Leadership and managerial challenges to ensure agile management as a method to enable business success: a Delphi study of the Slovenian health organisations

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to apply the Delphi method to explore the possibilities for implementing agility management concepts in Slovenian health-care organisations. Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on a qualitative Delphi study encompassing 15 employees in different Slovenian health-care organisations. Findings: Slovenian health-care organisations need to be more agile currently. For this reason, it is necessary to begin with organisational changes and organisational learning concepts to educate employees about the meaning and content of agile processes. It is essential to ensure that accepting employee mistakes and offering help to employees becomes normal practice, and it is necessary to ensure the greater trust of the management towards the employees. Originality/value: The research empowers health-care professionals with new management and leadership concepts, such as agile management, sustainable leadership and leadership development methods in health care.