Background and objectives: Emotional intelligence contributes to the success in leadership, especially among nursing managers. This study sought to determine the relationship between the components of emotional intelligence and transformational-transactional leadership style among the heads of nursing education departments of Iranian medical universities.Methods: This cross-sectional study used...

Background and Objective: Due to the health care system's complexity, the demand for effective leadership in nursing has never been so great. The need for studies of variation in leadership styles that could assist nursing leadership in fulfilling their administrative responsibilities is emphasized. The aim of the study was to investigate the head nurses' leadership styles and effectiveness, fl...

Studies have shown that organizational success is based on effective leadership, and this is true in every organization including academic centers. Since universities and higher education centers in the third millennium are encountering increasing challenges, overcoming these predicaments necessitates effective leadership and efficient management. In this article, based on the existing theories...

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

from its emergence till present time marxist principles has undergone great changes since their promulgation by marx. many theorists and thinkers set at rectifying marxist tenets and introducing those of their own while others advocated its main concepts and attempted at improving them. among marxist philosophers who had an intensive study of marxs ideology, is louis althusser whose reflections...