BACKGROUND Although numerous leadership development programs (LDPs) exist in health care, no programs have been specifically designed to meet the needs of surgeons. This study aimed to elicit practicing surgeons' motivations and desired goals for leadership training to design an evidence-based LDP in surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS At a large academic health center, we conducted semistructured...

BACKGROUND Rapid growth of medical knowledge has created major changes in technology which in turn has created greater demand of the client for better health services, and health sector is constantly under pressure of great internal and external demands. Quality of services, largely depend on to what extent managers are well versed with the concept of evidence based management, team and group a...

BACKGROUND Examining the role of modifiable barriers and facilitators is a necessary step toward developing effective implementation strategies. This study examines whether both general (organizational culture, organizational climate, and transformational leadership) and strategic (implementation climate and implementation leadership) organizational-level factors predict therapist-level determi...

in a rapidly changing environment, turbulent, unpredictable and full of uncertainty, organizations should have a productive, creative and continuous learning capability and potential in order to survive, grow, and accomplish goals in order to create superior value for all their stakeholders, especially customers. such a learning capability of organization and its continuous development depends ...

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 ...

A research team made up of lecturers of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of Rostock University and the Faculty of Business and Economics of Pécs University has been investigating the evolution of organisational competences needed for the economic development since 1998 with the financial support of DAAD/Hungarian Scholarship Commission (József Eötvös Public Funds) in the two countri...

Social media in general and wikis in particular offer unique opportunities for knowledge management. Despite widely publicised successes in public settings, wikis in businesses evince mixed results; enterprises struggle to apply wikis to institutionalise knowledgemanagement practices. We investigate the inherent tensions underlying knowledge-sharing in competitive and hierarchical organisations...

Leadership is known as the major factor that can influence and motivate knowledge workers to contribute and participate actively in creating, sharing and using knowledge effectively. A survey of 180 Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC) status firms was conducted to identify what leadership characteristics (in the form of social power) are needed in a knowledge-based firm. The results showed that know...