Leadership And Management Flashcards
(22 cards)
Leadership
Act of guiding/influencing people to achieve desired outcomes
(Influence beliefs, opinions or behaviors of an individual or group)
Management
Coordination of resources (time, people, supplies) to achieve outcomes. Requires problem solving and decision-making process
Connection power
Persons relationship with other people who are perceived as being powerful
Reverent power
Followers identification with the leader. (Admired and respected nurse leader able to influence other nurses because if their desire to be like the manager)
Coercive power
Based on fear of punishment for failure to comply with stated rules
Legitimate power
Ones official position in the organization.
Information power
An individual possession of a type of knowledge that is needed by others
Informal power
Result of personal relationships, being in the right place at the right time, unique characteristics such as attractiveness, education, experience, drive or decisiveness
Reward power
Ability to compensate others for complying with various organizational rules and goals
Expert power
Based on knowledge, skills and information.
Types of skills of leadership and management roles
Technical skills: clinical expertise and nursing knowledge
Human skills: ability and good judgement to work with people as an effective leader promoting productivity
Conceptual skills: ability to understand the complexities of an organization and to recognize how and where ones management area fits into the overall structure
Effective leader depends on:
Organizational culture
Values held by be leader/manager and those of the followers
Complexities of the situation
Type of work to be accomplished
Environment in which work takes place
Characteristics that determine the effectiveness of a leader
Intelligence
Alertness
Dependability
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Driven
Ambitious
Decisive
Self-confident
Cooperative
Technically masterful
Types of transformational leadership
Transactional and transformational
Transactional leadership
Day to day operations
Incentive: reward for accomplishment
Reactive approach: monitor work performance and correct as needed, deals with problems as they occur
Transformational leadership
Vision and direction of organization
Incentive: inspiration and empowerment
Proactive approach: provide mentoring to individual staff members based on need.
Management behavior theory.
Proposed to explain management is based on behaviors of managers/leaders and followers.
Authoritative, participative, laissez-faire
Weber’s theory of bureaucracy
Emphasizes the need for a formal set of procedures and competent managers to ensure that a large organization is effective
Systems theory
Views the organization as a set of interdependent parts that together form a whole.
Chaos theory
Attempts to account for the complexities and randomness in organizations.
Primary functions for nurse management
Planning Organizing Staffing Directing Controlling
Mission statement and philosophy
Organizations statement describes its purpose and the reason why it exists. Philosophy describes its values and beliefs. All planning by the nurse manager should reflect and exemplify this stated mission and philosophy.
