Effective educational leadership can make a difference in the resolution of complex issues that impact today’s demand-driven educational marketplace. The ongoing professional and skill development needs of human health resources may be best managed through distributed strategic leadership blended with servant leadership. Together these two approaches may offer the critical bridge for effective ...

Companies recognize the need for effective leadership. The 2008 IBM Global Human Capital Study cited lack of leadership capacity among the most significant workforce-related issues facing organizations. Indeed, 75% of the firms in their study reported building leadership talent as the most significant challenge facing organizations today. These findings are not unique. The 2009 annual Corporate...

OBJECTIVES The Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report advocates for full nurse leader representation across multiple settings to address current challenges in our health care system. The purpose of this study was to examine nursing leadership development needs among Kansas registered nurses (RNs). METHODS Data were collected through an online survey and analyzed using quantitative a...

The professional Electronic Leadership Portfolio (ELP) is an effective method for the promotion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the educational arena, both as a model for aspiring leaders and as a model for the necessary development of skills in teachers. Furthermore, the ELP provides a framework for future measurement of leadership skills and development as well as providi...

Conflict and leadership are both individually well-studied elements of group development. In this paper we seek to understand how leadership and conflict coexist within a team’s development and what the temporal context is within which they emerge for higherversus lower-performing teams. In order to investigate this question we collected survey data, message postings and performance scores for ...

Introduction: The increased emphasis on standards-based schoolaccountability since the passage of the no child left behind act of2001 is focusing critical attention on the professional developmentof school principals and their ability to meet the challenges ofimproving the student outcomes. Due to this subject, the currentstudy examined professional development needs of Shiraz highschools princ...