BACKGROUND Patients undergoing radiotherapy may experience changes to the skin that require dressings. Recommendations regarding radiating through wound dressings have been variable and relate to the concern regarding surface dose increase or bolus effect. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this article is to identify current evidence and practice through literature review and a national environmental...

In the present set of studies, the authors examine the idea that self-sacrificial leadership motivates follower prosocial behavior, particularly among followers with a prevention focus. Drawing on the self-sacrificial leadership literature and regulatory focus theory, the authors provide results from 4 studies (1 laboratory and 3 field studies) that support the research hypothesis. Specifically...

Leaders do not operate in social vacuums, but are imbedded in a web of interpersonal relationships with their teammates and coach. The present manuscript is the first to use social network analysis to provide more insight in the leadership structure within sports teams. Two studies were conducted, including respectively 25 teams (N = 308; Mage = 24.9 years old) and 21 teams (N = 267; Mage = 24....

the aim of this research was to explain the difference in the dimensions of learning organization between federations of team and individual sports. this research was a comparative survey. the statistical population consisted of 795 fulltime employees of iran sport federations. out of 212 returned questionnaires, 158 questioners were from individual sport federations and 54 from team sport fede...

In this article we discuss code or resuscitation team organization. The goals of this article are to define the questions surrounding code team organization and structure, discuss how organization can make a difference, review resuscitation systems and processes, and discuss aspects of team structure and performance. Issues of team performance include teamwork, leadership, communication and saf...

This article reviews the empirical literature on personality, leadership, and organizational effectiveness to make 3 major points. First, leadership is a real and vastly consequential phenomenon, perhaps the single most important issue in the human sciences. Second, leadership is about the performance of teams, groups, and organizations. Good leadership promotes effective team and group perform...

Globalization is adding more dimensions to software effort estimation process. The notions of leadership and culture carry with them highly variable assumptions, and thus, must be explicitly modeled. A new model that incorporates leadership and culture is proposed, elaborated and validated. A survey was undertaken to determine the impact of culture and its effect on the software development pro...

Safety leadership, defined as “the process of defining the desired state, setting up the team to succeed, and engaging in the discretionary efforts that drive the safety value” (Cooper, 2010a) is widely recognized to be critical (HSE, 2001), especially when the prevailing safety culture is weak (Martínez-Córcoles, Gracia, Ines, et al., 2011). A company’s safety culture is driven by the executiv...

Background and purpose: The movement of spiritual leadership is a special kind of service-centered leadership which looks forward to progress and staff control. Job involvement also emphasizes timely attendance of staff, feeling successful at work, and sense of optimism and success about the future of the organization. Therefore, this study investigated the relation between spiritual leadership...

BACKGROUND The importance of transformational leadership for the health and well-being of staff in the healthcare sector is increasingly acknowledged, however, there is less knowledge about the mechanisms that may explain the links between transformational leaders and employee health and well-being. OBJECTIVES To examine two possible psychological mechanisms that link transformational leaders...