The paper draws from the work conducted in the context of the European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL). Based on an in-depth review of the literature, on research conducted by the EPNoSL partners, on the discourse that took place in on-line seminars and forums and in national workshops and Peer Learning Activities, it identifies critical policy goals for the promotion of school lea...

Job satisfaction is vital to nurses’ lives and can affect patient safety, productivity and performance, quality of care, retention and turnover, commitment to the organization and the profession, and the organization itself.1,2 Poor nurse satisfaction leads to negative consequences, such as overburdening workloads, poor quality of patient care, rising expenses associated with turnover and attri...

As part of a broader evidence summit, USAID and UNICEF convened a literature review of effective means to empower communities to achieve behavioral and social changes to accelerate reductions in under-5 mortality and optimize early child development. The authors conducted a systematic review of the effectiveness of community mobilization and participation that led to behavioral change and one o...

Introduction In healthcare and allied healthcare settings, leadership that supports effective implementation of evidenced-based practices is critical. There is only one empirically validated measure to assess implementation leadership, the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS). This study moves beyond testing the ILS with clinicians to assess the factor structure with clinical supervisors. Lead...

After establishing that leadership is one of the critical success factors in IS projects with the support of literature, this study examines the most appropriate leadership style at the project management level for the successful execution of IS projects. The suitability of Transformational Leadership style in an IS project environment is tested in a survey of Australian IS projects. The leader...

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...

As can be seen from the substantial increase in the volume and scope of leadership publications over the last ten to fifteen years, leadership is a construct with important social and relational properties. Shared leadership in particular has attracted considerable attention from organization and management scholars, although there has been surprisingly little focus on the key structuring proce...

This paper provides guidance to environmental practitioners on how to more efficiently drive processes of change to deliver sustainable outcomes. It introduces the concept of leadership, describes several important forms of environmental leadership, and presents evidence that leadership is a critical factor in driving environmental change. It then draws on recent research involving emergent env...

PURPOSE To identify and describe the design, implementation, and evidence of effectiveness of leadership training interventions for health care action (HCA) teams, defined as interdisciplinary teams whose members coordinate their actions in time-pressured, unstable situations. METHOD The authors conducted a systematic search of the PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and Web of Sc...