Less than 12.5% of nurses aspire to leadership roles, noting lack of support and stress as major factors in their decision not to pursue this area of practice. Psychological resiliency, described as the ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity, is key to successful nurse managers. Emotional intelligence (EI) is a related concept to resiliency and is another noteworthy predictor of lead...

introduction: knowledge is a critical resource for organizations working in dynamically competitive environments. in any organization, leaders who have the power to incite and influence knowledge management processes. nevertheless, there is lack of empirical evidence from previous studies on examining this relationship. in view of this, the current study examined the relationship between transf...

No form of organization has ever existed without leadership. However, an individual need not be the senior officer or commander to be a leader. Nevertheless, for an organization to function with some degree of efficiency, having a leader at its head is important. If a leader is also a good manager, that is even better. While leadership and management are terms that are often used interchangeabl...

Health care is a rapidly changing environment requiring a high level of leadership skills by executive level personnel. The hospice industry is experiencing the same rapid changes; however, the changes have been experienced over the brief span of 25 years. Highly skilled hospice executives are a necessity for the growth and long-term survival of hospice care. This descriptive study was conducte...

This study draws upon conservation of resources theory to investigate if laissez-faire leadership influences employees’ perceptions role clarity, and two forms well-being (job satisfaction work-related burnout), in the context organizational restructuring. Moreover, clarity is studied as a mechanism linking employee well-being. These relationships were tested using three-wave time-lagged invest...

Collectivism is a common concept in the cultural study, which is used to describe a community whose motivation and emphasis are strongly tight to collective perspective. Considering previous research’s suggestions on another level of analysis of collectivism, and limitations of the culturalbased view of collectivism in studying organizational behaviors, this thesis examined collectivism at the ...

The purpose of this paper is to focus first on the literature that links leadership to employee wellbeing within the field of organizational behavior, and then turn the attention to a survey on healthcare professionals’ perceptions of the leadership style in three Italian hospitals. The classification of leader behavior is based on the sharing of decision making between leader and follower in t...

Employee job satisfaction is an important component of any and could be influenced by different types leadership. Keeping employees happy satisfied while at the same time being a great leader extremely difficult balance, especially in educational leadership, where there are two employees, mainly administrators, educators. It requires who can balance between lines choose proper leadership style ...