the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to determine the extent to which the role of leadership style preferences correlate with employee satisfaction with supervision among employees and leaders of an iranian oil company. this study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. the styles studied ...

This article addresses the potential role of business leadership in diverse efforts to reform health care financing: exploring managers efforts to alter health care markets in their role as large purchasers of health insurance, their potential contributions to future national policy proposals, and their involvement with community-level activities to control local health costs and quality. I arg...

Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, for the past 20 years, Taiwan has been riding on the global wave of democratization. In place of single-party dominance by the Kuomintang (KMT) over 50 years, a genuine system of party politics and contested elections gradually took root, with the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) victory in the 2000 presidential election as the climax. Past scholars...

transcendental leadership is a new paradigm in management and leadership that is the best way to deal with today dynamic, changing and turbulent environments. transcendent leaders make the ethical foundation of organizations and have strategic leads. these leaders look at the organizations as a whole that lead others, themselves and the organization. a transcendental leader is a strategic leade...

This study examined the effect of civil servants’ Self-Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR) and network literacy on their online learning effectiveness in a web-based training program. Participants were 283 civil servants enrolled in an asynchronous online learning program through an e-learning portal provided by the Regional Civil Service Development Institute in Taiwan. Data were collected via ...

But still, few enterprises succeed in maintaining a sustainable continuous improvement process (CIP). In many LPS, solely methods and tools are in focus of the implementation. But they merely represent the superficial elements of LPS. The actual key success factor is the involvement of employees in daily improvement. This can be achieved through a different way of leadership, the lean leadershi...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Clinical leadership and organizational culture are important contextual factors for quality improvement (QI) but the relationship between these and with organizational change is complex and poorly understood. We aimed to explore the relationship between clinical leadership, culture of innovation and clinical engagement in QI within a national ambulance QI Collabor...