Transformational leadership has been identified as one of the most critical factors in ERP success. However, few studies have explored how transformational leadership impacts ERP success, especially in the assimilation phase. Drawing from organizational learning and leadership theories, we submit that transformational leadership is positively related to exploitative and exploratory learning, me...

Effective educational leadership can make a difference in the resolution of complex issues that impact today’s demand-driven educational marketplace. The ongoing professional and skill development needs of human health resources may be best managed through distributed strategic leadership blended with servant leadership. Together these two approaches may offer the critical bridge for effective ...

Background: Effective leadership is regarded as an important factor in organizational success. This study aimed at performing a systematic review on leadership effectiveness among hospital managers.    Methods: A search was conducted in ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Web of Science, Ovid, and Scopus databases on the factors related to effectiveness of hospital managers’ leadership du...

BACKGROUND In healthcare and allied healthcare settings, leadership that supports effective implementation of evidenced-based practices (EBPs) is a critical concern. However, there are no empirically validated measures to assess implementation leadership. This paper describes the development, factor structure, and initial reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of a very brief meas...

In all safety critical industries, catastrophic accidents can happen, and have happened in the past. These accidents are not industry specific and the obvious commonality is the high inherent risk associated with the activities undertaken. However, other common themes can be identified in the root causes of the ten accidents in seven different industrial sectors reviewed in this paper. These ar...

The study of leadership has become a serious industry in America in the past decade. It shows activities on commercial and academic levels resulting in the publication of hundreds of how-to-become-a-leader guides per year and more than 1,000 degree programs. A four-volume Encyclopedia of Leadership seeks to mark the transition of the study of leadership from a specialist hobby to a mature acade...

"The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men." Leadership ability consists of learned skills that are developed throughout a leader's career. Of course, like most abilities, there are many factors in addition to learning that impact leadership competence, including one's personality traits and other inherited abilities. The scientific commu...