Personal Leadership Research Articles

The Impact of Covid 19 on School Administrators’ Leadership Attributes in Selected Schools in Jamaica

Principals have been called upon to utilize their personal leadership resources in Jamaican schools during the novel Corona Virus pandemic. This crisis has forced a radical shift in the landscape of school leadership and management not only in Jamaica but globally. The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to ascertain the impact of Covid-19 on principals’ level of compassion and care, openness and communication, adaptiveness, resilience and courage, consultation and collaboration, empowerment, and decisiveness. Additionally, it sought to assess whether there were differences in these leadership attributes based on school level, region, and gender. A 24-item questionnaire developed and validated by Balasubramanian and Fernandes (2022) and achieved an overall Cronbach Alpha of .84 was used to collect data. The sample included 50 principals and vice principals selected conveniently from the 7 regions 18 completed and returned the questionnaire, 15 females and 3 males. The data were coded and imported into the SPSS, version 27, and were screened, cleaned, and analyzed using weighted means and standard deviations and MANOVA. The mean ranges for interpretation include: 1.00 – 2.33 = Low Attribute; 2.34 – 3.67 = Moderate Attribute and 3.68 – 5.00 = High Attribute. The results showed that the principal participants scored high on leadership attributes. These findings hold critical and practical lessons for handling future crises. They show that effective leaders in many schools can function effectively in a crisis given that the policy makers provide adequate guidance and regulations with a relevant resources. Keywords: Adaptiveness, Compassion and care, Consultation and collaboration, Empowerment and Decisiveness, Openness and Communication, Resilience, and Courage.

Remembering Gorbachev.

Since the middle of last century the so-called "rational actor" models in international and domestic affairs (von Rochau, 1853) supported the assumption that a political leader's decision-making is logical and unaffected by psychological factors. In 1993 eight psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists formed a team to study political leaders' personality characteristics and the psychodynamics of their decision-making processes. They met twice a year for five years and studied political leaders with obsessional, paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic and depressive personality organizations (Volkan, Akhtar, Dorn, Kafka, Kernberg, Olsson, Rogers, & Shanfield, 1998). Today academicians dealing with political issues are more aware that the personality of a political leader plays a crucial role in his or her attempts to maintain a stable relationship with his or her "followers" as well as in dealing with domestic and international issues. On February 2022, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin's psychological issues in starting this invasion already have been examined through psychoanalytic angles (Ihanus, 2022; Volkan & Javakhishvili, 2022). On August 30, 2022, Mikhail Gorbachev died. A political leader with Gorbachev's personality would not start a new war, a new horrifying event with brutality against civilians, children and innocent.

Karakter dan Konsep Pemimpin dalam Perspektif al-Qur’an

Leadership is an absolute thing that is one of the various central themes in the Islamic perspective to achieve success. However, leadership which is a wash to draw closer and worship Allah SWT, is starting to shift from its essence. Therefore, this study tries to bring back the leader's characteristics and concepts from the Qur'anic perspective. In addition, this would reinforce the leader's characteristics and concepts so that they can be used as a reference in shaping the personality of an ideal leader. The results of this study indicate that leadership in the Qur'an is explained through at least five concepts, namely Khalifah, Imam or Imamah, Ulul 'Amri, Wali, and Malik. In terms of characteristics, a leader should imitate the character of the Prophet Muhammad, namely Shidq, Amanah, Tabligh, and Fathanah, with which the organization he leads can achieve success and blessings according to the expected goals.

Humanizing science: seven actions for PhD students to become next generation, future-proof scientists

PhD students, also referred to as the early stage researchers (ESRs), that are participating in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 consortium, OrganoVIR, have the ambition to become top scientists in virology with innovative, animal-free, research models; organoids. To achieve this ambition, developing more self-confidence and resilience was used to strengthen personal leadership needed in such professional role. Towards this purpose, seven actions have been selected that guide the ESRs through their PhD journey and help them elevate their career perspectives and employability in the international labor market. In this essay, we share the seven personal development actions that have been carried out by the ESRs in the OrganoVIR H2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) project, with the goal of demonstrating how training human skills can contribute to innovation and collaboration in European research. This article is an effort by OrganoVIR’s Training and Education Committee to provide views on personal growth and leadership awareness.

