Leadership, appreciative management and empowerment in physiotherapy practice

Abstract

Within national health systems, there is an inadequacy in terms of human resource management due to the specificity of operational activities of health workers, patient relations and the fulfillment of organizations' requirements.The paper views distributive or shared leadership and appreciation management as a new management concept that has a focus on employees, and which especially appreciates and emphasizes professionalism, cooperation, interaction skills and employee support and proposes the application of this concept in health systems, especially in physiotherapy practice.