The function of leadership is to create a vision for the future, establish strategic priorities, and develop an environment of trust within and between organizations. Great leadership is a process; leadership involves motivational influence, leadership occurs in groups, and involves a shared vision (Northouse, 2010). Instructional designers are ideal leadership candidates for institutions of hi...

AIMS The present study demonstrates the practical relevance of the concepts of transformational leadership as a Director of Nursing working with structure (shared governance) and active processes, informed by action research, to achieve the incremental breakthroughs associated with culture change in nursing. BACKGROUND Responding to the context of a decade of health reforms in a New Zealand t...

Available online 15 October 2011 Through a qualitative review of the leadership literature, we derive two fundamental principles for codifying the last century of leadership theory and research: the locus and mechanism of leadership. Our systematic review and categorization of past theories suggests that further development of the follower, collective and context loci, and the affect mechanism ...

The aim of this research is to explore more effective strategies to build leadership groups for the implementation of policies whose success depends on the massive mobilisation of targets. The underlying motivation for this work stems from the observation of a weak participation by traders in modernising a city’s centre commerce in spite of high financial incentives. The analysis of the leaders...

This paper presents a sequence of models for optimal overnight charging and rebalancing shared electric scooters (e-scooters) by allowing e-scooters to be charged while being transported on vehicles. problem is first modeled as mixed-integer program the multi-commodity inventory routing problem, where commodities represent with different states charge. To avoid prohibitive computation burden, c...

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