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Title: Power and politics of leading change in emergency departments: A qualitative study of Australasian emergency physicians.
Austin Authors: Rixon, Andrew;Judkins, Simon ;Wilson, Samuel
Affiliation: Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Emergency
Management and Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Issue Date: 19-Dec-2023
Date: 2023
Publication information: Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA 2023-12-19
Abstract: The ability to lead change is well recognised as a core leadership competency for clinicians, including emergency physicians. However, little is known about how emergency physicians' think about change leadership. The present study explores Australasian emergency physicians' beliefs about the factors that help and hinder efforts to lead change in Australasian EDs. An online modified Delphi study was conducted with 19 Fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. To structure the process, participants were sorted into four panels. Using a three-phase Delphi process, participants were guided through a process of brainstorming, narrowing down and ranking the factors that help and hinder attempts to lead change. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to code and interpret the qualitative data set emerging from participants' responses through the final ranking phase. A wide array of self-, ED- and hospital-related enablers and barriers of leading change were identified, the relative importance of which varied as a function of panel. Five core themes characterised emergency physicians' conceptions of change leadership in hospitals: challenging environments of competing interests and tribalism; need for trust and psychological safety to sustain collaboration; challenges of navigating complex hierarchies; need to garner executive leadership support and; need to maintain a growth mindset and motivation to practice change leadership. The findings of our study provide new insight into emergency physicians' conceptions of the nature, barriers to and enablers of change and point to new directions in leadership development to support emergency physicians' aspirations in the context of quality, organisation and health systems improvement.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/34755
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.14363
ORCID: 0000-0001-7397-1631
Journal: Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA
PubMed URL: 38114889
ISSN: 1742-6723
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: change leadership
emergency department
emergency physicians
power and politics
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