Name
Capella University
NURS-FPX5007: Managing Health Information & Technology
Instructor’s Name
September 24th, 2024
Leadership Styles Application
Leadership is a key factor in most organizations and in such organizations, it is critical to ensure that positive leadership styles are adopted so that staff members can solve their complex problems and also ensure that they offer these solutions in the best organizational environment. Marty is a hard-working nurse with truly dramatic personal and professional issues, the existence of which the competitor demands comparatively nice and considerate leadership. Their mishaps and sicknesses are affecting their output, and since she tends to get illnesses, she is less stressed; perhaps compromising the productivity of her team. It is therefore important to review leadership solutions that will work in the short and long term to deal with this problem well. This paper discusses the practicality of transformational, transactional, and servant leadership theories and discusses what circumstances each should be used.
Analysis of leadership styles
Transformational Leadership
Employees under transformational leadership, are motivated to place the overall organisational need above personal self-interests. These leaders work on the development of the individual, provide help, and emphasize vision (Collins et al., 2020). They are important to advancing change because they foster a strong positive corporate climate. Organizational transformation involves a leader seeking to have the workers of an organization become more committed and work harder by setting examples and expectations.
Transactional Leadership
Under the exchange principle of transactional leadership, employees are supposed to meet laid down organizational goals and objectives in as much as they are provided with certain privileges or paid, Richards (2022). This strategy is based on clear rules, positive modeling, and systems of procedure that control behavior and ensure accountability. It is highly successful at maintaining discipline because it already has a methodical and structured approach.
Servant Leadership
Saleem et al. (2022) stated that servant leadership is a concept where the leader acts as a manager of the team and follows the concept of building up the team with high organizational commitment and satisfying the requirements of the workforce. Another feature of the leadership type under discussion is fostering since it encourages unity, appreciation, and honesty.
Effectiveness of particular leadership styles
The best strategy through which a change can be effected to address Marty’s problems is to use a mix of transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.
Transformational Leadership
However, if transformational leadership is incorporated to encourage her to return to the work role then, Marty may rediscover the meaning of purpose. Interestingly, here more importance should be attached to Marty and her additional actions to increase the result even more and improve patients’ lives (López et al., 2022). In addition, she needs to foster a team-oriented relationship with her team members, as transformational leaders do, which may pump up her coworkers’ morale in general and help address disputes that concern team cohesion in particular.
Transactional Leadership
When power is needed or there are formal roles, then a transactional approach is most effective. If Marty was given specific, measurable goals to meet and the young lady was promptly informed of the behaviors that met or failed to meet expectations it could more systematically address Marty’s performance problems (Ishii et al., 2021). This approach also assists Marty in staying goal-directed since duties are acknowledged and appropriate corrective actions can be done at once.
Servant Leadership
Marty’s organizational concerns like the physical and financial health of her husband and children would be solved by servant leadership, as the model emphasizes the well-being of the workers (Yasir et al., 2022). Persuading her to take more resources and more flexible time at work can relieve her stress and thus enable her to effectively balance or manage between the home front and the workplace. In both aspects of Marty’s life, servant leadership would enhance her contentment and competence hence improving on work environment.
Positive and negative implications of applying particular leadership styles
For Marty to make good decisions about her life situation, she needs to be familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of different leadership ideologies.
Transformational Leadership
On the positive side, change leadership may be of advantage to Marty in that the latter may develop better perceptions of the level of engagement with her assignments by use of efforts. It may assist her in strengthening the morale of her team because everyone is striving toward the achievement of that goal (Ishii et al., 2021). But one drawback is that Marty might find it hard to respond to this kind of incentive if her challenges are unhealthy for a long time. Moreover, her urgent and heavy demands would not be possible if transformational leadership could not impact a powerful and successful alternative.
Transactional Leadership
When properly applied, transactional leadership could help bring Marty to order concerning issues related to absenteeism, lateness, and general laziness. This strategy may lead to a swift enhancement of the behaviors in question (Mrayyan et al., 2022). The only disadvantage is that may be an insensitive way, and this may make Marty even more stressed, and if she is punished for something she was unaware of and if she does not have full info on what is going on.
Servant Leadership
Focusing on Marty and self-organizing leadership can help her mobilize the resources she needs to cope with health problems and caregivers’ obligations. This may make the employer more tolerant hence other employees, therefore, creating satisfaction among the employees in the workplace (Yasir et al., 2022). However, she feels like there is some risk that she ends up favoring Marty so that some of her co-workers will accuse her of favoritism they also feel that this may fuel the existing division within the group that may turn into hostility.
NURS FPX 5007 Assessment 1 Conclusion
Being in the complex role of Marty, the change, transactional, and servant leadership approaches to leadership are used. Every strategy has unique advantages: While transformational leadership assists in reconstructing the motivation for Marty for continuing the career, servant leadership meets the requirements needed to cope with the personal issues (cummings et al., 2021). Thus, while transactional leadership implicates performance care concerning goals and rewards, transformative leadership views who an individual is and how this individual should be.
NURS FPX 5007 Assessment 1 References
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