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Chapter 29 - The Importance of Creating and Harnessing a Sense of ‘Us’: Social Identity as the Missing Link Between Leadership and Health

from Section 4 - Scaffolding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2019

By
S. Alexander Haslam ,
Niklas K. Steffens  and
Kim Peters
Edited by
Richard Williams ,
Verity Kemp ,
S. Alexander Haslam ,
Catherine Haslam ,
Kamaldeep S. Bhui  and
Susan Bailey
Edited in association with
Daniel Maughan
Richard Williams
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Verity Kemp
Affiliation:
Healthplanning Ltd.
S. Alexander Haslam
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Catherine Haslam
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Kamaldeep S. Bhui
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Susan Bailey
Affiliation:
Centre for Mental Health
Daniel Maughan
Affiliation:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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In the process of researching this chapter, the first author spent a crisp December day touring London’s major bookshops in an attempt to discover what recent books on health might have to say about leadership and what those on leadership might have to say about health. It was a pleasant way to spend a day, but, as a research exercise, it was something of a failure. Of the books on health, not a single one had an index entry for leadership and most restricted their coverage of the topic to general discussions of team and patient management as aspects of effective healthcare. Conversely, very few of the books on leadership had much to say about health, although the biographies of influential leaders (e.g. Obama, Gillard, Thatcher) typically included significant sections devoted to the biographee’s policy on health (e.g. democratisation, rationalisation, privatisation).

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Social Scaffolding
Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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