in the current turbulent environment, sustainable organizational success cannot be achieved without considering organizational learning. due to the global pressures, higher education institutions including agriculture colleges should turn to learning organizations to face the challenges ahead. hence, the purpose of this descriptive correlational study is to investigate organizational learning a...

Shared services change management, despite being widely acknowledged by business practitioners as one of the significant factors that makes or breaks the transformation efforts in organizations, success continues to be elusive during most shared services implementations. Quality leadership and effective communication strategy are considered to be critical to drive successful organizational tran...

AIMS The present study demonstrates the practical relevance of the concepts of transformational leadership as a Director of Nursing working with structure (shared governance) and active processes, informed by action research, to achieve the incremental breakthroughs associated with culture change in nursing. BACKGROUND Responding to the context of a decade of health reforms in a New Zealand t...

Available online 15 October 2011 Through a qualitative review of the leadership literature, we derive two fundamental principles for codifying the last century of leadership theory and research: the locus and mechanism of leadership. Our systematic review and categorization of past theories suggests that further development of the follower, collective and context loci, and the affect mechanism ...

This article aims to identify and analyze evidence of characteristic constitutive aspects collaborative work among a group mathematics teachers. The chosen was formed based on project developed within the scope Education Observatory Program (Obeduc) from June 2013 2017. To achieve proposed objective, we conducted meta-analytical study focusing research that investigated in question. In this reg...

We tested several hypotheses derived from Gardner and Avolio’s [Acad. Manage. Rev. 23 (1998) 32.] self-presentational theory of charismatic leadership. We collected multisource field data in an information technology (IT) consulting firm and examined linkages among managers’ self-system attributes (i.e., desired charismatic identity, self-monitoring), pro-social and self-serving impression mana...

• The professional identity of management accountants (MAs) is evolving. According to 8,727 descriptors expressed by 1,158 participants, a range of characteristics of MAs are competing in shaping the identity of future MAs. Respondents strongly valued qualities such as professional principles, hard work, intelligence, analytical and forward thinking in MAs. Further, more innovative, dynamic and...