Applying Motivational Theory to Health Care Leadership emphasizes the need for effective health care leadership amidst manpower shortages, burnout, financial challenges, maldistribution of providers and access, and other complex issues facing health care leaders today. It explores the distinction between management and leadership, the critical importance of motivation in the workplace, and the history of motivational theories.

The book discusses why providing motivational and inspirational leadership is an integral competency for health care leaders wanting to recruit, retain, and inspire health care workers to perform at their highest level. It provides strategies for creating positive transformational change in today's dynamic health care environment. The book is designed as a handbook that describes motivational theories, what they entail, and how a health care leader can go about implementing and applying the various motivational theories into practice in a hospital or health services organization.

Applying Motivational Theory to Health Care Leadership is an exemplary resource for courses in healthcare leadership and management, public health, and nursing. It is not only appropriate for students pursuing professional careers as health care leaders but for health care managers, administrators, clinical leaders, supervisors, and other practitioners already practicing in the field.