COVID and the Common Good

Latemore, Greg

doi:10.1007/s40926-020-00154-w

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“…Characteristics attributable to the first group, 'human traits, behaviour and emotional intelligence', were identified in 21 articles (46.7%), 8 of which were research articles, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] 11 opinion pieces [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] and 2 reviews. 38 39 In particular, empathy and 'honesty and truthfulness in relationships' were the two most cited characteristics (six and three times, respectively), followed by compassion, emotional intelligence and psychological safety, attention to psychological well-being, emotional effectiveness, equity and values, sense-making and sense-giving (all cited two times).…”

Section: Leadership Characteristics and Clusteringmentioning

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Public health leadership in the COVID-19 era: how does it fit? A scoping review

Osti,

Valz Gris,

Corona

et al. 2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of pressure on all the world’s health systems and public health leaders who have often found themselves unprepared to handle an emergency of this magnitude. This study aims to bring together published evidence on the qualities required to leaders to deal with a public health issue like the COVID-19 pandemic. This scoping literature review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. A search of relevant articles was performed in the PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases. A total of 2499 records were screened, and 45 articles were included, from which 93 characteristics of effective leadership were extrapolated and grouped into 6 clusters. The qualities most frequently reported in the articles were human traits and emotional intelligence (46.7%) and communication skills such as transparency and reliability (48.9%). Responsiveness and preparedness (40%), management skills (33.3%) and team working (35.6%) are considered by a significant percentage of the articles as necessary for the construction of rapid and effective measures in response to the emergency. A considerable proportion of articles also highlighted the need for leaders capable of making evidence-based decisions and driving innovation (31.1%). Although identifying leaders who possess all the skills described in this study appears complex, determining the key characteristics of effective public health leadership in a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is useful not only in selecting future leaders but also in implementing training and education programmes for the public health workforce.

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Section: Leadership Characteristics and Clusteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public health leadership in the COVID-19 era: how does it fit? A scoping review

Osti,

Valz Gris,

Corona

et al. 2023

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“…Other studies also considered the perceived security of a wearable device [22] and included demographic variables in predicting health technology adoption. In addition, the notions of the common good may override liberal individualism in promoting the uptake of beneficial health behaviour during the protracted COVID-19 pandemic [19,23].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Widespread social media use has also enabled the mass dissemination of pessimistic or misleading information on DCT tools that could intensify feelings of hesitancy towards its adoption [16,18]. Despite the hesitancy in DCT tool adoption, the notions of the common good may have driven the individual to adopt practices that are beneficial to society during a pandemic [12,19].…”

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Determinants of the acceptance and adoption of a digital contact tracing tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore

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The motivations that govern the adoption of digital contact tracing (DCT) tools are complex and not well understood. Hence, we assessed the factors influencing the acceptance and adoption of Singapore's national DCT tool -TraceTogetherduring the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed 3943 visitors of Tan Tock Seng Hospital from July 2020 to February 2021 and stratified the analyses into three cohorts. Each cohort was stratified based on the time when significant policy interventions were introduced to increase the adoption of TraceTogether. Binary logistic regression was preceded by principal components analysis to reduce the Likert items. Respondents who 'perceived TraceTogether as useful and necessary' had higher likelihood of accepting it but those with 'Concerns about personal data collected by TraceTogether' had lower likelihood of accepting and adopting the tool. The injunctive and descriptive social norms were also positively associated with both the acceptance and adoption of the tool. Liberal individualism was mixed in the population and negatively associated with the acceptance and adoption of TraceTogether. Policy measures to increase the uptake of a national DCT bridged the digital divide and accelerated its adoption. However, good public communications are crucial to address the barriers of acceptance to improve voluntary uptake widespread adoption.

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“…Reflecting on the 1918–19 and COVID‐19 pandemics Professor Nancy Bristow acknowledged ‘how little I understood about the overwhelming power of the uncertainty that comes with a pandemic born of a novel virus’ (Nichols et al, 2020 , p. 643). She highlights COVID‐19 is ‘a complex problem in a complex system’ (Rutter et al, 2020 ), in other words, a wicked problem – typical of a VUCA world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (Latemore, 2020 ). Framing the leadership and decision‐making challenges arising from COVID‐19 as wicked problems brings to the fore unique characteristics beyond those of conventional problems and crises for which standard operating procedures, rules and regulations have been developed.…”

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The challenges of providing certainty in the face of wicked problems: Analysing the UK government's handling of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Lilleker

Stoeckle

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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Positioning Covid‐19 as a wicked problem we analyse the extent that the UK government adhered to the guidelines for dealing with such problems and the extent to which the management of the pandemic exacerbated the crisis. We argue the management of the pandemic saw a continuance of political communication as usual, focusing on emphasising the optimistic rhetoric which underpinned the Brexit narrative and 2019 election campaign which delivered Boris Johnson a majority. The failure to break out of a narrow permanent campaigning mindset which saw the pandemic as a brief interlude during a period when the focus was on delivering Brexit led to public confusion as optimistic claims were proven to be inaccurate and promises unreachable. Johnson's government's attempts to offer certainty despite a situation characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity led to numerous U‐turns that seriously damaged their credibility while the politicisation of the response led to poor decision making at key points. We therefore highlight the deficiencies of Johnson's strategy and highlight key lessons for communications professionals who navigate an increasingly volatile and uncertain world beset by wicked problems. In particularly we highlight the importance of depoliticising crises, seeking a diverse range of ideas and expertise, developing an empathic leadership style, starting a public conversation that recognises uncertainty and so develop a framework where wicked problems are a feature of public debate. We argue that failure in all of these areas contributed to the UK's poor comparative performance during the Covid‐19 pandemic.

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COVID and the Common Good

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Public health leadership in the COVID-19 era: how does it fit? A scoping review

Public health leadership in the COVID-19 era: how does it fit? A scoping review

Determinants of the acceptance and adoption of a digital contact tracing tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore

The challenges of providing certainty in the face of wicked problems: Analysing the UK government's handling of the COVID‐19 pandemic

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