This program focused on practice-level service change as a means of improving patient care and developing leadership skills of 19 general practitioners (GPs) and aimed to: promote and support change in leadership thinking and practice, facilitate practice-led service improvement, support career development, support continuing professional development, and contribute to the development of extend...

Leadership has always attracted human beings. In this thesis we identify the traditional top-down single leadership as a powerful norm, influencing every leader. With this assumption in mind we have chosen to conduct a literature review where we examine the concept of shared leadership on two levels in order to evaluate the possibilities for the concept to become a new leadership norm. First, w...

In Canada, the nursing shortage is all encompassing, and nurse leaders are needed from the bedside to the boardroom. Healthcare organizations and the nursing profession lag behind the corporate sector in development of strategic leadership succession planning. Contemporary nurse leaders will require all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies their predecessors can provide. Effective ...

Although, transformational leadership is among the most thoroughly examined leadership theories, knowledge regarding its association with followers' career outcomes is still limited. Furthermore, the underlying mechanisms explaining how transformational leaders affect their employees' career success are yet not well-understood. Based on theoretical assumptions about the processes involved in se...

Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development very much up to their CEOs and human resources departments-primarily because they don't perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat that accounting blunders or missed earnings do. That's a shortsighted view, the authors argue. Companies whose boards and senior execut...

This study examines how leadership characteristics in new product development teams affect the learning, knowledge application, and subsequently the performance of these teams. Using data from a study of 229 members from 52 high-tech new product projects, we empirically demonstrate that team learning has a strong positive effect on the innovativeness and speed to market of the new products. Mor...

To encourage retention in nursing administration while building leadership capacity, efforts must be made to support the manager's practice and professional development. Functions and duties of the nurse manager need to be simplified and supplemental development materials need to be readily available. Innovations that organize necessary document templates and ease access to materials that enhan...

Purpose – Presents findings of the recent evaluation of the Leading Modern Public Libraries development programme with reference to the management versus leadership dynamic. The programme provided a strategic intervention to address a perceived weakness in leadership development within the public library sector in England. Drawing on recent examples from the literature, the theoretical differen...

Background: The project took place in a cancer service for teenagers and young adults (13-24 years) in the UK, as part of a large service change project. Chemotherapy that had traditionally been given in an inpatient setting was to be transformed into an ambulatory care model. Aim: The authors aimed to lead a change in practice whereby patients receiving chemotherapy would be taught to monitor ...

background: a new kind of leadership, called spiritual leadership, emphasizes on serving to others, general attitude toward work, personal development, and collaborative decision making. spiritual leadership has been developed based on the philosophy of servant leadership and includes staff participation and empowerment. this research aimed to survey the relationship between spiritual leadershi...