OBJECTIVES We aimed to explore the views of strategic level stakeholders on leadership for quality and safety in the UK National Health Service. METHODS We interviewed 107 stakeholders with close involvement in quality and safety as professionals, managers, policy makers or commentators. Analysis was based on the constant comparative method. RESULTS Participants identified the crucial role ...

Cop The historical aversion to effective leadership in American public administration literature imposes a troubling controversy over the appropriateness of nonelected public leaders being allowed to exercise the authority and capability to make decisions regarding the direction, focus, and intensity of their organizational efforts. Using principles from distributed, transformational, and authe...

The current paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to benchmark the leadership efficiency of civil engineers based on the leadership flexibility space diagram. Since the traditional DEA model does not fit for this problem, a simple modification has been made to enhance the L1-Norm and CCR models to tackle the problem. The engineers are considered to be the decision making unit (DMU). Questi...

In a context of increasing pressure to deliver high quality teaching and research, the need for “good leadership” has been emphasized as strategically decisive within the sector. Nevertheless, the structure and character of higher education institutions have historically no given space for top-down leadership which is usually associated with managerialism. The concept of distributed leadership ...

The leadership of musicians by the conductor of an orchestra is a combination of authority and charisma. It is a special case of directive-charismatic leadership that needs to be explained because it involves substantive restriction of freedom for the led, whereas in other creative fields (e.g. research and development) a non-directive style of leadership is considered functional to success. Cu...

The researcher studied on the effect of transformational leadership employee job performance in Water Resources Authority. study was guided by Bass’ four components thus idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration as independent variables dependent variable. population 400 employees Lake Victoria Basin Areas (Regions) Authority out wh...

This paper aims to understand spiritual leadership from the personal point of view, power, and authority. The central concept in this landscape is how a leader can impact people who have different attitudes, motivations, origins, personality values, beliefs, course, culture sociological-anthropological perspective. In addition looking at aspects multicultural leadership, author will also enrich...