The Elusive Leadership Competency

Competency development in public health leadership.

The professional development of public health leaders requires competency-based instruction to increase their ability to address complex and changing demands for critical services. This article reviews the development of the Leadership Competency Framework by the National Public Health Leadership Development Network and discusses its significance. After reviewing pertinent literature and existi...

Nursing leadership competency learning- an integrative review

Background: In the last decade literature, inquiries and reports into the short comings in health services have highlighted the vital role of leadership in clinical practice and the impact on patient care and effective workplace culture. Given the important role of nurses as the largest therapeutic group in health systems, the question is how nurses acquire clinical leadership ...

The elusive qualities of leadership: leaders and decision delegates

Organizational leaders in large corporations and government systems must normally operate with a number of ‘decision delegates’ who are not in any simple sense their agents, but rather have a legitimate scope to decide issues on their own, in default of the leader’s involvement. A rational actor spatial model illuminates some of the dilemmas involved in this relationship. In simple situations p...

The Competency Conundrum : The Challenge for Leadership Development

The Use of Competency Models to Assess Leadership in Nursing

BACKGROUND The efficiency of the health care system is significantly dependent on the appropriate leadership and guidance of employees. One of the most frequently used new approaches in human resources management is the study of competencies and competency models. The aim of this research is to develop a competency model for leaders in nursing, and to compare it with the leadership competency m...