Assignment: Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership Theory
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(15–20 pages):Section 1 — Abstract and Introduction (1–2 pages)Section 2 — Revised
Literature Review and Problem Statement (5–7 pages):Literature Review to include:A
synthesis of the literature of 15–20 peer reviewed, scholarly resourcesA description of
theoretical gaps in the researchProblem Statement to include:An explanation of the specific
problem that addresses identified gaps within the literatureAn explanation of how your
problem statement incorporates implications for positive social change.Section 3 —
Personal Public Health Leadership Theory (2–3 pages):An articulation of your personal
Public Health Leadership TheorySection 4 — Revised Visual Representation of Your Public
Health Leadership Theory (3–4 pages):Your visual representation should include:Your
personal Public Health Leadership Theory to address the gaps identified in the literatureA
visual representation of the theory (e.g. table, graph, matrix)A explanation on how the
theory addresses the literature gap identified in Week 5A description of how your theory
incorporates aspects of systems thinkingSection 5 — Empirical Evaluation Plan for a Public
Health Leadership Theory (3–4 pages):You will assess if the newly developed leadership
theory addresses the problem you have been working on. What methodological steps will
you use? How will you collect data? Suggestion – start with how theories in our text are
evaluated. It does not have to be detailed, but it must include the methods, measures and
analytic techniques. Assignment: Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership
TheoryIf the assignments are done correctly, there should be an alignment from the topic of
choice to the evaluation:The topic is researched in the literatureThe literature review points
out a theoretical gap that needs to be addressed by leadershipThe gap is turned into a
problem statementA leadership theory to address the problem proposedThe theory is
depicted in a visual; and finallyAn evaluation plan describes how the newly developed
theory resolves the problem identified in the literatureTo further help, examples (Two final
projects – permission given to post) are located in the Doc Sharing area for this weekSection
6 — Conclusion (1–2 pages)Section 7 — ReferencesAn APA-formatted reference list of 15–
20 peer-reviewed, scholarly
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INTEGRATION OF LEAN LEADERSHIP IN HELATHCARE PRACTICE Application of Lean
Strategy and Technology in Healthcare through Lean Leadership 1 Application of Lean

Leadership in Healthcare Practice 2 I.Literature Review a. Effective Leadership Leadership
is a term that can be defined in very many ways. The word varies from organization to
organization and the filed that is being applied. Leadership is applied to all concepts of the
day to day living and has a great influence on the political, religious, social, and economic
trends. According to research done by Sethuraman & Suresh (2014), the term leadership is
wide up to a scenario that even though scholars have invested a lot of their times in defining
and understanding leadership, there are still a lot of things that are being discovered daily
related to leadership (Bercaw, 2016). However, the good thing about leadership is focusing
on effective leadership. Effective leadership is the application of different leadership skills,
styles, strategies and concepts that aims at maximizing the benefits of what is being led.
There is always a big task in locating best leaders in the society that will be able to
maximize benefits available. The quest to find a leader is all because of wanting to achieve
effective leadership (Poksinska, Swartling, & Drotz, 2013). Assignment: Scholar-Practitioner
Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryHowever, even though there has always been
effective leadership, there has always been a disadvantageous side in the leadership. It
explains the reason why leaders are changed in organizations on daily basis despite being
able to implement effective policies or leadership. b. Effective Leadership in Healthcare
Practice The healthcare practice also acknowledges the importance of effective leadership.
In healthcare, one of the thing that they consider as a priority is Quality and Safety
healthcare Application of Lean Leadership in Healthcare Practice 3 practice that will
enhance patients and healthcare personnel safety. Since the beginning of healthcare
practice, improvement of quality has always be considered to be very vital. The reason is
that quality healthcare practices is an indication of reduced medical errors that cause
complication in patients well-being, stable control of dangerous diseases, increased number
of saved lives, and minimized contamination of any disease by healthcare personnel and
patients (Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, & Zanjani, 2017). All this can only be achieved through effective
leadership practices in healthcare. Effective leadership will ensure that the quality of
healthcare practice is maximized and very minimal margins of error are experienced.
