Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia
This paper investigates the importance of integrating context when analysing the role and practice of leadership within a specific organization or profession. It does this with reference to a study of nursing in Western Australia. Using theoretical sampling, qualitative data were collected through i...
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| author | Lord, Linley Jefferson, Therese Klass, Desmond Nowak, Margaret Thomas, Gail |
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| description | This paper investigates the importance of integrating context when analysing the role and practice of leadership within a specific organization or profession. It does this with reference to a study of nursing in Western Australia. Using theoretical sampling, qualitative data were collected through interviews and focus groups with targeted stakeholders in Western Australia’s public health system. The main purpose of the data collection and analysis was to identify perceptions and understandings of leadership among key stakeholders. Findings emerged which identified the importance of considering specific dimensions of the cultural, social and institutional context in order to understand the practice and experience of leadership among nurses in the Western Australian public health sector. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-63892017-09-13T14:42:15Z Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia Lord, Linley Jefferson, Therese Klass, Desmond Nowak, Margaret Thomas, Gail nursing leadership leadership in context Leadership This paper investigates the importance of integrating context when analysing the role and practice of leadership within a specific organization or profession. It does this with reference to a study of nursing in Western Australia. Using theoretical sampling, qualitative data were collected through interviews and focus groups with targeted stakeholders in Western Australia’s public health system. The main purpose of the data collection and analysis was to identify perceptions and understandings of leadership among key stakeholders. Findings emerged which identified the importance of considering specific dimensions of the cultural, social and institutional context in order to understand the practice and experience of leadership among nurses in the Western Australian public health sector. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6389 10.1177/1742715012468780 SAGE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | nursing leadership leadership in context Leadership Lord, Linley Jefferson, Therese Klass, Desmond Nowak, Margaret Thomas, Gail Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title | Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title_full | Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title_fullStr | Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title_short | Leadership in context: Insights from a study of nursing in Western Australia |
| title_sort | leadership in context: insights from a study of nursing in western australia |
| topic | nursing leadership leadership in context Leadership |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6389 |