Leadership Power Research Articles

Building Leadership Ecosystem Towards Prosperous Indonesia

Leadership is more than just a skill-set to direct and solve complex problems but also a way of transforming the life of a nation. The power of a leader can be seen from the impact of the people that he leads and the sustainability of the organization. A good leader is one that not only possesses the ability to transcend people to be and do better, but also positively influences them to use their power to contribute for a greater good. The role of a leader has become more evident during the time of crisis. Every decision creates multiple different outcomes and impacts. A leader must not only provide effective strategic moves, but also a safe-space to emotionally support the people he leads in overcoming the crisis. When a leader is absent or embodies poor leadership, the organization will not survive. Therefore, the power of a true leader lies within his own characters and the ability to navigate the crisis and transform it to the people that he leads. Understanding this importance of leadership has urged Pemimpin.id to navigate the values of inclusive, effective, and empowering leadership for a greater good and sustainable impact in Indonesia.

The Interview: Citra Politik Kim Jong Un Dalam Hegemoni Film Amerika

This study examines film The Interview to determine hegemonic process of political power relations in American films. North Korea is known as a closed country that strongly opposes western domination, especially America. Foreign media always describe North Korean government as a dictator, meaning absolute power of leader. In contrast, film The Interview depicts a humorous figure of North Korean leader by showing figure of Kim Jong Un who enjoys American culture. The plot of Twits in this film depicts uprising that took place to make North Korea a democracy. Qualitative descriptive research method is used in analyzing film through approach of Gramsci hegemony theory about how hegemony process in the film The Interview. Data collection techniques through literature examination include books, journals, documents, and films. Data reduction, data visualization, and drawing conclusions are data analysis activities. The results of study show that dominant group tries to exert influence with concepts of mastery in a persuasive manner by presenting reality from a different point of view. The dominant people here are Americans who are trying to change mindset audience by seeing North Korea as an oppressed people. Leaders who have been known to be assertive, such as Kim Jong Un, who is feared by people, are portrayed as humorous figures with a love for American culture, which is a clear fact in their development that they often experience political tensions.

The background of political leaders and capital flight: Evidence from Africa,

In studies of government and economics, an important issue is the relationship between the background of political leaders and economic performance. The aim of this paper is to empirically study the relationship between the background of political leaders and capital flight in Africa. Using a sample of 38 African countries from 2008 to 2018, we find that political horizon, the age and the profession of the political leaders stimulate capital flight, using Driscoll-Kraay methods, 2SLS and MLLI. Oil rent and corruption are the transmission channels that amplify the nature of the tenure-capital flight relationship. The results also highlight the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between political tenure and capital flight. On the other hand, high educated leaders, i.e. those with a master's degree and/or doctorate (HEL), contain the malaise; especially in oil-producing countries. It follows that in order to curb capital flight, it would be advisable to set up electoral laws that would perpetuate the accession to power of high educated leaders.

The power of sustainability, corporate governance, and millennial leadership: Exploring the impact on company reputation

In an era of challenging business and increasingly fierce competition, the company (business) reputation has become an increasingly valuable and vital asset. To maintain a good reputation, this study aims to explain what internal factors affect the business reputation and test the consistency of agency theory as a solution in explaining the influence of internal factors such as sustainability, millennial director, financial distress, board of commissioners, and company size on business reputation. The research used the power of panel data analysis, complemented by advanced statistical techniques such as Robust, Fixed Effects, Ordinary Least Square Regression, and Random Effects. This method is executed using Stata software, which offers incredible flexibility to seamlessly connect theoretical concepts and empirical data related to research variables. Results of this research show that sustainability and a board of commissioners are not able to have a significant influence on the business reputation; millennial directors and financial distress have a negative influence on the business reputation, while the company size has a significant positive effect on the business reputation. This research makes a valuable contribution to the company's management in considering important factors that can affect the business reputation, as well as taking appropriate steps to maintain and improve its reputation amid increasingly fierce business competition.

