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A brief history of healthcare leadership

In: Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare

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  • Stephanie Snow
  • Lawrence Benson

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The history of leadership in healthcare is mapped and analysed through four defined periods: pre-1940s; 1940s-1970s covering the rise in health systems and increased complexity of administration; 1980s-1990s including the impact of New Public Management and the professionalisation of management; and concludes by considering the 2000s to the present. It explores how understandings of leadership have changed over the period and been manifested in management training programmes and practice and the extent to which leadership is a local, national and/or global phenomenon. It considers the extent to which this history mirrors the four ‘main eras’ defined in leadership theory - from notions of innate traits, to learned behaviours, to contingent and situational theories, to the present era of collective, compassionate, values-based and systems leadership. It concludes that strong continuities in the social constructions of leadership run alongside new interpretations of its meaning and practice.

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  • Stephanie Snow & Lawrence Benson, 2023. "A brief history of healthcare leadership," Chapters, in: Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare, chapter 2, pages 9-28, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20708_2
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