The importance of leadership development in Nursing: Literature review

Abstract

The word leadership emerged around 1300 AD, although the term has been increasingly used in the last 200 years, especially in the English language. As a general and simplified concept, we can say that leadership is the process of guiding a group of people, transforming them into a team that generates results. It is the ability to motivate and influence the people managed, in an ethical and positive way, so that they contribute voluntarily and enthusiastically to the achievement of the team's and the organization's goals. Leadership is associated with incentives, incentives, and impulses that can motivate people to achieve the company's mission, vision, and goals. Leadership is a form of influence.

Influence is an interpersonal transaction in which a person acts intentionally to modify or provoke the behavior of another person (CHIAVENATO, 1999: 553-627). According to the author, leadership is a typical social phenomenon that occurs only in social groups. We can define it as the interpersonal influence exerted in a given situation and directed through the process of human communication to achieve one or more specific objectives.

Leadership is "the beginning and maintenance of structure in terms of expectations and interactions" (Stogdill, 1974, p.411). According to the author, leadership structures the team so that everyone has the same goal and exceeds expectations. through faith and self-transcendence.

Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organized group to achieve a goal (Rouch and Behling, 1984, p. 46). Therefore, leadership is controlling the actions of the group where everyone works together focused on these goals. the same goal.