Empowerment Model
Speech designed to persuade the CEO and the board members of your organization that obtaining Magnet® recognition will empower nurses and improve the organization. Do the following in your presentation:
• Briefly summarize your findings about how nurses are empowered through the Magnet Recognition Program®.
• Explain what you, as a nurse leader, can do to help your organization to achieve Magnet® designation.
• Incorporate your findings from the Organizational Culture assignment that detail the impact the organization\’s weaknesses have on achieving its mission and vision, and the potential implications if change is not implemented. Utilize this information to persuade the CEO by explaining how this can be improved through achieving Magnet® designation.
• Incorporate your findings from the Organizational Culture assignment and explain how Magnet® designation can enhance the organization\’s strengths.
• Define transformational leadership and explain why it is appropriate in the field of health care.
• Explain the relationship between transformational leadership and an empowered workplace.
• Identify strategies used by Magnet® hospitals that promote the interrelationship between leadership, excellence, and professional integrity.
Locate a minimum of three academic sources that support your empowerment model, one of which can be your textbook.
Provide in-text citations and a slide with APA-formatted references for all sources cited.
To accomplish this goal, the transformational leader must be a competent communicator. Transformational leadership in action is best seen when several elements synergize to change the culture and improve the organization. “Transformational leadership refers to the process of building commitment to the organization\’s [mission, vision, strategies, goals and] objectives and empowering followers to accomplish these objectives.”
An early conception of transformational leadership was developed by Burns in 1978 from descriptive research on political leaders: “[L]eaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation.”Expectation and goal setting, empowerment, and increased use of appropriate media channels for communication can combine to focus a team, thereby enabling its members to accomplish significant tasks in system improvement.
Transformational leadership is different from simple charismatic leadership in several respects (an idea attributed to Bernard Bass). Although charisma is a necessary component for transformational leadership, by itself it is not sufficient to account for transformation:
Table 13-3 French and Raven\’s Power Taxonomy and Kelman\’s Power and Influence Outcomes on p. 335 of the Leadership for Health Professionals textbook.
NEED this as one sited –
Ledlow, G. R., & Stephens, J. H. (2018). Leadership for health professionals: Theory, skills and application (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
