Many studies emphasise the crucial role of leaders in implementing knowledge integration (KI) during the enterprise system (ES) post-implementation phase. However, to date, no studies have provided empirical evidence on the role of KI mechanisms in ES success, especially when managed by leaders with different leadership styles. This paper therefore highlights the empirical evidence on the role ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Leadership plays a crucial role in many professions, especially in challenging positions such as emergency medical service jobs. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between managers' leadership styles and emergency medical technicians' job satisfaction. METHOD This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study that was carried out in 2010. The research popul...

This quantitative study aimed to empirically evidence the relationship between the power bases of the leader and the leadership styles of nurses. The random sample consisted of 204 nursing professionals from a public hospital. The following measurement instruments were used: the SBDQ (Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire) to identify leadership styles and the Power Perception Profile ...

Leadership style has always been a controversial topic in educational administration and management. Following the recommendation of the Education Commission to introduce schoolbasedmanagement (SBM) into Hong Kong schools in the early 1990s, discussions about the kind of leadership style that is appropriate for SBM schools have never ceased. The government holds a continuing belief that SBM sch...

We investigated the impact of transactional and transformational leadership styles on organizational citizenship behaviors. The sample consisted of 213 workers of both genders who answered the Multifactorial Leadership Scale and the Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) Scale. The multiple linear regression showed that: the transactional leadership style positively predicted the OCB dimens...

staff job satisfaction is very important for assessments leading to organizational devel-opment. job satisfaction is a general attitude of workers towards with their job and it de-pends on the sum of all factors in organizational relations. the correlates of organiza-tional leadership style such as process of leadership, motivating factors, communication, process of decision making, and charact...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership style and power source of coaches in iranian super league volleyball teams from players’ point of view as well as to prioritize leadership styles and power sources in coaches of all teams. for this purpose, all iranian super league volleyball team players in season 2008-2009 completed the leadership scale for sport (ch...