A fundamental part of self-awareness is understanding your disposition, or how you tend to perceive the world, behave, and respond to others. Personality: Personality is an important aspect of disposition. It forms from birth through young adulthood and represents tendencies that are not easily changed. Given that, knowing how your personality traits are similar to and different from those arou...

BACKGROUND Few new Residency Program Directors (PD) are formally trained for the demands and responsibilities of the leadership aspect of their role. Currently, there are no comprehensive frameworks that describe specific leadership competencies that can inform PD self-reflection or faculty development. METHODS The authors developed a Postgraduate Program Director Competency Inventory (PPDCI)...

Medical registrars have been described as the 'workhorses' of National Health Service hospitals, being at the interface of acute and chronic health services. They are expected to demonstrate effective leadership skills. There are concerns from the Royal College of Physicians that medical registrars are being overwhelmed and unsupported by organisations, and are struggling in their ability to pr...

A basic model of commitment is to convert a game in strategic form into a “leadership game” where one player commits to a strategy to which the other player chooses a best response, with payoffs as in the original game. This paper studies subgame perfect equilibria of such leadership games for the mixed extension of a finite game, where the leader commits to a mixed strategy. In a generic two-p...

This research investigated the link between ethical leadership and performance using data from the People’s Republic of China. Consistent with social exchange, social learning, and social identity theories, we examined leader–member exchange (LMX), self-efficacy, and organizational identification as mediators of the ethical leadership to performance relationship. Results from 72 supervisors and...

The effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on L2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, Iran. This study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their L2 reading and L2 writing achievement. It also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...

in this article, i rely on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but achieved unexpected and exceptional levels of success. Carefully examining these organizations has helped uncover some unusual leadership strategies that can serve as guidelines to leaders facing tying times. these unusual strategies supplement the oft-prescribed leade...

BACKGROUND The concept of leadership has been studied in various disciplines and from different theoretical approaches. It is a dynamic concept that evolves over time. There are few studies in our field on managers' self-perception of their leadership style. There are no pure styles, but one or another style is generally favoured to a greater or lesser degree. In the primary health care (PHC) s...