The paper reports on the first phase of a three part study of leadership and clinician management in the public hospital system in Australia. While many studies of leadership in health focus on its individual aspects, this paper argues, along with others, that leadership in the clinician management context cannot be understood from such a perspective alone. Clinician managers are described as “...

Personality Traits, Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Academic Performance: Mediating Role Adaptability

Recent research in social psychology suggests that people harbor ‘‘implicit race biases,’’ biases which can be unconscious or uncontrollable. Because awareness and control have traditionally been deemed necessary for the ascription of moral responsibility, implicit biases present a unique challenge: do we pardon discrimination based on implicit biases because of its unintentional nature, or do ...

The increasing importance of educational collaborations and networks that blur organizational boundaries requires conceptual developments in leadership theory. One approach to both theorizing and promoting such phenomena is through the idea of system leadership. Three different meanings of the term are identified: interschool leadership; a systemic leadership orientation and identity; and leade...