 Fostering the healthcare workforce during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Shared leadership, social capital, and contagion among health professionalsAndrés Salas‐Vallina, Anna Ferrer‐Franco and Justo Herrera International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2020, vol. 35, issue 6, 1606-1610 Abstract: Health professionals managing patients with COVID‐19 disease are at high risk of contagion. All medical personnel involved in caring for patients need coordination, knowledge and trust. Empirical work on human resources has tended to focus on the effects of human resource practices on performance, whereas leadership and social interactions have been overlooked. Based upon interviews with medical staff working in specialised medical units, this study uses the social capital theory to examine relationships among shared leadership, social capital, and contagion rates. First, shared leadership was found to positively affect COVID‐19 contagion among health professionals. Second, by sharing information and a common language, and showing high levels of trust, namely social capital, medical units seem to reduce contagion rates of COVID‐19. In other words, shared leadership plays a fundamental role in improving performance in healthcare by means of social capital. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ijhplm:v:35:y:2020:i:6:p:1606-1610 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Health Planning and Management is currently edited by Calum Paton More articles in International Journal of Health Planning and Management from Wiley Blackwell |
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