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Citation: Leadership Models in Health Care - A Case For Servant Leadership

This document discusses servant leadership and its potential usefulness in addressing challenges in the healthcare system. It outlines several models of servant leadership, including Patterson's model and Spears' model. The aim of servant leadership is to provide focused solutions to competing stakeholder interests, improving quality while lowering costs. Key benefits include increased quality of care at lower cost through empowering healthcare workers and building trust in patient relationships. However, servant leadership may not be applicable in all situations, such as emergencies, and could lack clarity for addressing conflicts. The conclusion is that servant leadership could help healthcare stakeholders better serve patients and staff to create a more sustainable system with high quality, low cost care.

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Citation: Leadership Models in Health Care - A Case For Servant Leadership

This document discusses servant leadership and its potential usefulness in addressing challenges in the healthcare system. It outlines several models of servant leadership, including Patterson's model and Spears' model. The aim of servant leadership is to provide focused solutions to competing stakeholder interests, improving quality while lowering costs. Key benefits include increased quality of care at lower cost through empowering healthcare workers and building trust in patient relationships. However, servant leadership may not be applicable in all situations, such as emergencies, and could lack clarity for addressing conflicts. The conclusion is that servant leadership could help healthcare stakeholders better serve patients and staff to create a more sustainable system with high quality, low cost care.

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Citation: Leadership models in health care –A case for servant leadership

Victor F. Trastek, MD, Neil W.Hamilton JD, and Emily E. Niles, BS, JD
Introduction: The term servant leadership was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf
in the servant as the leader, in an essay that published in 1970.
Servant leader act as a servant who have the natural feeling to serve the others.
The conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The leader and the servant are
two different types.
Models of servant leadership
 Pattersons model
 Modified wong and page
 Expending ring model
 Spears model
 Winston’s extension model
 Leader exemplay follower exchanges
This research article provides a leadership focused solution to address the
challenges.
Challenges faced by health care providers;
 Competing interests of health care system stakeholders
 Dimensions of the challenges
 Improving quality and lowering cost to increase value
Value = quality/cost
Aim
The aim of the servant leadership is to provide focused solutions to deal with
the challenges in current health care system.
Scope
 Highest quality care
 Regain public trust
 Improve the value of care
Usefulness of the research
 The quality of care became increased with lower cost
 It analyses the work performance of health care workers in achieving
their goals
 It focuses on trust and empowerment in both patient relationship and
healthcare worker team relationships that deliver their care
Limitations
 Generalisation of the servant leadership is not possible in every situation
 It may lack the speed in urgent cases like an operating room emergency
 It lacks clarity and not a best way to address conflicts

Conclusion
The challenges facing health care requires strong leadership. The model of
leadership will vary depending on situation and in reality a leader may exhibit a
blend of various leadership models. Servant leadership can also stimulate
necessary change so that all health care stakeholders focus on serving their
patient and their staff. For this a more sustainable health care system providing
an improved value equation of high quality care and lower cost is possible.
Reflection
The article presents servant leadership as the best model for the health care
organisation because it focuses on the strength of the team as servant leader
health care provides may be best equipped to make changes I the organisation
and in the provider-patient relationship to improve the value of care for patient.

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