Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Fourth Edition (Ache Management)

Leadership in Healthcare examines leadership through the lens of values and explores how they play a major role in leaders’ effective performance. Author Carson Dye shares the key values that influence a leader’s behaviors, priorities, thought processes, and actions. Dye also offers guidance for assessing team values and effectiveness at all career stages. The book is divided into five parts: Leadership in Healthcare, Personal Values, Team Values, Evaluation, and Additional Perspectives on Leadership. New content includes chapters on inclusivity, the role of physicians, and the role of leaders in supporting workers. In addition, a new chapter looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on leadership and the special challenges healthcare leaders have faced—and continue to face—in a very different healthcare environment. The book’s special features include opening vignettes reflecting on workplace situations; sidebars, cases, and exercises to support discussions and stimulate reader response; and additional readings that provide an expanded understanding of chapter content. In addition, the book’s appendices share tools for evaluating leaders and teams and driving self evaluation. Front Matter Contents Foreword Academic Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Leadership in Healthcare Chapter 1: The Leadership Imperative Chapter 2: A Review of Academic Leadership Theories and Concepts Chapter 3: Is the Popular Leadership Literature Worthless? Chapter 4: The Values-Based Definition Chapter 5: The Senior Leader Challenge Part II: Personal Values Chapter 6: Respect as the Foundation of Leadership Chapter 7: Ethics and Integrity Chapter 8: Interpersonal Connection Chapter 9: Servant Leadership Chapter 10: Desire to Make a Change Chapter 11: Commitment Chapter 12: Emotional Intelligence Part III: Team Values Chapter 13: Cooperation and Sharing Chapter 14: Cohesiveness and Collaboration Chapter 15: Trust Chapter 16: Conflict Management Chapter 17: Assessing Team Values Chapter 18: Evaluating Team Effectiveness Chapter 19: Self-Evaluation at All Career Stages Part V: Additional Perspectives on Leadership Chapter 20: Inclusive Leadership Chapter 21: Physician Leadership Issues Chapter 22: Humans Working with Humans to Heal Humans Chapter 23: Leadership Matters - For Healthcare's Present and Future Chapter 24: Post-COVID Leadership Appendix A: Professional and Personal Values Evaluation Form Appendix B: Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Form Appendix C: Leadership Team Evaluation Form Appendix D: Grading Healthcare Team Effectiveness Index About the Author About the Contributors Leadership in Healthcare examines leadership through the lens of values and explores how values play a major role in leaders'effective performance. Author Carson Dye shares the key values that influence a leader's behaviors, priorities, thought processes, and actions. Dye also provides guidance for assessing team values and effectiveness at all career stages. The book is divided into five parts: Leadership in Healthcare, Personal Values, Team Values, Evaluation, and Additional Perspectives on Leadership. New content includes chapters on inclusivity, the role of physicians, and the role of leaders in supporting workers. In addition, a new chapter looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on leadership and the special challenges healthcare leaders have faced-and continue to face-in a very different healthcare environment. The book's special features include opening vignettes reflecting on workplace situations; sidebars, cases, and exercises to support discussions and stimulate reader response; and additional readings that provide an expanded understanding of chapter content. In addition, the book's appendices share tools for evaluating leaders and teams and driving self evaluation. "Today's healthcare leaders face constant challenge and change. Even as they cope with a rapidly evolving environment, they also must overcome existing obstacles inherent to running multifaceted operations. A solid value system must anchor leaders as they navigate all these daily challenges"-- Provided by publisher