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

  1. Health care leadership in the AI era: A seventh test for the decade | Lee - 2024 | NEJM Catalyst
    AI poses challenges and opportunities that require qualitative change in the skills of leaders of health care organizations. It remains essential that leaders have expertise in operational excellence and strategy, but now they must add management of “breakthrough innovation” and leadership of the culture change necessary to take full advantage of AI. AI has the potential to help address several of the “problems with no solution” that currently challenge health care. Leaders who can move quickly and effectively will bring their organizations important competitive advantage.
     
  2. Effectiveness of individual-based strategies to reduce nurse burnout: An umbrella review. | Hsu - 2024 | Journal of Nurse Management
    This umbrella review aims to comprehensively synthesize and analyze the findings of available systematic reviews on the effectiveness of individual-based strategies for reducing nurse burnout occurring in hospital-based settings.
     
  3. Work-related impacts on doctors' mental health: A qualitative study exploring organisational and systems-level risk factors| Lunnay - 2024 | BMJ Open
    This study highlights how doctors experience layers of interconnected factors that compromise their mental health but over which they have very little control. Interventions must therefore address these issues at organisational and systemic levels, for which starting points evident within our data are identified.
     
  4.  We're still lonely at work | Noonan Hadley - 2024 | Harvard Business Review
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN)
    In recent years, the huge impact that work loneliness is having on healthcare costs, absenteeism, and turnover has received widespread attention. Despite growing awareness, the problem remains, with one in five employees worldwide feeling lonely at work. In this article, the authors debunk myths about work loneliness, such as the belief that in-person work or team assignments can solve the issue. They emphasize that loneliness is not just a personal problem but also an organizational one, influenced by the work environment. Practical actions that employers can take to reduce work loneliness include measuring loneliness, designing slack in workflows, creating a culture of connection, and building social activities into the rhythm of work. Simple activities like communal lunches and happy hours are particularly appreciated by employees of all types. Work loneliness is an epidemic, but a cure is within reach, the authors contend. By helping employees make social connections, companies build a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce.
     
  5. Characteristics of leadership competency in nurse managers: A scoping review | Perez-Gonzalez- 2024 | Journal of Nursing Management
    This article aims to identify the characteristics of leadership competency for the nurse manager and describe the most cited leadership styles in the literature.
     
  6. Implementing anti-racism interventions in healthcare settings: A scoping review | Hassan - 2024 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    To manage the employee experience, leaders must deeply understand employees' perceptions, feelings, and desires and respond thoughtfully. This is particularly crucial when immense resources are invested in gathering employee feedback through pulse surveys, town halls, and data scraping from internal communications. But leaders are often overwhelmed by the data and struggle to translate it into actionable insights. The authors conducted detailed interviews with executives and HR leaders from more than 20 multinational companies in sectors such as technology, financial services, and consumer goods. Their work reveals that although technology has simplified the collection of data, the real challenge lies in making sense of it and integrating it into a coherent strategy
     
  7. Practice being a leader with vision | Steinbock - 2024 | Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
    Successful leaders who consistently make great decisions are skilled at seeing and considering a 
    diverse set of options. This column explores how maintaining a broad field of vision helps leaders recognize possibilities and offers an exercise for practicing and developing this skill