The Fundamental Roles Of Leadership And Organizational Change

In the 2013 survey of the American health care landscape revealed that The U.S. ranked last among the industrial nations in access to health care. This survey was conducted prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Two factors possibly responsible for this astonishing result are, due to primary 50 million uninsured people in the U.S. and insurance coverage’s poor quality (Mozes, 2014). The affordable Care Act was proposed in 2010, and its goal it to reform the healthcare system by giving Americans more access to quality and affordable health insurance via variety of mechanisms ("Affordable care act" 2015)

The characteristics that best describe our dream human service organization; Amelia’s House, a support driven facility created to provide ongoing emotional support as survivors of homicide go through the journey of grief while enduring the aftermath of handling losing a child, family member, or loved one to violence or homicide, include the consideration of many different aspects of developing a system based human service organization. One of the initial characteristics for consideration starts with deciding on the most beneficial leadership style for the organization. A leader must also

Popa. Dr. Popa is an Associate Professor at Gonzaga University. His education includes a MSW from California State University of Long Beach and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Utah. This article details a study completed by Dr. Popa which examined the perceived leadership within the Division of Child and Family Services (Popa, 2012). Specifically, the question proposed was “How are leadership practices in the Division of Child and Family Services in one State perceived by frontline and administrative staff?” (Popa, 2012, p. 641). Frontline caseworkers and administrators were chosen for the study, which required response to a 10-point Likert scale (Popa, 2012). The frontline participants were asked to provide ratings regarding the leadership behavior of upper level management, whereas the administrators provided ratings regarding their perception of their own leadership practices (Popa, 2012). Participants were asked to measure the leadership dimensions of: challenge, inspiration, enabling, modeling, and encouragement (Popa, 2012). Results of the study showed a significant difference between the administrator and frontline worker responses across all five leadership dimensions (Popa, 2012). Administrators consistently rated their leadership skills higher than their frontline staff rated them

Gene One is a biotechnology company that has had success with engineering foods that are disease free and grow at increased rates. Vegetables such as tomatoes and potatoes have been grown without the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals. These breakthroughs have changed Gene One from a $2 million start-up company into a $400 million company on the verge of going public. The original members of Gene One are challenged with organizing the company and preparing it for an initial public offering (IPO) on Wall Street.

As a transformational leader behaviors are exhibited that emphasis organizational change, an increased risk taking approach, proactive disposition, use of futurity, and innovative problem solving (Van Eeden, Cilliers, & Van Deventer, 2008). By influencing and gaining trust and respect followers make sacrifices in order to meet expectations of leadership. In child welfare, by empowering workers to be innovative and creative in their approaches with families they are more likely to provide ethically aligned engagement to meet agency outcomes. Transactional leadership presents as an interchange process. According to Van Eeden, Cilliers, and Van Deventer (2008), the leader identifies the requested task for the follower in order to receive a reward or lack of punishment in order to satisfy the leader needs. In child welfare, transactional leadership is the product of compliance needed to meet contractual performance measures and lack of compliance means fiscal consequences for an agency and corrective action for Case Managers. Through the use of both concurrently occurring leadership styles the transactional leadership allows quantitative outcomes to be reached and qualitative interactions and permanency outcomes result from Children’s Home Society of Florida’s agency leadership style, transformational

I have worked with and known leaders. Leaders who impacted change, leaders who hindered change, and leaders who have simply maintained. Having formed opinions on certain practices that can contribute to enhancing effective leadership, I had never deeply assessed or identified the practices that can promote, guide, and enhance organizational change and improvement. When I read, Implementing Change Patterns, Principles, and Potholes, by Gene E. Hall and Shirley M. Hord (2015) I was presented with two types of leadership that are essential for conversation and community work.

