Background: Effective leadership is regarded as an important factor in organizational success. This study aimed at performing a systematic review on leadership effectiveness among hospital managers.    Methods: A search was conducted in ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Web of Science, Ovid, and Scopus databases on the factors related to effectiveness of hospital managers’ leadership du...

Resum In the context of a Citizen Lab, this paper describes how a vanguard of activists, designers, scholars and participation practitioners were involved in a participatory prototyping process. As a result, they designed CoGovern an online participation tool whose focus is to incorporate citizen preferences in local policy making. CoGovern is aimed at supporting informed and transparent partic...

Title of Dissertation: IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP ON CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE GROUPS Steven Lawrence Johnson, Doctor of Philosophy in Information System Directed by: Associate Professor Samer Faraj, McGill University; Professor Hank Lucas, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies Online groups formed by volunteer members are increasingly recognized as sources of innovati...

Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through selfassessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leadersh...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among principals’ technological leadership, teachers’ technological literacy, and teaching effectiveness. The survey target population consists of 1,000 teachers randomly selected from Taiwanese elementary schools. The survey asked teachers to measure the effectiveness of principals’ technological leadership, teachers’ technological ...

Initiating and sustaining sufficient levels of participation among residents in low-income and urban neighborhoods have become significant focuses of many initiatives that strive to develop healthy communities. This study examines the factors associated with citizen participation levels in resident leaders and followers in seven low-income neighborhoods in one community. Overall, the findings s...

Based on an analysis of several municipal e-participation experiences, and of the virtual environments used in these, this article covers key aspects to be considered when designing an electronic Internet-based system for participation at the municipal level, whose aim would be to enhance communication between public officials and citizens while streamlining municipal civic participation and co...

Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

The use of Information Technologies in government (or e-government) has evolved during the last few years to make the interactions between government and citizens (G2C), government and businesses (G2B), and inter-agency relationships (G2G) more effective, democratic and transparent [1,6,8]. Moreover, in the most recent years we have observed two important trends with an impact in all these inte...