Effective Leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies

Effective leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies Timothy B. Ashby Devry University Leadership and Organizational Behavior GM 591 Professor Faggione January 26, 2011 Introduction Effective Leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies Lexington dry land Place is a rehabilitation and long- terminal figure superintend facility that is owned and operated by Five leading Incorporated. Five Star is a relatively new corporation that has made great strides in promoting integrity in the c be and rehabilitation of those in need of nursing care that extends beyond acute hospitalization.LCP has had a long-standing temperament of excellence in the Lexington, Kentucky community. Over a period of the past two years that reputation declined as a result of several factors but primarily because of ineffective leadership. My role at LCP is the even shift RN House Supervisor. Some of my responsibilities include effectively handling any problems that may turn up during the 3-11 shift. These problems may include making adjustments in staffing, assisting with admissions, public relation concerns, and using effective nursing perspicacity skills and making decisions that insure the safety and care of the residents at LCP.The current Director of Nursing, Angela Staiano, RN, BSN, has a proven jump record of being an effective leader with a history of improving the quality of long-term care facilities. She was offered and accepted the position of DON at LCP several months ago following a state oversight in which LCP was noted as having several deficiencies. Since inspections are a matter of public record and customers are able to make comparisons with competitors, LCP had a decrease in its census. Problem IdentificationThe problem being turn to in this paper is how ineffective leadership resulted in a decrease in the resident population, a complacent staff who were not committed to providing high standards of care, and as a result, a decreased gather for the organization. The lack of profit aptitude affects not only the corporate center, but also affects the organizations ability to make improvements to the facility, provide adequate resources to the residents, and to pay wages comparable with competitors in order to retain solid employees.Shermerhorn (2010) writes that organizations depend for their success on day-to-day decisions made by (leaders). The quality of these decisions influences both the long-term mathematical process of an organization and its day-to-day characterin the eyes of employees, customers, and society at large. The problems at LCP directly resulted from ugly decisions that were made of ineffective leaders. Literature Review An search on EBSChost for the phrase effective leaderhip resulted in 6373 results.The term leadership traits resulted in 718 results. A combination of the previous terms effective leadership traits provided too set a literary argument with only nine research articles. A s earch for types of leaders generated 787 articles. Leadership paths find 151 results. A search for organizational leadership behaviors generated 23 results which defined a reasonable search parameter with adequate research articles to support this paper.