Leadership in health: effecting change.

The Mediating Effect of Self-leadership Between Metacognition And Management Accountants' Decision making

In order to survive in an ever-changing world, companies need empowered employees. Therefore, management accountants' empowerment is an important issue, especially in underdeveloped countries. Management accounting tools that are used in Iran are not suitable for companies' strategies with regard to management accounting knowledge development.  On the other hand,  keeping up with management acc...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study Masoud Etemadian1, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad2, Mohammad Javad Soleimani3, Seyed Pouria Hedayati4* 1 Urology department, Hasheminejad Kidney Center, Hospital Management Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Health Management and Economics, Health Information Management Research...

Transitions in pharmacy practice, part 3: effecting change--the three-ring circus.

The prerequisites for a change in practice in individual pharmacists, as framed by the Holland-Nimmo practice change model, are discussed. The Holland-Nimmo practice change model comprises three components, all of which must be addressed by a pharmacy's leadership if a change in practice is to be achieved. The first component is the practice environment, which must be conducive to implementatio...

Balancing Management and Leadership in Complex Health Systems; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

Health systems, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), need stronger management and leadership capacities. Management and leadership are not synonymous, yet should be considered together as there can be too much of one and not enough of the other. In complex adaptive health systems, the multiple interactions and relationships between people and elements of the system me...