Path Goal Theory In Health Care Industry

The discussion is about the leadership in the health care industry. Till early 19th century the need for health industry was less because the people were less ignorant of their body and mind. Hence there was less need for the healthcare industry as the importance of money, materials and machines grew. People started to look outside themselves than inside them after the mid 19th century that slowly resulted in the emergence of the healthcare industry. As the people started to go to health care centers the employment in health care grew making room for different levels of employment. There started the need of leadership in healthcare industry in the late 19th century. This essay would cover the historical development of healthcare leadership …show more content…
Path Goal Theory:
This theory is developed by Robert House, which comes under the contingency model of leadership theory. This theory employs the important elements from Ohio state studies and expectancy theory of motivation. The main job of the leader as per this theory is to assist the followers in attaining their goals by providing necessary support to ensure that their goals are compatible with the organisational goals.
The main content of this theory is that a leader’s behaviour is acceptable to subordinates insofar as they view it as a source of either immediate or future …show more content…
The outcome is based on the behaviour of the leader as supportive, participative, guiding and achievement oriented. The directive leader lets know subordinate know what is expected of them, schedules work to be done. Supportive leader is friendly and shows concern for the sub-ordinates feelings when the nurse is external type of personality with less perceived ability and has less or no experience. The participative leader interacts with the sub-ordinates and uses their suggestion before making decisions. So the sub-ordinates are the internal type of personality and have ability and experience. The last type is achievement oriented leader who sets challenging goals and expects the sub-ordinates to perform the highest level since they are an internal type of nurses with ability and experience can handle complex and new emergencies on their own. Those nurses who work for satisfaction would surely work on the tough goals of the leader. The gist of this theory is that the leader is flexible within these leadership styles that take show the subordinates the path to their goal. This theory has been tested and appears to have moderate to high empirical support in practice. (Fitzpatrick & Glazer,