Writing matters in leadership practice

Primary school leadership practice: how the subject matters

Teaching is a critical consideration in investigations of primary school leadership and not just as an outcome variable. Factoring in instruction as an explanatory variable in scholarship on school leadership involves moving away from views of teaching as a monolithic or unitary practice. When it comes to leadership in primary schools, the subject matters. More sophisticated constructions of te...

Leadership (re)constructed: How Lens Matters

Crisis Leadership and Why It Matters

60 December January 2011 threatening H1N1 pandemic. Add to this list the run-of-the-mill business crisis such as a product recall (e.g., Toyota), labor strikes, and class action lawsuits (e.g., Wal-Mart), as well as new crises sparked by the proliferation of social media and you may begin to wonder whether crises, generally defined as rare and extreme high-impact events, have become the new nor...

Transformational leadership in nursing practice.

Traditionally, nurses have been over-managed and led inadequately, yet today they face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Organisations constantly face changes that require an increasingly adaptive and flexible leadership. This type of adaptive leadership is referred to as 'transformational'; under it, environments of shared responsibilities that influence new ways of knowing are creat...

Combining Genres: How Practice Matters

The notion of a genre system typically connotes sequences of interrelated communicative genres. This paper suggests that we can find other types of relationships among genres. Data from a field study in a large emergency room illustrates how doctors, nurses, and clerical staff routinely combine document genres not only in sequences, but also in accumulations achieved by proximity or through mov...