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Academic Resources on Effective Leadership Styles and Clean Work Surfaces
Cummings, G. G., et al. 2018 Nursing workforce and work environment: Leadership styles and outcome patterns: a comprehensive review.
The impact of several leadership styles on nursing outcomes and working environments is assessed in this systematic review. It notes especially how well transformative leaders inspire staff retention, team cohesiveness, and job happiness.
2. Shiley, M. R. (2009). Real leadership: good work environments and organisational culture.
This study investigates how real leadership—which is defined by self-awareness, relational transparency, and ethical behavior—helps to create better work environments and organisational culture thereby enhancing nurse well-being and patient outcomes.
Wong, C. A., and Laschinger, H. K. 2013. Job happiness, performance, and authentic leadership: Empowerment’s mediator function.
This study emphasises, via staff empowerment, the link between real leadership and workplace satisfaction. Leaders who build confidence and promote autonomy help nurses to feel more involved and successful in their jobs.
Essential Learnings from the Resources
Transformational Leadership Improves Team Contentment and Resilience
Clear vision, empathy, and teamwork help transformational leaders inspire their teams. In high-stress settings like hospitals, where team resilience and job happiness directly affect patient outcomes, this approach is especially powerful.
Realistic Leadership Creates Psychological Safety and Trust.
Real leaders foster openness and trust, therefore enabling employees to express worries and help to shape decisions. Essential for providing high-quality treatment, this psychological safety encourages creativity, lowers burnout, and enhances teamwork.
Leadership Behaviours in Action: An Actual Case Study
On my clinical rotation in a crowded emergency room, I came across an outstanding nurse manager. The manager shown real and transforming leadership by:
By means of open forums, regular worker participation in decision-making guarantees their worth in policy revisions and operational improvements.
Offering individualised comments and supporting professional growth via ongoing education initiatives helps to create mentors.
Resilience and composure modelled amid a departmental crisis help to preserve morale while efficient resource coordination is in progress.
Performance and Workplace Influence
In many respects, the leadership behaviours were quite successful:
Lowering in turnover rates resulted from the staff appreciating the manager’s sincere concern in their welfare.
Improved correspondence: Open forums reduced misinterpretation and promoted teamwork.
Improved Patient Results Psychological safety let nurses operate cohesively and boldly, so lowering mistakes and raising the standard of treatment.
In summary
Using transformational and real leadership styles greatly improves worker satisfaction and workplace environment. Leaders that motivate, encourage, and involve their people help to create better patient results and cleaner workplace. The noted nurse manager demonstrated how good leadership can change organisational success as well as team interactions.
QUESTION
- Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
- Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
Post two key insights you had from the scholarly resources you selected. Describe a leader whom you have seen use such behaviors and skills, or a situation where you have seen these behaviors and skills used in practice. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain to what extent these skills were effective and how their practice impacted the workplace