The Role Of Participative Leadership In Healthcare Organizations

The goals of these roles are to reduce struggles and provide a direction of how to cooperate. The first thing a successful team should do is to build their leadership strategy based on these key points.

The next item on the agenda is to select a specific leadership style which, will positively impact the team of NUS/Duke and, the desired outcomes of establishing a well renowned medical school. The leadership style should focus on maintaining a solid relationship among the stakeholders including the two universities and the government. Therefore, emphasis on common values, creation of a shared culture, empowerment of the representatives, continuous feedback and communication are vital (Lim, 2015). These guidelines are crucial for leading teams

Given the situation of the project, it seems likely that the style of empowering leadership is most suitable, including participative leadership and empowerment. The aim is to involve others, representatives of the both organization, to eventually have a positive impact on the decision making process. According to Lim (2015), participative leadership has a dynamic quality and can change over time resulting in more satisfaction with the decision process and a higher degree of acceptance. Representatives should adapt an empowering attitude instead e.g. authoritarian style. To link this conclusion of applying empowering leadership among group members, figure 2 should be taken into account. The proposed plan is to base the team on the four leadership roles in a cross-functional team. In addition, the goal is to structure the decision making process by aligning the representatives and stakeholders to optimize task functions within a low-stress environment created by group

To do so, there would have to be some selection process to find a student representative, and someone to represent the various governmental agencies, as the employees and investors/founder should already be onboard the smaller team. With the creation of a team with vastly different members there are several potential side effects to consider, preventing them from occurring. Groupthink is a deterring phenomenon that could arise from creating a group from scratch, as the newly introduced members may not feel comfortable to object and disagree with the others' statements. To mitigate this effect they could appoint a member to serve as the devils advocate. Additionally, initiating social gatherings or similar activities would better familiarize the members and make them feel more comfortable with opposing each other's