hcs 475
Leadership Style
Faye D. Baker
HCS/475 – Leadership and Performance Development
December 16, 2013
Shawn Matheson, MBA, LNHA, FACHA
Leadership Style
Transformational leadership is particularly important in the health care industry in today’s modern world because of past reputations. Some time ago the health care industry went through negative change. The health care industry was known as uncaring and cold toward patients. Transformational leadership style is known as a new effective model which was greatly needed to implement change in every aspect of the health industry. This paper will provide further research information on how transformational leadership style implements new change to the health care industry effectively.
Someone Who has a Successful Leadership Style A person who is responsible as transformational leader would be successful because the leadership transforms, inspires, and motivate followers. Transformational leadership emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships and how change can become effective within organizations and human services. Transformational leaders focus on desires, values, goal, and emerging motives ( Sullivan and Decker, 2009). This style of leadership goal is to generate employee’s commitment to the vision or ideal rather than themselves as a leader. A successful leader enhances morale, motivation and performance through a various mechanisms, this includes connecting the follower’s sense of identity and self to certain projects (Sullivan and Decker, 2009) Transformational leaders are positive role models for followers. In addition leaders are sensitive to and understand the strengths and weakness of followers, this understanding helps leaders align followers with other task that can enhance their performance. (Sullivan and Decker, 2009). Through transformational leadership followers are encourage becoming leaders and inspire followers to use his or her
Faye D. Baker
HCS/475 – Leadership and Performance Development
December 16, 2013
Shawn Matheson, MBA, LNHA, FACHA
Leadership Style
Transformational leadership is particularly important in the health care industry in today’s modern world because of past reputations. Some time ago the health care industry went through negative change. The health care industry was known as uncaring and cold toward patients. Transformational leadership style is known as a new effective model which was greatly needed to implement change in every aspect of the health industry. This paper will provide further research information on how transformational leadership style implements new change to the health care industry effectively.
Someone Who has a Successful Leadership Style A person who is responsible as transformational leader would be successful because the leadership transforms, inspires, and motivate followers. Transformational leadership emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships and how change can become effective within organizations and human services. Transformational leaders focus on desires, values, goal, and emerging motives ( Sullivan and Decker, 2009). This style of leadership goal is to generate employee’s commitment to the vision or ideal rather than themselves as a leader. A successful leader enhances morale, motivation and performance through a various mechanisms, this includes connecting the follower’s sense of identity and self to certain projects (Sullivan and Decker, 2009) Transformational leaders are positive role models for followers. In addition leaders are sensitive to and understand the strengths and weakness of followers, this understanding helps leaders align followers with other task that can enhance their performance. (Sullivan and Decker, 2009). Through transformational leadership followers are encourage becoming leaders and inspire followers to use his or her