Purpose Despite increasing awareness of the importance of leadership in healthcare, our understanding of the competencies of effective leadership remains limited. We used a concept mapping approach (a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis of group processes to produce a visual composite of the group's ideas) to identify stakeholders' mental model of effective healthcare leadership, cla...

PURPOSE This study aims to systematically review published empirical research on leadership as a determinant for the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) and to investigate leadership conceptualization and operationalization in this field. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A systematic review with narrative synthesis was conducted. Relevant electronic bibliographic databases and referenc...

Research in higher education on leadership development and attributes has primarily concentrated on students currently engaged in campus experiences and programs (e.g., student government, volunteerism) that emulate leadership positions and opportunities that carry over to societal equivalencies. Thus, students who are not active in leadership activities are rarely assessed regarding their lead...

This study will explore the “indignados” (outraged) protests in Spain, characterized by their endorsement of participatory democracy and their use of collective leadership in decisionmaking and camp organization. Collective leadership involves multiple people collaborating in leadership to attain their common goals (Méndez, Howell, & Bishop, 2011). Using a grounded theory methodology based on t...

IS Leadership is distinctive from leadership in general because of the special interface between Information Technology and business. As the increasing complexity and interdependence in the Information Systems Development (ISD) context, this study proposes to examine the IS leadership from a distributed team level. Based upon Social Interdependence Theory, we argue that the inherent high level ...

today business, are faced with global competition environment, and for be successful in this environment they always feel the need to radically change and creativity; and with entering spirituality into management and organizations, managers and leaders in organizations, 0should be required to deal with new phenomena. the role of spiritual leadership is to stimulating personnel by the use of sp...