Access the “Allied Health Community” media and select “Scenarios” to access the scenarios for this course. Review the instructions and legend information. Read the Hospital Scenario for this course and complete the following assignment:
1. Evaluate the management styles and identify the positive and negatives of each manager’s characteristics.
2. Identify what transactional and transformational leadership theories are present.
3. Provide an example of how one leader mentioned in the case study could adapt the servant leadership model into practice, and how this change could have an impact on a quality improvement department within health care.
Scenario
In order to improve efficiency in the quality improvement department, a large hospital decided to elim- inate a generalist model of staffing, and instead created two specific work groups. The plan was that each work group would focus on specific projects within the department. The reorganization date would occur in a few months, at the beginning of the new fiscal year. This plan was announced to all of the staff, and then the teams were announced. The employees had been split evenly between the two managers currently overseeing people in the generalist model of staffing. It was also explained that project-specific performances would be measured through the following metrics: efficiency outcomes, survey results, and resource expenditures.
The managers, Rachel and Tomas, each met with their new teams to outline their vision:
