The Department of Health Systems Management and Leadership, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta has organised a full-day workshop titled “Leadership and Health/Well-being: implications for healthcare settings" on 4 March 2024, at Campus Hub CHBO316. The facilitator of the workshop was visiting lecturer Prof. Ilke Inceoglu, from the University of Exeter Business School. The interactive workshop was attended by course participants of several Master of Science within the Faculties of Health Science and Medicine and Surgery, as well as by an interdisciplinary group of healthcare professionals working in the Maltese Healthcare system.
The workshop was coordinated by Prof. Sandra C. Buttigieg, Head of Department of Health Systems Management and Leadership and President of the European Health Management Association.
A Brief about the workshop: How do you lead and ensure that you and your team are happy and healthy?
Prof. Inceoglu first discussed work-stress and resource-demand based approaches which help understand why people might thrive or burn out at work. A discussion on how leadership behaviour impacts employee well-being began: what are the mechanisms? Attention was given to the health of the leader – how does this affect their decision making and the well-being of their employees? The context within which leaders and their teams are embedded plays a significant role in shaping norms and working conditions, which can all influence well-being at work. A review on how this plays out in healthcare settings and what organisations, leaders and employees can do to enhance well-being at work. A final discussion was held on methodological considerations for research and practice in designing interventions and training programmes to help leaders and their teams to flourish at work.
Prof. Ilke Inceoglu's Bio
Ilke Inceoglu is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and HR Management at the University of Exeter Business School and Director of the Exeter Centre for Leadership. Ilke received her PhD in Organisational Psychology from the Ludwig Maximilans University Munich. She is a Chartered Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Her research focuses on employee well-being and leadership and the impact of technology on well-being at work. Her research interests also include work motivation, personality and career transitions (e.g. work motivation and age). She has published in leading journals such as Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Organisational Research Methods, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Applied Psychology, European Journal of Work & Organisational Psychology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Human Resource Management and Work, Employment and Society.
Prof. Sandra C. Buttigieg's Bio
Sandra C. Buttigieg is Professor and Head of Department of Health Systems Management and Leadership (HSML), Faculty of Health Sciences, UOM. She is the current President of the European Health Management Association. She is also Consultant Public Health Medicine, Head-Clinical Performance Unit, and Chair-Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Team, Mater Dei Hospital. She is the outgoing Global-Representative-at-large of the American Academy of Management-HCM Division. She lectures in HSML, Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management, Public Health, Family Medicine, Research Methodology and Evidence-based Health Research (EVBRES).
Prof. Buttigieg strongly advocates inter-/trans-disciplinarity within HSM in practice/research. She believes that health organisations'/systems' performance as a macro-concept depends on policies, people and operating systems. Her research, therefore, focuses on, but also links, clinical performance management, quality of care, patient safety, organisational behaviour, SHRM, operations management/research; and policy issues (ageism, migrant health, One Health).
She authored/co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed international journals, and widely participated in international conferences, and congresses. She is on the Editorial Boards of Heliyon, PloS One, Health Services Management Research, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Journal of Health Organisation and Management, and Frontiers Public Health. She is Frontiers Topic Editor: "Network for Evaluation of One Health (NEOH) Case Studies"; "Patient Safety: Delivering Cost-Contained, High Quality, Person-Centered, and Safe Healthcare" and "Health Service Management and Leadership: COVID-Style".
She is Fellow of two programmes of the Salzburg Global Seminar, related to health care, which were led by amongst others, past presidents of the Institute of Medicine, namely, Donald Berwick and Harvey Fineberg.
Prof. Buttigieg was visiting scholar in US (JMU -Harrisonburg, VA), UK -University of Birmingham and Aston University, Birmingham, and Kuwait (Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University).
Prof. Buttigieg participated in the EU-funded programmes: Horizon2020 - To REACH; COST Actions: CA17117: EVBRES; CA19113: Second Victims; CA 15222 "cost containment and quality of care (leader-WG 1); TD 1404 NEOH (co-leader-WG 3); IS 1402 “ Ageism (co-leader-WG 1); and IS 1103 “Adapting European Health Systems to Diversity" (country-coordinator).
