This book addresses the topic of leadership in healthcare. There is a great deal of rhetoric around leadership, this book explores the rhetoric with papers that contribute insights into taking healthcare forward in the 21st Century, and the nature of leadership in healthcare and organizational forms that are leading the field. The book promotes Organizational behavior in healthcare as a serious academic field that can provide insights of use to managers, professionals, and policy makers in the healthcare area.

This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in healthcare. It includes contributions from key names such as Sandra Dawson and Peter Spurgeon with a foreword by Rosemary Stewart. Also including chapters from Australia, Canada and Europe, it is consciously international in perspective and aims to relate the public sector agenda as a comparator for developments in the US.