However, the recent changes in trends and healthcare practices have affected effective
leadership in healthcare practices. Even though leaders are very effective and possess high
skills that would help maximize the quality of healthcare, there are issues that are hard to
deal with healthcare practice (Mann, 2009). Mann (2009) continues to say that some of the
issues include the privacy of patient’s document, increasing number of data in healthcare
systems and technological trends that are changing how health care has always been
practiced. According to different research, many leaders in healthcare practices are finding
it very difficult to keep up with the rapid changes and issues related to healthcare service
(Aij, 2017). The whole problem was heavily linked to technology and many healthcare
organizations tried to shift their operations from the traditional way of healthcare services
to incorporate more of information technology system. Many healthcare systems are
changing and new changes mean finding and implementing new leadership styles and
strategies. Therefore, despite the many efforts that healthcare organizations are trying to
put in maximizing quality and safety practices, there has been a big problem of effective
leadership to cope up with the constant changes in healthcare practices. Application of Lean

Leadership in Healthcare Practice 4 c. Lean and Lean Leadership The word lean was first
used in the 1980s to show effective steps of production in Toyota Production Company.
According to Poksinska, Swartling, & Drotz (2013), the aim of the approach was to
maximize the customer satisfaction while focused on reducing manufacturing deficits,
human effort, inventory usage and reducing the time of production. Assignment: Scholar-
Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryThe lean strategy is based on five
principles, the value that is analyzed on the basis of the benefits gained by a customer. The
second principle is the value stream that explains the channels through which value is
passed to the consumers. The third principle is the flow that analyzes the smoothness and
efficiency functioning of the value stream (Kjeld & Schiedam, 2015). The fourth principle is
the pull principles that explain how the system responds to what the customers need with a
quest of avoiding to build an inventory. Finally, there is the perfection that talks about
minimization of any waste. In general, the lean process ensures that all the wastes are
eradicated and a system is stable in a way that it can ensure adapt to constant changes.
Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, & Zanjani (2017), elaborate Lean leadership by four models as outlined
by the Toyota leadership style. The models include; Commitment to self-development,
Coaching and developing of others, acknowledgment and appreciation of daily Kaizen and
lastly creation of visions and aligning of goals. The first principle talks about the importance
of a leader is to ensure they equip themselves with necessary tools and knowledge before
they start to teach the other people on the philosophy of lean strategy. Lean leadership
requires support by the different lean beliefs to facilitate the different behaviors that would
lead to managerial competency over time. Bercaw (2016) points out that the Toyota
leadership requires that a leader has an in-depth understanding of production and
developing people that make them earn the respect of leadership and technical abilities.
Assignment: Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryThe second
principle is focused on leader teaching Application of Lean Leadership in Healthcare
Practice 5 the employees on the importance of norm and beliefs of the organization to
facilitate effective leadership in all the organization (White, 2016). Proper display of
coaching others will be reflected in the trust, respect, commitment, knowledge sharing,
shared responsibilities, and employee’s empowerment through their daily schedules. The
third principle is focused on how effective leadership is displayed by workers awareness of
their responsibilities and the need to improve their own operational abilities. The leader
should be able to provide the necessary resources or equipment to embrace the opportunity
of improving employees work awareness (White, 2016). The last stage is the ability to come
up with arranged and well-formulated organization philosophical objective and short and
long-term goals to be achieved by the organization. d. Lean leadership and effective
leadership in healthcare practice The crucial changes in healthcare created a big gap in
achieving effective leadership in healthcare practice. It showed the need for implementing
new policies, trends, and strategies that would improve leadership in healthcare practices.
Therefore, many healthcare organizations upon seeing how successful the lean strategy had
been effective in the manufacturing process were tempted to implement it in healthcare
practice (Kjeld & Schiedam, 2015). The process has been implemented in healthcare
practice for more than five years but the results are of its success are very inconsistent.

