Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”

There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much...

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Main Author: Jackie Ford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2015-04-01
Series:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
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Online Access:http://www.ijhpm.com/pdf_2972_7f310e7b8ffde72bc0ac7e7cfa489d3c.html
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spelling doaj-0d11f648546a4bb98f6abf6787d4fa002020-11-24T23:27:01ZengKerman University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management2322-59392322-59392015-04-014426126310.15171/ijhpm.2015.43Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”Jackie Ford0School of Management, Bradford University, Bradford, UKThere remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities or competencies that will enable the development of leaders to achieve levels of supreme leadership and organisational performance. This brief commentary adds support to McDonald’s (1) call for recognition of the complexity of the undertaking.http://www.ijhpm.com/pdf_2972_7f310e7b8ffde72bc0ac7e7cfa489d3c.htmlCritical Leadership StudiesLeadership DevelopmentRelational Leadership
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Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Critical Leadership Studies
Leadership Development
Relational Leadership
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title Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
title_short Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
title_full Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
title_fullStr Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
title_full_unstemmed Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”
title_sort going beyond the hero in leadership development: the place of healthcare context, complexity and relationships; comment on “leadership and leadership development in healthcare settings – a simplistic solution to complex problems?”
publisher Kerman University of Medical Sciences
series International Journal of Health Policy and Management
issn 2322-5939
2322-5939
publishDate 2015-04-01
description There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities or competencies that will enable the development of leaders to achieve levels of supreme leadership and organisational performance. This brief commentary adds support to McDonald’s (1) call for recognition of the complexity of the undertaking.
topic Critical Leadership Studies
Leadership Development
Relational Leadership
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