The following paper will provide an in depth analysis as to the benefits associated with utilizing leadership to implement successful organizational change. The paper will outline and convey the importance behind effective leadership demonstration within the workforce environment. Along with this, the importance for instigating and culturing positive working relationships amongst employees, coupled with streamlined communication between staff and executive management is of the utmost importance. This paper will produce the direct correlations between innovative thinking and successful organizational cultural change, showing the importance of this

Nurse leaders play a vital role in constructing standards and leading organizational change. According to Ward (2002) transformational leaders possess a distinctive ability to familiarize and realign their perspective to the dynamics of an ever-changing environment (p. 125). According to Roussel, Thomas, and Harris (2016), “good leaders, like good managers, provide visionary inspiration, motivation and direction”, which is in alignment with the attributes of a transformational leader (p. 27). Hence, it is essential that organizations employ and develop transformational leaders to fulfill the demands and challenges in today’s healthcare delivery system.

Leadership is an area of growth. The person in a leadership position is set to guide the minds of the people beneath him or her. The only way that a leader can do that is by living vicariously through the members’ work experiences and remaining positive. A positive leader is motivated for successes and failures and encourages his team members to do the same. His or her

To analytically assess the statement that leadership is the most important factor in managing change, it must first be clarified what is understood by the different terms being used. In this essay I will look firstly at what leadership actually means, then at what constitutes good leadership; I will consider why change may be needed, and what other factors might be at play in influencing change; and finally I shall look at

An important aspect that all human service organizations (HSO) need to have to run efficiently and effectively is a strong presence of leadership. Leadership must be clearly understood and applied accordingly to make a difference within the HSO. Therefore, leadership is defined as a process that an individual takes to influence people to achieve common goals and objectives of the organization (Edwards & Austin, 2006; Northouse, 2016). To clearly show the benefits and effects of leadership within a HSO, there will be three main topics discussed. To begin, there are many aspects of leadership that a HSO needs to be effective in its leadership practice. Therefore, three major leadership skills will be discussed to show how the needs within a HSO is met. Next, research shows that there are various theories of leaderships that can be apply to a HSO and the individuals working within it. One specific theory that is commonly used is Transformational Leadership Theory. Transformational leadership will be defined, analyzed, and applied to an organization called Horizon House, Inc. to show how this theory is used in a practical setting. Finally, it is important for leaders working within the human services field to self-evaluate themselves and their leadership style. Thus, an evaluation of the writer’s personal leadership style and philosophy will be discussed. These three topics will show how leadership is essential within a HSO.

Organization’s today do all they can to improve their performance with an ever-changing environment. Therefore, having strong leadership is needed when addressing change. Organizational leaders need to have a well developed vocabulary to help improve performance during organizational change. Leadership has the ability to create a vision and encourage others to achieve the vision for the organization. Therefore, organizational leaders must identify the need for change and communicate it throughout the organization. However, leadership is only one piece of the equation, without involving the employees the vision of the organization will not be achieved. In order for leaders to achieve new initiatives they must actively involve employees that are most affected by the change through every process to help maintain and improve performance. Therefore, communication, human motivation, engagement, and recognition are the driving focuses for positive change and performance improvement.

Organizations are constantly changing; be it through new members, new rules, or new leaders. It is an inevitable part of organizational life. The book defines the change of organizations through organizational life cycles. Simply put, organization life cycles look at how organizations change through time due to the internal and external situations that influence the change. When a change occurs within an organization, new rules, leadership styles, and communication needs to be adopted in order to cope with the change. This paper will explain the concepts of organizational change and leadership processes by applying it to my own personal experience of being a member and president of UC Santa Barbara’s Khmer Student Association, a student-run cultural club.

There has been extensive interest in transformational leadership behaviours among leaders of organizations (Oreg&Berson, 2011).Transformational leaders tend to have certain skills and competences such as integrity, motivation, drive, emotional intelligence, self-confidence, intelligence and knowledge of the business. These are the necessary skills to get employees involved and committed to the change process (Santhidran, Chandran& Borromeo, 2013).

The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of leadership in effective change management. The study based on wide review of literature, to figure out the leadership aspect that encourage change an association. The study discover that fundamental leadership and organisation practices connected with the centre skills of an organisation to accomplish required results. Traditional methods of doing business are rapidly change and turn into outmoded. Administration, control, unbending nature and functionalism have become outdated that are genuine problem to change administration. The greatest barrier is individuals ' state of mind toward change, which are regularly settled and safe. So, the several organisations are