Purpose: determine the relationship of pedagogical leadership and educational management considering a primary level institution. Theoretical framework: The literature has reported good findings on independently from management, which is one reasons why it was decided to investigate both categories. Design/methodology/approach: Under an exploratory basic study, with qualitative, relational appr...

with the entry of god and spirituality into areas of organization and management, as the challenge of the twenty-first century, managers and leaders of organizations, especially educational institutions must deal with new phenomena. therefore the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between spirituality leadership and organizational entrepreneurship from view point o...

In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further develop the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social responsibility (CS...

Aim  This study explores nurses' ethical decision-making in team simulations in order to identify the benefits of these simulations for authentic leadership. Background  While previous studies have indicated that team simulations may improve ethics in the workplace by reducing the number of errors, those studies focused mainly on clinical aspects and not on nurses' ethical experiences or on the...

BACKGROUND High levels of stress and the challenges of meeting the complex needs of critically ill children and their families can threaten job satisfaction and cause turnover in nurses. OBJECTIVE To explore the influences of nurses' attributes, unit characteristics, and elements of the work environment on the job satisfaction of nurses in pediatric critical care units and to determine stress...

It is impossible to ignore the focus in the past few years on clinical leadership both in the pro­ fessional literature and in government papers, most notably the landmark Darzi Report, also known as the NHS Next Stage Review (Darzi 2008). Lord Darzi’s report set the scene in terms of high­ lighting the importance of involving clinicians in leadership roles, which in subsequent years has been d...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

This commentary essay discusses the findings of a study involving direct care workers of children in residential care and their perspectives regarding aspects of leadership in their institutions, in order to identify key implications for practice. The article is based on a large study conducted in Israel that examined perspectives from children, residential care workers and directors on various...