there remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. the focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

Relational leadership is a relatively new term in the leadership literature, and because of this, its meaning is open to interpretation. In the present article I describe two perspectives of relational leadership: an entity perspective that focuses on identifying attributes of individuals as they engage in interpersonal relationships, and a relational perspective that views leadership as a proc...

There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

In an attempt to shed light on the micro-foundations of social structure, we examine how relational schemas impact the emergence of leadership hierarchies within informal groups. Relational schemas provide the cognitive models through which social structures are represented and encoded in the minds of individuals, as well as enacted in actual social interactions. Elaborating on this argument, w...

Contemporary definitions of leadership advance a view of the phenomenon as relational, situated in specific social contexts, involving patterned emergent processes, and encompassing both formal and informal influence. Paralleling these views is a growing interest in leveraging social network approaches to study leadership. Social network approaches provide a set of theories and methods with whi...

GETTING OLD AT THE TOP: THE ROLE OF AFFECTIVE ABILITIES ANDLEADERSHIP ROLE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGEAND LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORSbyGREGORY R. THRASHERMay 2017Advisor: Dr. Marcus W. DicksonMajor: Psychology (IndustrialOrganizational)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyLeadership behaviors and the outcomes they foster have historically been a centr...

AIM Our aim was to describe the findings of a systematic review of studies that examine the relationship between nursing leadership practices and patient outcomes. BACKGROUND As healthcare faces an economic downturn, stressful work environments, upcoming retirements of leaders and projected workforce shortages, implementing strategies to ensure effective leadership and optimal patient outcome...

Handling Editor: Stephanie Castro Weexamined follower relational identificationwith the leader as amediator and follower perceptions of leader creativity expectations as amoderator in the relationship between transformational leadership and follower creativity. Using a sample of 420 leader–follower dyads from an energy company in mainland China, we found that follower relational identification ...

The social sciences are paying increasing attention to relations. In contributing to this ongoing dialogue and debate Educational Leadership Relationally (Eacott, 2015) articulates a relational research program for the study of educational administration and leadership. This paper provides an overview of the relational program with particular attention to the five central tenets of the methodol...

Based on social exchange theory, we examined and contrasted attitudinal mediators (affective organizational commitment, job satisfaction) and relational mediators (trust in leader, leader-member exchange; LMX) of the positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Hypotheses were tested using meta-analytic path models with correlations fr...