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...

Many organizations adopt work teams to increase performance or achieve specific organizational goals. However, there are still many unrevealed issues in teams’ operation although the researches of teams have been concerned by many studies. Previous researches indicated that team learning is an important strategy that organizations could obtain to gain the competition advantages. In addition, le...

Research on school leadership has shown that a principal's influence student achievement is indirect and significant. A sample of principals who earned the highest (distinguished) rating Vanderbilt Assessment Leadership in Education (VAL-ED) measure responded to open-ended questions during an in-person interview. Principals this study identified specific actions related VAL-ED-defined key proce...

As an emerging research field of leadership, inclusive leadership reflects the new style of leadership demanded by researchers and practitioners. Is it a leadership style that can better integrate employees and organizations and adapt to new complex management situation? Based on theories of social exchange, organizational support, and selfdetermination, this study investigated the impact of in...

BACKGROUND Leadership plays a crucial role in teams working in complex environments, and research has shown that shared leadership where all team members perform leadership functions is an effective strategy. The authors aimed to describe shared leadership patterns during anaesthesia induction and show how they are linked to team performance. METHODS 12 anaesthesia teams consisting of one res...

In order to make strategic decisions, the new leadership team at the College of Agriculture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona conducted a series of focus group interviews with its students, faculty, and staff members. The purpose of this qualitative study was to poll the opinions of these important stakeholders to improve the teaching-learning process in the college, to pro...

the main purpose of this research was to identify differences in the ferdowsi university of mashhad managers' leadership styles based on their philosophical mindedness. the research method was quantitative, non-experimental, explanatory, cross-sectional. 88 university managers completed and returned two questionnaires assessing their leadership styles and philosophical mindedness. the results s...

Email is a key communication tool for collaborative workgroups. In this paper, we investigate how team leadership roles can be inferred from a collection of email messages exchanged among team members. This task can be useful to monitor group leader’s performance, as well as to study other aspects of work group dynamics. Using a large email collection with several workgroups whose leaders were ...

Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other tea...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Practice redesign is one of the core principles of the Patient-centered Medical Home. Little is known about how such large-scale changes in a residency practice affect the providers and staff involved. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with residents, faculty, and medical support staff of a redesigned practice to determine the factors that contributed to the succes...