Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election brought to power Latin America’s largest leftist party, the Workers’Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores [PT]). The PT won because it moved to the center, and voters regarded this shift as credible. The party’s transformation is puzzling, because political scientists do not expect strategic flexibility in “mass bureaucratic”...

Health services focus on quality of care to achieve high levels productivity. Good can’t be separated from the actions leader in managing health service management. Strategies are needed by leaders create good all aspects. Strategic leadership directs influence their members common goals. The purpose strategy is understand how can performance achieving organizational goals effectively. Effectiv...

This column is a new addition to The Journal of Oncology Management. It is the first in a series addressing the strategic planning process. At the invitation of the editorial leadership, the column will present practical approaches about the many different elements of strategic planning to assist cancer program and oncology practice administrators in their professional and business development.

"~| ong-term care providers arc often L I reluctant to get involved in strategic planning because they tear that errors faa««ffi in such plans could lead to die facility's ruin. However, strategic planning experts at the recent annual mee t ing of the American Association of Homes for the Aging urged longterm care providers to aggressively pursue such plans for their facilities. To begin establ...

The personal leadership of the perioperative director is a critical factor in the success of any change management initiative. This article presents an approach to perioperative nursing leadership that addresses obstacles that prevent surgical departments from achieving high performance in clinical and financial outcomes. This leadership approach consists of specific insights, priorities, and t...

The survival of the firms depends on the adoption of techniques and methods for encouraging learning among people. On other hand, it is necessary to have an attitude for interaction and endeavour in order for the learning to be built and conserved. Therefore, committed people in organizations have always been emphasized as a driving force of the extension and creation of learning. The aim of th...

Considering the context of Fourth Industrial Revolution, higher education must play a significant role in social-investment model economic growth. To what extent supports strategic academic leadership and high-tech development is still being determined. The article proposes direct actions for improving university management through educational technological functions. We establish specific dire...

Currently, a dyadic and hierarchical vision dominates in the literature on leadership as it does in the public sector (Gronn, 2002; Hiller and Vance, 2006). The transactional and transformational perspectives present leaders in relation with their subordinates or their supporters. Yet, that is a truncated vision of the reality because it disregards the situation and the other leaders present (G...