Leadership in a Time of Pandemic: Dealing with the COVID-19 Outbreak

ABSTRACT

This paper means to examine public leadership models in various countries in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, both in responding and making policies. This study uses a bibliometric analysis approach with two analytical models, namely search result analysis and VOSviewer. This research data uses 545 international indexed scientific documents (Scopus) in the form of articles, reviews, notes, editorials, letters, conference papers, and book chapters. Data is collected using the keyword "Leadership COVID-19” and is limited to 2020–2021. This study found that the trend of journal articles related to leadership at the time of COVID-19 in 2021 was growing quite rapidly with a total of 363 publications. The results of this study also found that the policy model used in several countries in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was using a normative policy model. In addition, the leadership model used by several governments in various countries is the transformational leadership model. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.