Leadership Development in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study

Leadership
development in
Healthcare
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Article Summary (Background)
• Article-Leadership development in
healthcare: a qualitative study
• Not much advancements have been
made by researchers in the domain of
developing clinical leaders
• Healthcare leadership encompass the
capability to ethically and effectively
influence people for the benefit of patient
population (McAlearney, 2006)
• Contemporary challenges arise from both
organizational and environmental factors
• Research aim- To determine the
challenges in leadership development in
healthcare
Figure 1- Effective
leadership
Source- (Petruzzelli, 2015)

Article Summary (Methodology)
• Method- Qualitative study design employed that is typically
exploratory in nature and helps in gaining a sound
understanding of the underlying opinions, motivations and
reasons behind a phenomenon (McAlearney, 2006)
• Data collection method- 35 semi-structured interviews
conducted with healthcare leadership experts
• Expert interviews combined with organizational case studies,
thus resulting in 160 interviews (September-December 2003).

Article Summary (Methodology)
• Snowball sampling used for recruitment of key informants.
• Healthcare organizations were sample based on reported
reputation and experiences, in relation to healthcare
leadership development (McAlearney, 2006)
• Grounded theory approach used for the research
• Data analysis involved verbatim transcription, followed by
thematic analysis.