Leadership in Healthcare
What the chapter is about
This chapter deals with the key topic of leadership. It starts by comparing transactional with transformational leadership before describing more specific models of leadership, public leadership and levels of leadership.
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The case studies from this chapter are from:
- Alaska, USA
- European island countries
- Portugal
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