Leadership in Health Care Compared to Management Research

Leadership
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Evolution of Leadership
As globalization has continually changed the way that business is conducted across the globe and the level of technology continually continues to grow and have intrinsic impacts in the global economies (Riggio, 2010). At the same time the, due to the social and ethical connections that are associated with global cultural competence, the leadership ideologies have changed. In the past leadership has been quite straight forward with most of the theories focusing on the leaders’ ability to formulate decisions, while the rest of the followers implement the guidelines (Riggio, 2010). From the 60s and the 70s much of the leadership theories focused on leadership theories, where the leaders made all the decisions. Ideally, leadership was task oriented. However, this has since changed over time, with much of the emphasis being directed towards the followers more than the leader. While leadership styles are largely dependent on the objectives and the kind of organization, of late the leadership styles have taken on a shift. Leaders now involve the followers on the decision making process in the shift along the transformational leadership style (Maslanka, 2004). The leaders give power to the team members for them to own the process of decision making and the objectives of the various objectives.
Leadership Compared to Management
While the concept of leadership and management must go hand in hand and complement one another, they mean different things. The leaders always have followers while the managers have teams that they work with. Management thus involves giving instructions and tends to take on a reactive stance while leaders tend to be proactive (Guides.wsj.com, 2016). Management is largely associated with the main functions that include organizing, leading, controlling and planning. As such, most of the time management is concerned with accomplishing the organization goals (Page, 2015). This is relative to the fact that manager re responsible for them themselves and the performance of their teams. Leadership on the other hand does not require one to have a managerial position, leaders may have the skills to be a leader even in the lower positions. The leader does not necessarily require power to achieve the objective of the organization, as leadership largely relies ability of the leader to motivate and inspire the rest of the team to carry out their duties. Leadership also relates challenging the status quo while management maintains (Guides.wsj.com, 2016).
Leadership Trait Theory
The leadership trait theory is a one that is based on the characteristics of many leaders, both successful and those that have not been successful. As such, using the list, it is possible to assess the leadership effectiveness of a candidate (Managementstudyguide.com, 2016). A list of the candidates traits are compared to the existing list of traits of potential leaders giving a likelihood of the success or failure. The approach tends to assess the leader along their characteristics with close reference to physiology, demography, personality, intelligence, task related, social, education and socioeconomic characteristics (Managementstudyguide.com, 2016). ...