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...

in last decade, with the entry of spirituality in organizational and managementresearch, spirituality leadership, also, has attracted a considerable amount of attention.in this study, with a developmental approach and after using experts' opinions andliterature for identifying leaders' spiritual traits and behaviors, we aim to model themusing adaptive neural-fuzzy inference systems. e...

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...

Virtual teams enabled by information and communications technologies (ICT) are increasingly being adopted not only by for-profit organizations but also by education institutions as well. This study investigates what contribute to the success of virtual learning teams in a higher-education institution. Specifically, we examine the issue of leadership in virtual learning teams. The study first re...

the present study aims to address the problem of inadequate coverage of various aspects of organizational performance by balanced scorecard (bsc) model through its developing based on the european foundation for quality management (efqm) model. to this end, a developed bsc model, encompassing variables of stakeholders, resource effectiveness, processes effectiveness, human resource management e...

The current leadership literature is based on studies mostly carried out in the West. This study attempts to examine the relationship between leadership styles and employee and organizational outcomes in a Nepali telecommunication company. It proposes and tests a model suggesting direct relationship between leadership styles and employees' satisfaction with the leader, leader effectiveness, and...

Emphasizing the importance of cross-border effectiveness in the contemporary globalized world, we propose that cultural intelligence—the leadership capability to manage effectively in culturally diverse settings—is a critical leadership competency for those with cross-border responsibilities. We tested this hypothesis with multisource data, including multiple intelligences, in a sample of 126 S...

the purpose of this study is investigate the relationship between consequences of leadership and transformational leadership style in presidents of universities and institutes of tehran, 30 presidents in tehran and 102 raters (subordination of presidents) response to third edition of multifactor leadership questionnaire mlq (leader and rater version). the data were analyzed taking in to conside...

Background: Effective leadership that rises from managerial training courses is highly constructive in managing hospitals more effectively. This study aims at investigating the relationship between leadership effectiveness with providing management training courses for hospital managers.    Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out on top and middle managers of 16 hospi...