Healthcare Leadership eBooks
Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment by
This edited volume, featuring five new chapters from invited authors, provides an updated and evidence-based explanation of leadership within a healthcare environment. The book discusses new insights garnered from recent research into the importance of leadership in health system redesign and highlights the practice of shared or distributed health care leadership. New chapters covering LEADS in a national, regional, Indigenous, health profession, and people-centred care context provide new insights into how LEADS is being put to work to transform health systems. The LEADS framework has been refreshed in relation to each of its different elements and tools, with an emphasis on providing real-life examples of how LEADS has been put to work. LEADS is also explained as a change leadership model and in relation to how it helps to level the playing field in terms of gender and diversity in health leadership. The book aims to inform the leadership needs of health reform and its emergent system wide challenges. The content is relevant to health care administrators and professionals working within the public service, academic institutions, and health care delivery organisations.
ISBN: 3030385353Publication Date: 2020-03-07
Fundamentals of Leadership for Healthcare Professionals by
There are few contemporary industries that are as complex and challenging to navigate as healthcare. The realities of constantly changing regulatory, financial, and legal environments, combined with increasing societal expectations for excellence and safe and quality care, have resulted in a unique combination of constraints and opportunities that require the best and the brightest of managers and leaders to successfully tackle. Yet despite a growing cadre of highly trained healthcare management professionals, there continues to be a paucity of high quality leaders across the industry. Moreover, even among those individuals, there is a significant amount of variability and heterogeneity of leadership styles and approaches. In an era of accountability to multiple stakeholders - from patients, to insurance companies, to local and national governments - the complex environment of healthcare requires visionary leadership, flexibility, adaptability, short-term tactical approaches, as well as long-term strategic thinking. Beyond the traditionally defined scope of services, the mission of institutions providing healthcare services has become much broader and far-reaching than just the provision of medical services within a specific geographic area. With hospitals and health networks progressively growing to become some of the largest aggregators of employment in the United States, it is not uncommon for healthcare institutions to function as guarantors of economic stability to entire towns, cities, and regions. Yet this must be carefully balanced with the challenges of maintaining sustainable growth and acceptable profit margins that help ensure that this "safety matrix" continues to function as intended. To be an effective leader in the modern healthcare environment, one must possess more than the knowledge and skills similar to other corporate environments such as having a fundamental understanding of relevant business models and their implementations, a high degree of emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and a well-established repertoire of leadership behaviors expected of an executive. It takes someone truly special to translate the presence of diverse threats and opportunities - often in a climate rich with multiple types of diversely structured and organized competitors, multi-layered complex agendas that incorporate both personal and organizational goals, and an institutional "history and culture" that can be difficult to navigate, let alone change. Contemporary healthcare leaders must also possess a broad understanding of the nuances and intricacies involved in working with a multitude of care providers, inter-disciplinary teams, complex delivery platforms, and diverse patient populations. These efforts must translate into well-run healthcare systems that, although difficult to clearly and concisely define, are able to deliver excellent patient care, at the highest possible intersection of customer quality and value. For some other healthcare institutions, teaching and research missions can also be variables that must be considered and managed effectively in order for a hospital or healthcare system to be successful. Many of such organizations are the primary generators and providers of new provider talent to their communities and patients. Achieving all of the above goals is far from easy. As the editors of Fundamentals of Leadership for Healthcare Professionals, we were motivated by personal experiences, passion for the arts and sciences leadership roles, and the overarching goal to improve one of our most precious resources - the healthcare system. Each chapter in this text explores different aspects of healthcare leadership, provides valuable insights into how effective leadership functions, and offers practical perspectives on implementations of theory into practice. We hope that the reader will gain a better understanding of the full spectrum of challenges and opportunities that face healthcare leaders at all organizational levels.
ISBN: 1536136212Publication Date: 2018-04-27
Healthcare Leadership in Times of Crisis by
This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises. It illustrates how experiences gained from event and crisis containment efforts can better prepare these organizations to prevent and/or manage other crises they may experience. Using a model outlining the relationship between a mismanaged event and the triggering of a crisis, the author defines the role of the leadership in healthcare organizations when developing, launching, and managing plans and programs to deal with these dangerous challenges brought on by crises, catastrophes, and disasters to their stakeholder networks. Readers with expertise in leadership and crisis management in general and healthcare management specifically will find this text useful in linking leadership expectations and competencies to event and crisis containment efforts.
