| Contents |
Leadership thought -- Determining your own leadership style -- Today's health leadership challenges -- Chronology of leadership study and practice -- Leadership competence I: professional competencies and personal skills and responsibilities -- Leadership competence II: application of skills, tools, and abilities -- Leadership assessment and research: individual, team, and organization -- Leadership models in practice -- Leadership and the complex health organization : strategically managing the organizational environment before it manages you -- Ethics in health leadership -- Measuring the outcomes of leadership initiatives -- Understanding the executive roles of health leadership -- Complexity, speed, and change: leadership challenges for the next decade -- Leadership: a critical factor for the future success of the industry -- Leading nonperforming employees: leadership responsibility -- The health leader, information, decisions, and creating a knowledge culture: the 4 Ps of health analytics adoption -- Responsibilities of mentorship and succession planning. |
| Abstract |
"Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications applies classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context. Themes of leadership principles, applications and constructs such as organizational culture, cultural competency, ethical frameworks and moral practice, scientific methodology, leader competencies, external and internal assessment and evaluation, communication, planning, decision-making, employee enhancement, and knowledge management are woven through the entire text"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Revised edition of: Leadership for health professionals : theory, skills, and applications / Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens. Third edition. [2018]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ledlow, Gerald R. Leadership for health professionals. Fourth edition. Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2023] 9781284254785 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781284279665 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1284279669 (electronic bk.) |
