The growing field of complexity leadership argues that leadership emerges from within interactions. The specific nature of the interaction dynamics that enable organizing to emerge in social entrepreneurial enterprises provides a context for leadership in these projects. Three dimensions of this complexity context are identified and described. A gene rative context for leadership is present whe...

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 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is well known to assess quality and business processes in a variety of sectors, including government. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aspects of the MBNQA’s leadership triad and knowledge management in an e-government context. Specifically, we survey 1,100 employees of a medium-sized city government in the United States ...

This article presents the results of a study in a city in the western United States. The authors found that city employees believed that quality knowledge was necessary for improving quality. Results show that departmental leadership was positively associated with teamwork, process improvement, and employee satisfaction. Quality knowledge, if followed up with application, can be effective in im...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the mechanism through which empowering leadership of a team leader might influence the team performance in IT service. Design/methodology/approach – The data of 315 individuals collected from 85 different IT projects through online survey is used to empirically test the hypotheses. Findings – The results confirm that team leader0...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between leaders' communication styles and charismatic leadership, human-oriented leadership (leader's consideration), task-oriented leadership (leader's initiating structure), and leadership outcomes. METHODOLOGY: A survey was conducted among 279 employees of a governmental organization. The following six main communication sty...

Clinical leadership is best understood if our knowledge and insights of it are based on a theoretical foundation or a paradigm specifically related to clinical leadership. This paper discusses why current leadership theory, particularly transformational leadership, is inadequate for helping nurses understand or develop clinical leadership capabilities. It also outlines the new theory of congrue...