Leadership for Healthcare
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
156 pages
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© 2010
It is vital for healthcare leaders to have a clear sense of which leadership ideas and practices are rooted in sound theory and convincing evidence, and which are more speculative. This book provides a coherent set of six lenses through which to scrutinise the leadership literature relevant to healthcare - leadership concepts, characteristics, contexts, challenges, capabilities and consequences. It offers a view of leadership beyond the traditional focus on the individual, and argues instead that leadership has to be understood and developed as a complex set of practices by many people within specific organisational and inter-organisational contexts and cultures.
Contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing leadership
New look leadership—the height of fashion?
The Warwick 6 C framework for thinking about leadership
Leadership development
Policy and practice implications
2. Leadership concepts
What is meant by the term leadership?
Perspectives on leadership
Policy and practice implications
3. Characteristics of leadership
Who are the leaders in healthcare?
Individual and shared/distributed leadership
Roles and sources of influence in organisational and network settings
Policy and practice implications
4. The contexts of leadership
Layers of context
Policy and practice implications
5. The challenges of leadership
Leadership as sense-making and as constituting challenges
The natures of the challenges
Challenges at the organisational and inter-organisational levels in healthcare
Policy and practice implications
6. The capabilities of leadership
Traits
Behaviours
The capabilities of leading networks and teams
Transformational and transactional leadership behaviours and styles
Post-transformational leadership
What about gender?
Policy and practice implications
7. Consequences of leadership
Establishing causes and effects
A framework linking leadership and organisational performance
A public value perspective
Evidence of the impact of leadership on organisational performance and health outcomes
A contingency view of consequences
Policy and practice implications
8. Leadership development
What is leadership development?
The concepts of leadership
The characteristics of leadership
The contexts of leadership
The challenges of leadership
The capabilities of leadership
Consequences of leadership development
Policy and practice implications
9. Conclusions
References
Index
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