Critically analyse leadership options and styles

Identify three cases based on your experience or close knowledge from which you derive leadership insight and write a case study for each.

Case 1: The first case should address senior leadership;

Case 2: The second case should address management and teams;

Case 3: The third case should address individuals.
For each case study (keeping to the sequence shown):

1. Briefly introduce the background and context, what happened, how it happened (the dynamics) and the outcomes;

2. Consider the case study more deeply by applying the 5 Whys interrogative technique to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular outcome;

3. Critically discuss the management and leadership insights you derive from the case study;
In each case study include a minimum of eight fully referenced management and leadership ideas, models, theories or conceptual frameworks covered in the module and through wider reading, that have a bearing on your insights.

Marking Criteria

The criteria for this component include the following learning outcomes:

KU 1. Critically reflect on key features of healthcare organisations and their decision-makingprocesses.

KU 2. Discuss and critique current management and leadership theories in the context of complex professionalised healthcare organisations.

KU 3. Critically appraise group and organisational decision theory and demonstrate greater insight into making effective decisions in teams.

KU 6. Compare how group dynamics can be used by healthcare leaders in different contexts to facilitate professionals’ engagement and improved teamwork.

S 1. Appraise alternative leadership options and styles for effectively managing teams of health professionals.

Learning outcomes refer to ‘healthcare organisations’, ‘professionalised healthcare organisations’, ‘healthcare leaders’, ‘health professionals’. Case studies from outside the health sector are fine as long as you justify relevance to the health sector.