ID Number: N0464384
Date of Submission: 16/11/2012
Word count: 1911
A person who as the ability to influence others and has certain managerial authority can be clearly clarified as a leader. Leadership is a combination of mindset, behaviors and skills which drive an organisation to its goals and mission. Thus, it is always the key of success or failure of an organisation. This is due to the changes and convolution of current business environment, idealistic expectation has implied to leaders as the leadership getting more important (Yukl, 2006). However, leadership can only be created when working together with others as it does not depends too much on individual that have clear vision. In the case study, it refers to a hospital, a healthcare organisation which is unlike other organisation. Hospital is much more compound due to the activities daily which involves large group of different professionals who are working between the life and death of the patient. It is a very tough and complex situation which the leadership that applied will be exactly different from the other organisation. Healthcare organisation is a “system” with the combination of processes, people, team building and other resources. Thus, having a good leadership will lead to a good hospital management.
From above, we know that most of the hospital’s leadership styles used are slightly different from leadership that implement in other organisation by way the leadership used in hospital focus a lot on the attitude and the behavioral of a group of profession. Leadership also helps to recognises the need for an understanding of the relationship between specific
Group: Cohort C
Module Title: Managing People, Information & Knowledge. 2012/13 Full Year
Assessment Type: Case study analysis
Assignment Title: Critical discuss leadership style according to the case study given.
Student Name: Kuan Shu Yee
Student ID Number: N0464384
Date of Submission: 16/11/2012
Word count: 1911
A person who as the ability to influence others and has certain managerial authority can be clearly clarified as a leader. Leadership is a combination of mindset, behaviors and skills which drive an organisation to its goals and mission. Thus, it is always the key of success or failure of an organisation. This is due to the changes and convolution of current business environment, idealistic expectation has implied to leaders as the leadership getting more important (Yukl, 2006). However, leadership can only be created when working together with others as it does not depends too much on individual that have clear vision. In the case study, it refers to a hospital, a healthcare organisation which is unlike other organisation. Hospital is much more compound due to the activities daily which involves large group of different professionals who are working between the life and death of the patient. It is a very tough and complex situation which the leadership that applied will be exactly different from the other organisation. Healthcare organisation is a “system” with the combination of processes, people, team building and other resources. Thus, having a good leadership will lead to a good hospital management.
From above, we know that most of the hospital’s leadership styles used are slightly different from leadership that implement in other organisation by way the leadership used in hospital focus a lot on the attitude and the behavioral of a group of profession. Leadership also helps to recognises the need for an understanding of the relationship between specific