The Value of the “System” in Public Health Services and Systems Research

Thomas, Cheryll C.; Corso, Liza; Monroe, Judith A.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2015.302625

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“…Emergency management systems are complex adaptive systems that respond to external environmental stimuli, in the form of range of emergency events (deMattos et al, 2012;Thomas et al, 2015). In the context of this study, emergencies refers to emergency events that include mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes.…”

Section: Emergency Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards transformational leadership: the nexus of emergency management systems in Canada

H.J.

2016

IJEM

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This qualitative research study explores the leadership challenges in emergency management systems in Canada. Complex adaptive systems theory forms the theoretical paradigmatic perspective of emergency events, such as mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. Thematic analysis of a key informant study of emergency leaders identified 12 key leadership capabilities. From the grounded theory methodological approach, a theory of transformational emergency systems leadership emerged and is posited. The findings and implications are discussed in light of theoretical implications for humanistic and technologically driven leadership; inter-sectorial collaborative networks; adaptive learning and training of future emergency leaders; and future international emergency management research.

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Section: Emergency Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards transformational leadership: the nexus of emergency management systems in Canada

H.J.

2016

IJEM

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“…[38,39] A systems perspective of emergency management is informed by the theory of open complex adaptive systems, whereby systems are organize themselves in response to external environmental stimuli in the form of small to catastrophic emergency events, all requiring systems intervention to safeguard lives and mitigate injuries. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] Emergency management systems are composed of five complex subsystems, each with unique and specific internal self-organizing processes. These are summarized in Table 1.…”

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Code red: Towards authentic transformational leadership of emergency management

2015

JHA

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In this 21st century of unprecedented global, national and regional threats and innovative technologies, this study underscores the unique authentic transformational leadership challenges posed in emergency management systems. These open complex systems adapt to a range of critical emergency events, including mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. This qualitative research study based on grounded theory examines the phenomenology of emergency management systems by deploying triangulation to isolate the particular theoretical underpinnings of authentic transformational leadership models relevant to this domain. Using a key informant approach and a semi-structured confidential questionnaire, the perspectives of 103 emergency, health care and technological leaders of diverse professional backgrounds on the challenges of emergency management systems are presented. The response rate was 83.5 percent from 81 organizations across Canada. This study underscores the need for authentic transformational leadership and identifies seven critical and specific leadership imperatives for this domain. The implications for hospital and health care administrators are also presented. This qualitative study of diverse emergency system leaders is original in that it has not hitherto been done across Canada nor internationally. This study underscores the relevance of leadership theory and principles in the extant literature, but extends this to highlight those that are critical and unique to leaders of emergency management systems. In so doing, calls on the need for authentic transformation leadership of an order and caliber yet to be fully potentiated to manage future emergency events in Canada.

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“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] These systems self-organize in response to external environmental stimuli in the form emergency events, all requiring systems intervention to safeguard lives and mitigate injuries. These events include mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophesall of which may be biochemical; [9] meteorological; [10] sociogenic; [11,12] technological; [13] or topological [14] in nature.…”

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Towards transformational emergency systems leadership: A holonic perspective

2016

IJH

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This qualitative research study explores the results and implications of a key informant study of emergency systems leadership challenges in Canada. Grounded theory methodology and thematic analysis was deployed to identify ten key properties of transformational emergency systems leadership. Of 103 emergency systems leaders of diverse professional backgrounds are presented. The response rate was 83.5 percent from 81 organizations across Canada. A theory of holonic emergency systems leadership is proposed. This study concludes with the potential theoretical and pragmatic implications of a holonic paradigm of emergency systems leadership for further healthcare research in diverse settings internationally.

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The Value of the “System” in Public Health Services and Systems Research

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Towards transformational leadership: the nexus of emergency management systems in Canada

Towards transformational leadership: the nexus of emergency management systems in Canada

Code red: Towards authentic transformational leadership of emergency management

Towards transformational emergency systems leadership: A holonic perspective

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