There have been a lot of challenges associated with lean technology (Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, &
Zanjani 2017). While many people support the use of lean technology, a big number still
oppose the idea strongly and it has not been fully accepted up to date. Dahlgaard, Pettersen,
& Dahlgaard-Park (2011) research suggests that the main reason that has caused the
enormous opposition of the strategy is that the criteria of implementing the strategy into
healthcare are not sufficient enough. It requires that the patients be labeled as Application
of Lean Leadership in Healthcare Practice 6 customers (p.680). There is also the insurance
companies and practice-based commissioners are also views as customers. Dombrowski &
Mielke (2014) reports that there is also central political organizations and internal hospital
departments that play a role in being customers or regulators. All this makes the hospital
administration very complicated thus rise of many challenges by organizations trying to
implement the lean technology. Some of the major challenges include the need of proved
evidence to guarantee that lean will work, resistance to change, lack of sufficient time to run
daily routine and the improvement project, and increased confusion by patients and
healthcare staff as they adapt to the new technology (Kjeld & Schiedam, 2015). The benefits
of lean technology in health care system will see that the quality of healthcare services
improve. It will also ensure that healthcare organizations are able to achieve high-quality
service and they use very minimum investments (White, 2016). It will also increase the time
of services delivery to the patients minimizing chances of medical errors and enough time
for health care personnel to perform their services adequately and efficiently. Assignment:
Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryIt will also facilitate effective
management of healthcare data that is becoming a big issue in the healthcare system
(Bercaw, 2016). Finally, it will aid health care to avoid any waste of resources and time thus
allowing the health care to allocate enough time in achieving the specified goals and
objectives. However, in order to achieve the benefits and overcome the challenges, there is
need of lean leadership in the healthcare system. Aij (2017) explains that the fact that lean
strategy is new in healthcare means that there are very minimal probabilities of finding
healthcare leaders who can implement lean leadership in healthcare effectively. If leaders
grasp the concepts and different models and steps involved to acquire lean leadership, they
will increase the chances of achieving effective leadership in healthcare practice. According
to Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, & Zanjani Application of Lean Leadership in Healthcare Practice 7
(2017), it is said that the element of lean leadership in healthcare practices has resulted in
positive results in healthcare services. Brandao de Souza (2009) reports that different
people say that lean strategy help improve quality and creation of a lot of time to perform
different activities sufficiently (p.130). But lean leadership is required in order to get
expected result as it is evidently observed in Toyota manufacturing company that has had
vast success since the implementation of the strategy. II. Problem Statement The healthcare
practice is aimed at improving the quality and safety of healthcare services delivery. The
means to achieve quality and safety in healthcare has always lied on effective leadership
throughout the years. However, there have been a lot of changes in the healthcare system
that has compromised the effectiveness of leadership. Many organizations have tried to
implement the lean technology through lean leadership as a solution. The lean leadership
concept, on the other hand, has proven to be very difficult in health care services due to

inconsistent results and views on the application of lean technology in healthcare practice.
Therefore, the study aims at finding the different strategies and channels that will ensure
that lean leadership is adopted and understood by all leaders of healthcare services so as
they can successfully integrate the lean strategy to healthcare services. Application of Lean
Leadership in Healthcare Practice 8 References Aij, P. H. D. (2017). Assignment: Scholar-
Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryPractical lean leadership for health
care managers: A guide to sustainable and effective… application of lean principles. S.l.: CRC
PRESS. Ashtiani, N, N., Bhuiyan, N., & Zanjani, M. (2017). Lean Leadership Practices-A
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https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/lean-leadership-practices-a-literature-
review2169-0316-1000226.php?aid=93450 Bercaw, R. (2016). Lean leadership for
healthcare: approaches to lean transformation. Productivity Press. Brandao de Souza, L.
(2009). Trends and approaches in lean healthcare. Leadership in health services, 22(2),
121-139. Dahlgaard, J. J., Pettersen, J., & Dahlgaard-Park, S. M. (2011). Quality and lean
health care: A system for assessing and improving the health of healthcare organisations.
