Amalgamated Leadership Model in For-Profit Organizations

摘要

The focus of this paper is the perceived leadership model that best suits for-profit health care organizations. General background of leadership and highlights of various leadership models provides an overview to enhance understanding of amalgamated leadership model suitable in for-profit organizations. In the current competitive marketplace, for-profit organizations are facing herculean challenge of ensuring profitability at all cost, because that determines organizational share price index on the trading floor. The quality of organizational leadership is therefore crucial to organizational survival in contemporary times. The idea promoted in this paper is that the amalgamated leadership model is the most applicable leadership approach to ensure profitability and sustainability of vibrant organizational processes thereby improving organizational position in the marketplace. The belief is that amalgamation of various leadership styles into one purposeful model will leverage the essential elements of each leadership paradigm to the benefit of the organization. The need exists however, for cautious application of the amalgamated model because achievement of success in the use of this construct will demand that leaders strike a balance in how they employ the attributes of each constituent leadership paradigm in the amalgamation. Over use of one element in the construct may lead to stress in the workplace thereby reducing productivity and profitability.