A In today’s more challenging environment, dentists are realizing that their leadership skills— or lack thereof—can have a profound effect on practice success. Learning how to lead a practice team more effectively deserves to be an educational priority throughout every dentist’s career. It is vital to a practice’s health as a business, and methodologies evolve constantly. However, there are cer...

As health care organizations face pressures to improve quality and efficiency while reducing costs, leaders are adopting management techniques and tools used in manufacturing and other industries, especially Lean. Successful Lean leaders appear to use a coaching leadership style that shares underlying principles with servant leadership. There is little information about specific similarities an...

OBJECTIVE To determine the organizational predictors of higher scores on team climate measures as an indicator of the functioning of a family health team (FHT). DESIGN Cross-sectional study using a mailed survey. SETTING Family health teams in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one of 144 consecutively approached FHTs; 628 team members were surveyed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Scores on the team c...

The Review 'No amount of competencies, skills, authority, or inspiration will make leadership good if it leads us off a cliff. A moral compass is essential ...' 'Doctors and leadership: oil and water?' asked Richard Smith, before he became editor of the BMJ. 'Doctors have problems with leadership, both leading and being led,' he pointed out, quoting Leadership Professor Warren Bennis: 'leading ...

The perioperative surgical home (PSH) model has been created with the intention to reduce costs and to improve efficiency of care and patient experience in the perioperative period. The PSH is a comprehensive model of care that is team-based and patient-centric. The team in each facility should be multidisciplinary and include the input of perioperative services leadership, surgical services, a...

1.1 Introduction This report outlines the findings from an educational evaluation that comprehensively measured the impact that masters' degrees in healthcare management, leadership & management development and quality and safety in healthcare management had on graduates who completed the programmes at the Institute of Leadership, Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland. The results present...

Background: Effective leadership is a vital component of health care systems and has an extensive range of functions in improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency. This study aimed at exploring leadership challenges encountered by leaders in Iranian hospitals.    Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on a purposeful sample of 27 members of hospital management team ...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between leaders' communication styles and charismatic leadership, human-oriented leadership (leader's consideration), task-oriented leadership (leader's initiating structure), and leadership outcomes. METHODOLOGY: A survey was conducted among 279 employees of a governmental organization. The following six main communication sty...

The information systems literatur calls for two major shifts in IS management: from DP leadership to line management leadership and from a task-oriented approach to a processoriented approach. Despite the widespread interest in these matters, few empirical studies have dealt with these issues. This paper reports on two exploratory studies which set out to examine use and management of IS in sel...