Leadership and Supervision Assignment (GC01571)

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1.0 Theories Leadership.

Trait theories.

Behavioral theories.

Contingency Theories.

Power and Influence Theories.

2.0 The leadership theory of choice.

Autocratic leadership.

Democratic leadership.

Liaises-faire leadership.

Charismatic Leadership.

3.0 What skills did I used to use the leadership theories.

4.0 Barriers I encountered and how I faced them.

5.0 The effectiveness of the leadership or supervision.

6.0 The impact of the chosen leadership theory.

7.0 What have I learned using this theory?.

Conclusion.

References.

Appendix.

Introduction

In any organization whether it is related to health or business, leadership is a significant function. Through a good leader and his leadership the efficacy of the work can be increased at large degree. The skill and competence of a person or group of person to influence and motivate others to make difference and guide the followers towards a specific goal is called leadership (Hwang, 2015). A person who has leadership qualities will be a creative, risk-taker and responsible person. The art of leading the followers to accomplish a one common aim is called leadership (Buchbinder, 2014). Leadership includes having a clear vision, motivating others under that vision, enlightening the follower with the knowledge to understand the vision and keeping a balance among the follower with various thoughts and concepts. Leadership is the ability to step up during crisis times and solving the problem creatively. Leadership can be defined as, the ability to set an aim for the followers, take a quick decision and turn the decision into action. Leaders are needed everywhere. However, to be an effective leader one person must own some qualities in his character (Hwang, 2015).

The act of direction, management and administration is called supervision. Supervision is mainly needed during counseling and preparing the professionals. The beginning of supervision occurs with the training sessions of the professionals. After training, supervision goes on in the post-graduation programs. Through supervision support and aid for further development in the future career field is given to the professionals. Among many indexes of a profession, supervised practice is a significant one (Falender, 2014). Supervision gives rectitude to one professional license. It confirms that the person who are getting the license has been supervised carefully and he is qualified enough to protect the welfare of the customers. Supervision also makes a good relationship between the mentor and the students (Sever, 2016).

This good mentoring relationship provides support to the constant progress of the recent professionals. Through a better supervision the new professionals can build a strong and firm foundation in their career. However, insufficient supervision can cause discontentment in the profession. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the leadership and supervision in the health sector, this paper first discusses about the concept of leadership and supervision. Next, this paper discusses theories of leadership. Then this paper discusses about the personal choice of leadership theory and their effectiveness and impact. Lastly this paper gives suggestion how to improve personal leadership skills.

1.0 Theories Leadership

Theories of leadership can be divided into four categories. They are a) trait theories; b) behavioral theories; c) contingency theory; and d) power and influence theories.

Trait theories

The theories determine particular characteristics of leaders which distinguish the non leaders from persons with leadership qualities. In these theories, the abilities of the persons that make them a better leadership are mainly concentrated on. Through these theories people can know what characteristics they need to own to lead other people (Dye, 2016). These theories help leaders from different areas to share common features. However, the confirmation of the successful results of leadership can not be given through these theories. There are some advantages of trait theories.

Behavioral theories

Behavioral theories concentrate on the deeds and behaviors of better leaders. Through these theories leaders can get motivated and encourages determining the requirements and expectancy of their followers and their group (Briton and Gold, 2015). The leaders can also know how engage the groups of their followers in the decision making process and inspire them to be more acceptant and provide support. In these theories, three kinds of leadership are mainly concentrated (Mullins, 2016). They are autocratic leadership, democratic leadership, and laissez-faire leadership (Frankel, 2012).

Contingency Theories

According to contingency theory no certain leadership is the better leadership. Alternatively, this theory describes that, the efficiency of the leadership depends on the efficacy of the performance of leaders in certain circumstances that concentrates on mainly two factors. They are the style of leadership and the suitability of the circumstances. Through these theories the impact of situation on the efficiency leadership is mainly described (Briton and Gold, 2015).

Power and Influence Theories

The source of power is the main topic of concentration in the power and influence theories. According to these theories, people or followers work to get reward at some point (Mullins, 2016). Therefore, these theories concentrated on forming reward-based structures and works. However, these theories are not very efficient in building strong relationship among the leader and his followers. Nevertheless, the leaders can use these theories on their daily basis in order to get the usual jobs done. These theories particularly do not create a long term motivating environment in the workplace (Dye, 2016). In these theories particularly the transactional leadership and supervision style and the authorization are concentrated.

2.0 The leadership theory of choice

Among all the leadership theories above mentioned my theories of choice are behavioral theories and contingency theories. Behavioral theories fix the leadership and supervision styles according to the followers’ behavior and job type. Under the behavioral theories three major leadership and supervision styles are mainly focused. They are autocratic leadership, democratic leadership, and laissez-faire leadership. However there are two more leadership and supervision styles that could be used according to the followers’ behavior. They are transformational behavior and charismatic behavior (Frankel, 2012). On the other hand, on the contingency theories leadership styles are chosen according to situation of the workplace. In my experience regarding leadership or supervision, I chose behavioral theory. The leadership styles under the behavioral theory are given below…………………

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