Преуспяващото лидерство – реалност или утопия?

The article examines the conditions for leadership and team thriving. The goal is to detail and extend a theory of ‘thriving leadership’ based on an analysis of Bulgarian and international research in this field. Leadership theories are analyzed in support of thriving leadership, examining in detail its layers – individual (coaching, communication, leadership, emotions and change), team (leadership as a dynamic phenomenon of group dynamics, global cross-cultural and virtual teams, and the question of meaning and purpose) and organizational (The “Bulgarian dream” and B-Corporations movement). The author's thrive matrix is presented, explaining the internal conditions for personal leadership thriving.

Navigating Turbulent Waters: Leading One Manitoba School in a Time of Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed the practice of school leadership, requiring greater flexibility, creativity, and innovation. Guided by institutional theory, this paper suggests that leadership adaptations are influenced by environmental pressures such as coercive (e.g., from governmental or regulatory agencies), mimetic (e.g., attempts to emulate best practices from other schools), and normative pressures (e.g., professional standards endorsed by professional societies or unions). By using a qualitative co-constructed autoethnographic approach (See Kempster & Iszatt-White, 2012), the paper presents the Covid-19 timeline in Manitoba, identifying stakeholders and associated environmental pressures. It also features the personal leadership adaptations experienced by a school principal (Susan). The findings suggest that coercive pressures are mostly associated with creativity and inventive leadership practices. Mimetic pressures may lead to copying behaviours, and normative pressures are associated with enhanced foundational knowledges, all depending on contextual factors. The findings also highlight the significant emotional and physical toll the pandemic has taken on school principals.

ФОРМУВАННЯ КОНФЛІКТОЛОГІЧНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ ПЕРСОНАЛУ ДКВС УКРАЇНИ В РОБОТІ ІЗ ЗАСУДЖЕНИМИ

This article examines the issue of the role of conflicts in determining the criminal behavior of convicts and persons taken into custody and the conflict-related formation competence of the personnel of the penitentiary institutions and detention centers. The purpose of the article is the “conflictological competence” skills by using training technologies and exercises which will allow to form the necessary skills of the penitentiary institutions personnel for the execution of punishments. Conclusions. Because it is not always possible to detect conflicts in time in penitentiary institutions, which is explained by their hidden nature. In addition, there are conflicts in the penitentiary institutions, which are caused by personal characteristics and leadership style of the correctional facilities personnel. The style of management of penitentiary institutions is connected with personal characteristics, temperament, lack of experience and professional personality deformation. Indicative program for training conflict-related competence of the penitentiary institutions personnel in four sessions, the purpose of which is to create the atmosphere of openness; trust and support of group cohesion of group participants; mastering the methods of conflict analysis and searching for regularities of adaptive behavior in difficult communication situations; building professional skills of active listening, understanding of another person in complex communication situations, learning effective methods of self-regulation of behavior and decrease emotional states in the conflict. Key words: conflict, conflict competence, the personnel of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine, prevention of conflicts, training of conflict-related competence.

South African electoral trends: prospects for coalition governance at national and provincial spheres in 2024

ABSTRACT The 2021 local government elections (LGE) in the Republic of South Africa once again delivered hung metropolitan municipalities – a phenomenon that became common following the 2016 LGE results. The City of Cape Town is, however, a metropolitan municipality that has experienced coalition governance since the early 2000s, while the rest of South Africa's metropolitan municipalities were governed by the ruling African National Congress from 1994 to 2016. The 2021 LGE delivered coalition governments across the majority of metropolitan councils, namely: City of Tshwane (the capital), City of Johannesburg (Africa's economic hub), Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, City of Ethekwini, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. This paper provides a conceptualisation of 'coalition governance and politics', and key characteristics of this phenomenon in South Africa and globally. Conceptual and operational understandings of coalitions is crucial given their increasing prevalence in South Africa. Areas of cooperation, compromise, consensus and divergence among the prospective coalition partners in South Africa are also examined in the article (based on political party electoral performance trends, political ideology, policy preferences and leadership personalities and qualities). Such factors are important because they determine the likely feasibility, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of coalition governments.

