Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through selfassessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leadersh...

Researchers examine a Constructive Developmental (CD) view of leadership development. While past research has found that upper level executives tend to possess higher leadership levels, there exists a lack of empirical research examining the relationship of CD leadership theory with actual performance ratings. This study examines the relationship of CD theory as applied to the study of leadersh...

public interests justify the existence of public administration and public administrator must obligate it in any policies and decisions. reduction of public trust and organizational trust in recent years and necessity of power distribution and empowerment in democratization trend, intensify the emergence of servant leadership. denhart´s idea of new public service in recent decades, increases th...

The findings from this cross-sectional study on 27 corporate employees reveal relationships between leader and follower leadership behaviors and follower identity with the leader. A positive relationship was found between the leaders’ follower-centered leadership and followers’ follower-centered leadership, and the leaders’ capable manager leadership and followers’ capable manager leadership. F...

Leadership research has traditionally explored the consequences of leadership behaviors while giving far less attention to understanding why leaders behave the way they do toward subordinates. Moreover, the few theoretical frameworks and studies that do address antecedents of leadership behavior have focused almost entirely on personality and other individual differences while largely overlooki...

Bass and his colleagues initiated the empirical investigation of transformational and transactional leadership two decades ago. They proposed that transformational leadership is comprised of four dimensions, that transactional leadership is composed of three dimensions, and that an additional category of non-leadership exists (laissez-faire leadership). The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire ...

the purpose of this study is evaluating the impact of organizational culture and leadership style on knowledge management considering the mediating role of technology acceptance. the hypotheses were tested against the data collected from a sample of 54 manufacturing companies in qazvin province, using the variance based structural equations modeling (partial least square technique) and path ana...

the importance of leadership in organizations, has prompted scientists and researchers to discover the characteristics of successful leaders in organizations and also to try to assign the characteristics of a successful leaders. following these efforts, in recent decades various schools and theories on leadership were formed and also were introduced to scientific community. servant leadership c...