Despite good intentions and occasional interventions by leaders in higher education, women are still underrepresented in academic leadership positions, both absolutely and relative to the eligible pool of tenured women. This finding has been documented extensively in the literature on academic leadership, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and by many academic institutions that have und...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare leaders need operational strategies that support organizational learning for continued improvement and value generation. The learning health system (LHS) model may provide leaders with such strategies; however, little is known about leaders' perspectives on the value and application of system-wide operationalization of the LHS model. The objective of this project was to ...

Advances in molecular biology have increased our knowledge of the biology of preneoplastic lesions in the human lung. The recently published WHO lung tumour classification defines three separate lesions that are regarded as preinvasive neoplasia. These are (1) squamous dysplasia and carcinoma in situ (SD/CIS), (2) atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), and (3) diVuse idiopathic pulmonary neuro...

Youth Leaders. Obtainable from Education committee, Margaret Street, BirminghamPrice Is. This booklet, prepared by the Birmingham Youth Committee, for Club organizers contains sections not only on such subjects as " Physical Recreation " Cultural Activities " and " Health in the Club ", but also on "The Psychological Background", "The Principles of Self-Government in Youth Clubs ", " The Develo...

The ability of a society to make the right decisions on relevant matters relies on its capability to properly aggregate the noisy information spread across the individuals of which it is made. In this paper, we study the information aggregation performance of a stylized model of a society, whose most influential individuals—the leaders—are highly connected among themselves and uninformed. Agent...

A group may be badly affected if its leader transgresses important rules. Nonetheless, an emerging body of evidence suggests that in intergroup contexts, group members apply a double standard when judging ingroup leaders - They respond less punitively to transgressions by their leader than by non-leaders. In this article, two experiments investigated how proportionate ingroup size affects react...

Word of mouth (WOM) affects the buying behavior of information receivers stronger than advertisements. Opinion leaders further affect others in a specific domain through their new information, ideas and opinions. Identification of opinion leaders has become one of the most important tasks in the field of WOM mining. Existing work to find opinion leaders is based mainly on quantitative approache...

As leaders ascend to more powerful positions in their groups, they face ever-increasing demands. As a result, there is a common perception that leaders have higher stress levels than nonleaders. However, if leaders also experience a heightened sense of control--a psychological factor known to have powerful stress-buffering effects--leadership should be associated with reduced stress levels. Usi...

Handling Editor: Stephanie Castro In this study, we develop and examine a model of leaders' impression management during organizational decline by elaborating on the roles of publicity, image concerns, and incentive compensation. We propose that the publicity of decline is an important antecedent of leaders' impression management during decline. We also examine how leaders' image concerns media...

Using collaborative inquiry as a methodology for investigation, this study examined the implementation of model generative leadership (Adams et al., 2019) to explore question: In what ways can professional learning school leaders influence their sense efficacy? An adapted was adopted by seven in Alberta, Canada over period three years. Data collected at end each year through journal reflections...