Welcome to Leadership in the Literature, a roundup of recent articles/multimedia on leading and managing from Allina Health Library Services

  1. ‘I need support in becoming the leader I would like to be’ – A qualitative descriptive study of nurses newly appointed to positions of leadership - Skarstein - 2024 - Nursing Open
    The aim of the study was to understand the experiences of nurses who were newly appointed to a position of leadership including facilitators and barriers to success and what they considered important for the development of their role.
     
  2. Daily strengths use and work performance: A self‐determination perspective - Moore - 2024 - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
    Drawing on self-determination theory, this study examines how using personal strengths at work in the morning is associated with different types of performance throughout the workday. Momentary satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, relatedness and competence are proposed as mechanisms that differentially link strengths use to four different performance outcomes: task accomplishment, goal attainment, organizational citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour.

  3. Autism spectrum disorder in the workplace: A position paper to support an inclusive and neurodivergent approach to work participation and engagement -Zhou – 2024- Discover Psychology 
    Autistic individuals often experience a wide range of barriers and challenges with employment across their lifetime. Despite their strengths and abilities to contribute to the workforce, many individuals experience unemployment, underemployment and malemployment. However, current supports and services are often inadequate to meet their needs. To allow autistic people to achieve vocational success, we explore four contributors to employment and expand upon the issues and potential solutions to each. 

  4. When your employee feels angry, sad, or dejected: The right-and wrong way to respond – Bradley – Harvard Business Review (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    Dealing with the negative emotions of employees isn’t easy, but knowing what to do or say can make a huge difference to their well-being, the quality of your relationships with them, and team performance. The trouble is, many leaders fail to respond at all because they think discussing emotions at work is unprofessional or worry they don’t have the right to intervene in personal matters. That’s a mistake. Research shows that teams whose leaders acknowledge members’ emotions perform significantly better than teams whose leaders don’t. In this article the authors offer a road map for providing employees emotional support.

  5. How to use communities of practice to support change in learning health systems: A landscape of roles and guidance for management - Brooks - 2024 - Learning Health Systems Communities of practice support evidence-based practice and can be, in and of themselves, applied learning spaces in organizations. However, the variety of ways that communities of practice can support learning health systems are poorly characterized. Furthermore, health system leaders have little guidance on designing and resourcing communities of practice to effectively serve learning health systems.

  6. A new paradigm for nurse leader decision making within complex adaptive systems – Watson – 2024 - Nursing Administration Quarterly
    Health care is a complex and ever-changing environment for nurse leaders and other health care industry decision-makers. The prevailing leadership and decision-making models, rooted in Industrial Age principles, often struggle to adapt to the complexities of modern health care. This article explores the foundations of complexity science and its application to health care decision-making, highlighting the importance of understanding systems dynamics and embracing complexity. 

  7. Proactive behaviors and health care workers: A systematic review – Lai – 2024 - Health Care Management Review
    Proactive behaviors at work refer to discretionary actions among workers that are self-starting, change oriented, and future focused. Proactive behaviors reflect the idiosyncratic actions by individual workers that shape the delivery and experience of professional services, highlight a bottom-up perspective on workers’ agency and motivation that can influence organizational practices, and are associated with a variety of employee and organizational outcomes.

Multimedia

  1. When your employee Is underperforming | Harvard Business Review IdeaCast (podcast)
    Many managers struggle with initiating difficult conversations around an individual’s subpar performance. Often, leaders wait way too long to sit down with an employee who isn’t meeting expectations. Leadership coach Jenny Fernandez says that increasing the frequency of feedback and consciously developing better relationships with direct reports help make these conversations easier to start. And she shares how the right preparation, tone, and open-minded approach lead to more effective discussions that improve not just the one-on-one relationship, but also team morale and turnover rates. 
     
  2. Valerie Montgomery Rice: How to break through fear and become a leader | TED Talk (video)
    Vigilance. Grit. Resilience. Valerie Montgomery Rice, the president and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine, shares where she learned these key qualities of successful leadership, offering three lessons for anyone who wants to overcome their fears, stand up for what’s right and build opportunity for all.