Abstract
Goals
-
How can you become a visionary leader?
-
How can you avoid frequent leadership errors?
-
How can you motivate your colleagues and co-workers?
-
How do you prevent identity crises for yourself and your subordinates?
This chapter outlines the key characteristics of a good leader. It depicts leadership styles and describes methods of leadership, empathy, authenticity and anticipation. To understand how you can motivate your co-workers, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and other motivational theories are explained. The term ‘noetive dissonance’ is described, as are measures to avoid it. The hassles of the first 100 days in a new workplace are outlined as well as how burn-out syndrome can be detected and avoided.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References and Further Reading
Adams JS (1965) Inequity in social exchange. In: Berkowitz L (ed) Advances in experimental social psychology. Academic Press, New York, pp 267–299
Carter L, Ulrich D, Goldsmith M (2005) Best practices in leadership development and organization change. Wiley, San Francisco
Cook CW, Hunsacker PL (2001) Management and Organisational Behaviour. McGraw-Hill Irwin, Boston
Graf H (2007) Die kollektiven Neurosen im Management. Linde, Wien
Herzberg F, Mausner B, Snyderman BB (1959) The motivation to work. Wiley, New York
Mann C (2006) The hospital myth – disenchantment. Amazon KDP, Seattle
Maslach C (2001) Job Burnout. Annu Rev Psychol 52:397–422
Maslow AH (1943) A theory of human motivation. Psychol Rev 50(4):370–396
Pfeffer J (2010) Power: Why some people have it – and others don’t. Harper Collins, New York
Sutton R (2010) Good boss, bad boss. How to be the best and learn from the worst. Little Brown, Boston
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Weimann, E., Weimann, P. (2017). Be a Visionary Leader. In: High Performance in Hospital Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49660-2_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49660-2_10
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-49658-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-49660-2
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)