The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Managers` Leadership Styles

Abstract This research study starts with the hypothesis that the personality traits of managers influence their leadership styles. Personality traits are taken from the model Big Five (McCrae and Costa) since it is one of the most dominant models of personality in modern psychology. Management styles (leadership) were investigated within the theories of transformational and transactional leadership, including laissez-faire style (Bruce Avolio & Bernard Bass). The research was conducted with 160 lower-level, middle-level and high-level managers in Serbia, employed in private and public sectors. From the questionnaire the NEO Personality Inventory (Serbian version, Kostić, P. 2002), and with the analysis of the main components, five dimensions of personality have been extracted: extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience. From the shorter version of Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, three factors of leadership have been extracted: transformational, transactional and laissez-faire. The relationship between the received factors was checked by Pearson`s correlation coefficient and by multiple regression analysis. The received information showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between personality traits and leadership styles, and the most dominant relationship is between the transformational leadership style and extraversion (in a positive sense) and neuroticism (in a negative sense).

IUPAC International Award For Advances In Harmonized Approaches To Crop Protection Chemistry—Call For Nominations

Abstract The IUPAC International Award For Advances In Harmonized Approaches To Crop Protection Chemistry recognizes individuals in government, intergovernmental organizations, academia, and industry who have exercised personal leadership for outstanding regulatory, public policy, and/or educational contributions supporting international harmonization of crop protection chemistry. The award is administered by the IUPAC Advisory Committee on Crop Protection Chemistry, a IUPAC subcommittee of Chemistry and the Environment Division, and is presented on a biennial basis.

RANKING OF IMRAN KHAN’S POPULARITY IN PAKISTAN’S MEDIA

This study analyzed Imran Khan as the populist leader’s ranking in Pakistan’s media prior to and after becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan. The election was held in 2018, and Imran Khan was considered the most popular leader among the people of Pakistan. The content analysis of four mainstream English Newspapers (Express Tribune, DAWN, The News International, and The Nation) was carried out. The total number of news stories framed in four newspapers was 1158 (N=1158). The study aimed to analyze the ranking of the popularity frames of Imran Khan in newspapers. For this purpose, popularity frame's categories were operationalized into five themes, Personality, People’s Leader, The Savior, Poise Reformer, and Crisis Manager. These were further divided into ten subthemes with negative and positive connotations attached. The findings revealed that the hypothesis, “ranking of Imran Khan’s popularity prior to election in 2018 is higher than after election in Newspaper of Pakistan,” is not supported, i.e., Spearman correlation rs (ρ) =.125 and value of p=.568, that is not significant at level 0.05. Keywords: Crisis Manager, People’s Leader Personality, Populist, Poise Reformer, The Savior

ANALISIS MANAJEMEN SUMBER DAYA MANUSIA (MSDM) DALAM UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KINERJA PEGAWAI MELALUI MEKANISME REWARD

Human resources are one of the important aspects possessed by an agency, both public and private agencies. The management of human resource management is important to do, so this research is intended to analyze and describe the management of human resource management as an effort to improve employee performance, especially employees of the Department of Transportation of Purbalingga Regency through the reward mechanism carried out. This study uses qualitative research methods, with three data collection methods, namely in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. The problems in this study were studied more deeply using 5 (five) factors that affect performance, namely personal factors, work systems, facilities, leadership and situations. The results of this study indicate that the management of human resource management carried out by the Department of Transportation of Puralingga Regency is through a reward mechanism. This mechanism is very important for improving the performance of its employees. However, the facilities and personal factors still need improvement. This is due to the lack of accessibility of supporting facilities for employee performance at the Department of Transportation of Purbalingga Regency.

