This book addresses the topic of leadership in healthcare. There is a great deal of rhetoric around leadership but the reality is that there is no 'best way' of leading, this book explores the rhetoric with papers that contribute insights into; taking healthcare forward in the 21st Century; the nature of leadership in healthcare; and organisational forms that are leading the field. The book promotes Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare as a serious academic field that can provide insights of use to managers, professionals and policy makers in the healthcare area.

JEFFERY ALEXANDER Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, USA PAULINE ALLEN Lecturer in Organizational Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine PAUL BATE Professor of Health Services Management, University College London JOAN BLOOM Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA SIMON CARMEL Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine DAVID CHAMBERS Program Official for the Dissemination and Implementation Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA ANN CHOU Assistant Professor, Indiana University, USA BARBARA COYLE Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Australia ALISON EVANS CUELLAR Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, USA PIETER DEGELING Professor of Health Management, University of Durham PHILIP DEWE Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Birkbeck College, University of London AMANDA EVANS Research Associate, King's College London NAOMI FULOP Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease KEITH GRINT Director of Research, Said Business School DAVID GUEST Professor of Organizational and Human Resource Management, King's College London ALEXANDRA HARRISON Director of Postgraduate Medical Education, University of Calgary, Canada DAVID HUNTER Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Durham ANDREW HUTCHINGS Lecturer In Health Services Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease RICK IEDEMA Senior Researcher, University of New South Wales, Australia JOHN KENNEDY Research Fellow, University of Durham ANNETTE KING Senior Research Officer, Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, London LINDA LATHAM Research Fellow, University of Birmingham FIONA LEE Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Michigan, USA RICHARD LICHTENSTEIN Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA SHARYN MAXWELL Research Fellow, University of Durham CRAIG MITTON Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary, Canada GALE MURRAY Founding President & CEO of The Change Foundation, Ontario Hospital Association, Canada CHARLES NORMAND Professor of Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease TUMUTUAL NORTON Department of Mental Health, UK RICCARDO PECCEI Reader In Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, King's College London GERASIMOS PROTOPSALTIS Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases SALLY REDFERN Professor of Nursing, King's College London GLENN ROBERT Senior Research Fellow, University College London PATRICE ROSENTHAL Senior Lecturer In Organisational Behaviour, King's College London BRENDA BRITTON SCAFIDI Director of the Division of Children and Youth Services at the Department of Mental Health ROD SHEAFF Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University STEPHEN SMITH Lecturer, Brunel University PETER SPURGEON Professor of Health Services Management, University of Birmingham SHARON TOPPING Associate Professor of Management, University of Mississippi, USA RHIANNON WALTERS Specialist in Public Health and Health Promotion REBECCA WELLS Assistant Professor,The Pennsylvania State University, USA JENIFER WILSON-BARNETT Professor and Head of Nursing & Midwifery, Kings College London MARK WINTERS Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Australia.