Responding to Ruth McDonald’s editorial on the rise of leadership and leadership development programmes in healthcare, this paper offers three arguments. Firstly, care is needed in evaluating impact of leadership development, since achievement of organisational goals is not necessarily an appropriate measure of good leadership. Secondly, the proliferation of styles of leadership might be unders...

Nurses require greater autonomy and participation in decision making, nurse participation in decision making in an organization varies depending on many factors, including the influence of nurse manager leadership and collaboration with physicians. Aim. The aim of the current study was to assess dominant leadership styles , level of decision making autonomy among critical care nurses and relati...

This study aims to determine how emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and leadership styles affect well Pakistani psychologists do their jobs. In order this, a sample of 210 was polled about various styles, including authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), the Self-Confidence Scale (SCS), Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) ...

Abstract Numerous empirical studies have examined predictors of emotional exhaustion. In this vein, both positive and negative leadership styles have been associated with this outcome. Yet, little is known about the role of Machiavellian leadership in fostering employees’ emotional exhaustion. As such, we investigated the relationship between Machiavellian leadership and emotional exhaustion. E...

Liderlik geçmişten bu yana varlığını sürdüren bir kavram olarak birçok araştırmaya konu olmuştur. Tarih büyük liderlerin izleri/yaptıklarıyla kaydedilmiş ve önemli bilgileri günümüze gelmiştir. Liderlikle ilgili bilimsel araştırmaların yapılması yönetim bilimi alanında yapılan araştırmalara paralel 20. yüzyılın başlarına dayanmaktadır. Tarihsel süreçte liderlik teorileri “Büyük Adam Teorisi, Öz...

introduction: there must be a dynamic relation between leadership and people's knowledge. this relationship takes place through motivation and encouraging people attitude for acquiring knowledge. the purpose of this article was to study relation between knowledge management and chairperson's leadership styles at isfahan university medical sciences from faculty point of views. methods: research ...

The authors study the association between physician leadership styles and leadership effectiveness. Executive directors of community health centers were surveyed (269 respondents; response rate = 40.9 percent) for their perceptions of the medical director's leadership behaviors and effectiveness, using an adapted Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (43 items on a 0-4 point Likert-type scale), ...

BACKGROUND Effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. Although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors whi...

It is for this reason that ‘leadership’ has generated an enormous amount of interest among researchers and practitioners. A vast literature on school leadership and leadership theory exists (see Hallinger and Heck, 1996). Yet, despite a substantial research base, a singular, overarching theory of leadership has proved to be elusive. While researchers in many countries continue to produce a stea...