Philosophical-Psychological, Pedagogical-Managerial Aspects of "Qualitative" Formation of Future Specialists of All Levels of Training and Specialties in the Conditions of Technical University

The study is devoted to such topical issues in the theory and methodology of education and pedagogy of higher education as the training of future leaders, namely the formation and development of leadership qualities of students in technical universities. On the topic of the study, the authors analyzed the literature of leading scientists in the field of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy, identified features of the formation of leadership in the student environment. The study reveals the seven most important criteria that form the core of the personality of the future specialist leader. The use of these seven criteria of personality development of the future specialist in technical universities requires a combination and adaptation of traditional approaches to education and the latest pedagogical technologies. This is aimed not just at introducing certain forms and methods of work into the educational process, but at creating a specially organized professional environment in which future professionals have opportunities for professional and personal growth through conscious change and transformation of both the environment and themselves. In the process of personal change, the student's historical "I" is as close as possible to his logical "I" and is held by the latter with the help of Onto In-Se. This is how the future specialist acquires leadership qualities, first of all: cognitive, communicative, organizational, moral and volitional and reflexive skills. It is established that through the development of conceptual and creative thinking of the student it is possible to influence the formation of his critical "I" as a necessary attribute of leadership: the ability to listen and hear, understand and act.

Women’s education and empowerment in the Philippines: A community solution


 
 
 The Advocacy on Women’s Education and Empowerment (AWE) Project is a community action program based in the Philippines that was implemented after participation in the 2016 Community Solutions Fellowship for Global Leaders—a professional leadership development program for community leaders across the world that involves a four-month fellowship with a nonprofit organisation or local government agency in the United States. The inspiration for the AWE project was the Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership (GGAL) program of the Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE) in Minnesota. The AWE project empowers young women through a series of capacity building exercises, beginning with personal self-awareness, leadership development, conflict management, peace circles and gender and human rights. This provides opportunities for female social work students and young social workers to reach their full potential as gender and human rights advocates and leaders in the Philippines. This paper aims to highlight the role of social workers in gender and human rights advocacy at the local and international level, details the experiences, lessons and challenges of running a project which builds the capacity of young women, and promotes the role of higher educational institutions in building the skills and competence of future leaders.
 
 

The Influence of Leadership on Students Organizational Performance

A person leadership style in leading is very influential and becomes a determining factor for increasing and decreasing employee performance, therefore it is clear that every company needs an effective leadership style because in this case it depends on the reliability and ability of members to operate work units. This research aims to examine the influence of leadership style on the performance of student organization members. This type of research is a type of quantitative research using survey research methods and data collection in this study using a questionnaire in the form of written statements given to respondents. The data obtained in this study is based on the answers of the respondents to the questionnaire distributed to 30 respondents who were taken by random sampling. The data analysis in this study used simple regression analysis, and testing the coefficient of determination, with the t test. From the results of the analysis of research data, it was found that there was an influence of the leadership style applied by the leadership of students’ organisation on members performance, this can be seen with a significance of =0.05 with a t-test result of 5.055 and a significance <0.05 (0.000<0.05), meaning that the hypothesis can be concluded that Ho is rejected and Ha received. So, it can be concluded that leadership style has a direct positive effect on members performances at Students Organisaion

PERCEIVED INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES AND WORK ENGAGEMENT IN CIVIL SERVICE: A CHALLENGE FOR 21 CENTURY LEADER IN THE PUBLIC SECTORS OF MALAYSIA

