Leadership, Management, and Teamwork in a Medical Organization

Summary

In this era of change, encouraging leadership, management, and teamwork at all levels is essential for nonprofit organizations, industrial giants, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and city and county local governments alike. A good medical organization’s management must foster innovation and leadership in the field and foster cooperation so every professional feels valued and participates. The healthcare system must be effectively managed and controlled since it is a strategically important sector of the economy. However, the human resource capacity of managers at various management levels is one of the most critical components of cross-sector efficiency that cannot be focused on due to the experience of the actual execution of abstract methods and plans to reform healthcare.

A hurdle to improving the status of the business today is the unwillingness to modify the old aggressively, often clearly outmoded techniques of personnel work, as well as a hazy notion of what a medical worker performing management tasks should look like professionally and personally. The delivery of modern healthcare is increasingly becoming a technological process as standardization, the introduction of information and communication technologies, the use of cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, and changes in the management of both individual medical organizations and the healthcare system, including the use of effective leadership, take place. Utilizing the full body of research on theoretical schools of thought in leadership. This includes conceptions of “sharing,” transformational leadership, authenticity, leadership service, and resonance leadership. Organizations also need to leverage more funding to support quality healthcare delivery.

Introduction

Developing a new management system is one of the most crucial aspects of health care in contemporary society. The difficult process of managing a healthcare organization involves choosing the best options while continuously considering both the organization’s internal issues and the shifting political, social, medical-demographic, and economic conditions. As a result, it is essential to rely on the fundamentals of management for optimal management. The term “management” has gained popularity recently and refers to the logical management of contemporary production to attain its high efficiency and optimal use of resources (Mocnej et al., 2021). In other words, management is an action to solve problems by efficiently using material, technical, financial, human, and other resources. The goal of management is to get people to perform things correctly. Leadership is concerned with persuading others to act morally.

Team management focuses on shared values and objectives that guide each team member’s behavior, collective accountability for outcomes and high performance, and the development and effective use of individual and group potentials. These concepts are necessarily important and related to health care. Each represents an integral part of the effective functioning of the medical industry, which makes them so important (Javaid & Haleem, 2019). The purpose of this paper will be to highlight these concepts and critically analyze their importance. For this paper, knowledge used throughout the course will be used.

Literature Review

In their studies, several writers discuss management, leadership, and teamwork. The necessity of managerial skills at all levels of management in an organization is frequently brought up (Dirani et al., 2020). Other scholars contend that one must possess leadership skills to control others successfully (Contreras et al., 2020). They can only be attained if the functional and management levels of competencies have adequately grown (Komalasari et al., 2020). The authors are also inclined to think that one of the most important aspects of contemporary healthcare is ensuring the professional efficacy of medical staff, whose job is marked by significant occupational dangers, especially those related to the emotional domain (Adamopoulos, 2022). It is necessary to develop a system that identifies organizational technologies for the preservation of their health, conduct research in this area at a high managerial level, and adopt legislative measures that ensure efficient processes of the professional activity of specialists in order to create the conditions and maintain the efficiency of such energy-intensive work.

One of state policy’s most critical and socially significant focuses is health care reform. Since any changes in this sector would directly affect people’s lives and health and the general well-being of the population, the government must take a balanced approach. According to several writers, healthcare organizations will need to undergo major changes to meet the problems of the modern world in a future focused on technology (Han et al., 2019). The ISO technical committee ISO/TC 304, Health Care Organisation Management, addresses the need to enhance the delivery of healthcare services (Karwowski et al., 2021). Every nation in the globe is affected by issues with healthcare efficiency or the cost-benefit ratio.

Since a country’s socioeconomic position impacts how far along its healthcare system is, healthcare systems vary widely from one country to another. Three fundamental forms of healthcare delivery systems that differ in terms of funding have been produced by global practice (Notteboom et al., 2021). These are the Beveridge model (funding at the expense of the budget, mostly from taxes paid by the people), the model based on private contributions, and the Bismark model (financing at the expense of mandatory insurance payments of the population). The pure versions of neither model exist today or historically (Cwikla et al., 2018). Healthcare systems often have a hybrid nature, with parts of charitable (public) medicine and the dominance of one or more primary finance methods (Bowles et al., 2023). The sociology of medicine covers topics like the comparative examination of healthcare organization systems and the potential for learning from successful experiences (HUGHES et al., 2020). According to one study’s authors, from 1980 to 2000, every dollar spent on healthcare in the United States resulted in health advantages ranging from $1.55 to $1.94 (Hotaling et al., 2021). The United States has yet to dominate the globe in terms of population health indicators despite having the biggest healthcare spending in the world.

Findings

The areas highlighted as objectives for managers’ development include fundamental management abilities. In turn, the degree of awareness and mental capacity serve as markers of both the existence or absence of knowledge in the pertinent subject and the extent to which these categories of consciousness are durable and sustainable. Developing the abilities and enhancing the traits required for successful management is difficult without knowledge of scientifically proven patterns, effective behaviors, and their value dimensions (Sedyastuti et al., 2021). Basic managerial abilities are comprised of six fundamental components (Matarazzo et al., 2021). These include successful team building, project management, time management, goal-setting, communication, organizational behavior, and implementation of priorities (Giri, 2019). Specific recommendations for long-term measures to execute hospital marketing initiatives, acquire leadership and management, and foster organizational cooperation are based on the competencies provided (Ramani et al., 2019). Establishing an effective and efficient structure of authority coupled with the actual implementation of the notion of competence is related to the management of contemporary healthcare organizations.