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Mielke, T. (2014). Lean leadership–15 rules for a sustainable lean implementation. Procedia
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peri-operative processes in a hospital. Retrieved from Application of Lean Leadership in
Healthcare Practice 9
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282845822_Lean_Leadership_Health_Care_en
hancing_peri-operative_processes_in_a_hospital Mann, D. (2009). The missing link: Lean
leadership. Frontiers of health services management, 26(1), 15. Poksinska, B., Swartling, D.,
& Drotz, E. (2013). The daily work of Lean leaders: lessons from manufacturing and
healthcare. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. Retrieved from
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Sethuraman, K., & Suresh, J. (2014). Effective leadership styles. International Business
Research, 7(9), 165. White, B. (2016). Lean daily management for healthcare: A strategic
guide to implementing lean for hospital leaders. Running head: LEAN THEORY IN
HEALTHCARE Visual Representation of Lean Leadership Theory Layal Mansour Walden
University 1 VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF LEAN LEADERSHIP THEORY 2 Assignment:
Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryLean leadership model for
reduction Healthcare medical errors Healthcare medical errors are errors that occur due to
different treatment interventions in the healthcare organizations. In 2008, the survey
showed that over $ 19.5 was spent to deal with medical errors. Another 2008 statistic
showed that an estimated number of 210,000-440, 000 patients die every year out of harms
that could have been prevented (Graban, 2017). What contributed to increased healthcare
medical errors that have become a big issue in healthcare is due to emergency if
information technology that facilitated random changes in the field that made it hard for
medical staff to cope up with them. Leaders are vital to solving the issue of medical errors in
their respective healthcare organizations. Effective leadership can ensure that there is
efficiency, accuracy and high professionalism in dealing with patients to prevent the
medical errors (Aij, 2017). Effective leadership will ensure that all healthcare organization

personnel respect their ethics of providing quality services. It will also guarantee a
continuous improvement, learning, and training environment without adding extra cost to
healthcare organizations or wastage of time. However, Healthcare leaders have tried
everything they can do to prevent the medical errors in their respective healthcare
associations, but lack of enough knowledge and skills have acted like a big barrier towards
solving the problem (Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, & Zanjani, 2017). However, since the introduction
of lean leadership in healthcare technology, it has had a great promise in significantly
reducing the healthcare medical errors. It will offer leaders an opportunity to perform
efficiently to manage healthcare organizations in the best possible way by reduction of
wastage of resources and time (Brandao de Souza, 2009). However, leaders need to VISUAL
REPRESENTATION OF LEAN LEADERSHIP THEORY 3 learn what lean leadership is and how
they can implement it to healthcare organizations so as it works effectively. Visual
representation of the five-step Kaizen lean model to improve quality and safety in
healthcare The five-step lean model, as Kaizen presented it, presents a leadership model
that healthcare leaders need to utilize to ensure that there is a significant reduction in
healthcare medical errors. The model involves defining the problems associated with
medical errors. In short, what are the factors that have highly contributed to medical care
errors? The other four steps are involved with clearly defining and understanding the
problem and coming up with the best solution. All the five steps require a manager to have
high knowledge and skills in healthcare so as they can facilitate change in their
organizations (Ashtiani, Bhuiyan, & Zanjani, 2017). It helps in prevention of wastage of
resources and times. It is a lean model that will guarantee healthcare to adapt to a system
where they will be able to cope with the ever-changing environment in technology
contributed to information technology and the invention of new devices in healthcare.
Defining of problem Measuring the extend of problem Controlling of the strategy Analyzing
the overall problem Improving the situation VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF LEAN
LEADERSHIP THEORY 4 Through the lean five model leadership theory, leaders will have a
mastery of everything that is happening around them, and they will be capable of
reinforcing motivation and training to the healthcare staff (Mann, 2009). Assignment:
Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Leadership TheoryEffective leadership, in turn,
will help improve quality and safety in healthcare which will be reflected by reduced
medical care errors. The proposed gap in research The proposed gap in research is an
effective application of lean leadership model to reduce medical errors. The high medical
error record has been contributed to the fact that there are drastic changes in healthcare
services (Sethuraman & Suresh, 2014). Many healthcare areas have been affected Starting
from storage of information to delivering services. As from 2000, many inventions were
done like improved surgery tools that required extra knowledge so as they could be
implemented efficiently (Ashtiani, NBhuiyan, & Zanjani, 2017). As years passed, more and
more inventions were made that required more knowledge and skills from healthcare
personnel. Apart from that, the number of patients was also increasing abruptly due to the
increased number of patients to receive healthcare services. Healthcare personnel required
more knowledge than they had to cope up with the different changes. Due to this demand,
healthcare personnel ended up increasing the number of medical errors that could easily be

avoided. It led to increased number of deaths, and by 2008, the number of medical errors
rose to more than 200, 000 patients who showed reduced quality and safety in healthcare
services (Graban, 2017). Even after trying to implement different strategies to solve the
issues, the number remained high which was a high concern for healthcare quality and
safety standards. VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF LEAN LEADERSHIP THEORY 5 How lean
leadership model theory helps address this gap Lean five-step leadership model offers a
solution that can reduce the high number of medical errors. The lean model first ensures
that a leader has enough skills than other people to a point where employees look up to
him/her (White, 2016). Lean also ensures that a leader has the proper knowledge to
reinforce positive energy to employees. Also, it challenges a leader to always be a step
ahead of everything surrounding their area of operation. Finally, the lean model makes sure
that a leader creates an environment where even the employees are motivated to learn and
help each other complete their daily tasks (Kjeld & Schiedam, 2015). The requirement of a
leader to always be a step ahead will ensure that they are aware of new changes and they
can teach the healthcare employees in such a way that they avoid