This study focuses on teamwork in Finnish working life. Through a wide cross-section of teams the study examines the causes to which team members attribute the outcomes of their teams. Qualitative data was collected from 314 respondents. They wrote 616 stories to describe memorable experiences of success and failure in teamwork. The stories revealed 1930 explanations. The findings indicate that...

The book looks at concepts, models and theories of management, leadership and team-working and their applicability within an integrated care approach to health and social care delivery. It considers the legal and policy landscape of integrated care and the limit of its reach in changing practice on the ground; leadership styles, their applicability, use and effect; personality traits, features ...

Although studies targeting CIO’s leadership characteristics are numerous, studies examining CIOs’ leadership styles are scarce. Today’s CIOs are often members of the firm’s C-level executive team with a wide range of leadership capabilities and characteristics that are not much different from those of the CEOs. What, then, are the characteristics and leadership styles for those CIOs? This liter...

A In today’s more challenging environment, dentists are realizing that their leadership skills— or lack thereof—can have a profound effect on practice success. Learning how to lead a practice team more effectively deserves to be an educational priority throughout every dentist’s career. It is vital to a practice’s health as a business, and methodologies evolve constantly. However, there are cer...

Leadership is a key challenge of virtual teams. A particular leadership style, namely inspirational leadership, which is a sub-category of transformational leadership, has been found to be especially suited for the study of highly diverse teams. Virtual team leaders increasingly have to manage global virtual teams that contain members from different cultural backgrounds and value orientations. ...