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The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care

Call no.: : 362.1068 THE
Author: : Edited by Will Thomas, Anneli Hujala, Sanna Laulainen and Robert McMurray
Contributor: : Lilian Baun Pulo
Summary: At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management. Provide a range of contributions that draw on a Critical Management and economics on the one hand, as well as micro-level challenges of leadership, voice and engagement on the other. Rather than being an attempt to define the ‘wickedness’ of problems in this field, this book provides new insights designed to be of interest and value to researchers, students and managers. This book demonstrates such listening through its engagement with policymakers, leaders, followers, professions, patients, forgotten groups and silenced voices. Moreover, it is considers how future research might be transformed so as to shine a more inclusive light on ‘wicked’ problems and their amelioration. This is a timely engaging book that challenges you-the reader- to think again about how we should look at, engage with and support all those involved in health and social care.