Review based study on importance of leadership and role of followers in enabling leadership

Leadership and management are often seen as management tasks but the role of leadership is apparent not only to management but also in other sectors as well. Management is the art of getting work done from others. Leadership means influencing the behavior of people by your leading act. Leadership means enabling the people to make a sustainable change. The main focus of this discussion is around addressing the issue of Importance of leadership in healthcare and role of followers in enabling effective leadership. Through this study the examples of healthcare sector will illustrate the importance and role of followership to implement the leadership. Leadership‘ is about ‘influential acts of organizing‘ to handle day-to-day happenings in the healthcare workplace. There are many theories of leadership but no theory is specific to healthcare. Through literature we will be able to draw the conclusion regarding the importance of leadership and followership in healthcare context. Many theories and models have justified that can be applied for healthcare context. The report is presented in three sections a literature based review on leadership in healthcare, Importance of leadership in healthcare organization and Role of followership in implementing effective leadership.