The COVID-19 pandemic and the role of responsible leadership in health care : thinking beyond employee well-being and organisational sustainability

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PURPOSE: The unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed an enormous challenge ever for health-care organisations to find strategies to deal with their survival. The health-care employees are the frontline soldiers to fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, there is a lack of research regarding the conceptualisation of COVID-19 and its impact on health-care employees' well-being and their organisational sustainability. Extending the role of responsible leadership (RL), the purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-level conceptual model to overcome the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic and promote employee (e.g. workers, nurses and professionals) well-being and organisational sustainability.

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: With a comprehensive literature review, this paper presents five testable propositions and highlights the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employee well-being and organisational sustainability.

FINDINGS: The proposed model counsels that organisations need to go beyond the simple application of strategic climate and should enable RL to protect and maintain employee well-being and organisational sustainability.

RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: The proposed conceptual model is a step forward to not only explore future empirical research but also it will help the health-care policymakers to take responsible initiatives to increase employee well-being and uphold organisational sustainability.

ORIGINALITY/VALUE: There is a lack of research regarding the conceptualisation of the COVID 19 pandemic and its impact on health-care employees' well-being and organisational sustainability. The proposed conceptual model opens and guides a novel research avenue for the alignment of strategic management (as a moderator) and RL on the relationships among the COVID-19 pandemic, employee well-being and organisational sustainability.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Leadership in health services (Bradford, England) - 34(2021), 1 vom: 08. Feb., Seite 52-68

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Haque, Amlan [VerfasserIn]

Links:

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Themen:

Health services sector
Journal Article
Multi-level conceptual framework
Organisational sustainability
Responsible leadership
Review
Strategic climate
The COVID-19 pandemic

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.04.2021

Date Revised 15.04.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1108/LHS-09-2020-0071

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323743692