Inclusive Leadership Research Articles

Childhood cancer in Bangladesh: a qualitative evaluation.

Childhood cancer persists as a prominent public health concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with only a 20% survival rate. In Bangladesh, 67% of healthcare expenses are out of pocket. Since 2012, World Child Cancer-UK (WCC-UK) has collaborated with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to address this issue. This evaluation aimed to assess the project's purpose and impact, delivering insights to donors regarding their contributions, best practices, lessons learned, potential challenges encountered, and recommendations for future project development or refinement. This study employed a qualitative method to evaluate the WCC-UK project objectives from May to June 2017. It involved seven document reviews and nine key informant interviews (KIIs) with project leadership, collaborating partners at the Hub and Satellites, management staff, and Twinning Partners. Besides, two in-depth interviews (IDIs) were carried out with certain beneficiaries, particularly parents of children with cancer. Thematic data analysis was performed to emanate the findings. Despite facing challenges such as an unclear management structure, ambiguous patient eligibility criteria, personnel issues, and communication gaps, the project made strides in several areas. BSMMU provided essential space and leadership, while Satellite Centers supported the project with continuing medical education (CME) and data entry. The project offered subsidies to poor patients and improved cancer awareness among healthcare providers and service seekers. Despite some parents receiving health and nutrition education during their hospital stays, developing a long-lasting system to educate them about long-term cancer care for their children was found to be formidable. The analysis also highlighted staffing shortages, a hierarchical gap between physicians and nurses, and a predominantly male leadership structure. While the project has made progress toward its goals, there are critical areas that require attention to fully realize its objectives. Specifically, it is recommended that the project clarify its management structure, establish clear patient eligibility criteria, address staffing and communication issues, and work towards a more inclusive leadership. These improvements are essential for the project's long-term success and sustainability.

Inclusive Leadership and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of High-Performance Practices and the Moderating Role of Climate for Inclusion

Inclusive Leadership and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of High-Performance Practices and the Moderating Role of Climate for Inclusion

Workforce neurodiversity and workplace avoidance behavior: The role of inclusive leadership, relational energy, and self‐control demands

Workforce neurodiversity and workplace avoidance behavior: The role of inclusive leadership, relational energy, and self‐control demands

Next generations of entrepreneurs: between independent new ventures and hierarchical family firms

This study explores the modes of exploitation of business opportunities among the next generation of entrepreneurs (NGEs) and how the family firm context influences the choice of mode. This is an area of limited knowledge. I argue that aside from adhering to existing family firms, NGEs also develop new ventures independent of their family firms. For this purpose, a multi-case study was conducted based on 15 Colombian entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs were second and third-generation family firms, were involved within the FF or with their leaders, and demonstrated experience in exploiting business opportunities. The findings show that NGEs exploit business opportunities in their family firms, independently and simultaneously in both modes. NGEs that opt for the hierarchical mode experience cohesive family contexts and inclusive leadership focused on the family or the family firm. NGEs that opted for market mode by performing independent ventures were guided by leaders focused on entrepreneurship and who also promoted the formation of informal groups among NGEs. These results extend our comprehension of the influence of family firms in entrepreneurship and set the importance of fostering entrepreneurship among NGE to increase the opportunities to develop their interests without depending on the family firm.

Unpacking the relationship between cultural diversity and workgroup creativity

PurposeThis study aimed to illustrate the conditions under which cultural diversity enhances workgroup creativity. It does so by investigating the impact of ethnic diversity on workgroup creativity through the mediating mechanisms of cognitive diversity and information elaboration, while also exploring the role of inclusive leadership in this process.Design/methodology/approachMulti-source data was collected from a sample of 338 employees nested within 56 workgroups across three distinct organizations. Conditional process analysis was used to empirically test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that ethnic diversity, a surface-level cultural attribute, contributed to diversity in deep-level cognitive resources, and that workgroups were able to capitalize on these variations in deep-level cognitive resources to enhance their creativity when they engaged in the elaboration of task-relevant information. Results also demonstrated that the effective management of workgroup processes through inclusive leadership helped materialize the performance-promoting effects of cultural diversity. Overall, the findings support the notion that cultural diversity is indeed beneficial to workgroups.Originality/valuePrior research has typically examined cultural diversity in workgroups from the perspective of either surface-level or deep-level cultural attributes, leading to conflicting findings. Our study takes a multifaceted approach to cultural diversity and its influence on workgroup creativity, offering a more nuanced understanding. Additionally, by integrating the concept of inclusive leadership, a relatively new conceptualization of leadership specifically relevant to diverse workgroups, we clarified strategies for fostering positive workgroup performance.

Work Anxiety As A Mediator on The Relationship Between Inclusive Leadership and Turnover Intention Among High School Teachers

Work Anxiety As A Mediator on The Relationship Between Inclusive Leadership and Turnover Intention Among High School Teachers

Adopting active or passive leadership in project-based organizations? The role of inclusive leadership in remote work environment

Currently, there is an academic debate on whether managers adopt active or passive leadership can enhance employees’ work performance in project-based organizations. This study introduces an inclusive leadership perspective to address this issue. Questionnaire survey was used to validate the theoretical model with data from Chinese project-based organizations. The findings reveal that managers’ adoption of active or passive leadership depends on employees’ work environment and their psychological traits. Inclusive leadership which combines the active and passive characteristics can enhance remote work performance, through improving employees’ self-leadership and reducing their family-work conflict. Results also indicate that employees’ psychological resilience stimulated by the adversities is a critical factor for mitigating the impact of family-work conflict on remote work performance. Additionally, this study highlights the issue of gender differences among employee in remote work context. Finally, this study provides valuable managerial suggestions for managers in project-based organizations to improve employees’ remote work performance.

