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Leadership


defined as the process of influencing people to accomplish goals




Key concepts: influence, communication, group process, goal attainment, and motivation.

Management
the coordination and integration of resources through planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and controlling to accomplish specific institutional goals and objectives.
leadership
guiding, directing, teaching, and motivating to set and achieve goals.
Management
resource coordination and integration to accomplish specific goals
professionalism
an approach to an occupation that distinguishes it from being merely a job, focuses on service as the highest ideal, follows a code of ethics, and is seen as a lifetime commitment.
leadership style
different combinations of task and relationship behaviors used to influence individuals and accomplish goals.
followership
defined as interpersonal process of participation.
empowerment
means giving people the authority, responsibility, and freedom to act on their expert knowledge knowledge and skills.
trait
focuses on identifying specific characteristics of leaders
attitudinal
measures attitudes toward leadership behavior
situational
focuses on observed behaviors of leaders and how leadership styles can be matched to situations.
challenging the process
leaders go beyond the status quo to search for opportunities, experiment, and take risks to achieve lofty goals.
Inspiring shared vision

Leaders envision the future and enlist others in sharing the dream.
Enabling others to act
Leaders foster collaboration and develop and strengthen others so that the whole team performs well.
modeling the way
Leaders set an example and structure events so that incremental progress is celebrated as small wins.
encouraging the heart
Leaders appreciate and recognize individual contributions and formally celebrate accomplishments.
leadership do's
honesty, energy, drive, tenacity, creativity, flexibility, visibility, emotional stability, knowledge, conceptual skills, leadership motivation.
leadership dont's
untrustworthiness, insensitivity to others, aloofness, over-managing, abrasiveness, inability to think strategically or staff effectively, inability to build a team, and focusing on internal organizational politics. (overly ambitious)
task behavior

the extent to which leaders organize and define roles; explain activities, determine when, where and how tasks are to be accomplished; and endeavor to get work accomplished.
relationship behavior
the extent to which the leaders maintain personal relationships by opening communication and providing psycho-emotional support and facilitating behaviors.
authoritarian
uses primarily directive behaviors. Decisions of policy are made solely by the leader who tends to dictate tasks and techniques to followers. Leaders tell the followers what to do and how to do it.
democratic
implies a relationship and person orientation. Policies are a matter of group discussion and decision. The leader encourages and assistts discussion and group decision making. Human relations and teamwork are the focus. Leader shares responsibility with team.
laissez-faire
promotes complete freedom for group or individuals decisions. There is a minimum of leader participation. Leader using this style may be apathetic. a clear decision may never be formulated. Avoidance of interference and let events take their own course. Leader is permissive and fosters freedom. Used with groups of fully independent care providers or professionals working together.
Impoverished
this style uses minimal effort to get the work done.
Country club
this approach emphasizes attention to the needs of people to effect satisfying relationships
authority obedience
this style strives for efficiency in operations.
organizational man
this approach works on balancing the necessity to accomplish the task with maintaining morale.
team
this style promotes work accomplishment from committed people and interdependence through a common cause, leading to trust and respect.
leader-member relations
refers to the type and quality of the leader's personal relationships with followers.
task structure
how structured the group's assigned task is
position power
refers to power that is conferred on the leader by the organization as a result of the assigned job.
effectiveness
defined as how appropriately a given leader's style interrelates with a given situation.
ability
based on the amount of past job experience, knowledge, ability to solve problems, ability to meet deadlines.
psychological willingness
being willing to take responsibility to have a positive attitude toward accepting the obligation to complete a task

transactional leader


(more common)


leader or manager who functions in a caregiver role and is focused on day to day operations, leaders survey followers needs and set goals for them based on what can be expected. Leader focused on management and maintenance of ongoing and routine work.


Comparable to bargain or contract. think about politicians.

transformational
leader who motivates followers to perform to their full potential over time by influencing change in perceptions and by providing a sense of direction.
servant leadership

term to describe leaders who choose first to serve others and then to be a leader, as opposed to those who are leaders first and later chose to serve.
Management
the process of coordination and integration of resources through activities of planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and controlling to accomplish specific institutional goals and objectives.
nursing management
defined as the coordination and integration of nursing resources by applying the management process to accomplish nursing care and service goals and objectives.
planning

defined as determining the long term and short term objectives and the corresponding actions that must be taken to achieve these objectives.
strategic planning
more broad ranged, this approach means determining the overall purposes and directions of the organization. Focused on major goal identification
tactical planning
more short ranged, this type means determining the specific details of implementing broader goals.
errors of fact
the plan is based on misinformation
errors in assumption
the plan is based on incorrect assumptions
errors of logic
the plan is based on faulty reasoning
organizing
defined as mobilizing the human and material resources of the institution to achieve organizational objectives.
directing
the managerial function of establishing direction and then influencing people to follow that direction.
coordinating
motivating and leading personnel to carry out the desired actions
controlling
defined as comparing the results of work with predetermined standards of performance and taking corrective action when needed.
contingency theory

managers need to consider the situation and all its elements when making a decision.


"it all depends"

systems theory

set of interrelated and interdependent parts that are designed to achieve common goals. Changes in one part will affect all.


Integrators necessary to consider the whole system when making changes.

complexity theory
focus is the behavior over time of certain complex and dynamically changing systems. Concern is about predictability of the behavior of systems that under certain conditions perform in regular and predictable ways but in other conditions change in irregular and unpredictable ways. Stable and unstable behaviors are the focus.
chaos theory
disorganization and disorderliness, but the meaning for this concept In chaos theory is different. it refers to behavior that is unpredictable in spite of certain regularities. Related to unpredictability of the weather.