Leadership Questions for Health Care Professionals

Leadership Questions for Health Care Professionals: Applying Theories and Principles to Practice by Dr. Matthew R. Kutz presents some of the most common leadership questions with the intent to facilitate intrigue and dialogue about the general concept of leadership and an awareness of potential leadership issues facing health care professionals.

Leadership Questions for Health Care Professionals presents responses that will initiate discussion, as well as offer solutions based on the best available evidence across a wide spectrum of relevant research. Discussion questions at the end of each response will allow the reader to engage in critical thinking and re-evaluate their experiences and offer new insights into their leadership journey.

Sections include questions on key issues for health care professionals:

• The essence of leadership
• Leadership development
• Teamwork and communication
• Change
• Organizational culture and complexity
• Leadership ethics and power
• Diversity and multicultural leadership

Leadership Questions for Health Care Professionals takes an interprofessional and interdisciplinary approach and is relevant for athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses, physicians, and more.

Leadership Questions for Health Care Professionals: Applying Theories and Principles to Practice offers students a broader conceptual understanding of leadership, as well as the depth required by seasoned health care clinicians, managers, and executives who are looking for practical and evidence-based insights to their toughest leadership issues.

Matthew R. Kutz, PhD, AT, CSCS is an Associate Professor of Exercise Science and Sports
Medicine in the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University,
a 2013 Fulbright Scholar in the Medical Sciences (University of Rwanda, College of Medicine
and Health Science [formerly Kigali Health Institute]), and a 2016 Visiting Research Fellow and
Visiting Scholar at Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith University, College of Medicine,
Health Service Management (Queensland, Australia). Matt is a Senior Associate Editor of the
Athletic Training Education Journal, a member of the National Athletics Trainers' Association
International Committee, and a member of the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training
Education Ethics and Professional Standards Committee. In addition to his international and professional
service, Matt is the award-winning author of Contextual Intelligence: How Thinking in 3D
Can Help Resolve Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity (Palgrave MacMillan) and Leadership
and Management in Athletic Training: An Integrated Approach (Jones and Bartlett).