Leadership is the ability to guide, motivate, and inspire others.
management - ANSWER conducts actions such as planning, organizing, directing,
and controlling to achieve specified goals within an organization.
Managers have the authority to... - ANSWER and guide others within a company.
Authority is the power or right to provide directives, take action, and make
judgments.
Leadership theories include trait theories, attitudinal theories, and contemporary
ideas.
Trait theories are ANSWER theories that attempt to characterize the qualities that
make up human personality to predict future behaviour.
Attitudinal theories - ANSWER leadership comes from a person's qualities.
Contemporary ideas - ANSWER most often used at this time
Types of leadership: autocratic/authoritarian, democratic/participatory,
laissez-faire/permissive.
autocratic/authoritarian leadership - ANSWER: The manager makes the majority of
choices.
- determines the job to be done and who will perform it.
It offers minimal opportunity for feedback.
,- provides little input.
- Communication flows downward.
- Effective in emergencies where speed is of the essence.
It could be recommended while working with untrained or ignorant staff.
democratic/participative leadership - ANSWER - worker engagement in
decision-making is welcomed.
- Leaders consider themselves as coworkers.
- Communication, consensus, and teamwork are stressed.
- Leaders lead by helping coworkers.
- communication flows up and down.
- human relationships are crucial.
- fosters autonomy with guidance.
Laissez-faire/permissive leadership provides little or no guidance.
- colleagues set their objectives and make their own decisions.
- decision-making distributed among the group.
It gives workers maximum freedom and motivates them to perform at high levels.
- If employed incorrectly, a leadership vacuum could occur.
Leadership vacuum - ANSWER: one person attempts to overrule.
, What leadership style is preferred in the majority of work situations? - ANSWER:
democratic or participatory leadership
modelling - ANSWER when the nurse comes to grasp the clients' perspective.
Modeling and role modelling: five nurse intervention goals. - ANSWER 1. Build
trust.
2. Promote an optimistic mindset.
3. Advocate for Client Control
4. Validate client strengths.
5. help in goal setting.
ANSWER: The multicratic leadership style includes the best characteristics of all
approaches.
- transformative leaders exchange information and make decisions with their
people.
- self-directed work teams.
Which leadership style is most commonly utilized in healthcare? - ANSWER
multicratic
self-directed work teams - ANSWER informed people are emerging into these
teams; collaborative or shared leadership style where individuals closest to the
problem help solve it
Power is an individual's capacity to accomplish tasks.
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