BACKGROUND Nurses and allied health care professionals (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, dietitians) form more than half of the clinical health care workforce and play a central role in health service delivery. There is a potential to improve the quality of health care if these professionals routinely use research evidence to guide their clinical prac...

Critical care is formulated and delivered by a team. Accordingly, behavioral scientific principles relevant to teams, namely psychological safety, transactive memory and leadership, apply to critical care teams. Two experts in behavioral sciences review the impact of psychological safety, transactive memory and leadership on medical team outcomes. A clinician then applies those principles to tw...

Revisiting thework ofWeber [Weber,M. (1921).The theory of social and economic organizations. New York: Free Press],Mumford and colleagues (e.g., [Strange, J. M., &Mumford,M. D. (2002). The origins of vision: Charismatic versus ideological leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 13, 343−377; Mumford, M.D. (2006). Pathways to outstanding leadership: A comparative analysis of charismatic, ideological an...

Background: The project took place in a cancer service for teenagers and young adults (13-24 years) in the UK, as part of a large service change project. Chemotherapy that had traditionally been given in an inpatient setting was to be transformed into an ambulatory care model. Aim: The authors aimed to lead a change in practice whereby patients receiving chemotherapy would be taught to monitor ...

Perhaps nowhere are leaders more pivotal than in the extreme contexts of responding to the aftermath of natural disasters or orchestrating post-war stability, support, transition, and reconstruction efforts. In the current study, historiometric methods were employed in order to elucidate the aspects of leadership essential in these extreme contexts. These contexts were chosen for two reasons: (...

Executive Summary Critical to the success of a high performance board is the ability of its directors to share leadership and to work as a dynamic team. Yet historically boardrooms have proven to be one of the most difficult places to build an effective team. Numerous factors work against boards operating as teams such as the small amount of time directors have together, limited access to criti...

introduction: today, with increasing emphasis on learning organizations, knowledge and learning are considered important factors in organizations and having updated knowledge and information have become an unavoidable necessity to continue the life and stability of these organizations. hence this study was conducted to study  the relationship between learning organization & leadership styles ed...

The objective of article is to explore the importance of project leadership which has become essential for managing projects in complex and challenging environment. The study aims highlight a question that “what does project leadership really do?” This paper also draw attention to significance of project leadership as there is a limited research in the area of project leadership even though cal...