Leadership Reflections: Resiliency in Library Organizations

Active Leadership Can Promote Leadership Effectiveness in Healthcare Organizations

Background and Objectives: The healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. To address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

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...

Leadership in Complex Organizations

This paper asks how complexity theory informs the role of leadership in organizations. Complexity theory is a science of complexly interacting systems; it explores the nature of interaction and adaptation in such systems and how they influence such things as emergence, innovation, and fitness. We argue that complexity theory focuses leadership efforts on behaviors that enable organizational eff...

Library Leadership

At College & Research Libraries we do not get many articles on the topic of academic library leadership. I wonder why, because I think this is one of the most important and enduring topics in our profession. Maybe it is because this is a big and difficult topic to pin down. What exactly is leadership? What aspects of leadership are we talking about: defining leadership, evaluating leadership st...

Perceptions of Leadership in Undergraduate Fraternal Organizations