Question

Evaluate the effectiveness of different leadership approaches in facilitating collaborative professional relationships across disciplines, supporting all judgements with appropriate references to theory or best practices

Answer 1

Nursing leadership is about critical thinking, action and advocacy and it happens in all roles and domains of nursing practice. Nursing leadership plays a pivotal role in the immediate lives of nurses and it has an impact on the entire health system

1. Servant Leadership: describe leaders who influence and motivate others by building relationships and developing the skills of individual team members. A Servant Leader makes sure the needs of the individual team members are addressed. In this style of management, the entire team has input into decision making based on the organization’s values and ideals.
2. Transformational leadership: is also based on building relationships and motivating staff members through a shared vision and mission.
3. Democratic leader: encourages open communication and staff participation in decisions. Workers are given responsibility, accountability, and feedback regarding their performance. Relationships are important to this leader who places a focus on quality improvement of systems and processes, rather than on mistakes of individual team members.
4. Authoritarian or Autocratic leadership: demonstrated when a leader makes all decisions without considering input from staff. Negative reinforcement and punishment are often used to enforce rules. Because knowledge is seen as power, critical information may be withheld from the team.
5. Laissez faire leadership: is a style in which the leader provides little or no direction or supervision, and prefers to take a hands-off approach. It is most often used by new, inexperienced leaders

In the above said theories, servant leadership style, transformational leadership style and democratic leadership styles would be more effective to motivate people, to take feedbacks from the staff for the any opinion before they pass on it, respecting people by maintaining good relationship.