Complex Tasks, Delegation, and Flexibility: What Role for Engagement and Shared Leadership?

Delegation of Tasks and Rights

The delegation of management tasks is usually accompanied with some transfer of rights. However, in many existing systems it is not possible to link this transfer with the execution of the task as the transfer usually happens in a separate independent step. Moreover, it is often not possible to control the proper use of the transferred rights. This makes it very vulnerable to abuse. In this pap...

Mediating Role of Work Ethics in Relation to Ethical Leadership and Organizational Justice with Work Engagement

Background: An important issue for organizations is to identify factors related to job motivation and use these factors to increase the level of enthusiasm of their employees. The purpose of this study is to explain the effect of ethical leadership and organizational justice on job motivation by emphasizing the mediating role of work ethic. Methods: The present study was descriptive-correlatio...

Leadership for patient engagement

The role of the positive emotional attractor in vision and shared vision: toward effective leadership, relationships, and engagement

Personal and shared vision have a long history in management and organizational practices yet only recently have we begun to build a systematic body of empirical knowledge about the role of personal and shared vision in organizations. As the introductory paper for this special topic in Frontiers in Psychology, we present a theoretical argument as to the existence and critical role of two states...

Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership Shared Leadership Underpinning of the MLCF

A key product from the Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership project has been the development of a Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF). This document defines the skills and competences needed by doctors to engage effectively in the planning, provision and improvement of health care services. It applies to all doctors and is intended to be acquired across the medical career at ea...