Theories Of Management And Leadership
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OUTCOME 1
Theories of management and leadership
Trait theory : People are born with inherited traits, some of which are suited to leadership, people who make good leaders have the right or sufficient number of traits.
Command and control theory: Only leader knows best – context, issues, solutions. Leader is expert and is the only person with the complete overview.
Others follow willingly, or through power and pressure. Characterised by status, sought control, hierarchy and power differentials. What matters is will, fortitude, courage (and being right!).
Transactional theory: People are extrinsically motivated; reward and punishment works. Social systems work best with a clear chain of command, When people agree to do a job, …show more content…
The leader must set the overall tone for the organizational culture, the very environment in which everyone will operate and which pervades all aspects of the organization 's work. The leader 's role in shaping the vision and the mission, and the statements which express them, is essential in this regard, since the vision and the mission serve as the beacons for all focused energies and activities. Indeed, the vision and mission are sometimes collectively called the strategic direction, in recognition of their overarching effect on guiding all other facets of the operation toward the "right things," whatever those may be for any given organization at any given point in …show more content…
A manager can be a leader but, a leader is not necessarily going to be a manager. A manager is appointed to ensure that the patient is well taken care of by the healthcare employees and to ensure policy and procedures are followed by the employees. A leader is someone that goes above and beyond to care for the patients. Examples of leadership include: walking by a room of a patient and seeing the aid struggle with the care of a patient and offering to help and teaching them better ways of handling the situation or possibly walking by the room of another nurse and hearing the patient crying and going in to check on the patient. Example of management: manager walks by a room and finds an employee performing a procedure differently from the way that company policies and procedures dictate and writes the employee up for not following policies and
OUTCOME 1
Theories of management and leadership
Trait theory : People are born with inherited traits, some of which are suited to leadership, people who make good leaders have the right or sufficient number of traits.
Command and control theory: Only leader knows best – context, issues, solutions. Leader is expert and is the only person with the complete overview.
Others follow willingly, or through power and pressure. Characterised by status, sought control, hierarchy and power differentials. What matters is will, fortitude, courage (and being right!).
Transactional theory: People are extrinsically motivated; reward and punishment works. Social systems work best with a clear chain of command, When people agree to do a job, …show more content…
The leader must set the overall tone for the organizational culture, the very environment in which everyone will operate and which pervades all aspects of the organization 's work. The leader 's role in shaping the vision and the mission, and the statements which express them, is essential in this regard, since the vision and the mission serve as the beacons for all focused energies and activities. Indeed, the vision and mission are sometimes collectively called the strategic direction, in recognition of their overarching effect on guiding all other facets of the operation toward the "right things," whatever those may be for any given organization at any given point in …show more content…
A manager can be a leader but, a leader is not necessarily going to be a manager. A manager is appointed to ensure that the patient is well taken care of by the healthcare employees and to ensure policy and procedures are followed by the employees. A leader is someone that goes above and beyond to care for the patients. Examples of leadership include: walking by a room of a patient and seeing the aid struggle with the care of a patient and offering to help and teaching them better ways of handling the situation or possibly walking by the room of another nurse and hearing the patient crying and going in to check on the patient. Example of management: manager walks by a room and finds an employee performing a procedure differently from the way that company policies and procedures dictate and writes the employee up for not following policies and