Analyze literature related to health care administration leadership perspectives
Week 5: Behavioral/Style Perspective to Leadership
What is more effective, a leader who speaks about action or a leader who takes action? It is almost incumbent upon leaders to possess excellent communication skills so they may clearly articulate thoughts and information. Consider for a moment a health care administration leader who is meeting with clinical staff to institute new policies on reducing hospital-acquired infections. If the health care administration leader communicates effectively, the clinical staff will provide input on how to institute these guidelines and collaborate with the health care administration leader to promote overall patient and staff safety. This then positions the health care administration leader as the authority on the subject and leader in social change. Yet what might happen if this health care administration leader, who spoke so eloquently, behaved in a manner that contradicts everything he or she said? Would the perception of the clinical staff be the same? Consider a similar scenario of a health care administration leader who manages a government health initiative. What if he or she speaks the right words, but his or her actions are contradictory? Is that person still considered an effective leader?
This week, you continue your examination and analysis of leadership perspectives with the behavioral perspective of leadership. You also conduct a literature review and develop a problem statement as a component of your Scholar-Practitioner Project for this course.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Evaluate strengths and limitations of the behavioral perspective of leadership
- Analyze the relationship of behavioral leadership perspective to Trait Theory and Skills Approach of leadership
- Analyze literature related to health care administration leadership perspectives
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Nahavandi, A. (2015). The art and science of leadership (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
- Chapter 3, “The Foundations of Modern Leadership” (pp. 64–89)
- Chapter 9, “Leading Change” (pp. 278–300)
This is a seminal article in the field that will serve as a foundation for additional resources.
- Discussion: Behavioral/Style Perspective to Leadership
What is needed today is an organizational culture of patient- and family-centered care. Creating a culture of patient- and family-centered care must be initiated and guided by ethical leadership. Only through the vision of ethical leadership will this change in culture be accomplished…The chief executive officer (CEO) and the board must believe that this culture change is imperative in the desire to become better in quality, safety, and satisfaction.
—Piper & Tallman, 2015, p. 63
For this Discussion, conduct a search in the library and select an article depicting a behavioral perspective to health care administration leadership. Think about particular strengths and limitations of this perspective. Consider how this perspective might relate to the Trait Theory or Skills Approach of leadership.
In two pages Post a brief explanation of the behavioral perspective reflected in the article you selected. Then, explain the strengths and limitations of this perspective. Finally, explain how this perspective you selected relates to both Trait Theory and the Skills Approach.
- Project: Scholar-Practitioner Project: Literature Review and Problem Statement
This week, you begin development of your Scholar-Practitioner Project: Health Care Administration Leadership Theory. In order to achieve success in this program and as a future leader in health care administration, developing your skills for effectively assessing current literature and evaluating problems is critical. One of the goals of the Scholar-Practitioner Project is to help you develop such skills.
For this Project Assignment, think about common trends in health care administration leadership or critical areas of need for leadership in the field. Prepare a literature review of scholarly articles related to your topic. This review should contain a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed or scholarly resources. Additionally, based on your conducted review of the current literature, create a problem statement that addresses identified gaps while incorporating implications for positive social change. Located within the resources for the week, you may find the information from Walden’s Online Writing Center helpful for your completion of the Assignment.
- For this Project Assignment, think about common trends in health care administration leadership or critical areas of need for leadership in the field.
- Prepare a literature review of scholarly articles related to your topic in health care administration leadership. This review should contain a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed or scholarly resources.
- Based on what you find in the current health care administration leadership literature, create a problem statement. It must address identified gaps while incorporating implications for positive social change.
Organize the Project in the following manner (each section should be represented for a comprehensive overview):
Literature Review and Problem Statement (5–7 pages):
- The Literature Review section should be written in the narrative form, integrating concepts from the articles you find. The section should include:
- A synthesis of a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed, scholarly resources that give the reader a good overview of the issue. The section should show the reader common trends in health care administration leadership or critical areas of need for leadership in the field.
- A description of theoretical gaps in the research area. Based on the research you just did in leadership, what seems to be missing?
- The Problem Statement should include:
- An explanation of the specific problem that addresses identified gaps within the literature.
- An explanation of how your problem statement incorporates implications for positive social change. As students at Walden, you are preparing to become agents of social change. Based on your leadership topic, the research you just did, and the gaps you found, how would you be a social agent for change?
Support your Project with specific references to all resources and current literature used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.
Week 6: Situational Approach and Contingency Theory
The influenza pandemic of 1918 was one of the most powerful pandemics in history: it killed nearly 100 million people. For the United States, it is more than a medical footnote in the field of health. Ironically, in the United States, the epidemic not only serves as a haunting reminder of health infrastructure problems, but also a reminder of triumphs. For example, as a result of the epidemic, Dr. Hermann Briggs, New York State Health Commissioner, developed the Rural Hospital Program that established hospitals and medical care in the hardest-hit areas of the epidemic—rural counties (Kohler, 2007). Understanding the situation, Briggs’s leadership highlighted key components of two other leadership perspectives—Situational Approach and Contingency Theory.
This week, you examine situations and circumstances that may prompt action for a specific type of leadership. You examine situations to determine how a health care administration leader may adapt his or her leadership style to the group or organization’s situation or environment. Also, you analyze strengths and limitations with situational approaches for health care administration leadership.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Apply Fiedler’s Contingency Model to leader and subordinate interactions
- Analyze insights related to leader/subordinate interactions and Fiedler’s Contingency Model
- Analyze personal perception of emotional intelligence
- Analyze impact of perception of emotional intelligence on health care administration leadership
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Nahavandi, A. (2015). The art and science of leadership (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
- Chapter 3, “The Foundations of Modern Leadership” (pp. 64–89)
- Chapter 10, “Developing Leaders” (pp. 310–332)
- Self-Assessment 4-2: Emotional Intelligence (p. 133)
This is a seminal article in the field that will serve as a foundation for additional resources.
Blanchard, K. H., & Hersey, P. (1996). Great ideas revisited. Training & Development, 50(1), 42-48.
This is a seminal article in the field that will serve as a foundation for additional resources.
Optional Resources
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