Our study aimed overall to seek out the meanings and perceptions of relationships between ‘leadership’ and ‘patient care’ and how leadership is transmitted across organisations to impact upon service delivery.
Two models of leadership are examined in this study:
First is inspirational and transformational (or engaging) leadership (Alimo-Metcalfe, Alban-Metcalfe et al., 2007).
Second is distributed leadership (Elmore, 2004; Gronn, 2002). Unlike traditional conceptions of heroic leadership,...