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Embracing Inclusive Leadership for Collaborative Healthcare Work Environments: Fostering Wellness in Ambivalent Situations

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work

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  • Aikaterini Grimani

    (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick)

  • George Gotsis

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to elaborate on inclusive leadership as a construct invested with a strong potential to promote humane and collaborative organizations. Inclusive leadership is rooted in the primary human need for both belongingness and uniqueness, and as such is highly respectful of personal beliefs and commitments. The present study is intended to expand on this perspective by providing a framework of assessing the role of leader inclusiveness in informing collaborative healthcare work environments in times in which the intrinsic worthiness of the human person is highly at stake. Inclusive leaders envisage a more collaborative and participative workplace, so much needed in healthcare sector. Such leaders have an innate potential to enhance positive perceptions of medical staff, by making them experience feelings of wellness, personal growth, and self-fulfilment in accomplishing their occupational tasks. Emphasis is placed upon practices that mitigate social disadvantage, alleviate human suffering, and make patients feel that they are appreciated and valued in a state of vulnerability. Inclusive leadership embodies a major shift in healthcare leadership styles towards a more collaborative and compassionate work environment, especially in a post-COVID fluid reality.

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  • Aikaterini Grimani & George Gotsis, 2023. "Embracing Inclusive Leadership for Collaborative Healthcare Work Environments: Fostering Wellness in Ambivalent Situations," Springer Books, in: Joan Marques (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work, chapter 0, pages 209-229, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35494-6_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35494-6_11
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