ISBN: 9783030759643Publication Date: 2021-07-08
Innovating Healthcare: The Role of Political, Managerial, and Clinical Leadership by
John Storey is Emeritus Professor at The Open University Business School, UK. He has led a number of NIHR-funded research projects on the organization of healthcare and on related topics for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Richard Holti is Professor of Professional Learning at the Open University Business School, UK. He has led projects for the NIHR and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
ISBN: 0429455968Publication Date: 2019-11-25
Integrated Delivery: Innovating Leadership for Outstanding Healthcare Outcomes by
This book - written for those holding, preparing for, or aspiring to managerial-level and above leadership positions within healthcare organizations - promotes a new, forward-thinking framework for leadership, a model that innovates upon the current paradigm directing leadership thinking, integrating the best business and social concepts, strategies, and practices with healthcare. Like its namesake, this integrated leadership model is about bringing the best leadership assumptions and practices together so that their weaknesses amidst shifting environments are buoyed by the others' strengths. Prior to detailing the integrated leadership model, however, readers will find out how ""organized medicine"" has changed over the decades (Chapter 1), what innovation really means (Chapter 2), and how to think clearly about strategic management and its constituent parts (strategic thinking, strategy development, and strategic planning) (Chapter 3). Then, the other models which helped contribute conceptually to the development of the integrated leadership model, along with the model itself, are discussed (Chapter 4). The chapters that follow (Chapters 5-7) explore each of the three primary modes of leadership behavior (anticipatory, strategic, and administrative) that keep an organization focused and refreshed throughout its various innovation-minded, effectiveness-establishing, and efficiency-building pursuits. For those wondering about integrating the model into their leadership habits (or scaling it for their organizations), Chapter 8 includes a short story about a healthcare organization in which the model is not spoken of, though its existence should be clearly perceived. The imaginary organization will illustrate ways in which the theory that undergirds the model and the practices which bring it to life can have a home in your organization.
ISBN: 1953349560Publication Date: 2021-04-30
Leadership in Healthcare: Delivering Organisational Transformation and Operational Excellence by
This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations. A wide range of theories are covered, from behavioural to attitudinal, socio-cognitive to contingency, and social exchange to team. By identifying the common underlying characteristics that are present in leadership styles and approaches, the author successfully crafts a useful model that is adaptable to different scenarios and contexts within the realms of healthcare management. Offering a series of detailed case studies from around the world, this book proposes three crucial concepts for leadership within the health sector: leadership credibility, professional credibility and organisational dynamics. Both scholars and practitioners will find the theoretical framework provided in this book insightful and applicable in real-life situations.
ISBN: 303004386XPublication Date: 2019-01-12
Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty and Healthcare Executives by
Recognizing that leaders in healthcare institutions face different questions and issues in different stages of their careers, this handy, practical title offers a comprehensive roadmap and range of solutions to common challenges in the complex and changing Academic Medical Center (AMC) and health care organization. Fully updated from the very well-received first edition and including new chapters, this concise handbook offers a guide for personal career development, executive skill acquisition, and leadership principles, providing real-world, actionable advice for faculty and executives seeking help on a myriad of new issues and situations. With a slightly modified title to recognize that leaders in academic medical centers and health care systems are not limited to medical faculty, this new edition maintains much of the content of the successful first edition with revisions based on feedback from readers and colleagues. New material has been added to reflect what is happening as health care undergoes major transformation. With a broader panel of renowned authors from a mix of healthcare institutions as well as nonmedical experts in leadership and management, the book again meets its primary objective: to provide medical faculty, healthcare executives and other leaders with a contemporary, directly relevant resource that emphasizes practical skills and leadership development advice, including personal improvement, which can be used at any stage of one's career. With critical insights and strategies for both aspiring and seasoned academicians and health executives, Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty and Healthcare Executives: A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition is a must-have resource for faculty in AMCs and for anyone with a role in healthcare leadership.
ISBN: 303045424XPublication Date: 2020-06-16
Principles of Healthcare Leadership by
Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, and answers to end-of-chapter discussion questions In healthcare, strong leadership is crucial. Today's volatile and ever-changing environment calls for a new set of leadership skills. As cost reduction, quality improvement, and management of scarce resources become increasingly important, healthcare leaders must know how to build a positive culture, manage change and conflict, establish trust, promote creativity and innovation, and empower every staff member in their organization to succeed. Principles of Healthcare Leadership provides complete coverage of the topics most vital to the success of a healthcare leader. Beginning with foundational leadership theory, including a discussion of power and influence, the book then explores distinct leadership styles and skills, the importance of organizational culture building, and strategies for leading people in healthcare delivery. Additional key topics include: Creativity and innovation Entrepreneurship Trust Change and conflict Leadership development and trends Team performance End-of-chapter summaries and discussion questions allow students to review and apply each chapter's concepts while they learn. Five comprehensive leadership case studies provide opportunities to integrate and apply skills featured in the book. The future of healthcare is now, and this book will guide leaders, current and future, as they manage daily change and growth in their redesigned healthcare organization.
ISBN: 1567938922Publication Date: 2017-06-30
