Results Overall, the democratic style of leadership and the integrating style of conflict management were the most favoured by participants, while the laissez-faire leadership style and the dominating style of conflict management were the least favoured. Significant positive correlations were established between the leadership styles of participants and their conflict management styles. The regression analysis showed a significant predictive power of leadership styles, specifically the democratic and autocratic styles, on 30% of the variance in conflict management styles.
All nurses can be leaders. Find out about the value of compassion and communication in leadership, as well as training opportunities
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By Suzie Bailey and Michael West. The shared vision must be to create an outstanding health and care system that embodies the values we have as a society, focused on enabling the staff who provide care to thrive and deliver the care they are passionately committed to offering. That requires leaders at every level in our society to rise to the monumental challenge and pursue the people-focused, evidence-based strategy we outline here.
Change in nursing can be a challenge to introduce and maintain. Find out how to achieve the best results with maximum buy-in and minimum stress. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
In this series of case studies, we highlight what providers have done to take a flexible approach to staffing.
The case studies show different ways of organising services. They focus on the quality of care, patient safety, and efficiency, rather than just numbers and ratios of staff.
They illustrate how providers have redesigned services to make the best use of the available range of skills and disciplines. Or they found new ways to work with others in the local health and care system.
This resource provides extra support and examples of good practice to those organisations seeking further help with staff engagement — it was developed in partnership with NHS Employers.
The report Providers deliver: better care for patients considers both the leadership approaches and frontline initiatives that underpin improvements in quality. Through 11 case study conversations, it considers some of the frontline work that has contributed to trusts’ improvements in CQC ratings, as well as exploring the role of trust leaders in providing an enabling, supportive environment in which this work has been possible.
This interactive guide describes the common features of the AHP leadership journey, by combining insights and evidence from trust chief executives and chief AHPs. Its primary audience is aspiring AHP leaders and those with responsibility for developing the AHP workforce. It will also interest trust boards, commissioners and other system leaders, keen to recognise the AHPs’ potential for leading and delivery transformation across the health and care infrastructure.
Contact library for full text of these resources. Resources include: evidence-based nurse retention model; creating room for evidence-based practice: leader behavior in hospital wards; mentoring millennias for nursing leadership; model to streamline career progression for nurse managers; coaching approach to student nurse clinical leadership development; service user leadership and co-production in MH research; stress-preventive leadership in the workplace hospital; why nursing associates are splitting opinion;
We are excited to bring you a new podcast featuring Deborah Lee, Chief Executive, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Listen to Deborah share her own experience with mental health and talk about the need for leaders to lead the way and tackle stigmas associated with mental illness.
Items include: millennial managers; recruiting the next generation of nursing leadership talent; leadership styles' influence on quality of nursing care; how proactive leadership helps address healthcare workforce challenges; physicians as leaders and managers in healthcare reform; leader's integrity and employee silence in healthcare; developing effective nurse leadership skills; gritty leaders; workplace strategies to reduce pharmacy leadership burnout; embracing diversity and inclusion in psychiatry leadership; book: values-based leadership in healthcare [on order for MPFT libraries!]; advanced practice nursing leadership; evidence-based leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship in nursing and healthcare;
Gamification is vital for engaging employees in a number of ways. Not only does it induce recognition mechanisms in employees, but it also helps them to learn the methods of collaboration, fun, and feedback. These four mechanisms are necessary for driving the basic human drivers – mastery, relatedness, purpose, and autonomy.
Items listed include: Views of 1st time NHS CEOs; lack of medical CEOs in NHS; 25 women leaders in UK healthcare; leadership events; the ideal hospital-based medical leader; research on quality improvement in five European countries; nurse practitioner views on leadership and research; informal clinical leadership as a catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction; super-hero to super-connector - changing leadership culture in the NHS; narrowing gender pay gap in NHS foundation trusts; best fit between leadership style and team-member interdependencies; mobilising evidence to improve nursing practice; facial expressions of authenticity; developing emerging leaders to support team-based primary care; does having been mentored affect subsequent mentoring?; impact of a compassionate care leadership programme; mindful leader development; exploring leadership drivers and blockers. Please contact the library if you'd like to read the full text of any of the articles in this resource.
Compassionate care delivery enhances patient satisfaction and quality of life and reduces nurse burnout. This study measured the perceptions of nursing and midwifery leaders regarding the impact of the ‘Leaders for Compassionate Care Programme’ on their personal development, learning experience, service and care delivery, programme quality, and satisfaction with the programme. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Latest documents and articles on leadership include: report on need for more diverse leadership in the NHS; report on gender-related barriers to and facilitators of nurse leadership; flexible working arrangements; leadership survey: organisational culture is key to better health care; values-based leadership in health care; informal clinical leadership as catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction; three-roles model of responsible leadership; relationship between exclusive talent management, perceived organisational justice and employee engagement; pathway to leader emergence in self-managed work groups; gender differences in how leaders determine succession potential;
Open access. To establish what leadership competencies are expected of Master level educated nurses like the Advanced Practice Nurses and the Clinical Nurse Leaders as described in the international literature.
Research has shown a positive relationship between practice leadership (frontline management focused upon supporting staff to work better) and better staff experiences of working with people with learning disabilities who may show challenging behaviours. However, little is known regarding the impact of frequency and accessibility of frontline managerial support upon staff experiences, or upon the provision of practice leadership. Current policy and practice in England may lead to frontline managers being responsible for more fragmented services, thus influencing the accessibility of managerial support and practice leadership for staff. The current study investigated the impact on staff experiences of frequency of contact with service manager and of practice leadership. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.