title: [Leadership strategies--the Bible as a guide to management in the health care system].
abstract: Management and leadership are an integral part of any organisation, to optimise procedures and increase efficiency. Aims, ideals and structures first need to be defined for tasks to be carried out successfully, particularly in difficult times. A good example for the way communities can effectively and with conviction pass on their values and standpoints from generation to generation, grow in strength and also influence their surroundings is provided by religion. This paper focuses leadership provided by charismatic personalities within the Jewish and Christian religions. Monasteries have run hospitals without governmental support ever since the Middle Ages. Leadership within today's health care system calls for a variety of strategies in the different phases of development. In times of limited resources and multifarious societies, leadership implies both a scientific as well as an ethical challenge.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Abteilung, Krankenhaus der Barmherzige Brüder Wien, Grosse Mohrengasse 9, 1020 Vienna, Austria. abteilung.interne@bbwien.at
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kudlacek
authors.forename: Johannes G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Meran
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D001633:Bible; D002835:Christianity; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007599:Judaism; D007857:Leadership; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D012068:Religion and Medicine