Black Feminists on Television in the 1970s

In the mid 1970s Black women, and Black feminists in particular, were increasingly visible on television, as they took positions as broadcast journalists and news anchors; starred in dramas and situation comedies, such as Good Times; and appeared as experts on an array of public affairs programs, including shows developed by Black Power leaders and feminists. This essay examines this rise and the constraints on it by analyzing Black feminists’ television activism and their appearances on three programs in the 1970s: two feminist public affairs programs that both aired on PBS stations, Woman (1973–1977) and Woman Alive! (1974, 1975, 1977); and For You Black Woman (1977–1985), a syndicated talk show which was not directly linked to any political movement but was pioneering because it was the first talk show and “public service” program addressed to Black women. Feminist programs—Woman and Woman Alive!—asserted a sisterhood based on gender oppression and encouraged Black women to join it, but they did not consistently address the intersection of race and gender. On the other hand, although For You Black Woman was a more conventional talk show for women, as it focused more on parenting, beauty, and fashion, not feminist or Black Power politics, the show tailored these topics to Black women, discussed race and gender in the distinctive experiences of Black women, and created space for Black women to be experts on a variety of topics. The least explicitly politically program of this triad, For You Black Woman provided a potent political space for Black feminism.

THE MEANING OF THE CONCEPT OF «PERSONIFICATION» AS A NECESSARY THEORETICAL TOOL FOR ANALYZING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA

The concept of personification is, in our opinion, the key to solving some fundamental problems of age and clinical psychology. Firstly, it is required when analyzing the process of gaining independence in early childhood. Secondly, without it there is no way to analyze the traumatic situation and the phenomenon of «personification introjection». In a chain of dramatic situations, the personalized image of alternating beneficiaries has a single narrative component, which is destructively enriched with each new trauma of the victim. An individual-interpersonal «traumatic funnel» is formed, which does not have its own power of drawing the victim into traumatic memories. Such a force is the flow of the victim’s own consciousness, directed into the past. Being affectively limited and disoriented within the framework of the performing position formed as a result of trauma, the victim, in fact, exposes himself to suffering, This performing position, which is closely related to the group form of fear, is the result of the disintegration of the associated activity into indicative and performing parts and the fixation of polarized positions for the beneficiary and his victim. The panic fear of the victim, destroying the indicative part of the individual’s activity, exists in the individual, but not at all for the individual, but to ensure group functions on the part of the powerful leader. Keywords: personification, personifier, beneficiary, the relationship of power

Afro-Asian Intimacies Across Southern Cartographies: Race, Sex, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Home and Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dao

