Advances in Nursing & Midwifery

Abstract

The traditional management skills of planning, organizing, directing and controlling are insufficient in the fast-pacing, constantly changing, and highly complex world of twenty-first- century organizations.

     The quantum age is upon us and no part of human life is unaffected by this change and its new realities. Its impact on management and leadership is just beginning to be defined. If leaders and their organizations are to thrive in the new era, a whole new mind-set and skill-set must emerge in managers. While a fall in the number of nursing leaders may be attributed to the current nursing shortage, studies have noted that there is also a significant deficiency in their number. We need nursing leaders to exert that influence and by nurturing both leadership as well as clinical skills, we can do it. In contrast, at the bedside, they rarely find the opportunity to apply even basic leadership principles.

     Based on quantum approach to management, managers need to have a new perspective to man, processes and things. Also, this model considers the connection between things, man and elements much more important than the parts themselves. New challenges in leadership are avoiding centralization, maintaining flexibility, repeated designing and establishing structure to support culture and goals of followers. The new definition of system, therefore, is a set of rotary processes moving between order and chaos according to required needs.  

     In quantum model for efficiency of leadership, seven skills, seven traits and seven principles are referred. This paper explains effective factors in quantum leadership and quantum organization.

Keywords: Quantum Model, Nursing, Leadership.