Purpose The purpose of the present study is to examine relationship between spiritual leadership and employees' alienative commitment organization, both directly indirectly, via employee social capital. We also test role political skill as a boundary condition indirect leadership–alienative link. Design/methodology/approach Time-lagged data were collected from 491 employees in various manufactu...

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...

Chaplaincy Today • Volume 23 Number 2 • Autumn/Winter 2007 Medical practitioners and researchers continue to explore the association between spiritual/religious (SR) concerns and illness and medical care. Koenig et al. summarize over 1600 publications that describe this relationship. In a previous publication, we reported the statistically significant web of associations between the personal/pr...

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 aims to uncover the spiritual leadership of a Kyai in fostering religious moderation. The method used is descriptive qualitative with phenomenological approach primary and secondary data sources. Data collection techniques are observation, interviews, documentation. analysis consist collection, reduction, presentation, drawing conclusions. results showed that leadership, K.H. Abdul G...