Home Care by Self-Governing Nursing Teams: The Netherlands’ Buurtzorg Model (Commonwealth Case Study)

The Dutch home-care provider Buurtzorg Nederland has attracted widespread interest for its innovative use of self-governing nurse teams. Rather than relying on different types of personnel to provide individual services—the approach taken by most home health providers—Buurtzorg expects its nurses to deliver the full range of medical and support services to clients. Buurtzorg has earned […]

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From growing convergence of spirituality and leadership towards a unified leadership theory

In recent times, researchers’ interest in understanding the nature of leadership’s relationship tospirituality has been fuelled by a striking commonality among successful leaders with regards totheir spiritual propensities. More so, now that the issues such as business ethics, socialresponsibility and meaningfulness in work are taking prominence in organizations, the need forresearch is being felt to […]

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