Organizational Collaboration Analysis
This assignment will critically explore how the contribution of effective Leadership can make to build and sustain organizational collaboration in health and social care environment. Developing and sustaining Organizational Collaboration in health care setting is extremely challenging. The need and demand for the organizational collaboration, the qualities of collaborative leadership and promotion and sustainability of the collaboration will be critically explored. “Organizations” have become a very common word and needs a contextual definition. Organization is a cooperative system; it needs active cooperation within workers to function effectively and efficiently (Burnes 2004: 12, 54). The current and future leadership is very important to
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Number of text books has different definitions for leadership and its concepts. However, Western cited (1938: 81) that "Lead" is a word that could be a noun as well as a verb and hence has two meanings. As a noun, "Lead" means "to be a guide to others" or” to be the head of an organization. As a verb, "Lead" means "to excel and to be in advance". Though it is confusing, the widely accepted Northhouse (2006:3) definition says it is a process whereby an individual leverages a group of individuals towards achieving a common goal. Henceforth, the Leaders’ influence or skills, knowledge and guidance are essential to achieve a goal in any organization. Western (2013: 39) states that there are so many types in leadership and each main type has sub types depending on the nature (Appendix 1). Avery (2013) has named them differently (Appendix 2). Being an effective leader in public health organizations certainly differs from other industrial or food chain organizations. According to (Eckert et al, 2014), NHS needs to move on from the traditional leadership way of leading. It insists on moving forward to a collective leadership. Collective leadership does not work for your own or your work area’s success, instead, it stresses that everyone need to take responsibility for the success of their organization as a whole. The leaders should make sure that all the staff are adopting leadership role in their work environment to take up collective and
Number of text books has different definitions for leadership and its concepts. However, Western cited (1938: 81) that "Lead" is a word that could be a noun as well as a verb and hence has two meanings. As a noun, "Lead" means "to be a guide to others" or” to be the head of an organization. As a verb, "Lead" means "to excel and to be in advance". Though it is confusing, the widely accepted Northhouse (2006:3) definition says it is a process whereby an individual leverages a group of individuals towards achieving a common goal. Henceforth, the Leaders’ influence or skills, knowledge and guidance are essential to achieve a goal in any organization. Western (2013: 39) states that there are so many types in leadership and each main type has sub types depending on the nature (Appendix 1). Avery (2013) has named them differently (Appendix 2). Being an effective leader in public health organizations certainly differs from other industrial or food chain organizations. According to (Eckert et al, 2014), NHS needs to move on from the traditional leadership way of leading. It insists on moving forward to a collective leadership. Collective leadership does not work for your own or your work area’s success, instead, it stresses that everyone need to take responsibility for the success of their organization as a whole. The leaders should make sure that all the staff are adopting leadership role in their work environment to take up collective and