Greetings Neil.
I am the author of a new book just released by Amazon (both hard copy and eBook) on health sector leadership.
The book is based on doctoral research that explored leadership styles in four Regional Health Bureaus in Ethiopia. The aim was to assess the effectiveness of transformational, transactional, and passive avoidant leadership styles using a full range leadership model. The research examined predominant leadership styles in Ethiopian Health System and the role the learning disposition of leaders and organizations played in leadership outcomes.
I have strived to include an extensive leadership literature review preceding data gathering and analysis. Data was collected using the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Dimensions of Learning Organizations Questionnaire (DLOQ). There were about 230 valid responses obtained from 101 middle-level leaders, their supervisors, and randomly selected peers and subordinates detailing perceptions around dominant leadership styles employed, learning disposition, and leadership effectiveness. A first-order, as well as mediation regression analysis, was conducted using standard statistical software and recommended analytic practices.
The results revealed that a) transformational leadership positively and significantly predicted leadership outcomes and learning mediated transformational leadership and organizational effectiveness; b) transactional leadership styles also positively and significantly predicted leadership outcomes, although at a slightly lower magnitude and learning mediated this relationship significantly and positively; c) passive avoidant leadership style did not have any significant relationship with leadership outcomes. After extensive discussions on the finding, compared with current literature, areas of future research are also noted.
The book will be useful for leadership practitioners, graduate level students, universities and training institutions. The literature review section in particular strove to explore all the major theoretical excursions with careful attention to materials that tried to corroborate theory with practice and evidence. The book may be among the first few that employed Ethiopian data to reputable global models and thus claims a significant place in the still wide-open leadership literature, theory and practice.
Please see below the link to the book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKGNV6M7?ref_=nav_ya_signin&
Simon Heliso Kuka (DBA)
Country Representative and Chief of Party
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Ethiopia Country Office
Addis Ababa +251 912 506 981
simonh@jhu.edu
simhelkuk@yahoo.com
HIFA profile: Simon Heliso is the Country Representative for Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Ethiopia. Professional interests: Public health programs; Leadership. simhelkuk AT yahoo.com