Different forms of destructive leadership are prevalent in organizations, but rarely studied together. Additionally, most studies take an individual-level view on the consequences leadership. However, while supervisors lead teams, it remains unclear how behaviours affect team processes and outcomes from a multilevel perspective. Building this premise, we analysed relationship abusive supervisio...

Is economics a science or a theology? Nelson sensibly argues that economists are a priestly class; they issue authoritative (scientific) blessings upon the marketplace. The bishops of this class are the mathematicians, who convert ideology into “science”. This essay, in contrast, argues that mathematics has more to do with internal competition between economists than with politics or religion. ...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Crises like COVID-19 affect organizations as well employees' well-being. Leaders, in this sense, have a critical role to play reducing the challenges and promoting healthy workplace. With employees feeling overwhelmed anxious cope, leaders should provide appropriate support guidance. This quantitative study examined relationship between different leadership...

Some trades based on differences in beliefs might cause more harm than good. Should they be restricted? If yes, how? We propose three limits on regulation aimed at protecting beneficial trades: Unanimity – the regulator should not object to trades with identical beliefs; Autarky – if the regulator does not object to two unrelated trades, both with identical beliefs, then it should not object to...

This paper examines the factors that have enabled the Healthy Cities Noarlunga (HCN) initiative to be sustainable over 18 years (1987-2005). Sustainability related to the ability of the initiative to continue to operate continuously in a manner that indicated its existence was accorded value by the community and local service providers. The analysis is based on a narrative review of 29 document...

Leadership has always been an area of interest since time immemorial. Nevertheless, scientific theories regarding leadership started to appear only from the beginning of the 20th century. Modern theories of leadership such as strategic leadership theory emerged as early as the 1980s when outdated theories of behavioral contingency were questioned, resulting in the beginning of a shift in focus ...

BACKGROUND A number of program-level and counselor-level factors are known to impact the adoption of treatment innovations. While program leadership is considered a primary factor, the importance of leadership among clinical staff to innovation transfer is less known. Objectives included explore (1) the influence of two leadership roles, program director and individual counselor, on recent trai...

Following the widespread use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), focus is turning towards identification of causal variants rather than simply genetic markers of diseases and traits. As a step towards a high-throughput method to identify genome-wide, non-coding, functional regulatory variants, we describe the technique of allele-specific FAIRE, utilising large-scale genotyping technology...

Because of an increasingly competitive environment managers independent hotels need to enhance organizational effectiveness. Therefore, it is crucial understand what factors affect To help achieve this, our study tests if transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership-styles, could indirectly influence effectiveness through market adhocracy culture. Iran was chosen because a devel...