Complex Leadership in Healthcare: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nowadays, health systems are generally acknowledged to be complex social systems. Consequently, scholars, academics, practitioners, and policy-makers are exploring how to adopt a complexity perspective in health policy and system research. While leadership and complexity has been studied extensively outside health, the implications of complexity theories for the study of leadership in healthcare have received limited attention. We carried out a scoping review of complex leadership (CL) in healthcare to investigate how CL in healthcare has been defined, theorised and conceptualised and to explore how 'CL' has been applied in healthcare settings.

Methods

We followed the methodological steps proposed by (Arksey and O'Malley, 2005): (1) specifying the research questio

SUBMITTER: Belrhiti Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358662 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature