Editorial: Leading People – Managing Organizations: Contemporary Public Health Leadership

Holsinger, James W.; Carlton, Erik L.; Jadhav, Emmanuel D.

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2015.00268

“…Common issues faced by these countries relate to human resources management, financial management, governance, and leadership [23][24][25][26][27]. Throughout the 21 st century, leadership in public health has been emphasized at the national level [28][29][30][31][32][33] to address the increasingly complex challenges [34], to defend against global public health threats [35], to increase the access to health services, and to deal with social issues such as poverty, stigma, and disasters [36]. Thus, a better understanding of public health leadership is needed to enable leaders to deal with contemporary public health issues [37], and to bring desirable changes in the organisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership development among public health officials in Nepal: A grounded theory

Subedi

¹

,

MacDougall

²

,

McNaughton

³

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Leadership in public health is necessary, relevant, and important as it enables the engagement, management, and transformation of complex public health challenges at a national level, as well as collaborating with internal stakeholders to address global public health threats. The research literature recommends exploring the journey of public health leaders and the factors influencing leadership development, especially in developing countries. Thus, we aimed to develop a grounded theory on individual leadership development in the Nepalese context. For this, we adopted constructivist grounded theory, and conducted 46 intensive interviews with 22 public health officials working under the Ministry of Health, Nepal. Data were analysed by adopting the principles of Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. The theory developed from this study illustrates four phases of leadership development within an individual–initiation, identification, development, and expansion. The ’initial phase’ is about an individual’s wishes to be a leader without a formal role or acknowledgement, where family environment, social environment and individual characteristics play a role in influencing the actualisation of leadership behaviours. The ’identification phase’ involves being identified as a public health official after having formal position in health-related organisations. The ’development’ phase is about developing core leadership capabilities mostly through exposure and experiences. The ’expansion’ phase describes expanding leadership capabilities and recognition mostly by continuous self-directed learning. The grounded theory provides insights into the meaning and actions of participants’ professional experiences and highlighted the role of individual characteristics, family and socio-cultural environment, and workplace settings in the development of leadership capabilities. It has implications for academia to fulfill the absence of leadership theory in public health and is significant to fulfill the need of leadership models grounded in the local context of Asian countries.

show abstract

“…Common issues faced by these countries relate to human resources management, financial management, governance, and leadership [23][24][25][26][27]. Throughout the 21 st century, leadership in public health has been emphasized at the national level [28][29][30][31][32][33] to address the increasingly complex challenges [34], to defend against global public health threats [35], to increase the access to health services, and to deal with social issues such as poverty, stigma, and disasters [36]. Thus, a better understanding of public health leadership is needed to enable leaders to deal with contemporary public health issues [37], and to bring desirable changes in the organisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Untitled

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Common issues faced by these countries relate to human resources management, financial management, governance, and leadership [23][24][25][26][27]. Throughout the 21 st century, leadership in public health has been emphasized at the national level [28][29][30][31][32][33] to address the increasingly complex challenges [34], to defend against global public health threats [35], to increase the access to health services, and to deal with social issues such as poverty, stigma, and disasters [36]. Thus, a better understanding of public health leadership is needed to enable leaders to deal with contemporary public health issues [37], and to bring desirable changes in the organisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Untitled

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Editorial: Leading People – Managing Organizations: Contemporary Public Health Leadership

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Leadership development among public health officials in Nepal: A grounded theory

Leadership development among public health officials in Nepal: A grounded theory

Untitled

Untitled

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About