This article is a review of the literature concerned with leadership effectiveness in higher education at departmental level. The literature derives from publications from three countries: the UK, the USA and Australia. Surprisingly little systematic research has been conducted on the question of which forms of leadership are associated with departmental effectiveness. The analysis of the studi...

OBJECTIVE To assess key experts' opinion regarding essential competencies required for effective public health nutrition practice within the health-care system of Iran. DESIGN Qualitative study using the modified Delphi technique through an email-delivered questionnaire. SETTING Iran. SUBJECTS Fifty-five experts were contacted through email. The inclusion criterion for the study panel was...

Objective: This pilot project, which was jointly conducted by a hospital and a university, describes the development of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership in Medicine, a course designed to supplement medical specialty training. The aim of the pilot project is to demonstrate how hospital-based projects on personnel and organisational development undertaken under academic supervision can...

BACKGROUND No instruments, to our knowledge, exist to assess leadership competency in existing and emerging allied health professional (AHP) leaders. This paper describes the development and preliminary exploration of the psychometric properties of a leadership competency instrument for existing and emerging AHP leaders and examines (i) its factor structure, (ii) its convergent validity with th...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of a qualitative 'card sort' research tool - when it is merged with traditional quantitative data gathering methods - to add to our understanding about the nature of competency-based approaches to leadership studies. The study demonstrates how a qualitative technique (card sort) was used for the task of testing a clinical leadership competenci...

Multisource or 360-degree feedback has become a widely used component of leadership development in many organizations, and a growing body of research supports its use for this purpose. Unfortunately, most commercially available multisource surveys were developed in private-sector corporate settings, making their transferability to healthcare settings less than straightforward. This article desc...

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the concept of leadership as it applies to nurse practitioners (NPs) and examine the issues around assessing NP candidates in Australia for leadership qualities. Setting Currently in Australia, registration as a nurse, midwife, enrolled nurse or nurse practitioner is conducted at the Assessing leadership in nurse practitioner candidates state or te...

Today’s business world is fast-paced, and successful organizations must innovate, especially as technologies become ever more crucial to securing market success. Research in the fields of leadership and organization design illustrates that innovativeness is a competency advanced by particular kinds of leadership and through specific organization designs. Similarly, research displays how cultura...

background: success in patient care and gain credit for the hospital depend on nurse staff competent and appetency, so they must be lead in suitable manners and it is nurse manager's duty that must have suitable personality and competency for powerful leadership. the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of leadership and its relationship with extrovert/introvert personality. met...