In response to rapid change and fierce competition, creativity is an imperative factor to develop and implement innovation. Hence, most firms have pursued diverse strategies to promote individual and team creativity in the workplace. Shared leadership is a voluntarily, informally emergent structure beyond vertical leadership. A team is composed of individual members, and shared leadership and d...

BACKGROUND The moral hazards and poor public image of the insurance industry, arising from insurance agents' unethical behavior, affect both the normal operation of an insurance company and decrease applicants' confidence in the company. Contrarily, these scandals may demonstrate that the organizations were "bad barrels" in which insurance agents' unethical decisions were supported or encourage...

This research sought to examine the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement among school principals and teachers. The study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all school principals and teachers in Aleshtar (located in Lorestan Province) in school year 2016-17 from ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE. Lithuanian and international public health experts emphasize the importance of leadership in public health. The aim of this study was to explore the self-assessed level of leadership competencies of executives in Lithuanian public health institutions. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Data were collected in a cross-sectional survey of executives of Lithuanian public health institu...

Paternalistic Leadership is generally used to humanize and moralize the workplace. It is argued that paternalistic leadership plays an important role in organizational citizenship behaviour and organization commitment. It is very important for employees to be motivated not only to increase in-role performance but also to engage in citizenship behaviours that are important to the wellbeing of th...

The highly technological environment of 21st-century schools has significantly redefined the role of school librarians by presenting the opportunity to assume leadership through technology integration. Despite the abundance of literature that has suggested the need for and the importance of school librarians to be a proactive leaders in technology integration, this role is one that has been ign...

Leadership depends on the situation. Few social scientists would dispute the validity of this statement. But the statement can be interpreted in many different ways, depending, at least in part, on what one means by leadership. This article begins with a definition of leadership and a brief description of 3 historically important theories of leadership. The most recent of these, contingency the...

The purpose of evaluation is to create greater understanding of a program or activity by documenting resultant improvements. The Ministry Leadership Center uses theoretical models to guide data collection and analyses, measures individual formation outcomes at both the end of each session and at the end of the program, and assesses system-level formation outcomes with pilot studies. In addition...

NIST TO PLAY LEADERSHIP ROLE IN ILAC A NIST representative was unanimously elected vicechair of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation at the 14th meeting of ILAC in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, recently. As a result, the NIST representative becomes the chair-elect and will assume that position when the group meets in Australia in 1998. ILAC was established in 1977 as the Interna...

BACKGROUND Despite our progress in understanding the organizational context for implementation and specifically the role of leadership in implementation, its role in sustainment has received little attention. This paper took a mixed-method approach to examine leadership during the sustainment phase of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework. Utilizing the Impl...