Leadership and Change Management

Introduction to Leadership, Leadership, role and functions of a Leader, Leadership motives, Characteristics of an Effective Leader, Leadership as a process, The complexities of leadership, Effective leadership behaviors and attitudes, Leadership and power, Coercion, Management, Trait approach,

Theories of Leadership: Trait Theory, Behavioural Theories, Contingency Theories, Transactional Theories and Transformational Leadership Theory. Leadership Behaviour and styles.Blake Moutons Managerial Grid.

Nature of organizational change, Sources of change, Environmental triggers of Change, Organizational responses to change, Impact of change on organisations. Resistance to change. Types of change, Changing faces of change, Predictable Change, Diagnosing change situation. Perspectives on change: Contingency Perspective, Resource dependence perspective, Population&Ecology Perspective, Institutional Perspective. Case Studies from healthcare.

Concept of Change Management, Understanding the Organizations for Change: Organizational Structure, Models of Structure, Influences on structure, Organizational structure and change. Organizational Culture, dimensions of organizational culture, sources of organizational culture, Organizational culture and change. Case Studies of Hospitals.

Organizational politics, The link between politics, power and conflict, Power and conflict in times of change, Management and leadership, Leadership in times of change. Cultural factors influencing leadership practice. Managing group conflict, power, politics, change and management of diversity.Case Studies.