The Impact of leadership Styles on Quality Management in Health care
Effective and strong leadership is one of, if not the most important and critical component for any organization’s success, particularly in health care facilities. Leadership also plays a major role in enhancing an organization’s competitiveness as confirmed by various academics (Rowe, 2001; Riaz & Haider, 2010). Many argue and suggest that there is a connection between an organization’s leadership style and its ability to implement and manage quality initiatives. That being said, researchers still encounter difficulties when assessing the effect of leadership styles on healthcare quality management, as most of the available theories were developed outside of healthcare setting.
This paper aims to present an evaluation and a review of published scholarly articles discussing three styles of leadership and their association with quality management initiatives. The three leadership styles chosen for this evaluation are: Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and situational leadership. The paper will also describe my current leadership style, then compare it to the transformational model, and finally outline the changes I need to implement in order to incorporate its key characteristics into my own style.
Research Summaries
In the first article titled “Knowledge Management as a Mediator for the Efficacy of Transformational Leadership and Quality Management Initiatives in U.S. Health Care” (2009) Gowen, Henagan, and McFadden examined the transformational leadership and quality management initiatives, since the existing literature has neglected the relationship among these two. They surveyed over 350 U.S hospitals across the country and obtained data revealing that transformational leadership did actually improve quality management and knowledge management. Furthermore, the