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Leadership During a Pandemic: A Lexical Analysis
Ann Dadich1, Abby Mellick Lopes2
1School of Business, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
Frontiers in Public Health
|May 13, 2022
Summary
Pandemic leadership literature often portrays leaders as singular actors, overlooking frontline workers and teams. More diverse conceptions are needed to reflect the complex reality of health leadership during crises like COVID-19.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Health Management
- Organizational Behavior
Background:
- Effective leadership is crucial for health services during pandemics such as COVID-19.
- Limited understanding exists regarding how leadership was conceptualized and discussed in pandemic literature.
- This knowledge gap has significant public health implications.
Purpose of the Study:
- To systematically examine and analyze the literature on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- To identify common themes and potential limitations in the existing body of research.
- To highlight areas for future scholarly investigation.
Main Methods:
- Systematic search of nine academic databases conducted in May 2021.
- Screening of 1,747 retrieved publications.
- Lexical analysis of the results sections from a corpus of pandemic-related publications.
Main Results:
- A prevalence of references to "leader" as a singular decision-maker was observed.
- "Leadership" was frequently discussed in isolation, disconnected from frontline staff, patients, and teams.
- The literature often failed to capture the complex, multifaceted nature of leadership in practice.
Conclusions:
- Current literature risks perpetuating an oversimplified view of leadership during health crises.
- There is a critical need for more inclusive and nuanced vocabularies to describe pandemic leadership.
- Further empirical research is essential to develop a comprehensive understanding of effective leadership strategies in pandemic contexts.
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