PAD 515 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 

“Public Leadership in Public Hospitals” Please respond to the following:

Note: Online students, please respond to two (2) of the following three (3) bulleted items.

• From the weekly readings and first e-Activity, examine the major issues confronting the two (2) public leaders and their leadership style of responding to the issues in question, and proposed financial reform. Propose one (1) leadership theory and two (2) leadership styles that you would apply in order to handle the fiscal situation in question. Provide a rationale for your response. In your response to your peers, predict the potential for success of the proposed theory and styles to handle the fiscal situation, and provide a rationale.
• From the weekly readings and second e-Activity, analyze the two (2) public leader styles that you consider to be most important to team development. Provide two (2) examples that depict the importance of such styles. Speculate on the degree to which the absence of these styles would impact team dynamics.
• From the weekly readings and third e-Activity, examine the significant manner in which power struggles, bargaining, and conflict avoidance with medical staff may complicate the ability of a public leader to carry out the role and improve operations within a hospital. Propose two (2) styles that a public leader may take in order to mitigate such issues. Provide a rationale for your response. In your response to your peers, predict the potential for success of the proposed style geared toward mitigating the issues that a public leader faces, and provide a rationale.