Leadership in the 21st Century demands a great leader who is inclusive in leveraging knowledge, insights and perspectives in diverse workplaces which can make organizations capture a competitive advantage from changing demographics across the workplace and in the marketplace. It needs a leader to take on the opportunity, new way and understanding of what to do and how to do things differently. To be a great leader in public service, organizations would need to invest in developing them. Despite investing significant resources in the training and development of leaders for their competencies, quality, efficiency and improving organization’s performance, many leaders often feel unprepared to be inclusive. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine how inclusive leadership challenges foster employee work engagement. Three key leadership challenges (personal leadership, managing and motivating, building and leading a team) were successfully identified by Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL) and measured as significant toward employee work engagement in the selected public sectors in Malaysia. A quantitative study was conducted, and hypotheses were tested on a sample of 240 employees in four divisions using Pearson correlation and Multiple Regressions analysis. The result shows that inclusive leadership challenges were positively associated with work engagement, personal leadership challenges with the unstandardized coefficients Beta value of 0.316 followed by building and leading team challenge with Beta value of 0.206 were supported and stronger predictors in influencing employees’ work engagement in the public sector. This study shows that greater concerns from the employees in the public sector on the quality of the leadership in the 21st Century currently bring daily to work practice. Inclusive leadership is crucial for employee engagement, commitment and performance. This study also contributes both theoretical and empirical value to the public sector in formulating proper strategies for having great leaders to fostering inclusiveness in employees’ work engagement.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0559/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Clinical leadership training in integrated primary care networks: a qualitative evaluation

ObjectiveTo explore how a clinical leadership training programme contributes to successful implementation of integrated dementia care in local primary care networks.Methods and analysisA qualitative design was used in local primary...

Personal leadership competencies of Malaysian Matriculation College middle leaders

<span lang="EN-US">This study obtained expert consensus on the constructs of personal leadership competencies for Malaysia Matriculation College middle leaders using the approach of the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM). A list of instruments containing the proposed construct and all the elements was given to 30 experts from various fields and backgrounds. This study's finding indicates that most of the experts agree with the proposed constructs and elements of the personal leadership competencies. The threshold values for all the 14 elements tested met the requirements of d≤0.2. All the expert agreements achieved the targeted percentage, which is between 75% and 100%. The Alpha-cut value also met the requirement needed between 0.878 and 0.950, which is the threshold of 0.5 (α-cut≥0.5). Through FDM, the defuzzification process was carried out to rearrange all the elements based on the experts' ranking agreed. This study successfully presented a new construct by considering the crucial elements in middle leaders' competencies in the Malaysian context.</span>

리더십 촉진요인과 저해요인에 대한 인식

This is an exploratory study to help leaders to suggest the way of leadership for the followers, MZ generation, in a non-face-to-face situation that has accelerated due to COVID-19. As a result of this study, trust and concise communication were derived for followers in relational aspect as factors that can promote leadership in non-face-to-face situations, and clear work direction and individualized performance management were derived as factors that promoted leadership in task aspect. Futhermore, on the personal aspects, the personality and the work expertise of the leader were presented. On the other hand, the individualized performance management, leader personality, and work expertise that derived in this study are significant because these reflects the real voice and situation of the work place that had not presented in the recent study related the non-face-to-face situation. In addition, this study contributes to the leadership of the organization by suggesting what leaders in the organization should apply and not to overlook in their leadership in non-face-to-face situations.

Attributes Influencing Effectiveness of Employees’ Innovation in Telecommunication Industry in Tanzania

This study aimed at examining attributes influencing the effectiveness of employees’ innovation in telecommunication industry in Tanzania using Tigo as a reference. Specifically, the study focused on the assessment of the influence of personal competence, leadership styles, technology and financial resources on employees’ innovation in terms of the number of employees’ creative ideas and projects turned into innovation. The study employed a cross-sectional survey strategy to collect data from a sample of 78 employees and openended questionnaires to collect additional information from 5 key informants who were senior members of Tigo, Tanzania. Descriptive statistics and Multiple Linear Regression were used to analyse data and test formulated hypotheses respectively. The findings show that leadership styles and technology strongly influence employees’ innovation in Telecommunication Companies. The study findings imply that it is very crucial for human resource directors to motivate staff to make them innovative. Also, ICT, research and development departments should be given more budgets and intensive trainings in order to build employees’ innovative capacity. Therefore, it is recommended that technology and leadership style should be seriously considered by company’s management when making strategies and plans for innovative growth in an organization particularly Telecommunication Industry.