Summary: Women In Healthcare Leadership
“Although a majority of the healthcare workforce – 74% - is female, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in the top management of healthcare organizations.”
More than half of the graduates of health administration programs over the past 25 years have been female. Why aren’t there more women in the top management? Although women repre-sent a majority of the healthcare workforce, they are not represented at board levels. Women are more probable to be in the middle management. (Dunn, 2014)
“While the future for women in healthcare leadership looks bright, many women are currently struggling to reach the executive office, facing glass ceilings, competing priorities, and lack of access to support and guidance.” (Fontenot, 2012)
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Nowadays these soft skills are essential to be a successful healthcare leader. (Madden, 2014)
All these high - potential women in medicine and nursing can be trained and developed for board levels. A recent study by two researches at Harvard Business School showed that wom-en were out of 16 competencies in 15 competencies better than men and that many of these characteristics would be needed traits for health leaders for example “displays high integrity and honesty”, “collaboration and teamwork” and “drives for results”. (Bradley, …show more content…
They influence people to follow them and want to undertake the guidance. As opposed to this women are accustomed to try to please as this is taught them from birth. As a result women have the leaning to motivate, inspire and stimulate others to achieve organizational goals. Men perceive diverse factors to be more nec-essary and vital to career success than women.
Referring to Joan Julia Branin (2009) female healthcare executives are seen as nurturing while men’s leadership is perceived as confident. Women’s promotion prospects are inhibited. On the contrary men are seen as competitive risk takers who take more advantage of advancement opportunities.
These differences are magnificent issues in today’s health services. Diversity provides a com-petitive advantage in achievement and problem solving by involving different sides and views and by representing the interests of a wide range of people because this leads to greater cus-tomer satisfaction. The way of thinking come to be more creative and the bottom line
More than half of the graduates of health administration programs over the past 25 years have been female. Why aren’t there more women in the top management? Although women repre-sent a majority of the healthcare workforce, they are not represented at board levels. Women are more probable to be in the middle management. (Dunn, 2014)
“While the future for women in healthcare leadership looks bright, many women are currently struggling to reach the executive office, facing glass ceilings, competing priorities, and lack of access to support and guidance.” (Fontenot, 2012)
Women …show more content…
Nowadays these soft skills are essential to be a successful healthcare leader. (Madden, 2014)
All these high - potential women in medicine and nursing can be trained and developed for board levels. A recent study by two researches at Harvard Business School showed that wom-en were out of 16 competencies in 15 competencies better than men and that many of these characteristics would be needed traits for health leaders for example “displays high integrity and honesty”, “collaboration and teamwork” and “drives for results”. (Bradley, …show more content…
They influence people to follow them and want to undertake the guidance. As opposed to this women are accustomed to try to please as this is taught them from birth. As a result women have the leaning to motivate, inspire and stimulate others to achieve organizational goals. Men perceive diverse factors to be more nec-essary and vital to career success than women.
Referring to Joan Julia Branin (2009) female healthcare executives are seen as nurturing while men’s leadership is perceived as confident. Women’s promotion prospects are inhibited. On the contrary men are seen as competitive risk takers who take more advantage of advancement opportunities.
These differences are magnificent issues in today’s health services. Diversity provides a com-petitive advantage in achievement and problem solving by involving different sides and views and by representing the interests of a wide range of people because this leads to greater cus-tomer satisfaction. The way of thinking come to be more creative and the bottom line