Healthcare management research overlooks the role of collective leadership actions in alleviating health disparities. However, exploring the strategic actions of collective leaders can provide the field with a different viewpoint of how individuals and organizations partner to solve complex...

Scholarly and anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite many Americans' increasing tolerance for diversity, workplace discrimination is on the rise. This essay addresses the role that learning or, more specifically, barriers to learning play in the perpetuation of discrimination. We use several...

This chapter identifies three crisis leadership orientations that research suggests are necessary for leaders and their organizations to manifest positivity in crisis. We argue that leaders who have a mindset for 1) learning and adapting to rapidly changing circumstances; 2) seeing possibilities...

The previous decade has been marked by a plethora of organizational crises, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, scandals, and financial mismanagement. Yet, many leaders are woefully ill-prepared for the important role they may need to play in leading an organization through a crisis....