Building National Heath Leadership Initiatives: Examples from across the globe
Call for abstracts
Leadership in Health Services journal
Leadership in Health Services provides examples of best practice in this dynamic field, disseminating practical, relevant and timely information. Combining theoretical articles and applied case studies, the journal is an essential resource for all those researching and practicing in this evolving area.
Leadership in Health Services plans to issue a special edition in autumn 2010 that will identify and profile major leadership development initiatives in several countries.
Individuals interested in submitting an article should submit an abstract of no more that 500 words outlining the nature of the leadership development initiative they would like to profile. A special review committee is being established to review these abstracts and determine the contribution they can make to the special edition. Authors will be advised whether to pursue the development of the full article based on the submitted abstract. Subsequently, the review committee, in collaboration with the journal’s peer review process, will review the submitted articles and make a final decision as to inclusion in the special edition.
Coverage
To meet the criteria for selection of articles, authors should profile leadership development initiatives that:
1. Profile system-wide, or organization-wide leadership development initiatives that have ramifications for large systems, meaning they go beyond a single institution or program and focus on a health system level;
2. Aim at building leadership capacity throughout a system with a focus in whole or in part on executives and senior leaders;
3. Transcend health disciplines and thereby represent initiatives that are inter-professional in nature (involve physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who occupy or aspire to leadership positions.)
4. Aim at developing transformational leadership while placing emphasis on creating the vision and creating the conditions for major system change.
5. Are guided by an overall evidenced-based conceptual framework drawn from leadership literature and experience.
6. Are currently being applied in practice through leadership development programs, performance management, succession planning or in other ways.
The intent is to attract articles from several countries thereby it is likely only one article would be accepted per country. A composite of initiatives within a given country might be considered for a country’s submission.
Submission of Abstracts
Initial abstracts should be submitted to the special guest editors at the e-mail addresses below. Following positive feedback complete articles should be submitted via ScholarOne manuscripts and information on how to do this as well as general guidelines for submissions can be found in the Author Guidelines at;
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=lhs
Important Dates
1. December 15, 2009 – submission of abstracts
2. February 15, 2009 - feedback to authors
3. May 15, 2010- Submission of articles
4. July 30, 2010 – Completion of \Peer Review
5. October 31 ,2010 – Release of Special Edition
Notes for prospective authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Special Guest Editor Details
Dr. Donald J. Philippon
Professor of Health Policy and Management
University of Alberta
Canada
E-mail address: don.philipon@ualberta.ca
Dr. Graham Dickson
Professor Emeritus
Centre for Health and Leadership Research
Royal Roads University
Victoria
Canada
E-mail address: Graham.Dickson@RoyalRoads.ca