{"id":6165,"date":"2025-06-24T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/administrative-leadership-conflicts-and-causes-in-nigerias-health-system\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:17:15","slug":"administrative-leadership-conflicts-and-causes-in-nigerias-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/administrative-leadership-conflicts-and-causes-in-nigerias-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP CONFLICTS AND CAUSES IN NIGERIA\u2019S HEALTH SYSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP CONFLICTS AND CAUSES IN NIGERIA\u2019S HEALTH SYSTEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/480' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/480\/441' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Identification of the existence of conflicts, and evaluation of stakeholders\u2019 opinions on the possible causative elements, are the main thrusts of this study. Survey research design was adopted on the informed populations of medical doctors, medical laboratory scientists, nurses, optometrists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and radiographers, practising in the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria, using a stratified sample size of 1642. Primary data were opinions directly obtained from the respondents. Secondary data were from textbooks, journals and gazetted government documents. This study established that conflicts exist over Nigeria\u2019s health system leadership, with the major causes being:non-respect of lawful professional boundaries, arrogance among professionals, unacceptability of foisted leaderships, and ambiguities in Government regulatory guidelines and Minor causes are: inferiority complex among certain professionals, inter-professional congestions in pursuing compatible goal of patients\u2019 well-being, incompatibility of goals when professional interests are prioritised, scarcities of resources and positions. It is recommended that the respective curricular of health professions\u2019 training schools, should be reviewed to inculcate discipline, conviviality and team-spirit in the out-going graduates. The continuing professional development programmes for practising professionals should be expanded to have inter-professional cross-fertilization of ideas, for better tolerance among health professionals.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MICHAEL OKECHUKWU IHEONU (UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA, ABUJA, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<li>IRO IRO UKE (UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA, ABUJA, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Administrative, Conflicts, Health System, Leadership<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP CONFLICTS AND CAUSES IN NIGERIA\u2019S HEALTH SYSTEM Original Article Link: Read Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2989,2817,765,1007],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-administrative","tag-conflicts","tag-health-system","tag-leadership","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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