This report describes participants' assessment of their experiences in the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute program. The ADEA Leadership Institute is designed for mid-career faculty members who desire to attain administrative roles within their own or other institutions or enhance their effectiveness in these roles. This year-long program, conducted in four phas...

This article examines the factors that stymie contemporary leaders in their quest to practicalize the concepts of stewardship as an alternative form of leadership. Stewardship is herein argued to be a more viable form of leadership than current leadership concepts, and nine dimensions have been identified as personifications of the stewardship concept. The results show that stewardship, as a le...

Health research capacities have been improved in Africa but still remain weak as compared to other regions of the World. To strengthen these research capacities, international collaboration and networking for knowledge and capacity transfer are needed. In this commentary, we present the Network for Scientific Support in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health in West and North Africa, its p...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the leadership styles and the organizational performance among the Malaysian Public Universities (IPTA) academic leaders in Klang Valley Area. In the recent years, the roles of academic leaders have been identified as crucial to the success of any higher education academic institutions. This study is a quantitative research and in...

This paper reports some findings from an interpretative study which investigated the impact of an Australian leadership development offshore course upon the conceptions held by a group of Chinese educational leaders. The findings revealed that most participants tended to develop more complex understandings of leadership throughout the course. The study identified a general shift from task/direc...

BACKGROUND Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measuri...

Nowadays in Senegal, located in West Africa, social protection institutions are confronted with a substantially increased healthcare expenditure in general, and oral care in particular. The ability of the leadership to use techniques to contain the impact of risks they are facing determine their viability. The aim of our study was to analyze the risk management of dental care coverage by those ...