Reviewing the Leadership Perspective for Managing Healthcare in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic poses substantial leadership and governance challenges and opportunities for organizations. This chapter intends to better understand the role of public leadership during the crisis and calls for public health professionals to play a more active role in crisis management. This chapter is a thoughtful reflection on how executives and boards respond to crises. This chapter focuses on three critical activities needed to understand public officials' involvement in the current crisis: values and purpose, rapid decision-making, and thinking outside the box. Understanding public leadership as a key to crisis management, particularly important when developing policy solutions to public health crises. This chapter broadens our understanding of human resource management's roles in crisis response and recovery. As a result of this, we can better identify the shifting leadership roles necessary for crisis management and learn about potential public health issues in the future.