TY - CHAP
T1 - Reframing Healthcare Leadership
T2 - From Individualism to Leadership as Collective Practice
AU - Willocks, Katie
AU - Moralee, Simon
PY - 2021/10/10
Y1 - 2021/10/10
N2 - In this chapter, Willocks and Moralee argue that, within the field of leadership studies, there has been a significant shift away from individualistic, trait and ‘heroic’ ways of conceptualising leadership towards what have been termed ‘post-heroic’ approaches. Leadership-as-practice (LAP) is one such approach that accounts for collective, collaborative and emergent aspects of leadership in the ongoing flow of organisational practices. This chapter attends to the current dearth of empirical examples of LAP, notably within healthcare, by drawing on a UK NHS case study. Their analysis offers insight into different healthcare leadership ‘practices’ and the intricate connections between them, considering conceptual implications by highlighting the tensions and complexities that underpin LAP and the way in which policy context, culture and history inform ongoing emergent leadership processes.
AB - In this chapter, Willocks and Moralee argue that, within the field of leadership studies, there has been a significant shift away from individualistic, trait and ‘heroic’ ways of conceptualising leadership towards what have been termed ‘post-heroic’ approaches. Leadership-as-practice (LAP) is one such approach that accounts for collective, collaborative and emergent aspects of leadership in the ongoing flow of organisational practices. This chapter attends to the current dearth of empirical examples of LAP, notably within healthcare, by drawing on a UK NHS case study. Their analysis offers insight into different healthcare leadership ‘practices’ and the intricate connections between them, considering conceptual implications by highlighting the tensions and complexities that underpin LAP and the way in which policy context, culture and history inform ongoing emergent leadership processes.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-81093-1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-81093-1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030810924
SN - 9783030810955
T3 - Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare
SP - 229
EP - 253
BT - Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts
A2 - Kislov, Roman
A2 - Burns, Diane
A2 - Mørk, Bjørn Erik
A2 - Montgomery, Kathleen
PB - Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
CY - Cham
ER -