This study aims to explain the creativity climate as a mediating variable on relationship of empowering leadership with management innovation and innovative behavior in hospitality industry. The expected finding is that there positive effect mediation climate. Researchers hope this conceptual model provides organizations an understanding planned changes organizational environment innovation. ar...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

A year-long Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI) for emerging leaders in primary care clinics and acute care environments was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The NLI's goal was to foster empowerment in interprofessional collaborative practice environments for nurses in the three cohorts of NLIs. The NLI was framed around the Five Leadership Practices of modeling the way, inspiring a shared v...

The Neolithic was marked by a transition from small and relatively egalitarian groups to much larger groups with increased stratification. But, the dynamics of this remain poorly understood. It is hard to see how despotism can arise without coercion, yet coercion could not easily have occurred in an egalitarian setting. Using a quantitative model of evolution in a patch-structured population, w...

There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving 'leadership'. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

This study seeks to assess the policies of empowering Egyptian women in decision-making positions as well identifying challenges that limit chances taking over leadership positions. Additionally, a number secondary goals were investigated such as; defining concept empowerment and with focus on their types dimensions, characteristics skills leaders, understanding aspects monitoring evaluating ex...

California Youth Connection (CYC) is the state's only non-profi t youth advocacy and leadership organization dedicated to giving current and former foster youth the skills necessary to engage directly with policymakers to improve the foster care system. Formed out of the fundamental belief that policymakers can benefi t from the input of those who have experienced fi rst-hand the impact of chil...

Change and Integration An ELL Binder A Resource for the Mainstream Classroom Teacher 2 Mexican Immigrant Women: Identity, Body Image, and the Images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and 2 La Malinche Immigrant Gateways: An Empirical Examination of Primary and Secondary Destinations 2 Who am I?: An Autoethnographic Analysis of the Negotiation of Mexican American Identity 3 A Qualitative Exploration of...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test a multilevel model linking unit-level leader-member exchange quality and structural empowerment to nurses' psychological empowerment and organizational commitment at the individual level of analysis. BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the contextual effects of unit leadership on individual nurse outcomes. Workplace empowerment has been related to ...