Skill Diversity and Leadership in Team Production

Team leadership

Despite the ubiquity of leadership influences on organizational team performance and the large literatures on leadership and team/group dynamics, we know surprisingly little about how leaders create and handle effective teams. In this article, we focus on leader–team dynamics through the lens of ‘‘functional leadership.’’ This approach essentially asserts that the leader’s main job is to do, or...

Leadership is the essential non-technical skill in the trauma team - results of a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Trauma is the leading cause of death for young people in Norway. Studies indicate that several of these deaths are avoidable if the patient receives correct initial treatment. The trauma team is responsible for initial hospital treatment of traumatized patients, and team members have previously reported that non-technical skills as communication, leadership and cooperation are the ma...

Diversity, Inclusive Leadership, and Health Outcomes

In this time of polarization and divisiveness across increasingly diverse communities, health policy and management research offers an important insight: engaging diversity meaningfully through inclusive leadership—that embraces staff across hierarchies and engages difference perspectives so that all healthcare workers of all kinds feel they can speak up and participate...

Leadership is a Learned Skill

"The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men." Leadership ability consists of learned skills that are developed throughout a leader's career. Of course, like most abilities, there are many factors in addition to learning that impact leadership competence, including one's personality traits and other inherited abilities. The scientific commu...

Correlation : Leadership Skill and Emotional Intelligence