Performance in a Diverse Workforce: Inclusive Leadership, Climate, and Equitable Work Arrangements

Performance in a Diverse Workforce: Inclusive Leadership, Climate, and Equitable Work Arrangements

The Challenge of Inclusive Leadership: Uncovering Paradoxical Inclusive Leadership Behaviors

The Challenge of Inclusive Leadership: Uncovering Paradoxical Inclusive Leadership Behaviors

Inclusive Leadership and Cultural Intelligence as an Approach for Fostering Nurses' Voice Behavior

Inclusive Leadership and Cultural Intelligence as an Approach for Fostering Nurses' Voice Behavior

The Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Project Leaders’ Stress

The Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Project Leaders’ Stress

Tracing Inclusive Leadership: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research

Tracing Inclusive Leadership: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research

Agile transformation in the energy sector: empowering autonomous teams

Purpose This study aims to explore how to structure an energy organization to be more agile in the context of digitalization and find the common success factors and challenges the organizations face to transform. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative multiple-case study of an energy company and an online market company, both from the Nordic countries, was conducted in 2023. Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews with 16 participants. Findings This research provides valuable insights into the challenges and critical success factors crucial for a successful digital transformation. The study illuminates the interplay between technological advancements and organizational shifts, the adoption of agile methodologies, the importance of inclusive leadership and the integration of autonomous teams in realizing digital transformation goals. The research emphasizes the profound impact of these factors on the transformational journey within organizations. In particular, the adoption of agile methodologies takes on heightened significance in the swiftly evolving business landscape of today, calling for a transition from project-centric approaches to more adaptive and sustainable product-centric models. Originality/value The study contributes to the practice and enhanced understanding of organizing business and technology teams in energy companies to achieve fast flow. The analysis and discussion of various empirical findings shed light on the success factors and challenges of digital transformation – issues that many organizations are currently or will likely soon be grappling with. The impact of different organizational structures on agility in an organization has yet to be thoroughly studied.

Deepening Our Understanding of Inclusive Leadership: A Multi-Level, Multi-Identity-Group Perspective

Deepening Our Understanding of Inclusive Leadership: A Multi-Level, Multi-Identity-Group Perspective

Green Innovation: The Roles of Green Inclusive Leadership, Green Knowledge and CSR Communication

Green Innovation: The Roles of Green Inclusive Leadership, Green Knowledge and CSR Communication

Exploring the Characteristics of an Inclusive Leader in Public Organizations

Exploring the Characteristics of an Inclusive Leader in Public Organizations

A Review and Prospect of Research on Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive leadership is recognized as an effective form of leadership. This study reviews and organizes the existing research on inclusive leadership. First, it examines the definitions and methodologies used in measuring inclusive leadership. Second, it synthesizes the theoretical frameworks underpinning existing studies on inclusive leadership. Subsequently, the study scrutinizes findings concerning the antecedents and consequences of inclusive leadership. Antecedent research encompasses individual attributes and the organizational environment, while investigations into effects include impacts on individual employees, teams, and broader organizational outcomes. Finally, the study outlines prospective avenues for further inquiry into inclusive leadership. This endeavor is invaluable to scholars by providing a foundational literature framework for future investigations into inclusive leadership, offering a roadmap for ongoing research in this domain.

Gen Z Employee Adaptive Performance: The Role of Inclusive Leadership and Workplace Happiness

Gen Z Employee Adaptive Performance: The Role of Inclusive Leadership and Workplace Happiness

Interventions to improve system-level coproduction in the Cystic Fibrosis Learning Network

BackgroundCoproduction is defined as patients and clinicians collaborating equally and reciprocally in healthcare and is a crucial concept for quality improvement (QI) of health services. Learning Health Networks (LHNs) provide...

A qualitative exploration of nurses’ perspectives, experiences, and obstacles with shared governance

ABSTRACT This study explores the nurses’ experiences of shared governance in hospitals in Saudi Arabia to identify the factors that enhance and hinder nurses’ shared governance and nurses’ participation in decision-making processes. Through a qualitative descriptive research approach, the study utilized semi-structured interviews with 13 registered nurses selected via purposive sampling. Data were coded and condensed using thematic analysis. Three main themes were identified: participants’ perceptions about the concept of shared governance, factors influencing nurses’ participation in decision-making processes, and the consequences of shared governance. Participating nurses had a limited understanding of shared governance. Most were exposed to the concept of shared governance for the first time and could not comprehend or interpret it. The study found that nurses have limited knowledge of shared governance, but it is universally recognized that nurses’ involvement in decision-making is important. Implementing shared governance at the unit level has positive outcomes such as increased employee satisfaction, creativity, and trust in managers. The study highlights the influence of the work environment and the benefits of shared governance and inclusive leadership. Empowering nurses in decision-making can enhance engagement, job satisfaction, and patient outcomes.