Candace D. Bloomquist and Leah Georges
Leadership scholar-practitioners seldom need to be sold on the benefits of working together. Rather leadership educators want to know how to teach adult leadership…
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Leadership scholar-practitioners seldom need to be sold on the benefits of working together. Rather leadership educators want to know how to teach adult leadership scholar-practitioners how to work together across differences. The aim of this paper is to guide leadership development practitioners on how to nurture leadership that can address the complex problems the changing global arena demand of us today and into the future. We argue when preparing adult leadership scholar-practitioners, using adult learning theories and paying attention to the interdisciplinary roots of the field of leadership might lead to better learning and engagement with real world challenges. In this paper we present a leadership development model we call interdisciplinary leadership. First, we discuss the interdisciplinary roots of leadership. Second, we describe interdisciplinary leadership as a tapestry – an intricate combination of identities, practices, and outcomes used to prepare people to address complex problems. Finally, we describe the mission, structure, curriculum, and instructional strategies that can be used by leadership educators when applying interdisciplinary leadership. This model acknowledges the identity, practices, and outcomes needed to develop scholar-practitioners of leadership and provides practical techniques to help leadership educators prepare leaders to work together across differences to address complex problems.
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Gaetano Romano Lotrecchiano, Emily Balog, Shelley Brundage, Patricia Deyo, Leocadia Conlon, Kevin Bugin, Landria Sheffey, Ellen Cook and Melissa Gentry
This study aims to investigate individual motivations for participating in collaborative health knowledge producing teams (KPTs), as well as satisfaction gained by participation…
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Purpose
This study aims to investigate individual motivations for participating in collaborative health knowledge producing teams (KPTs), as well as satisfaction gained by participation in science teams. The authors focus on understanding motivators across team types, levels of engagement and alignment within and across teams and need satisfaction in a total of six science teams. Areas of strong congruence and divergence of motivating factors can be aligned across (i) learning and professional growth satisfaction, (ii) respect, collegiality and enjoyment satisfaction and (iii) accomplishment and discovery satisfaction. Levels of satisfaction are hierarchically mapped showing their relation to more external and communal foci to motivations that seek satisfaction of individual needs.
Design/methodology/approach
This mixed method comparative study uses data from the motivation assessment for team readiness integration and collaboration (MATRICx) tool and themes generated from semi-structured interviews. This methodology provided a means to compare a hierarchy of motivations against levels of collaborative engagement, as well as individual needs satisfaction and ultimately the identification of higher and lower-level motivations related to self and external foci.
Findings
The findings indicate that there are both similarities and differences in motivations in different health science teams when one compares biomedical, education and policy teams. A comparison of MATRICx data from across team types and teams suggests areas of strong congruence as well as areas of divergence in motivation factors.
Originality/value
The paper and its findings use a novel tool along with qualitative research techniques to identify motivation in KPTs and uses these data to understand what type of needs satisfaction are important across three areas of health science teaming. Our research informs team leaders, facilitators and consultants about the important motivations team members have entering teams and has the potential to provide a blueprint to ensure peak performance as individual team members seek to address their ever-growing professional needs.
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Maya M. Jeyaraman, Sheikh Muhammad Zeeshan Qadar, Aleksandra Wierzbowski, Farnaz Farshidfar, Justin Lys, Graham Dickson, Kelly Grimes, Leah A. Phillips, Jonathan I. Mitchell, John Van Aerde, Dave Johnson, Frank Krupka, Ryan Zarychanski and Ahmed M. Abou-Setta
Strong leadership has been shown to foster change, including loyalty, improved performance and decreased error rates, but there is a dearth of evidence on effectiveness of…
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Purpose
Strong leadership has been shown to foster change, including loyalty, improved performance and decreased error rates, but there is a dearth of evidence on effectiveness of leadership development programs. To ensure a return on the huge investments made, evidence-based approaches are needed to assess the impact of leadership on health-care establishments. As a part of a pan-Canadian initiative to design an effective evaluative instrument, the purpose of this paper was to identify and summarize evidence on health-care outcomes/return on investment (ROI) indicators and metrics associated with leadership quality, leadership development programs and existing evaluative instruments.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors performed a scoping review using the Arksey and O’Malley framework, searching eight databases from 2006 through June 2016.
Findings
Of 11,868 citations screened, the authors included 223 studies reporting on health-care outcomes/ROI indicators and metrics associated with leadership quality (73 studies), leadership development programs (138 studies) and existing evaluative instruments (12 studies). The extracted ROI indicators and metrics have been summarized in detail.
Originality/value
This review provides a snapshot in time of the current evidence on ROI indicators and metrics associated with leadership. Summarized ROI indicators and metrics can be used to design an effective evaluative instrument to assess the impact of leadership on health-care organizations.
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Leah Noelle Bernick and Soyoung Boo
The purpose of this paper is to define the success and growth of the modern festival tourism industry as a manifestation of the Entertainment Age, coupled with the repercussions…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to define the success and growth of the modern festival tourism industry as a manifestation of the Entertainment Age, coupled with the repercussions of increasing globalization on global tourism markets. This definition highlights the interdisciplinary fissure between tourism and other social sciences. Additionally, the paper aims to address how modern festivals become successful by matching the proclivities of Entertainment Age consumers.
Design/methodology/approach
Redefining festival tourism as a manifestation of a social trend is achieved by reviewing pertinent literature in several academic disciplines and by examining current examples. This approach is meant to inspire further discussion of the trend and provides a solid basis for future research.
Findings
This discussion is important in that it demonstrates the socio‐philosophical impacts of the Entertainment Age on the tourism industry. It stages festival tourism as a viable mechanism for increased tourism and revenue. Examining the festival tourism industry within an Entertainment Age context may enhance the ability of the industry to capitalize on these social trends and philosophical changes.
Originality/value
This paper brings together several disparate concepts in an attempt to enhance the understanding of a current tourism trend, answering the overarching question of why the rise in festival tourism is occurring.
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Thomas Nally, Jane L. Ireland, Leah Greenwood, Carol A. Ireland and Philip Birch
This study aims to explore the impact of inclusion of victim empathy-based content in offender treatment.
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the impact of inclusion of victim empathy-based content in offender treatment.
Design/methodology/approach
This study first presents a systematic review of 20 papers before proceeding to consider qualitative interviews with therapists (n = 7) and forensic patients (n = 5), who had completed a long-term violence therapy (Life Minus Violence – Enhanced, LMV-E©). The research explored perceptions of forensic patients and treatment facilitators when completing victim empathy work and explored any negative effects this may have.
Findings
Findings from the systematic review indicated five themes: interventions incorporating victim empathy can be effective; there are positive risk-understanding consequences from completing victim empathy work; offenders perceive victim empathy positively; the emotional impact of victim empathy work on offenders’ is poorly explored; and completing victim empathy in treatment groups receives mixed evaluations from offenders. The systematic review was used to inform the interview themes for the resulting qualitative study with facilitators and forensic patients. This study indicated six themes: victim empathy content facilitates change; victim empathy content can be difficult for patients; victim empathy content can lead to an emotional response; victim empathy content can be beneficial, with the process important; victim empathy content can help understand risk, and patients’ experience of treatment begins before attending sessions.
Practical implications
The potential impact of victim empathy content needs to be evaluated before sessions are completed, accounting for client expectations and treatment readiness. This should include ensuring that appropriate support is in place. Any support provided to patients should be regularly reviewed.
Originality/value
The study represents the first to apply detailed analysis to this topic area and with a complex group.