Official figures are emphasized while discussing emotional stability since doctors often live fifteen years less than patients. The WHO reports that the average life expectancy of doctors is 54 years, with surgeons, critical care experts, and anesthesiologists being the most dangerous specialties (Zentner et al., 2020). It should be emphasized that the situation could be more favorable in the medical and nutritional fields. Seventy-four percent of rural doctors are overweight. Furthermore, it is obese, not simply an inclination to it (Sebastiá-Rico et al., 2023). Forty-eight percent of metropolitan doctors and 46 percent of university personnel exhibit this. There is arterial hypertension in addition to the weight issue (Sebastiá-Rico et al., 2023). It is stressed that while being well aware of the implications, persons who constantly have blood pressure measuring equipment at their disposal only sometimes record their readings. Physicians’ emotional stability and overall health serve as the foundation for all of these elements (McGonagle et al., 2020). The quality of medication will drastically decline if this tendency keeps up. That is why it is essential to implement changes in the healthcare industry that are intended to keep medical professionals healthy and increase their emotional drive.

An efficient way to combine minimum costs and maximum effect is to use program-targeted approaches to solve socially important problems. As a result, the healthcare sector operates with the highest social and economic efficiency under conditions of resource scarcity (Giménez-Espert et al., 2020). At the same time, the creation of highly specialized, expensive types of medical help is typically sacrificed to realize the program-targeted approach. International experience demonstrates the critical relevance of the budget funding portion of the overall amount of cash earmarked for healthcare expenses (Quilliam et al., 2023). Insurance benefits or direct public funding (private medicine) cannot cover these expenses (Crowley et al., 2020). The volume of state funding for health care has a demonstrable impact on one of the key measures of public health, average life expectancy, which supports the significance of the percentage of state expenditures.

Health care requires government funding that is uninterrupted and sufficient in volume, even in times of resource shortage. The population’s increased access to high-quality medical treatment and, as a result, the potential to improve one’s health-related quality of life serve as the mechanism for this effect (Xu et al., 2022). The upcoming changes to healthcare policy might greatly influence how current healthcare systems operate and how future healthcare facilities will look in terms of personnel, layout, and size. Due to demographic, economic, technological, and consumerist trends, more healthcare services are now offered in outpatient settings, freeing up inpatient treatment for more difficult situations.

Discussion

By connecting health care to theory, we may deduce that patient care is delivered from a “human-system” viewpoint and that the medical organization operates according to a systems approach. As a result, healthcare professionals are familiar with the fundamentals of system and process management approaches (Butt, 2020). My personal experience has demonstrated that a specialist from a different area of the institution must collaborate before deciding whether to treat a patient. Clinicians make judgments that affect the efficacy and quality of patient treatment and possess the technical expertise to make strategic decisions on long-term healthcare delivery methods (Yang et al., 2023). The manager has a variety of responsibilities within the national healthcare system. First, they oversee the process of providing healthcare (the delivery of healthcare) (Perlman & Abu Dabrh, 2020). Second, regional administrators organize the framework for health care reform on behalf of the national government.

Over the past several decades, there have been many more occupations whose representatives are most prone to burnout. These professionals include social workers, teachers, police officers, psychologists, human resource managers, and others (Vîrgă et al., 2020). However, the people who consistently assist people in overcoming health-related issues and from whose moral support is always sought are the leaders of this list, and still are, medical professionals (Samari et al., 2022). Based on the information I have read, an individual working in the medical field must have emotional stability (Lee & Lee, 2021). Medical organizations need to implement staff training and create a more dependable leave system to safeguard employees from emotional exhaustion and help them build their emotional intelligence.

On the subject of change in healthcare, there are a lot of good tendencies, but there are also issues. First off, a lot of Americans lack access to VMI insurance (Pourmohammad-Zia et al., 2021). Second, disease diagnosis is prioritized over workplace health and disease prevention (Ralph et al., 2020). Third, instead of working together for the sake of patients, the existing system pushes doctors to pursue financial success (Argaw et al., 2020). Fourth, funding for and development of first aid needs to be improved (Danese et al., 2019). Fifth, insurers pass on all expenses to policyholders, refuse to provide proper reimbursement for disease prevention, and place a burden on hospital administration, which diverts major resources from patient care and into reporting (Fang et al., 2020). Hence, the issue is the connection between healthcare spending and quality. More funding should be sought for the development of medical organizations. Additionally, the workforce must be better qualified to give patients high-quality, levelized treatment.

Conclusion

Thus, the material studied leads to the conclusion that leadership, management, and teamwork are integral parts of the effective functioning of a medical organization. Changes in health and welfare policies provide an opportunity to improve service delivery practices. However, there are also many problems in health care reforms that need to be addressed. The emotional intelligence and resilience of the health care provider also play a very important role in the quality of aligned care. Healthcare providers must monitor their health, rest, and attend training designed to improve their psychological well-being.

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