Description
Book SynopsisLeadership and Change for the Health Professional will provide health professionals with the latest thinking on leadership theory and research. It highlights the issues that can block successful healthcare leadership initiatives, and explores ways of constructively engaging with the opportunities provided by change. Each chapter draws out practical lessons for effective and efficient leadership of care that is compassionate and safe.
Leaders and students at all levels will be able to use this book to expand their leadership repertoire in a text that engages with many themes, including:
â The basics of leadership and the idea of leadership as a "calling"
â Motivating employees
â Implicit leadership theory
â Developing trust
â Building learning organisations
â Gender and equality
â Planning and organising change in healthcare
â Leading change
The links between the theory and practice of healt
Table of Contents
Section 1: Leadership – A Broad Overview
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Leadership and Change?
Chapter 2 Leadership: Classic theories to Contemporary Concepts
Chapter 3 Implicit Leadership Theory
Chapter 4 Leadership as Calling: Ethics-Based Leadership
Chapter 5 Learning Organisations and Leadership
Section 2 Leadership in Healthcare: Expanding the Repertoire
Chapter 6 Leadership in Nursing & Healthcare: An Overview of Theory, Research & Practice
Chapter 7 Leadership, Gender and Equality: Challenging Terms for ‘Post Heroic’ Theory and Practice?
Chapter 8 Leadership and Team Work: Ensuring Effective Inter-Disciplinary Team Work and Learning in Healthcare
Chapter 9 Trust and Leadership
Chapter 10 Motivating and Retaining Employees
Chapter 11 Leadership and Patient Care Outcomes
Chapter 12 Leadership Education for Healthcare Professionals
Chapter 13 Creativity, Innovation, and Change
Section 3 Leadership, Healthcare and Change: Key Considerations
Chapter 14 Leading Change in Healthcare
Chapter 15 Planning and Organising the Change Process
Chapter 16 Reflective Leadership: A New Paradigm?
Chapter 17 Using Implementation Science to Guide Leadership and Determine Readiness for Change in Healthcare
Chapter 18 A Future Vision for Health Leadership
