The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures

Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction ? What is ‘wicked’ about providing care? (editors)
2. Part One ? Contemporary Wicked Challenges to Health and Social Care

1. A theoretical approach on wicked problems in health and social care ? Harri Raisio & Pirkko Vartiainen, Finland
2. Economic and Demographic Challenges for Health and Social Care ? Will Thomas & Sue Hollinrake, UK
3. Personal Budgets for People with Disabilities: International evidence as to who wins and who loses out? Janet Carter Anand (Australian, now in Finland)

3. Part Two ? Managing, Leading and Following

1. The leader-follower fantasy: exploring leadership psycho-analytically ? Chawla, Learmonth & McMurray, UK
2. Ethics, Leadership and Care ? Sinkkonen and Laulainen, Finland
3. Destructive Leadership ? Hoffren & Laulainen, Finland
4. Empowering patients through communication technology? ? Laura Wisser, Netherlands
5. Lofty ideals and lowly troubles among nursing home managers ? Charlotta Levay and Monica Andersson Back, Sweden

4. Part Three ? Silent Voices: making the invisible, visible

1. Patients with multimorbidity ? Forgotten Outsiders ? Anneli Hujala et al., Finland & the Netherlands
2. Blame culture in the NHS ? Ruth Strudwick, UK
3. Australian Indigenous policy: critiquing ‘wicked’ deficit discourses - Elizabeth Pyle, Deanna Grant-Smith, Robyn Mayes
4. Unpicking Dependency, Managing Becoming ? Will Thomas, UK

5. Part Four ? Beyond Conventional Methodologies for Understanding Care

1. Four different views to see the world of care ? Anneli Hujala & Sanna Laulainen, Finland
2. Action Research in public management and governance studies ? Marta Strumi?ska, Poland
3. The Promise of Visual Approaches ? Jari Martikainen, Finland

6. Conclusions (editors)

References

Index