My scores from the path goal questionnaire indicate that I am leading to two different paths of leadership. They are directive and achievement-oriented styles of leadership.
Directive style: My role as a charge nurse is to oversee our unit. I am responsible for keeping a high level of patient care, assessing nurses and serving as an educational resource for nurses. I am also ensuring that my directions and expectations are clearly understood by the staff members. More often than not, I do a lot of coaching to nurses to facilitate the flow of work. It’s true that we are achieving the completion of the task but there are times nurses seem to be less confident to do the job on their own. So, I work through the tasks to improve their skills…
I do my best to maintain a good rapport with my team members. I would say that they are comfortable approaching me if they need assistance. I encourage them to learn and accept new tasks assigned to them. I don’t stop to make everyone an in-group member in our unit. However, based from my observation, I will find few team members who are not motivated to excel themselves not because the leader isolates them from the in group members but because they prefer to be in the out-group situation. They choose to do less because they don’t want additional responsibilities. Nevertheless, I am a persistent charge nurse, I assign them new tasks to accomplish so they can benefit from the learning experience. To add to their confidence, I assured them with my presence and my willingness to help. It can be tough sometimes on my part because sometimes I end up spending a lot of coaching and monitoring them closely so they can be successful in completing their tasks. I am getting good job results from team members but inconsistently. The outcome of my leader-member relationship may not be of high-quality yet due to my being task-focused. But it is my hope that through this subject course I will be able to adopt or apply the different styles of leadership regardless what type of situation I will undergo at…
