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Critical Essay Assignment - Building organisational Capacity in Health Care
Topic - Critically discuss the role of the leader in facilitating a performance improvement strategy in a health sector.
This is a very specific assignment. The performance improvement strategy is - reduced infection rates in healthcare, type of leadership is TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP And change theory is KOTTER'S 8 STEPS change MODEL.
INTERPRETATION OF ESSAY QUESTION-- You must discuss the role of leadership and change theory: e.g. Leadership is required in order meet the vision and mission of any organisation and is particularly important in creating a workplace which is flexible and able to embrace change when it is required.
You must explain the necessity of using a change theory in order to guide the process of change. e.g. Strong leadership challenges people's vision of the future, and builds capacity through the development of a positive work culture.
Remember the context of this unit is the building of capacity at personal, group and organisational level. It should be possible to apply this to the performance improvement you are discussing
ESSAY FORMAT -
1. INTRODUCTION -
Introductory sentence - about the importance of leadership and capacity building in the workplace
Background information - positive aspects of visionary leaders
Thesis statement
Aim -
Outline - leadership theory and roles, change theories, performance improvement and its importance to the individual, the organisation and the client/patient
2. BODY -
A. Discuss the role of the leader in identifying the need for performance improvement, working with the key stakeholders (everyone involved), planning, implementing and evaluating the performance improvement. You are supposed to talk about TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP and link it to this particular performance improvement plan.
Format - Topic sentence - e.g. Transformational leadership builds teams and flexibility within those teams so that individuals and the organisation can build capacity to achieve their goals.
Supporting sentences - definition of transformational leadership.
Strengths of transformational leadership as it applies to successful change outcomes.
Apply this to topic reduced infection rates In healthcare (how they work to capacity build the team and support them through the change process.)
Concluding sentence - It is evident that transformational leadership is critical to the change process (continue planning for the rest of the body paragraphs)
In this part put one of the references is Greenfield, D. (2007). The enactment of dynamic leadership. Leadership in Health Services, 20(3), 159-168.
B. The steps required KOTTER'S change theory support to implement this aspect of workplace performance. You are supposed to talk about KOTTER'S 8 step change theory in order to facilitate change process and link it with improvement in reduced infection rates in healthcare
Must include following things -
- Identify the need for change.
- Explain this in terms of Kotter's 8 step change theory
- The impact of the workplace culture --- defines and explains workplace culture and how it can support or resist change.
- The barriers and facilitators in change processes and the management strategies and needs to be linked to the role of the leader in managing this.
- The importance of benchmarking best practice related to this performance improvement.
- Strategies for motivating and engaging the stakeholders/staff in the performance improvement at all stages.
- The main focus is on 'leadership and its role in facilitating change' and you need to discuss what you think are the ways in which leaders can be effective in identifying the need for change and supporting that change process.
3. CONCLUSION
Note - Total Need 3000 words and 15 APA 6th edition style references.