Ensuring Leadership Practicing in the Healthcare System

Research Proposal

Introduction and Background

The Healthcare System in most of the developed countries has operated within an increasingly changing, highly challenging, and a fragmented environment since last few decades. However, this environment has become even more change oriented and complex because numerous market forces and extensive healthcare reforms have transformed the way healthcare is managed and delivered today. Moreover, this profound change is widespread to both cultural and structural contexts, in which numerous unlikely partnerships and new alliances are increasingly beginning to emerge. As a result, values, belief systems, and attitudes are also shifting accordingly. Thus, the need of adaptive and responsive leadership and creative thinking is becoming crucial in order to achieve organizational goals, as well as, to make health systems, hospitals, and networks feasible as the landscape of healthcare delivery transforms (Oliver, 2006, pp. 38-47).

Moreover, as this future state of more complex organizations unfolds, additional responses would not be enough to deal with the increasing complexity. The requirement of competencies for organizations and leaders must continue to progress in order for both to succeed and lead in this dynamic environment (Plsek, www.bmj.com).

Therefore, this rapid creativity and innovation and transformation to change require an interdependent and collaborative culture. In addition to this, leaders today must learn to modify the most commonly practiced individual expert model and move towards a newer collaborative model that benefits teams and cross-boundary groups. Moreover, this collaborative model will also span all levels, disciplines, generations, functions, and professions of modern healthcare system. Furthermore, this type of leadership practice also aims to cater the areas of change management, complexity, and quality improvement throughout the healthcare system in order to ensure compassionate patient care across the continuum (Browning, et.al, 2011, pp. 3-16).

Rationale

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