Leadership in Health Services: Volume 36 Issue 3

A scoping review of the literature pertaining to burnout and leadership in mental health clinicians

Jenny Gravestock

This paper aims to explore what is known in the literature about leadership and burnout within mental health clinicians (MHC).

The evaluation of health care leadership development programmes: a scoping review of reviews

Emily Burn, Justin Waring

The purpose of this paper is to report a scoping review of reviews which investigated HLDP evaluations to determine: how the conceptualisation of leadership development programmes…

Evaluation of a leadership development impact assessment toolkit: a comparative case study of experts’ perspectives in three Canadian provinces

Mehri Karimi-Dehkordi, Graham Dickson, Kelly Grimes, Suzanne Schell, Ivy Bourgeault

This paper aims to explore users' perceptions of whether the Leadership Development Impact Assessment (LDI) Toolkit is valid, reliable, simple to use and cost-effective as a guide…

Upstreamist leaders: how risk factors for unscheduled return visits (URV) to the emergency department can inform integrated healthcare

Martha Zuluaga Quintero, Buddhike Sri Harsha Indrasena, Lisa Fox, Prakash Subedi, Jill Aylott

This paper aims to report on research undertaken in an National Health Service (NHS) emergency department in the north of England, UK, to identify which patients, with which…

The dynamic nature of leader–member exchange relationships in health-care organizations

Sari Hirvi, Sanna Laulainen, Kristiina Junttila, Johanna Lammintakanen

This study aims to make visible the dynamic nature of leader–member exchange (LMX) in the changing realm of health-care leadership.

Challenges of primary health care leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden: a qualitative study of managers’ experiences

Janna Skagerström, Hanna Fernemark, Per Nilsen, Ida Seing, Maria Hårdstedt, Elin Karlsson, Kristina Schildmeijer

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care was at the centre of the crisis. New demands made existing organizational practices and services obsolete. Primary health…

Turkish nurses' leadership orientations and clinical decision-making skills

Elif Gürsoy, Havva Yeşildere Sağlam, Fatma Başaran, Emine Çetin Atay, Nurgül Şimal Yavuz

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the leadership orientations of nurses and their clinical decision-making skills.

Physical therapists’ professional role identity in the clinician to leader transition

Christopher Wiedman

The purpose of this study is to investigate how physical therapists make meaning of their professional role identity when transitioning from clinician to leadership positions…

The lens of Yin-Yang philosophy: the influence of paradoxical leadership and emotional intelligence on nurses’ organizational identification and turnover intention

Wei-Yuan Lo, Yu-Kai Lin, Hsiang-Ming Lee, Tsui-Yau Liu

This study aims to use “both–and” thinking of Yin-Yang philosophy to extend the field of leadership literatures and explore the influences of paradoxical leadership and emotional…