LEADERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP STYLES IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
Healthcare is a complex system that faces a number of challenges, such as staff shortages, increasing workloads, and rising health care and service costs. As one of the largest group of healthcare professionals, health care professionals are at the heart of these issues. To address the emerging issues of care, healthcare managers need to use and apply a specific management style or a combination of different styles to be effective. It can be said that "management and leadership are emerging as a major problem of management theory and practice, which requires the consideration of the role of leadership and management in health care management." [4, p. 22]. Leadership, guidance and management are equally important processes, but their focus is different and their significance varies in different situations [5, p. 36]. The purpose of this study is to analyze the applied leadership and management styles by Healthcare Leaders in Healthcare Management.