This paper suggests that values, attitudes and behaviours are strongly culture specific. Therefore, it is contended that if culture exerts an influence in behaviours and attitudes of people it will be evident in the way leadership is perceived or traits of effective leadership is distinguished in organisations around the world. In the Western leadership literature, effective leadership appears ...

OBJECTIVES To explore and describe the views on clinical audit of healthcare purchasers and providers, and in particular the interaction between them, and hence to help the future development of an appropriate interaction between purchasers and providers. DESIGN Semistructured interviews. SETTING Four purchaser and provider pairings in the former Northern Region of the National Health Servi...

BACKGROUND The prevention of sickness absenteeism of nurses is an important issue for organizations in health care as well as for nurses. The role of work-related attitudes, such as organizational commitment, as a cause of absenteeism is still unclear. OBJECTIVES To examine the influence over time of organizational commitment, health complaints, and visits to a general practitioner on sicknes...

Wildland fire affects both public and private resources throughout the United States. A century of fire suppression has contributed to changing ecological conditions and accumulated fuel loads. Managers have used a variety of approaches to address these conditions and reduce the likelihood of wildland fires that may result in adverse ecological impacts and threaten communities. Public acceptanc...

Although best practice for children's mental health services emphasizes ongoing assessment and monitoring of clinical progress, community based clinicians inconsistently implement assessment as part of clinical care due to a variety of practical barriers. The current study explores which factors may be related to the use and function of evidence-based assessment (EBA) in real-world, clinical se...

the aim of this study was to analyze the effect of budget participation onjob attitudes and performance of physical education managers ofuniversities. research method was descriptive, with regard to therelationship of the variables it was correlation and application consideringthe aim of the study and data were collected by field method. the statisticalpopulation consisted of physical education...

OBJECTIVES This study presents results from an electronic survey among paediatric department employees, addressing employees' attitudes and use of results from a national parent experience survey carried out in 2005. METHODS Electronic questionnaire survey of employees from each of the 20 paediatric departments included in the national survey, with a response rate of 87%. RESULTS The employ...