Afro-Asian Intimacies Across Southern Cartographies:Race, Sex, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Home and Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dao Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (bio) In 1953, following the Korean Armistice Agreement that ostensibly ended direct U.S. intervention in Korea (but, in reality, merely led to a recalibration of the unending Korean War), African American soldier Clarence Adams was one of twenty-one prisoners of war who refused repatriation back to the United States and instead migrated to the People's Republic of China. His decision was influenced by the antiblackness that structured the segregated U.S. South, curtailing his chances of upward mobility, as well as his compassion for the Korean civilians devastated by U.S. military intervention, prompting recognition of the shared oppression of Third World peoples.1 Twelve years later, during the Vietnam War, he broadcast a message to Black soldiers via Radio Hanoi, urging them to return to the United States: "You are fighting the wrong war. Brothers, go home. The Negro people need you back there."2 According to Daniel Y. Kim, "Adams mobilize[d] a historiography of a race war to cast both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as ones waged by a white empire against a colored population," exemplifying what Bill Mullens terms "Afro-Orientalism": a phenomenon in which Black activists turned to idealized Asian subjects for anti-imperialist and antiracist inspiration.3 I begin with Adams' story for three reasons. First, it highlights continuities between Black narratives of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Whereas historians have elucidated the experiences of Black soldiers during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, respectively, few studies have grappled with these two Cold War fronts in relation, noting patterns and [End Page 97] particularities in Black subject formation across the two U.S. imperial conflicts.4 With the signing of Executive Order 9981 in July 1948, President Harry S. Truman desegregated the U.S. military, exemplifying the United States' project of racial liberalism and bolstering the expansion of the liberal empire, vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, even as Jim Crow laws continued to delimit the mobility of African Americans on the home front. Whereas the Korean War was the first U.S. experiment in militarized integration, it wasn't until the Vietnam War that the question of Black–white tensions in the military, transposed from the continental United States to the battlefront in Asia, gained widespread visibility. As Martin Luther King, Jr., famously observed in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech of April 1967: "[We watch] Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago."5 Segregation at home was only interrupted by "brutal solidarity" abroad: the uniting of Black and white soldiers in a common project of racialized wartime destruction.6 But continuities between the Korean and Vietnam Wars also led to political mobilization: many civil rights and Black Power leaders active during the Vietnam War era, such as Bobby Seale, James Forman, Ivory Perry, and Robert F. Williams, were radicalized during their experiences as Black soldiers in Cold War Korea.7 Second, Adams' story stitches together three southern spaces that are rarely discussed in relation: the U.S. South, South Korea, and South Vietnam. To focus on the southern-ness of these three sites is to trace the convergence of white supremacy, antiblackness, imperialism, and anticommunism that cohere at the intersection of the U.S. Civil War and Cold War politics.8 Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, amid the structural antiblackness of the segregated U.S. South, Adams joined the U.S. Army to escape incarceration at the hands of white policemen. This military service brought him to South Korea: a decolonizing nation that the United States had taken upon itself to protect in the Cold War struggle against North Korea, Communist China, and the Soviet Union. These south-south relationalities—the transposition of a Black subject of the U.S. South to the southern warfront of a new...

The Impact of Costa & McCrae’s Big Five Personality Traits on Academic Motivation of Part-time Employed Undergraduates

Undergraduates differ in their level of motivation, learning styles, and individual educational preferences. Identifying the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and academic motivation may be central to uplifting the academic motivation of undergraduates towards a higher level of achievement. The objective of the study is to identify the impact of Big Five personality traits namely Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience on academic motivation of Part-time employed undergraduates in University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Since education is the key for most individuals to succeed in their lives, this study contains important information for academic staff to produce high-quality and powerful leaders. Productive graduates will empower the country by bringing new businesses, new technology, new wealth, and ultimately economic growth. Therefore, this study is important not only to undergraduates but also to the growth of the country.

The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions

This study examines how negative oil shocks affect military expenditures and the quality of democracy in the oil rentier states of the greater Middle East using annual data from 1990 to 2018, inclusive. The theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in oil revenues decreases the government spending on patronages and public goods and may challenge the political power of the incumbent leader. The results of the impulse response functions based on the estimated panel vector autoregressive models indicate that the responses of the military burden and non-military expenditures (as a percentage of GDP) to negative oil shocks become negative and statistically significant after three to four years. Reductions in the financial capability of a rentier government and spending on patronages improve the political environment and quality of democracy. However, this political improvement takes some time to develop as the government may resist the reduction in its expenditures during the initial phase of oil shocks. The policy implication of these results is informative for organizations and policymakers interested in the security and political impact of oil sanctions. Restrictions on oil exports decrease the military spending of the oil rentier states and improve their democracy indices in the long run, although the short-run impacts can be negative. These results are not sensitive to different proxies for oil abundance, alternative data on military expenditures, different indicators of democracy, and different groups of oil-dependent countries.

