Abstract The author, the former President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Ford Motor Company, recounts his long friendship collaboration with Frances Hesselbein. Like so many others, he initially met her through pioneering executive coach Marshall Goldsmith. “Over these decades,” author writes, “before since I met, my life’s work, love service, has been developing, implementing, sharing ...

Dr. Burkoski is the vice president and chief nursing executive for quality, patient safety and professional scholarly practice at London Health Sciences Centre. Previously, she was Ontario’s longest-serving provincial chief nursing officer. In this role, she provided strategic policy advice to the Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care. She is responsible for conceptualizing and facilitating the ...

Monarch HealthCare, a physician-led independent practice association in Orange County, Calif., is one of the provider groups participating in the Brookings– Dartmouth ACO Pilot Program to form accountable care organizations, which assume responsibility for improving patient care and lowering total costs and, in turn, share in the savings achieved. This case study explores the characteristics of...

This special issue introduces new cross-disciplinary, cross-level, and cross-cultural perspectives on job design. The authors examine job design from the viewpoints of organizational behavior, sociology, economics, corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary psychology. They consider job design in the context of interpersonal interactions, teams, leadership, networks, occupations, or...

As part of our interview editorial series, we bring forth a discussion with Dr. Glenn M. Hymel, the Founding Executive Editor of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Dr. Hymel embodies the qualities set forth for the American Massage Therapy Association Dianne Polseno Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received in 2017. He has provided leadership and shown outstandin...

The effects of personality traits, motives, and leadership identity claims on the attainment of status in informal, social organizations were assessed in several organizations using multiple indices of status. The power motive Hope for Power was predictive of holding executive offices. Extraversion and Conscientiousness predicted peer-ratings of social influence. Extraversion, Emotional Stabili...

In a large sample of Swiss local party sections, it is found that the extensity of Email usage correlates with patterns of intraparty influence distribution. On the one hand, executive boards exert more power when they rely internally on electronic communication; on the other hand, vertical email traffic (between leadership and ordinary members).promotes small power shifts in favor of the party...

Many of the documents in this series are prepublication/preprint articles, which may subsequently appear (part or whole) in peer reviewed journals and books. In most cases they are draft documents, the purpose of which is to foster discussion and debate, prior to publication elsewhere, whilst ideas are still fresh. Further information about the research programme and other papers in this series...