This paper uses a qualitative case study method, describing the process Bloomington Public Schools District utilized in its attempt to desegregate the elementary schools within its district, in order to explore the intersection of education reform, democratic theory, integrative leadership theory, and inclusive management theory at a deep level as well as to provide practitioners with clues on ...

When group cohesion is essential, groups must have efficient strategies in place for consensus decision-making. Recent theoretical work suggests that shared decision-making is often the most efficient way for dealing with both information uncertainty and individual variation in preferences. However, some animal and most human groups make collective decisions through particular individuals, lead...

BACKGROUND In a participatory approach to health and development interventions, defining and measuring community mobilisation is important, but it is challenging to do this effectively, especially at scale. METHODS A cross-sectional, participatory monitoring tool was administered in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 across a representative sample of 25 community-based groups (CBGs) formed under the Ava...

The Central African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (CAFELTP) is a 2-year public health leadership capacity building training program. It was established in October 2010 to enhance capacity for applied epidemiology and public health laboratory services in three countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aim of the program is to de...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the process of setting up community-based organisations (CBOs) of sex workers during the 5-year community mobilisation initiative of the Swagati project, an HIV prevention programme in nine coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. METHOD The Swagati project facilitated the formation of 11 CBOs through partnerships with local non-governmental organisations and meeti...

Sex Differences in Managerial Style: From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships This paper deals with sex differences in managerial behaviour, by testing the extent to which such differences match those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence fr...

Previous research has shown that good looks, particularly being deemed attractive or competent-looking, can provide an electoral advantage. There is also evidence to support the notion that more dominant looks are associated with military success. To date, there has been little research into the effect of looks on political leadership success in a non-democratic setting. This project explores t...

Th e past two decades have seen a proliferation of largeand small-scale experiments in participatory governance. Th is article takes stock of claims about the potential of citizen participation to advance three values of democratic governance: eff ectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice. Increasing constraints on the public sector in many societies, combined with increasing demand for indivi...

Nursing services are a sub-system in health hospitals, of course they have an interest maintaining service quality, moreover, nursing often used as benchmark for the image hospital so that it demands professionalism implementing nurses and managing nurses. Optimal contribution realizing quality is carried out through leadership style head room. The by room will close impact on nurse's performan...

Leadership style practiced by the school headmasters is a key issue in managing performance schools. This study was to establish assessment of relationship between headmasters’ leadership styles and secondary teachers’ schools Makindye division. The hypothesis tested, that; there no significant division used both qualitative quantitative approaches with descriptive correlation research designs....