Leadership Behaviors and Mentoring Effectiveness

Leadership Behaviors in Organizations

The purpose of this paper is to focus first on the literature that links leadership to employee wellbeing within the field of organizational behavior, and then turn the attention to a survey on healthcare professionals’ perceptions of the leadership style in three Italian hospitals. The classification of leader behavior is based on the sharing of decision making between leader and follower in t...

Guided Conversations about Leadership: Mentoring with Movies and Interactive Characters

Think Like a Commander – Excellence in Leadership (TLAC-XL) is an application designed for learning leadership skills both from the experiences of others and through a structured dialogue about issues raised in a vignette. The participant watches a movie, interacts with a synthetic mentor and interviews characters in the story. The goal is to enable leaders to learn the human dimensions of lead...

Mentoring and School Leadership: Experiences from South Africa

Among the factors included in the Advanced Certificate in Education-School Management and Leadership (ACE-SML) qualification in South Africa, is the requirement for leaders to be mentored. Mentoring is perceived to be among the most necessary processes in ensuring that practising principals will in turn be able to become resourceful mentors to their teachers. This article explicates the results...

Trustee mentoring: for orientation, leadership development and more.

Leadership, Change, and Organizational Effectiveness

What is leadership? Most organizational theorists agree that effective leadership is one of the most important contributors to overall organizational success. What leadership is and what leaders do to ensure team and organizational success is less well understood. Leadership as social influence. A common definition of leadership is "a process of social influence by which an individual enlists t...