Failure of crisis leadership in a global pandemic: some reflections on COVID-19 and future recommendations
Journal article
Authors | Okoli, J., Arroteia, P.N and Ogunsade, A |
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Abstract | Being a novel public health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic presented world leaders with difficult options and some serious dilemmas that must somehow be negotiated. Whilst these leaders had limited knowledge about the coronavirus and how the pandemic would potentially evolve, they were still expected to make high-staked judgements amidst a range of uncertainties. The purpose of this paper is to explore the response strategies used by various world leaders from the perspective of crisis leadership within the public health domain. Secondary data was collected from research papers, policy reports and credible media outlets to examine the construct of crisis leadership within the context of the global pandemic. The paper identified three cognitive antecedents to the COVID-19 crisis leadership failures, which helped to explain why certain policy decisions were successful and why others were less so. On this basis, a clear dichotomy was drawn between highly rated leaders and their less successful counterparts in relation to the management and governance of the coronavirus pandemic. |
Keywords | public health crisis; COVID-19; global pandemic |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Leadership in Health Services |
Journal citation | pp. 1-14 |
Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
ISSN | 1751-1879 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1108/LHS-06-2022-0061 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LHS-06-2022-0061/full/html |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 22 Sep 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 29 Aug 2022 |
Deposited | 04 Nov 2022 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9qx46/failure-of-crisis-leadership-in-a-global-pandemic-some-reflections-on-covid-19-and-future-recommendations
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