In many animal groups, coordinated activity is facilitated by the emergence of leaders and followers. Although the identity of leaders is to some extent predictable, most groups experience frequent changes of leadership. How do group members cope with such changes in their social role? Here, we compared the foraging behaviour of pairs of stickleback fish after a period of either (i) role reinfo...

WWW is the most popular and interactive medium to disseminate information. It creates many new challenges. Several initiatives have been taken to extract different kinds of knowledge from web. In our paper “Leader-page Resources in the World Wide Web” we defined a new method to rank the web pages entirely using the hyperlink information. The notion of “Leader-Page” is extended from the concept ...

I Summary Implicit motives have widely been studied with regard to their ability to predict effective leadership. In accordance with theorizing (McClelland, 1977), research (e.g., McClelland & Boyatzis, 1982) showed successful leaders to be motivated by a certain motive combination, the Leadership Motive Pattern (LMP). Leaders characterized by this pattern are motivated by high levels of the ne...

This research focuses on the impact of leadership empowerment behavior (LEB) on customer service satisfaction and sales performance, as mediated by salespeople's self-efficacy and adaptability. Moreover, the authors propose an interactive relationship whereby LEB will be differentially effective as a function of employees' empowerment readiness. The authors' hypotheses are tested using survey d...

wo US Army officers; a Hollywood writer and producer; a famous film actor and director; and our host, a local jewelry dealer, are sitting around the table with me at a curiously empty restaurant in Juarez, Mexico. I order a mango fish plate and try to keep up with the conversation, which has drifted toward the Los Angeles real estate market. Notably, I'm the only one at the table with an ambigu...

Although analysts have explored many facets of economic growth of Korea over the last decades, infrastructure investment policies have been discussed in terms of a simple developmental state framework that emphasizes the role of bureaucracy. This paper claims that infrastructure investment is a function of interactive processes affected by demand, supply, politics, and administrative reaction. ...

By reviewing the literature on word-of-mouth communications and opinion leadership, a theoretical model for epinions is proposed via comparing the epinions with the traditional WOM and opinion leadership model in five facets: (1) The changing environment of interpersonal communication fostered by the Internet and increasing epinion sites; (2) Comparison of the interactive process of epinions an...

Background and objective: There is a need for young physicians to take a responsible role in clinical teams, comparable to a leadership role. However, today's medical curricula barely consider the development of leadership competencies. Acquisition of leadership skills are currently a by-product of medical education, even though it seems to be a competency relevant for physicians' success. Ther...

Chief residents (CRs) play a crucial role in training residents and students but may have limited geriatrics training or formal preparation for their CR role. A 2-day off-site chief resident immersion training (CRIT) addressed these challenges. Objectives were to foster collaboration between disciplines in the management of complex older patients, increase knowledge of geriatrics principles to ...

BACKGROUND Chief Residents must lead, manage and mentor a diverse and often large group of residents, however there is a lack of formal leadership training throughout graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE Development of a 3-part Chief Resident (CR) Program focused on leading, managing and mentoring. DESIGN Each participant completes an Emotional Intelligence (EI) Inventory prior to the day-...