Successful navigation through the accreditation process developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) requires strong and effective leadership. Situational leadership, a contingency theory of leadership, frequently taught in the public health classroom, has utility for leading a public health agency through this process. As a public health agency pursues accreditation, staff members...

BACKGROUND Leadership competences play an important role for the success of effective leadership. The purpose of this study was to examine leadership competences of managers in the healthcare sector in Slovenia. METHODS Data were collected in 2008. The research included 265 employees in healthcare and 267 business managers. Respondents assessed their level of 16 leadership relevant competence...

Purpose: To contribute to the growing body of research on leadership in physiotherapy by comparing leadership-related perceptions of physiotherapists in Ireland and in Canada. Methods: This article compares the results of a survey of Canadian physiotherapists with those of the same survey administered to Irish physiotherapists. The results of both studies have previously been reported and are u...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. Leadership is originally the source of the beliefs and values which forms shared assumptions of organisational culture. This paper builds on the leadership li...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the didactic and social leadership in parent education groups based on a parent perspective, and to conceptualise parent experiences of the leader roles in these groups. BACKGROUND Leadership in parent education groups has been associated with a lack of confidence in one's ability to function in that role. Research on how it can be delivered to produce a fav...

The Courage to Lead through Values: How Management by Values Supports Transformational Leadership, Culture, and Success is about being fearless implementing the values in changing or sustaining organization its people. leadership shown as an influential factor individual’s ability deal with different circumstances where leaders courageously provide support maintain employee confidence level. Th...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the weight values of key factors in a manager’s leadership skills that affect job performance in the listed IC Design Houses in Taiwan. The research subjects are three of the typically listed IC design houses in Taiwan. This paper adopts Analytic Network Process (ANP) to analyze the relevance of each criterion, and to identify the important factors of ea...

Transformational and transactional leadership have been associated with numerous positive safety outcomes, such as improved safety climate, increased safety behaviors, and decreased accidents and injuries. However, leadership is a complex, multidimensional construct, and there is reason to suspect that different facets of leadership may affect safety in different ways and for different reasons....

Traditional models have divided the increasingly popular domain of leadership into contrasting, either/or categories. The vast majority of examples from the leadership literature create dichotomies of leadership (e.g., Theory X vs. Theory Y; task vs. socioemotional; participative vs. autocratic; transactional vs. transformational). There has been little effort to combine the existing dichotomie...

Personality and Leadership One of the original and enduring theories of leadership is trait theory. This approach emphasizes attributes of leaders such as personality, motives, values, and skills. The assumption underlying this approach is that some people are natural leaders who are endowed with certain traits not possessed by other people (Yukl, 2002). Although considerable research has focus...