Leadership Development In Undergraduate Education

o manage the progressive complexities of our health care system, our health care community needs to ensure a constant pipeline of strong leaders. After all, a key trait of successful organisa-tions is their ability to embrace change and deal with complexities. 3 After studying 160 companies from 40 varied industries, Joyce et al . observed that businesses with performance- oriented cultures and fast, fl exible structures outperformed competi-tors over a 10- year period. 1 Consequently, a potential way forward for health care is to focus on designing fl exible systems. For fl exible systems to function, leadership must exist at all levels of the system. It is an equal and shared responsibility of every health care worker, regardless of duty, rank or seniority. Morison and McMullan put forward the idea that leadership development is essentially an educational matter; thus, having educational programmes on leadership is imperative for grooming effective future leaders.