The Theories Of Leadership In Health Care

Theories of leadership have not been developed within the health care settings but were established in the business context and applied to the health care unit. So, the theories are dynamic in nature and will transform over the period of time. Health care organizations are composed of complex interfaces among large number of professionals with numerous roles. The unique structure of health care organizations usually follow the traditional or past practices that can resist to change (Kumar. R.D et al. 2015). According to Bossidy & Charan (2002) effective cooperation is a critical shortfall in many health care arenas. So, the effective leadership is crucial to bring necessary changes for quality improvement of the organizations.
For some people
the terms management and leadership are similar. According to Peter Drucker, leadership is doing right things whereas management is doing things right. Management strongly focuses on status quo but leadership encourages innovative thinking, change for the future of the organization (Manion, 2005). Now a days, health care industry becomes more and more competitive with the changing environment and the leadership become the pillar for motivating and inspiring change for future (Kotter, 2003).
Leadership exists inside connections that are available to all through an organization.
Leadership is an art of motivating people so that they will try enthusiastically to achieve group goals. This can significantly emphasize on collaboration within organizations so that the leaders and followers can raise each other motivational level and cherishes interdependencies among multiple stakeholders (VanVactor, 2012). Leadership has been depicted as the conduct of a person while coordinating the activities towards a common objective and adapting to the change (Al-Sawai, 2013).
Health care management should be collaborated with multifaceted groups to work together such that it can support future goal of reducing illness and improving the health of the community (VanVactor, 2015). Every manager within health care settings can integrate collaborative communication strategies which can extend beyond traditional organizational boundaries (VanVactor, 2015). Leadership positions in healthcare are often considered to be a highly specialized subset of the broader management areas and many of the broader debates about management education (Andrew, 2010).
The key element of this study is to find out the influences of the leadership in healthcare management. The main points are - the theories of leadership, collaborative leadership, distributive leadership and leadership model in the management of health care to improve the
quality.