L&M Theories
L&M Theories
L&M Theories
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NURSING LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
“father of
scientific management”
Four overriding principles of scientific management:
1. Traditional “rule of thumb” means of organizing work must
be replaced with scientific methods.
2. A scientific personnel system must be established so that
workers can be hired, trained, and promoted based on
their technical competence and abilities.
3. Workers should be able to view how they “fit” into the
organization and how they contribute to overall
organizational productivity.
Four overriding principles of scientific management:
4. The relationship between managers and workers should
be cooperative and interdependent, and the work
should be shared equally.
Theory of Social
and Economic Organization
Bureaucracy
• Need for legalized, formal authority
and consistent rules and regulations
for personnel in different positions
• Henri Fayol (1925), first
identified the management
functions of planning,
organization, command,
coordination, and control.
• Luther Gulick (1937) expanded on
Fayol’s management functions in
his introduction of the “Seven
Activities of Management” -
planning, organizing, staffing,
directing, coordinating, reporting,
and budgeting.
• Mary Parker Follett (1926) was
one of the first theorists to suggest
participative decision making or
participative management.
• Managers should have authority
with, rather than over, employees.
• Elton Mayo and his Harvard
associates (1927-1932), look at t
relationship between light
illumination in the factory and
productivity.
• Hawthorne effect indicated that
people respond to the fact that th
are being studied, attempting to
increase whatever behavior.
• Douglas McGregor (1960),
X and Theory Y, posited that
managerial attitudes about
employees can be directly
correlated with employee
satisfaction.
Theory X managers believe that Theory Y managers believe that
their employees are basically their workers enjoy their
lazy, need constant work, are self-motivated, and
supervision and direction, are willing to work hard to
and are indifferent to meet personal and
organizational needs. organizational goals.
• Chris Argyris (1964), managerial
domination causes workers to
become discouraged and passive.
• If self-esteem and independence
needs are not met, employees wil
become discouraged and
troublesome or may leave the
organization.
THEORIST THEORY
Taylor Scientific management
Weber Bureaucratic organizations
Fayol Management functions
Gulick Activities of management
Follet Participative management
Mayo Hawthorne effect
Mcgregor Theory X and Y
Argyris Employee participation
• The Great Man Theory, from
Aristotelian philosophy, asserts
that some people are born to lead
whereas others are born to be led
• Great leaders will arise when the
situation demands it.
• Trait Theories assume that some people have certain
characteristics or personality traits that make them
better leaders than others.
Democratic Leader exhibits the following behaviors:
• Less control is maintained.
• Economic and ego awards are used to motivate.
• Others are directed through suggestions and guidance.
• Communication flows up and down.
• Decision making involves others.
• Emphasis is on “we” rather than “I” and “you.”
• Criticism is constructive.
Authoritarian Leader characterized by the following behavio
• Strong control is maintained over the work group.
• Others are motivated by coercion.
• Others are directed with commands.
• Communication flows downward.
• Decision making does not involve others.
• Emphasis is on difference in status (“I” and “you”).
• Criticism is punitive.
Laissez-faire Leader characterized by the following behaviors:
• Is permissive, with little or no control.
• Motivates by support when requested by the group.
• Provides little or no direction.
• Uses upward and downward communication between
members of the group.
• Disperses decision making throughout the group.
• Places emphasis on the group.
• Does not criticize.
• Fiedler’s (1967), Contingency Approach,
suggests that no one leadership style
is ideal for every situation.
• Interrelationships between the group’s
leader and its members were most
influenced by the manager’s ability to
be a good leader.
• Hersey and Blanchard (1977), developed a Situational
Approach to leadership.
• Tridimensional leadership effectiveness model predicts which
leadership style is most appropriate in each situation on
the basis of the level of the followers’ maturity.
• As people mature, leadership style becomes less task
focused and more relationship oriented.
• Burns (2003), suggest that both leaders and followers
have the ability to raise each other to higher levels of
motivation and morality.
There are two primary types of leaders in management.
• The traditional manager, concerned with the day-to-day
operations, was termed a transactional leader.
• The manager who is committed, has a vision, and is able
to empower others with this vision was termed a
transformational leader.
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATI0NAL
LEADER LEADER
Identifies common
Is a caretaker
values Focuses on management
Is committedtasks
Inspires others with vision Uses trade-offs to meet goals
Has long-term vision Does not identify shared values
Looks at effects Examines causes
Empowers others Uses contingency reward
Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices for Exemplary Leadership
Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices for Exemplary Leadership
Gardner (1990) asserted that integrated leader-managers
possess six distinguishing traits:
THEORIST THEORY
SWOT definitions:
• Strengths are those internal attributes that help an
organization to achieve its objectives.
• Weaknesses are those internal attributes that challenge
an organization in achieving its objectives.
SWOT definitions:
• Opportunities are external conditions that promote
achievement of organizational objectives.
• Threats are external conditions that challenge or
threaten the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Vision statements are used to describe
future goals or aims of an organization.
• It conjures up a picture for all group
members of what they want to
accomplish together.
• An organization will never be greater
than the vision that guides it.
• The mission statement is a brief
statement identifying the reason
that an organization exists.
• It identifies the organization’s
constituency and addresses its
position regarding ethics,
principles, and standards of
practice.
• The philosophy flows from the purpose or mission
statement and delineates the set of values and beliefs that
guide all actions of the organization.
• It is the basic foundation that directs all further planning
toward that mission.
• The organizational philosophy provides the basis for
developing nursing philosophies at the unit level and for
nursing service as a whole.
• Goals and objectives are the
ends toward which the
organization is working.
• Objectives are similar to goals in
that they motivate people to a
specific end and are explicit,
measurable, observable or
retrievable, and obtainable.
• Policies are plans reduced to statements or instructions
that direct organizations in their decision making.
• These explain how goals will be met and guide the general
course and scope of organizational activities.
Policies also can be implied or expressed:
• Implied policies, neither written nor expressed verbally,
have usually developed over time and follow a precedent.
For example, a hospital may have an implied policy that employees should be
encouraged and supported in their activity in community, regional, and national
health-care organizations.
• Right task
• Right circumstances
• Right person
• Right direction/communicatio
• Right level of supervision
1. Frequently recur in the daily care of a client or group
of clients
2. Are performed according to an established
(standardized) sequence of steps
3. Involve little or no modification from one client-care
situation to another
4. May be performed with a predictable outcome
North Carolina Board of Registered Nursing (2013)
5. Do not inherently involve ongoing assessment,
interpretation, or decision making which cannot be
logically separated from the procedure(s) itself
6. Do not endanger the health or well-being of clients
7. Are allowed by agency policy/procedures