Leaderships’ Role in Managing Crisis in the Lebanese Health Sector: An Assessment of Influencing Factors

This paper aims to assess the healthcare leadership’s role in crisis management, examine, and investigate influencing factors. A quantitative analysis approach with a positivism philosophy is adopted. Primary data are collected using structured questionnaire distributed sample of hospital employees Lebanon. Data used IBM SPSS version 25; whereby descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations) inferential factor analysis, multivariable linear regression) were obtained. Results revealed that leaders’ traits skills like proactivity communication, gender, location, organization’s culture, stakeholders’ engagement influence effectiveness decision-making management context. Also, results confirmed alternative hypotheses explanatory factors have direct statistically significant relationship effectiveness. Outcomes this research serve as an eye opener policymakers, health care managers, stakeholders fully integrated effort must mitigate serious consequences.