Implementation of Bureaucratic Reform: A Case Study From The Indonesian Armed Forces And Its Challenges

The Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) is a state instrument whose primary duty is in the field of defense to safeguard Indonesian sovereignty. The history of the TNI's involvement in guarding the long journey of the Indonesian nation began even before Indonesia's independence when it was still carried out in the form of a people's resistance body and was regional. During the New Order era, the TNI, which had received special rights known as the Dual Function of ABRI, was finally abolished in 1998 along with the resignation of the late President Suharto after 32 years in power. After the reform, the TNI has consolidated and left behind the dual role of the past which for many people is more likely to be seen as a tool to maintain the centralized power of the country's leaders. After more than two decades of reforming the TNI, it has now made the TNI one of the largest military forces in the Asean region and even reckoned with by the world. Likewise, the return of public trust in the TNI can be seen through various studies conducted by survey institutions with the results that almost always place the TNI in the first place. However, in contradiction with all the results that have been achieved, the value of the implementation of bureaucratic reform in TNI institutions is only able to penetrate the category of good enough, so this article is made as an initiation with a focus on seeing implementation, challenges to what factors influence bureaucratic reform within the Indonesian National Armed Forces.

Quoted at the Pulpit: Male Rhetoric and Female Authority in Fifty Years of General Conference

Quoted at the Pulpit: Male Rhetoric and Female Authority in Fifty Years of General Conference

The Portrayal of Neoliberal Subjects in Chinese People in Africa

This article examines the television documentary Chinese People in Africa (2016), as part of the official Chinese efforts to enhance China’s image in media and communication, for both the domestic and the international audiences. The determined, hard-working, self-relying individuals engaged in wild life conservation, peace-keeping, non-governmental organization service etc., offer typical neoliberal subject figures that reform-era China up till the 2010s tries to make of Chinese citizens. To the extent that the show’s value orientation fails to register the leftward ideological turn ensued by an actual leadership power transfer well before the show’s production, the documentary is also a good example of ideological tenacity in the field of cultural production.

The virtue of a controlling leadership style: Authoritarian leadership, work stressors, and leader power distance orientation

The virtue of a controlling leadership style: Authoritarian leadership, work stressors, and leader power distance orientation

Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria

ABSTRACT This article explores the power exercised by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over the transport workers in Lagos (Nigeria). With the privatisation of transport and the regulation of motor parks transferred from local governments to NURTW, the union has been able to expand the power of unionist leaders who have developed new managerial techniques to increase their own profits. The NURTW case reflects the adaptation of neoliberal norms within a union at the expense of its workers. The article suggests that union power over workers is as necessary a field of research as the recent renewal on power resources approach exploring the capacity of unions to empower workers.

Are university leaders always the same? A longitudinal analysis of Vice-chancellors’ profile in English universities over the last twenty years

ABSTRACT While the effects of new managerialism and the internationalization of higher education on university structures and functions have been widely examined, their impact on university leadership has been less investigated, although both phenomena suggest the need for different and more powerful leaders. This article aims to examine if the core features of university leaders’ profiles have been affected by the two aforementioned phenomena, and whether differences can be identified according to different types of universities. To answer these questions, this article develops six hypotheses and tests them by using a unique dataset on several dimensions of the profiles of 324 Vice-chancellors from 98 English universities and covering a period of more than 20 years (2000–2020). The analysis highlights that the nature of the universities as professional organizations profoundly affects the characteristics of their leaders’ profiles. Vice-chancellors are predominantly academics who have held academic leadership positions and whose appointment is also shaped by a rule of representativeness. Statistically significant differences among university types can be identified instead in terms of the research profile of Vice-chancellors and their recruitment patterns. Finally, this article shows that even decades after the emergence of both new managerialism and the increasing internationalization of HE, the profile of university leaders still resembles that of the last century with just minor changes that can be retrieved only in certain university types.

EFFECT OF INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION ON STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION IN COUNTY GOVERNMENTS IN WESTERN REGION, KENYA

