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Healthcare Leadership
The author of this report has been asked to review and critique an article. The article relates to the general topic of choice, that being leadership of healthcare professionals. The points and parts of this response will include the general focus of the article, the conclusions of the author, a discussion about the report and the opinion of the author of this report when it comes to all of the above. The article chosen for this review and report is from the Oman Medical Journal and was authored by Abdulaziz Al-Sawai. The premise of the article is a question that perhaps many people ask out loud, that being where the paradigm and marketplace stands when it comes to the leadership of healthcare professionals. While there are many differing and valid perspectives when it comes to healthcare leadership, there are many valid viewpoints to consider and the viewpoint of Al-Sawai is certainly among them. It is further pointed out that healthcare systems are "composed of numerous professional groups, departments and specialties with intricate, nonlinear interactions between them: the complexity of such systems is often unparalleled as a result of constraints relating to different disease areas, multidirectional goals and multidisciplinary staff. The author of the article then gets into the different types of leadership including transformational, collaborative, distributed, shared and so forth. There is also a focus on conflict management, ethics and the functional results of a given healthcare leadership structure. The points made in the article are not reaching or groundbreaking but they are very common and prescient at the same time. Examples would include that leadership is a shared thing that cannot (and should not) be controlled by a small cadre of people. There does need to be a locus of control among the top executives but it cannot be too constricted either (Al-Sawai, 2013).
Analysis
Summary
The author of the article makes the point that the leadership...
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Critique
The article overall is quite good. If there is one thing that it lacks, it is focus. The points made are all very good ones but there is a little too much being mentioned and covered and in such a short space that it does not allow for a decent drilling down on any given topic. For example, even if this article only focused on leadership styles and that was it, there was…
References
Al-Sawai, A. (2013). Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where Do We Stand?. Oman Medical Journal, 28(4), 285-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.79
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