Cohesive Leadership Research Articles

Understanding Middle Leaders' Distributed Leadership Factors as Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Fostering Teacher Commitment to Change

ABSTRACTThis study aims to examine which middle leaders' distributed leadership factors (cohesive leadership team, participative decision‐making, leadership support and leadership supervision) are sufficient and to what degree these four factors are necessary for fostering high teacher commitment to change (TCTC). Data were gathered from 1018 Malaysian primary school teachers. The partial least squares analysis indicated positive relationships between the four middle leaders' distributed leadership factors and TCTC. The necessary condition analysis revealed that cohesive leadership team and participative decision‐making are necessary and sufficient conditions for fostering TCTC. While leadership support and leadership supervision were identified as necessary conditions, they were deemed less important. This study shifts the focus from principal‐centric distributed leadership to middle leaders' distributed leadership. This theoretical shift underscores the unique contributions of middle leaders' distributed leadership in driving TCTC in primary school settings by employing an expanded analytical approach.

Enhancing Corporate Cohesion with Ta’awun through Outdoor Activities for Senior Managers

This paper investigates the vital role of outdoor activities in enhancing group cohesiveness among managers, highlighting the need for innovative team-building interventions in the corporate sector. It emphasizes the effectiveness of outdoor activities as team incentives that not only foster a sense of unity and shared purpose among managers but also adapt to different cultural contexts, thereby improving task allocation and team dynamics. Additionally, this study underscores the psychological benefits of outdoor activities, notably in reducing stress and enhancing decision-making skills among leaders. The concept of Ta'awun (cooperation) is explored as a means of building social capital and resilience, particularly in small and medium enterprises. The research concludes that outdoor activities, combined with trust-building, strategic team-building activities, cooperative partnerships, and cohesive leadership, are crucial for the success of teams and the overall performance of organizations across various corporate environments.

US needs ‘quantum Oppenheimer’

Duncan Earl, chief technology officer at Qubitekk, says the US can only win the quantum race if it has a co-ordinated quantum programme under cohesive leadership.

A study of preconditions and consequences of authenticity in leadership for healthcare educational SMEs, through the 5th wave theory and meta-analysis

Background: Orchestrating personnel with different roles in healthcare sector using a proper leadership style is one of the main challenges in Iran. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as a major threat to global public health, makes the leadership challenge in Iran healthcare sector bolder due the complexity of health industry as a service industry with twisted processes and aim of satisfying patients with proper service and managing healthcare personnel with increased workload and stress. As a result, to strengthen healthcare systems for unprecedented threats, a cohesive leadership is required. Authentic leadership is a method in which leaders are genuine, self-aware, and transparent. The aim of this paper is to clarify preconditions and consequences of authenticity in leadership of healthcare educational Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Methods: The research is done in documentary research method, developmental research and descriptive correlation. Data collection in Meta-analysis phase is by library research method. Statistical society of the research is more than 38 articles written in the period of 2015 to 2022, from which collected data is codified and then analyzed by SPSS in order to describe research’s specifications and CMA2 for statistical calculations. Results: Preconditions of authentic leadership, including organizational structure, EQ, relationship oriented organizational culture, rules and regulations, ethical reasons of the leader and Industry attributes as well as consequences of authentic leadership, including employees’ bullying, extra-role behavior, work ethics, burnout, work productivity, product innovation, self-control, employees’ mindfulness, optimism and personnel health, have been identified through the 5th wave theory based on future planning and Meta-analysis and the Doost Research Methodology (DRM). The results suggest that authentic leadership considering attributes of healthcare industry has positive effect on performance of healthcare companies. Conclusions: As SMEs are formed more than 95% of businesses all around the World, they play indispensable role within developing economic and technical sustainability as well as seven pillars of sustainability (7PS) model. Identifying necessities and consequences of authentic leadership in healthcare companies can be used as a road map for modern managers. Investigating the effects of training, welfare, and health in improving the productivity of SMEs’ HR simultaneously through the 5th wave theory is the main conclusion of this paper.

A Public Health, Whole-of-Government Approach to National Suicide Prevention Strategies

A Public Health, Whole-of-Government Approach to National Suicide Prevention Strategies

“Rather Than Follow Change, Business Must Lead this Transformation”: Global business’s institutional project to privatize global environmental governance, 1990–2010

Regardless of the enormous risks to humanity, the three-decades-long international effort to administer sustainability has seen an intensifying process of governance privatization, coupled with a failure to reduce global emissions. Bridging neo-institutional and business-class theories, I examine the mobilization of a class-wide coalition of major transnational corporations on a long-term institutional project to shape environmental governance in the mold of a private, market-based institutional logic. Drawing from analyses of the structure, discourse, and activities of the transnational business association World Business Council for Sustainable Development circa 1990–2010, I show how the WBCSD unites the CEOs of some of the largest transnational corporations into a cohesive leadership group, mobilizes the corporate resources they command, and coordinates global-scale, durable institutional creation work. The project’s purpose is to crowd out the state-based logic of environmental governance, thus restricting the development of market-incongruent sustainability organizing. The article contributes to the understanding of societal-level, large-scale institutional work by examining the key agency of business classes in such work, the organization of large-scale work through multifaceted projects, and its orientation to set institutional logics through diverse creation of institutional forms that embody the logic.

