In 2001, senior administrators in Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) designated leadership as the central element of a new strategic plan, believing that an academic health center (AHC) requires excellence in leadership at all organizational levels to carry out the tripartite mission of teaching, research, and patient care. Leadership development in academic medicine pres...

The objective of the study was to determine the relationship, if any, between leadership preparation programs types and, how well school administrators are prepared to set a widely shared vision, develop a school culture, effectively management school operations and resources, collaborate with faculty and community members, act with integrity and understand the context of education in Gama (Bra...

National attention on effective schools has focused on the issue of the quality of leadership preparation programs (Davis, Darling-Hammond, LaPointe, & Meyerson, 2005). The need for more and better-prepared principals (Hale & Moorman, 2003) raises the question of how to measure the impact of program preparation on the perspectives of aspiring leaders. While other research may rely on self-repor...

Across four studies, we found evidence for an implicit pro-White leadership bias that helps explain the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions. Both White-majority and ethnic minority participants reacted significantly faster when ethnically White names and leadership roles (e.g., manager; Study 1) or leadership traits (e.g., decisiveness; Study 2 & 3) were paired in a...

This review examines recent theoretical and empirical developments in the leadership literature, beginning with topics that are currently receiving attention in terms of research, theory, and practice. We begin by examining authentic leadership and its development, followed by work that takes a cognitive science approach. We then examine new-genre leadership theories, complexity leadership, and...