BACKGROUND The concept of leadership has been studied in various disciplines and from different theoretical approaches. It is a dynamic concept that evolves over time. There are few studies in our field on managers' self-perception of their leadership style. There are no pure styles, but one or another style is generally favoured to a greater or lesser degree. In the primary health care (PHC) s...

The gender-wage gap in leadership positions is even wider than in lower positions. Managerial wages are partly performance based and one possible reason for the pay gap could be that women are not successful managers. Indeed, research into the “romance of leadership” suggests that managers’ abilities are judged on the basis of their companies’ performance (Meindl, Ehrlich & Durkerich, 1985). Bu...

BACKGROUND Swedish Healthcare Direct (SHD) receives 6 million calls yearly and aims at increased public sense of security and healthcare efficiency. Little is known about what SHD managers perceive as the primary goals of telephone nursing (TN) work and how the organisation matches goals of health promotion and equitable healthcare, so important in Swedish healthcare legislation. The aim of the...

Prior research on middle managers has emphasized their vital role in the strategic and entrepreneurial process of established organizations. Yet we still know relatively little about how their actual behavior translates into superior performance. In this paper I examine how entrepreneurial behavior of middle managers—defined as innovative use of resources to explore and exploit opportunities—af...

One of the most notable changes in the banking sector in Nigeria has been the increasing number of women who have entered the banking profession in recent years. Throughout the country, men have typically dominated the position of bank manager. In recent years, however, there has been a substantial increase in the number of women who are bank managers in Nigeria. This trend has generated consid...

Transformational and transactional leadership, which focus on the relationship between leaders and employees, are the most recent development of leadership theories. Yet studies on the impact of gender and culture on transformational and transactional leadership styles are limited. This Master Dissertation therefore aims to shed new light on that issue. First, it attempts to compare leadership ...

The Möbius-Kantor map {4 + 4, 3} [CMo, §8.8, 8.9] is a regular orientable map of type {8, 3} and genus 2. It is a 2-sheeted covering of the cube {4, 3}, branched over the centers of its six faces, each of which lifts to an octagonal face. Its (orientation-preserving) automorphism group is isomorphic to GL2(3), a double covering of the automorphism group PGL2(3) ∼= S4 of the cube. The aim of thi...

Gender mainstreaming, as a consequence of the gender concept, means that there is no such a thing as gender-neutral policies. Gender politics cannot be restricted to special domains such as family politics, and the challenge to overcome gender barriers cannot be managed by isolated measures such as establishing women‘s representatives in organizations [Metz-Göckel/Kamphans 2005]. According to t...