It is clear that leadership behaviour of executives in healthcare is considered to be of prime importance (Burke 2006), with key elements such as strategy, structure and process being vital for team and organisational effectiveness (Yammarino et al, 2008). This research identified that the executives interviewed in a Northwest acute Trust were clear on what type of leadership behaviour is expec...

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The study of agenda setting has become curiously disconnected from democratic theory and democratization. Following Schattschneider, Dahl, recent developments in political theory, I call for its reintegration theoretical empirical realms. concept democracy allows better understanding contests over institutions, significant historical-institutional transformations, the inequality mechanisms gene...

I recognize that not everyone finds programming difficult. Indeed, many of my peers seem to find programming very easy, and positively revel in being able to master the complexity of an application in a write-only programming language that makes full use of a large set of support libraries to execute a complicated distributed algorithm. My research is not directed at these people. It is instead...

Not having an agenda is usually considered a bad thing. Who wants to elect a politician who has no agenda? When a vascular surgeon rushes to the OR to repair the leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm of a patient, she better have an agenda. But can having an agenda sometimes cloud our eyes to what is happening in front of us, limit our scope of view to see only what matches our agenda, and cause us...