the purpose of this study, to investigate the relationship between leadership styles and organizational elevation (efqm) in acecr (academic center of education, culture and research) that the sample consisted of 117 middle and top managers of acecr were selected in census. according to the purpose of research and research tools, the questionnaires were multifactorial leadership questionnaire (m...

Some of the leading models and frameworks about Excellence from the last 25 years are presented and discussed: Peters and Waterman’s eight excellence attributes (1982), Peters and Austin’s simplified excellence model (1985), Lists of Best Practices, Xerox Excellence Models (1990, 2002), the European Excellence Model (1992) and two different but overlapping “4P Models” (1999, 2004). At the end o...

EXCELLENCE: Worthy goal or dangerous desire? Is excellence a destination or a journey or an attitude? In a world and a society where the expectation is for achievement, success and winning, what should be a Lutheran school’s approach to pursuing excellence? Is excellence about achieving and surpassing standards? Or is it about the process of teaching and learning to the best of one’s ability? O...

the aim of this study was to investigate relationship between social capital and organizational excellence. initially, about excellence, history and the concept of social capital and its components are described. then, the organizational approach to social capital was examined and the impact of social capital on organizational performance was evaluated. on the basis of the conceptual model, the...

Within a diverse and expanding system of higher education (HE), such as in the UK, discourse on teaching and student learning highlights tensions between different notions of excellence. For example, excellence as a positional good for students, an aspirational target for continuous quality enhancement, a form of reputational advantage for HE institutions or a means of achieving governmental ec...

The rise of the periphrastic future (PF) at the expense of the inflected future (IF) is an established historical trend in Québécois French over at least the past 150 years. Previous research has also found higher rates of PF among younger speakers, many displaying categorical use in affirmative contexts. Because an apparent time interpretation of the synchronic data fits the historical record,...

Within a diverse and expanding system of higher education (HE), such as in the UK, discourse on teaching and student learning highlights tensions between different notions of excellence. For example, excellence as a positional good for students, an aspirational target for continuous quality enhancement, a form of reputational advantage for HE institutions or a means of achieving governmental ec...

The purpose of the article is to determine excellence in the implementation of Slovenian physicians’ work in public healthcare and the influence of quality management and excellence in public healthcare, and, above all stress management and health preservation of Slovenian physicians. Leading employees nowadays pose a particular challenge for every manager. Healthcare system is an organised sys...