Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

Topic: Nursing Leader

Module 4 Assignment 1: Organizational Analysis – The Nurse Leader

In this assignment, you will analyze your nurse leader’s characteristics and behaviors regarding others in managing, leading, and communicating. By respectfully, but critically, critiquing these attributes of the nurse leader you have been “shadowing,” you can identify the attributes that you consider most and least effective, and most and least similar to the way you see yourself managing, leading, and communicating.

Complete this document to record your analysis of your nurse leader.

Objectives

Explain how organizations function.

Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations