To bend without breaking: a qualitative study on leadership by doctors in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT: Strong leadership capabilities are essential for effective health services, yet definitions of leadership remain contested. Despite the acknowledged contextual specificity of leadership styles, most leadership theories draw heavily from Western conceptualizations. This cultural bias may attenuate the effectiveness of programmes intended to transform healthcare practice in Sub-Saharan Africa, where few empirical studies on health leadership have been conducted. This paper examines how effective leadership by doctors was perceived by stakeholders in one particular context, Sierra Leone. Drawing together extensive experience of in-country healthcare provision with a series of in-depth interviews with 27 Sierra Leonean doctors, we extended a grounded-theory approach to come to grips with the r

SUBMITTER: Johnson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8597969 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature