“Lead from the front”: Participative leadership

Participative leadership in the management process of nightshift nursing.

This is a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study, aiming to identify the perceptions of nurses regarding the leadership process and to analyze how this process takes place on the nightshift. Data collection was performed through the Focus Groups Technique, with 13 nightshift nurses of a public teaching hospital. Two categories that resulted from the thematic analysis are the focus of this ...

Effects of Participative and Directive Leadership in Electronic Groups

Visible leadership: going back to the front line.

The report into care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust called for strong leadership in nursing and the government's response acknowledged the importance of senior managers gaining front line experience of the NHS. This article discusses the background to the need for visible leadership and the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to engaging with the front line. Lessons ...

Knowledge from the inside and outside in participative development and research on participative development

When trying to learn about a group of users, a researcher will interpret their behaviour on her or his own background, achieving an outside understanding. Inside understanding means to know how the people themselves interpret their own behaviour. The usefulness of inside and outside understanding is argued in the following areas: 1) information systems research, 2) concepts that relate the role...

The Neurobiology of Leadership: Why Women Lead Differently Than Men

Effective leaders today are the key to engaging and retaining high potential talent as well as creating a psychologically healthy culture for high performance. Current research findings suggest that although there is no difference in overall leadership effectiveness by gender, women tend to utilize different supervisory and management styles relative to men. This presentation will summarize our...