...Majd Megheirkouni; Amarachi Amaugo; Shehu Jallo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the required leadership styles and skills for stadium management, and examine the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership styles and the skills approach: technical, human...

...Camille Guérin-Marion; Ian Manion; Heather Parsons Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding the particular issues associated with leading an intergenerational workforce. It presents promising strategies in the areas of talent management, decision making...

... equipped to engage in clinical leadership throughout their lifelong career in the National Health Service. Twenty-first century healthcare demands leaders who are clinically competent, pioneers of evidence-based medicine. In light of the changing role of clinicians and the evolution of management...

...Michael Clark; Sally Denham-Vaughan; Marie-Anne Chidiac Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss critical perspectives on what has become a dominant approach to public sector management and leadership in England and sets out a new conceptual perspective on leadership to improve...

...Lars Nordgren Purpose The rate of turnover of hospital managers has been high in Sweden. Hospitals are regarded to be difficult to manage, which is connected with different discourses and action logics such as politics, medicine, care and management creating complex conditions for hospital...

... and to promote and value their contribution. Originality/value The paper provides useful information on leadership gleaned from personal observation. So what lessons from more than 40 years of holding paid and unpaid management and leadership roles? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012...

... insightfully is Bennis (2009) who experienced the worst of all types of organisation for leadership when being chief officer of a university. His later reflections are collected in Managing the Dream (Bennis, 2000) in which he compares becoming a senior executive of a university like Brobdingnag...

..., it identifies and reviews the key models, theories and approaches used for leadership and management development within the PSNI and the approach considered necessary for success in the future. Findings The PSNI has progressed significantly from policing the 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, where...

...Peter Gilbert; KWM (Bill) Fulford; Michael Hobkirk; Neil Deuchar Purpose It is essential that healthcare leaders and managers recognise the importance of values; how they relate to the delivery of healthcare to patients as well as shape individual, professional and organisational practice...

... responsibility for collective problems, is often regarded not just as difficult and dangerous, but as ‘the enemy of the people’. Not only are we likely to be addicted to command but we are also likely to be allergic to leadership. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Leadership Command Management...

...Daphne Statham; Jennifer Bernard This case study examines the reasons that the National Skills Academy for Social Care established the first national social care management trainee scheme for newly qualified graduates. Using information from the National Skills Academy Social Care Team...

...Alistair Mant This paper suggests that as the focus on ‘leadership’ has intensified over recent years, the quality of management in both public and private sectors has diminished. The two phenomena may be linked. Our capacity to run things properly and to manage people in a dignified and productive...

... of change management. perspectives on leadership Professionals as an Implementation Barrier to Change in Public Organisations: Political and Identity Perspectives Gabriele Fassauer and Frank Schirmer Faculty of Business Management and Economics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Abstract...

... values and practices onto a hierarchical politico‐administrative system, grounded on the premise that the state is best placed to determine, protect and promote the public interest, without inevitably creating a counter‐productive paradoxical public‐management environment. In this public‐sector reform...