The Series in Applied Psychology offers publications that emphasize research and its applications to important issues of human behavior in a variety of social settings. The objective is to bridge both academic and applied interests. This book, Inclusive Leadership: The Essential Leader-Follower Relationship, is an important addition to our series and represents a valuable contribution to the ev...

As an emerging research field of leadership, inclusive leadership reflects the new style of leadership demanded by researchers and practitioners. Is it a leadership style that can better integrate employees and organizations and adapt to new complex management situation? Based on theories of social exchange, organizational support, and selfdetermination, this study investigated the impact of in...

In this time of polarization and divisiveness across increasingly diverse communities, health policy and management research offers an important insight: engaging diversity meaningfully through inclusive leadership—that embraces staff across hierarchies and engages difference perspectives so that all healthcare workers of all kinds feel they can speak up and participate...

A set of schools located across the U.S. partnered with a federally-funded, inclusive schools, systems approach to improving outcomes for all students. All students included general and special education students. Specifically, students with extensive support needs stemming from intellectual and development disabilities were members of the school communities. Two years of data from the schools ...

today’s organizations, in chaos, complexities, diverse, dynamic, uncertainties, and rapid and increasingly changes in technologies, markets, and life qualities, are forced to search of leaders who having the least mistakes in their decision-makings; the leaders who make the right decisions with a calculative and scrupulous sense, and serve right and suitable behaviors for guiding and leading th...

A causal theory of spiritual leadership is developed within an intrinsic motivation model that incorporates vision, hope/faith, and altruistic love, theories of workplace spirituality, and spiritual survival. The purpose of spiritual leadership is to create vision and value congruence across the strategic, empowered team, and individual levels and, ultimately, to foster higher levels of organiz...

Comments on the six articles contained in the special issue of the American Psychologist (January 2007) devoted to leadership, written by W. Bennis; S. J. Zaccaro; V. H. Vroom and A. G. Yago; B. J. Avolio; R. J. Sternberg; and R. J. Hackman and R. Wageman. The current authors express concern that the special issue failed to include attention to issues of diversity and intersecting identities as...

Inclusion or full participation by children with disabilities in programs and activities designed for typically developing children benefits children with and without disabilities and their families. Inclusive care programs are least available for school-age children and adolescents. A review of the literature identified best practices for effective inclusive out-of-school care, including: a wr...