When the Right Protests: How Journalists Cover Conservative Movements

ABSTRACT This study focuses on the relationship between the mainstream press and right-wing protests in Brazil. Guided by the “protest paradigm” literature, my goal was to understand how reporters in the Global South cover conservative demonstrations. Protest paradigm scholarship found that news norms and routines lead to delegitimizing patterns of coverage, focusing on official viewpoints, spectacle, and violence. Here, I consider how the same practices can aid in the legitimization of right-wing movements. Through a mixed methodology combining content analysis and interviews with reporters from the analyzed outlets, findings revealed that when protesters’ grievances and demands aligned with the preferences of anti-leftist elites, right-wing politicians subsidized information to journalists. The lack of clashes with the police and cohesive leadership also allowed for coverage to become more thematic. As a result, I argue three conditions lead to news legitimization of protests. First, the movement fitting within a broader political conflict between elites. Second, the movement being sympathetic to the state's repressive apparatus. Third, the movement having cohesive leadership and unified identity. These conditions, which favor right-wing demands, drove legitimizing coverage even when reporters viewed the movement with skepticism.

When armed groups refuse to carry out election violence: Evidence from Nigeria

• Whereas much existing work examines when elites demand election violence, the paper explains when armed groups supply it. • The paper contributes to scholarship on security challenges in democracies by studying the organization of election violence. • The findings emphasize the need to develop programs that disincentivize nonstate groups from perpetrating election violence. Social science research on election violence shows that incumbents regularly turn to different nonstate armed groups to organize violence during elections, including ethnic militias, gangs, criminal organizations, and paramilitaries, among others. Less well known are the motivations of these different actors, what they seek to gain from election violence, and when they turn down incumbents’ overtures. From a practitioner perspective, understanding when armed groups supply election violence for incumbents is important because of the severe consequences of such acts, including economic hardship, forced displacement, damaged infrastructure, and costs to human life. The paper asks: under what conditions do armed groups agree or refuse to perpetrate election violence for incumbents? Drawing on most similar case studies of the Ijaw Youth Council and the O’odua People’s Congress in Nigeria, we find that internal armed group politics help to explain how these actors respond to incumbent governors’ demands for election violence. Specifically, groups divided by leadership rivalries agree to perpetrate election violence for incumbents whereas those with cohesive leadership refuse to do so. Leaders of rival factions accept money and arms from incumbents to try to eliminate their competitors, and in exchange, agree to organize violence during elections for their incumbent sponsors. In contrast, groups with cohesive leadership turn down incumbents’ overtures given the risks of cooptation and weakened community support. The findings contribute to our understanding of how election violence is co-produced by elites and nonstate armed groups by explaining the motivations and decisions of the latter. More broadly, the paper speaks to larger questions about security challenges in developing democracies. The findings also highlight the need for greater attention to interventions to prevent armed groups from engaging in election violence on behalf of political elites.

Can digital contact tracing make up for lost time?

Contact tracing is a fundamental public health intervention, and a mainstay in efforts to control and contain severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of writing, the pandemic has caused more than 13 million cases and more than 578 000 deaths.1 Regions with the most successful containment to date have approached the pandemic with integrated measures that include cohesive leadership, effective communication, physical distancing, wearing of face coverings, improvements in the built environment, promotion of hand hygiene, and support for the staff, supplies, and systems needed to care for patients—with testing and contact tracing as cornerstones of the approach.

Challenges of Caring for Functionally Single Ventricle Patients in Africa.

Surgical palliation has remarkably improved survival of functionally single ventricle (FSV) patients born in developed nations but such outcomes have not occurred in Africa. The poor care coverage for FSV patients in Africa exists within the larger sphere of deficient health care for children born with congenital heart defects (CHDs) in Africa generally. This review takes the position that to improve health-care coverage for CHD patients on the continent, political priority is paramount. This can be attained with cohesive leadership for the CHD agenda, a guiding institution, and the mobilization of civil society to drive advocacy at national and international levels.

Educational Leadership at Municipality Level

The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and curriculum guides—and identify themes by looking for specific words that are characteristic in leadership practices. The findings reveal that policy ends concerning educational leadership of municipalities are somewhat tacit in current national legislation. Yet, the roles and responsibilities that the state delegates to municipalities comprise leadership functions that are distributed in nature and, to a large extent, harmonize with desired leadership practices as emphasized in the literature. Legislation emphasizes comprehensive education, but also in-cludes signs of technocratic homogenization. In the discussion of our findings, we argue that the educational system is quite dependent on the political emphasis at each given time, making it difficult for both munic-ipalities and the state to facilitate a cohesive leadership emphasis. We suggest that closer attention to the local level, and a recognition of it as an important unit and agency for educational development, is of sig-nificant importance. These observations will be followed by a further investigation into the actual practice of leadership at the local level.

