Drawing on the existing research green leadership, this paper first examines concept and structure of executive leadership develops a preliminary scale to measure leadership. The confirmatory factor analysis is adopted verify revise scale. results show that person are two main structures developed in good reliability validity. After data analysis, then explores antecedents factors such as corpo...

The goal of this chapter is to qualitatively investigate the managerial unlearning process during promotionPromotion from senior managerSenior manager executive officerExecutive officer, based on upper echelons perspectiveUpper perspective and leadership pipeline modelLeadership model, using interview data 46 officersExecutive officer.

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

Developments in network technology have enabled an increasing variety of interorganizational relationships. While the interorganizational systems (IOSs) that support electronic markets or customer/supplier relations have been discussed in the literature, those which support `symbiotic networks' ± those which form horizontal alliances to allow collaboration on the collective production of goods ...

South African municipalities experience serious challenges in dealing with the interface between politicians and officials. Inappropriate political interference in administrative matters as well as strained relations between key political and administrative officials in the municipalities appear to be the order of the day. Oftentimes, the lack of a separation of powers between legislative and e...

1. This paper draws on research we have carried out for the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Evaluation of New Council Constitutions and the New Ethical Framework. The arguments, inferences and conclusions in this paper are the authors' own and do not in any way reflect those of the Office. Abstract This article examines one of the most significant reforms of English local government, wh...

Given predictions of a looming shortfall in nursing human resources and the need for strong leaders to meet the challenges of sustaining and managing the healthcare of Canadians in the face of this crisis, a focus on leadership development becomes critical. Canada needs a new cohort of leaders in nursing and healthcare, as the current cohort is fast approaching retirement. Today’s cohort of nur...

Despite increases in the percentages of women medical school graduates and faculty over the past decade, women physicians and scientists remain underrepresented in academic medicine's highest-level executive positions, known as the "C-suite." The challenges of today and the future require novel approaches and solutions that depend on having diverse leaders. Such diversity has been widely shown ...

This symposium on executive and management development consists of three presentations. "The Role of the Chief Learning Officer: Implications for Human Resource Development (HRD) Theory and Practice" (Robin Lackey) reports findings that suggest a need for a clarification of the role of these leaders and have led to the identification of unresolved issues that fundamentally influence their capac...

In 2008, women comprised 46.5 percent of the U.S. labor force, and occupied nearly 51 percent of all managerial and professional jobs, yet women holding the titles of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), chief operating officer (COO), and executive vice-president (EVP) remained at about seven percent of the population of U.S. executives, according to the non-profit research group, Catalyst....