This article aims to understand how principals perceive collective competences in their schools’ shared leadership contexts. Collective are crucial but have not been widely explored within educational studies. study investigates through two intersected models: attribute and relational models. The data comprise interviews conducted with 12 Finnish comprehensive secondary schools who practiced mo...

Within healthcare institutions, leadership is an essential driver of expectations, performance, and culture. Yet boards of directors traditionally played a limited role in overseeing healthcare quality, providing final approval of credentialing decisions but deferring to the medical staff to set standards for the institution. Case law and standards provide little guidance for board performance ...

This study investigated the influence of genetic factor and personality on leadership role occupancy among a sample of male twins. Identical twins (n =238) who share 100% of their genetic background were compared with fraternal twins (n =188) who are expected to share only 50% of their genetic background. Results indicated that 30% of the variance in leadership role occupancy could be accounted...

Article history: Received 1 June 2012 Received in revised form 16 October 2012 Accepted 19 October 2012 Over the past decade, there has been a surge of both theoretical and empirical research to explore the possibilities of shared leadership, a reorientation of leadership away from understanding the actions and interactions of “leaders” to understanding the emergent, informal, and dynamic “lead...

BACKGROUND Although organizations strive to develop transformational leaders, frontline nurse managers and directors are often inadequately prepared and lack transformational leadership (TL) behaviors. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of TL practices, nurse characteristics, and formal leadership training of frontline nurse leaders in a large health system. METHODS A survey of 512 front...