Developing a coherent strategy to build leadership capacity in Scottish education

Leadership is central to policy ambitions for improvement in Scottish education with leadership positioned as one of the key drivers for improvement to achieve excellence and equity for all learners. To foster teacher engagement in and leadership of change and to prepare enough teachers for headship, building leadership capacity is crucial. The question we explore is: how is it possible to design a career-long leadership development strategy to secure the capacity necessary to fulfil these policy intentions while fostering the autonomy of teachers in professional learning? First, we examine leadership development in the reform agenda and second, we consider the task of balancing system and individual needs in career-long leadership development. We then detail the approaches used to build a cohesive leadership system and its ongoing development.

Promoting Simulation Globally: Networking with Nursing Colleagues Across Five Continents.

Simulation education is gaining momentum internationally and may provide the opportunity to enhance clinical education while disseminating evidence-based practice standards for clinical simulation and learning. There is a need to develop a cohesive leadership group that fosters support, networking, and sharing of simulation resources globally. The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University has had the unique opportunity to establish academic exchange programs with schools of nursing across five continents. Although the joint and mutual simulation activities have been extensive, each international collaboration has also provided insight into the innovations developed by global partners.

From victorious rebels to strong authoritarian parties: prospects for post-war democratization

ABSTRACT In a number of cases, rebel movements that won civil wars transformed into powerful authoritarian political parties that dominated post-war politics. Parties whose origins are as victorious insurgent groups have different legacies and hence different institutional structures and patterns of behaviour than those that originated in breakaway factions of ruling parties, labour unions, non-violent social movements, or identity groups. Unlike classic definitions of political parties, post-rebel parties are not created around the need to win elections but rather as military organizations focused on winning an armed struggle. Key attributes of victorious rebel movements, such as cohesive leadership, discipline, hierarchy, and patterns of military administration of liberated territory, shape post-insurgent political parties and help explain why post-insurgent parties are often strong and authoritarian. This article seeks to identify the mechanisms that link rebel victory in three East African countries (Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda) to post-war authoritarian rule. These processes suggest that how a civil war ends changes the potential for post-war democratization.

Building Cohesive Leadership Development

In 2004 the General Assembly of the State of Ohio (USA) enacted Senate Bill 2, which created the Educator Standards Board ‘to develop and recommend to the state board of education standards for entering and continuing in the teaching and principalship professions’. Since that time the Ohio Department of Education has established a coherent leader development system to strengthen the accountability and performance of school principals under the standards that were adopted. This article reports on the national and international context of such work, related research, the development of the Ohio Principal Standards, the alignment of the standards with national standards, the development of the Ohio Principal Evaluation System, and the development of rubrics to measure principal performance. The authors believe that this work may be instructive and helpful to other entities that are seeking to upgrade principal performance.

School Leadership Policy Trends and Developments: Policy Expediency or Policy Excellence?

Background: Institutional theorists suggest environmental stakeholders in the organizational field have a symbiotic relationship with governing agencies, leading to institutional isomorphism. Hence state policy makers copy the work of their colleagues across states to create a sense of legitimacy, certainty, and professionalization rather than developing policy based on metrics of efficiency and/or effectiveness. It can stifle innovation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the trends in state policy for school-based education administrators as an indicator of institutional isomorphism. Research Design: A “cohesive leadership system” for school leaders that has been operationalized by researchers through a five-segment continuum of standards, preparation program approval, assessment and licensure, mentoring and induction, and ongoing professional development coupled with licensure renewal. Researchers in this study reviewed published state regulations in all 50 states with respect to each of these five segments. Findings: Key trends include universal standards-based preparation, continuous renewal, increasing assessment and accountability, a wider breadth of providers for administrator development, tiered licensure, and renewal linked to school improvement, as measured by student standardized assessments. The establishment of the continuum itself as well as the trends within each facet of the continuum reflect high degrees of field conformity (isomorphism) and diminishing policy space for alternative paradigms. Conclusions: This trend is likely to continue because of the tight coupling of the environmental field related to educational administration. The conclusions suggest methods for injecting change into state policy to ensure advances in the field rather than simply replication of the status quo.

Advancing museums

Museums, like many other nonprofit organizations, have recently been driven by the market economic model adopted by most developed Western countries. Financial efficiency has been pursued through restructuring and outsourcing. Museum executives are urged to be entrepreneurial but boards attend to oversight rather than support. High performing enterprises, including effective museums, are characterized by a focus on the long term, unique value and cohesive leadership which builds supportive but challenging relationships within the enterprise. A revised agenda for museum boards and executive leadership is developed which addresses long term trends in significant issues such as learning and information technology as well as public policy in relevant areas of scholarship.

The Effective Management of Museums: Cohesive Leadership and Visitor-focused Public Programming

The Effective Management of Museums: Cohesive Leadership and Visitor-focused Public Programming

The Effective Management of Museums: Cohesive Leadership and Visitor-Focused Public Programming

The Effective Management of Museums: Cohesive Leadership and Visitor-Focused Public Programming

Designing an effective statewide tobacco control program-California

In this report, the author traces the history of the development of the first statewide tobacco control program, from its early obstacles and legislative-imposed deadline through the development of its three priority areas. Woven into this review is Dr. Bal's emphasis on the role of a cohesive leadership tied into the needs of the tobacco control constituency.