Medical Leadership Position Paper

A solution to establish equal power within the new organization should be to equally distribute leadership positions between PRMC and BRMC. For instance, instead of having the CEOs from each compete for a spot they could create a dual management role. This goes the same for the hospital board and medical leadership positions. The four medical leadership positions should be comprised of two PRMC and two BRMC doctors. The hospital board should be composed of seven PRMC and seven BRMC employees with the fifteenth member being the unbiased vice president of human resources to break tied decisions. Nevertheless, these solutions could be a problem. It is inevitable that BRMC staff will be stronger at taking on leadership roles since they never had
to rely on take orders from a higher corporate office and providing training for the PRMC management positions could be costly. Also, having a co-CEO structure is not known to be the most effective.
Equally important, the hospital board and medical leadership positions need to develop and an effective leadership style. If they were to choose one of the preexisting leadership style, it would make more sense to implement BRMCs participative style since it was used during a rebuilding phase of their hospital which relates to this merger unlike PRMCs style that was more structured due to taking orders from MHC which is not the case anymore. Another option would be to agree on and develop a new leadership style that seems fit for the newly combined staff. A new leadership style would be the best option because a new staff behavior requires a different way of leading and motivating even if it would take much more time.