nder the prevalent model of leadership formation in Catholic health care — we would even say the default model — individual executives are chosen from a given health care organization and invited to participate with executives from their own system, or across systems, in a learning and development cohort. Sessions take place outside the executives’ usual environments, generally in a retreat-lik...

Expertise is essential in problem solving, particularly for executives. Much literature indicates that in solving daily problems, executives may employ both analytical thinking and intuition. To develop analytical thinking skills and effectively apply intuition, company executives require expertise. Therefore, the use of executive support systems (ESS) may differ substantially between experts

This paper is aimed at examining the level of job satisfaction among the executives serving in various organizations. For the purpose of conducting this study, a sample comprising 69 executives was selected with a deliberate effort to ensure that the sample comprises executives serving at junior, middle and senior levels. All subjects were administered MAO-R (Motivational Analysis of Organizati...

Executives are ‘affiliated’ if they previously worked for their companies’ audit firms. I find most affiliations (71.3%) occur when auditors become employees of audit clients (‘employment affiliations’), but affiliations also arise when companies hire executives’ former CPA firms (‘alma mater affiliations’). Affiliated companies are significantly more likely than unaffiliated companies to recei...

Since the mid nineteen nineties most Latin American nations have implemented free market policies. The ensuing economic stability has attracted investment from non-Latin corporations, thereby causing the transfer of non-Latin executives to Latin nations. For many of these executives, their Latin assignments include an unexpected challenge: Dealing with Latin America’s subtle but pervasive racis...

This study investigates the emphasis placed on different managerial roles of information technology (IT) executives and IT project managers. Six managerial roles from Mintzberg’s classic role model were applied in this research: resource allocator, leader, spokesman, monitor, liaison, and entrepreneur. Two surveys were conducted in Norway in 2000/2001 to investigate the management roles. The fi...

Although various government and regulatory organisations have identified practices that may enhance patient safety, there is little empirical or theoretical research to inform the decisions of healthcare leaders seeking to create patient safety programmes within their hospitals and clinics. In order to understand the challenges facing hospital and health system executives, we describe the exper...

AIM The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome in a specific group of people. PATIENTS AND METHODS The ATP III criteria were used to identify the metabolic syndrome in a group of 1,410 corporate executives belonging to a specialist health and fitness company in South Africa. RESULTS Using three criteria as specified by the ATP III panel, 31% of this group ...

Executives use market labels to position their firms within market categories. Yet this activity has been given scarce attention in the extant literature that widely assumes that market labels are simple, prescribed classification brackets that accurately represent firms’ characteristics. By examining how and why executives use the nanotechnology label, we uncover three strategies: claiming, di...