School of Business, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
School of Design, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 25;10:783337. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.783337. eCollection 2022.
To manage pandemics, like COVID-19, leadership can enable health services to weather the storm. Yet there is limited clarity on how leadership manifested and was discussed in the literature during COVID-19. This can have considerable public health implications given the importance of leadership in the health sector. This article addresses this missed opportunity by examining the literature on leadership during a pandemic. Following a systematic search of nine academic databases in May 2021, 1,747 publications were screened. Following this, a lexical analysis of the results section was conducted, sourced from a corpus of publications across myriad journals. The results found a prevalence of references to "leader" as a sole actor, risking the perpetuation of a view that critical decisions emanate from a singular source. Moreover, "leadership" was a concept disconnected from the fray of frontline workers, patients, and teams. This suggests a strong need for more diverse vocabularies and conceptions that reflect the "messiness" of leadership as it takes shape in relation to the challenges and uncertainties of COVID-19. There is a considerable opportunity to advance scholarship on leadership via further empirical studies that help to clarify different approaches to lead teams and organizations during a pandemic.
为了应对大流行病，如 COVID-19，领导力可以使卫生服务部门经受住风暴的考验。然而，在 COVID-19 期间，领导力在文献中是如何表现和讨论的，目前还不太清楚。考虑到领导力在卫生部门的重要性，这可能会对公共卫生产生重大影响。本文通过检查大流行期间的领导力文献来解决这一错失的机会。在 2021 年 5 月对九个学术数据库进行系统搜索后，筛选了 1747 篇出版物。在此之后，对来自众多期刊的出版物语料库中的结果部分进行了词汇分析。结果发现，“领导者”作为唯一行为者的提及频率很高，这有可能使人们认为关键决策来自单一来源的观点永久存在。此外，“领导力”这个概念与一线工作人员、患者和团队的混乱脱节。这表明，非常需要更多的词汇和概念，这些词汇和概念反映了领导力在与 COVID-19 的挑战和不确定性相关的情况下形成的“混乱”。通过进一步的实证研究，可以为领导团队和组织提供不同方法，从而有机会推进领导力方面的学术研究。
