Purpose The purpose of the study is to identify the impact of training interactions on the transformational leadership traits of healthcare operations leaders. United Healthcare (UHC) is currently seeking a new plan to harness the lower and middle level leadership talent within their operations. The targeted goal of this research will be to create a sustainable way to develop transformational leaders organically on a wider scale with lower and middle level leadership within operations.
Research Question
The study was designed to answer the following research question: How can United Healthcare (UHC) Operations grow Transformational Leaders to act as future leaders of the company?
Literature Review The literature surrounding the topic
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The subjective nature of the task creates a difficult cost benefit analysis case but the value has been shown in various literature research to include return on investment methodology and capital analytics planning in respect to leadership development benefit. The research has reviewed the ability of teaching leadership and core subjects to be beneficial to developing leaders. The material available show ways that teaching employees certain subjects in relation to leadership and real work situations can improve their competency, strategic view, curiosity and more which ultimately improve their transformational leadership traits.
The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) has been widely accepted as a foundational test for leadership traits; in particular transformational leadership traits. The literature shows the effectiveness of various versions of the test to target specific
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The responses are categorized through are five transformational, three transactional, one laissez-faire, and three outcome scales are included in the MLQ-5X
Analysis
The study will review a 1-Tailed T-Test to test if the mean of the post treatment MLQ traits are significantly greater than the pre MQL. In this research, the hypothesis will test if the mean of the Post MLQ Transformational Leadership Traits are significantly greater than Pre-MLQ Transformational Leadership documented traits.
Limitations
The MLQ Follower Reports tend to be more accurate depiction of the leader’s ability but due to time scale, they may not reflect the internal changes occurring through the training as much as the Leader Self-Report. The population initially contacted with requests to join the study will have to be contained to those leaders with their manager’s approval. This could limit both the control and treatment
A leader may achieve this with captivation, emotional intelligence, and through the empowerment of followers (Hutchison & Jackson, 2013). Moreover, transformational leadership research focuses on individual traits and leader-follower dyad characteristics that influence organizational change. Many research studies explore this theory and its impact on the nursing profession (Fischer, 2016). Largely, transformational leadership in the nursing context is directly and indirectly associated with staff satisfaction, decreased turnover, and improved patient outcomes (Fischer, 2016; Bormann, & Abrahamson, 2014; Merrill, 2015). It is possible to connect the benefits of transformational leadership styles to the leader 's ability to empower followers, simultaneously increasing their commitment to the organization (Fischer, 2016; Bormann, & Abrahamson, 2014; Merrill, 2015).
However, healthcare management teams and leaders fall short among several critical areas. “Skills ranked
In order to be a strong leader one must understand the role leaders play as well identify different traits that resemble leadership qualities within themselves. The article I reviewed was Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where do we stand? and it describes the different types of leadership approaches and theories that can be effective within the healthcare setting. The main objective for a leader is to adapt to change as well as be able to cope with change. Leaders are known to have strong influential skills that can affect their team or the environment that they work in.
In addition, an individualized leadership development plan, including a goal will be discussed. Literature Review To achieve transformational leadership one must achieve these key 5 practices (Ajanaku & Lubbe, 2021). The first competent transformational leadership, modelling the way, can be achieved through setting the example for those around you. In order for this to be effective, the nurse should develop trust and respect, with those around them. Building trust as a leader can influence those around you to have confidence in one's abilities to lead and be more inclined to follow.
Because of this implanted motivation, nurses are reinforced to reach higher levels of growth. Nurses also feel that they are valued when transformational leaders reach out to them; they get excited to participate and share their knowledge that also contributes to strong cooperation or openness. The real benefit goes to their patients during their intervention, when transformational nurse leader listens attentively to the needs of their patients. This leadership style also increases the image and reputation of the hospital or clinic within the community that they
I am an Assistant Medical Officer (AMO) working in Emergency Department at a district hospital located in rural East of Malaysia. I’ve been working for 8 years. In emergency department, we work in a team that comprise of various disciplines such as Emergency Physicians, Nurses, Assistant Medical Officers and others. In this essay I will define and analyze about leadership in my practice area. A leader profile from my practice area will be described using transformational theory.
(Avolio and Bass, 2002). However, it highlights rationality and new approaches for followers to follow. It also re-evaluates old beliefs and values and looks at difficulties as problems that need to be solved and seeks logical solutions to these problems. A transformational leader does not criticize followers in public for their mistakes.
Bass & Riggio (2005, pp. 4-8) explains that transformational leaders inspire their followers to exceed their own expectations and perceived capabilities and is comprised of the four components of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualised consideration. DuBrin (2016, p.163) suggest that leaders in a time of crisis need to
Introduction: Any organization recognizes the significance of leadership and its crucial role in achieving their goals and success. In healthcare organizations, the complexity of the system and the difference in defining its success goals are reshaping the practice of leadership and its standards. According to House et al. (2002, p.5) a leader is able to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute to the success of the organization or task. Healthcare and business settings are different in terms of goals and system contexts.
Transformational Leadership As described by McShane and Von Glinow (2015)
Among the characteristics used to describe a transformational leader include: influential; a focus on collective interest, develop change by crafting the vision; championing followers to buy-in to the vision; and inspiring their subordinates to a higher level of performance (Rubin, 2013; Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016, Marques, 2015). Yahya and Ebrahim (2016) study on leadership styles and organizational commitment describe transformational leadership as the “most influential leadership theory in the last two decades” (p.194). While having Shawn with the traits of a transformation may seem promising for the dealing with the human capital challenges at AGC, there can be cautionary tendencies associate with a transformational leader that should not be ignored. For example, transformational leaders tend to focus on the goals or the big picture and less attention if any at all to the details (Rubin, 2013). Additionally, when it comes to organizational change, transformational leaders may put too much focus on changing their “followers,” and lose focus on other changes needed for the organization (Anderson,
Effective leadership is the crucial to the organization’s success and advancement in any healthcare organization. In this paper, I will describe
Leadership is one of the most important functions of management and plays central role in driving employees towards mission while achieving organizational goals (Maxwell, 2013). This paper studies one of the most influential leader in public health who have made great contributions in enabling better healthcare outcomes. In this regard, influential leader’s contributions to the healthcare community and its leadership style will be thoroughly evaluated. To determine how this influential leader become a great visionary, factors contributing to the leader’s success will be thoroughly evaluated. The paper also analyzes the influential leader’s circumstances / struggles and recommends alternative approaches, which could have been employed in order
Our success is measured in the confidence we gain, the improved team morale they foster, the conversations we no longer struggle to initiate and the conflicts they are able to resolve. The interpersonal soft skills employees are learning—and the insights they are gaining—form the foundation upon which they will coach and mentor employees to higher performance; and make informed business decisions; and lead our company through future industry challenges and market forces. (8 Critical Competencies Necessary for Frontline Leaders in the Wholesale Distribution Industry, n.d.)All of the leadership competencies in action have the potential to benefit the business and the bottom line. Competency-based learning is the basis for a leadership development program to change current knowledge, skills and attitude of our staff in preparing internal changes that directly influence joining up new business and continuous technical improvement. To fill the soft skills gap, management provide leadership training to potential employees to make incremental improvement for the benefit of the
Yukl (1999) describes that the theories related to transformational leadership mainly emphasize on the value of emotions, when compared with other form of leadership. Transformational leader uses emotional intelligence to create ties with his followers and inspires higher values. Transformational leadership does not represent all types of leadership but it offers a model with clear theoretical connection with emotional intelligence. Thus transformational leadership is the best choice for consideration in the present scenario. The first dimension of transformational leadership is the ability to influence followers.