<p>County governments in Kenya have been in operation since 2013, but the performance of most of them is still an issue for debate despite the reforms that have been put in place. Consequently, for the achievement of exceptional performance in the current dynamic and uncertain socio-economic environment, a blend of buoyant leadership capabilities and potent management styles is required. Transformational leadership has been touted as a possible remedy to such scenarios. The study sought to determine how intellectual stimulation affects strategy implementation. The study was anchored on the power and influence theory of leadership. A pilot study was conducted in Trans Nzoia County. The study was a census targeting 268 respondents and was anchored on a positivism paradigm and utilized a descriptive-correlational research design. A purposive sampling design was adopted and data was collected using questionnaires and an interview guide. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics descriptive analysis by the aid of SPSS version 23. Results were presented in form of tables and models. The findings revealed that intellectual stimulation significantly accounts for a 30.1% variation in strategy implementation. Further, intellectual stimulation (β=0.448, P=0.000) has a significant statistical effect on strategy implementation. The study concluded that intellectual stimulation has a significant effect on strategy implementation. The study recommends that county management need to develop the competence of their staff at their place of work, appreciate each staff as an individual rather than as a group, and ensure fair workload distribution. These will encourage staff to perform their jobs effectively and put extra effort into their work hence strategy implementation.</p><p><strong>JEL: </strong>G18; H11</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0464/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Troubling the Niceness of Social Change in Leadership Education

This article troubles a culture of niceness that upholds racism, whiteness, and other forms of oppression, as well as challenges the simplistic application of social change in leadership education. Leadership educators have several responsibilities for challenging ideologies, practices, and discourses that secure whiteness when teaching about leadership for social change. The current article begins with situating the relationship of whiteness and niceness, then offers liberatory considerations for troubling niceness in leadership education. Considerations for why leadership educators and students, based on their social identities and lived experiences, might resist addressing social inequality, power, inclusion, and equity in leadership are discussed. Pedagogical considerations for responding to resistance and disrupting systems of oppression are described, drawn from liberatory pedagogical frameworks

What Are the Main Objectives of Reward Management Systems, and How Has Best Practice Influenced the Development of Them?

As companies place greater emphasis on human resource management, reward management systems are increasingly being introduced to motivate employees and improve individual and organisational performance. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the objectives of reward management systems, best practices of reward management systems and how these practices can positively or negatively impact on the development of objectives. In addition to this, the drawbacks of reward power and transformational leadership from a gender perspective will also be explored. Using some typical examples, such as the bankruptcy of Enron, this paper concludes that managerial power and transformational leadership approaches are flawed and exaggerate the power of leaders in corporate decision-making. Companies should adopt both benchmarking and 360-degree feedback and focus more on ethical corporate culture, effective leadership and flexible compensation management systems to maximise the positive outcomes of best practice in compensation management systems.

When Women Are the Bosses: Linguistic Strategies in Managing Problematic Discourses

The exercise of power in leadership may involve conflicts, especially in precarious situations. Politeness strategies come into practice to cushion the aftermath of face-threatening acts that presumably trigger tension. This study aims to shed light on female leaders' linguistic strategies in managing problematic discourses involving older male subordinates in the Indonesian university context. The naturalistic data was obtained from recorded meetings. The study results depict that the female leader employs both direct and indirect strategies in handling problematic issues, especially when the female leader has to face up to senior subordinates. She adopts direct strategies to convey important messages that have to be obeyed by the employees. On the other hand, she adheres to the cultural norms that oblige younger people to show respect to older people by using indirect strategies. The politeness strategies employed in her utterances show how culture shapes communication approaches. In general, a female leader has to have a range of sophisticated linguistic competence in a high-rank managerial position.

Employee-Organization Identity Fusion: Connecting Leadership and Symmetrical Internal Communication to Identity- and Engagement-Related Outcomes

Employees are key organizational stakeholders whose value to the enterprise’s functioning has long been emphasized in business communication literature. The present study serves to integrate business communication, organizational psychology, and leadership literature to advance a theoretically grounded model explaining employees’ job engagement. Drawing upon recent advances in consumer psychology and social identity scholarship on brand identity fusion, this study examines how employee-organization identity fusion, or a visceral feeling of oneness with the organization experienced by employees may contribute to their job engagement. Surveys conducted among employees belonging to corporations with one thousand or more employees revealed not only the power of authentic leadership and symmetrical communication in engendering employee-organization identity fusion, but also how leadership and communication can foster workers’ job engagement. The theoretical and managerial implications of this work are discussed (132 words).