Environmental Leadership Research Articles

Implementation of Transformational Leadership in Improving Teacher

Education plays an important role in nation building, through quality education the next generation can be prepared to face future challenges. Teacher performance is a key factor in realizing quality education. Teachers act as conveyors of knowledge, mentors, motivators, and role models for students. Therefore, improving teacher performance is a top priority in education management. Leadership in the school environment plays an important role in improving teacher performance, especially through transformational leadership. Transformational leadership, introduced by James MacGregor Burns and developed by Bernard M. Bass, inspires and motivates subordinates to achieve more than they thought they could. This leadership style focuses on achieving organizational goals and individual development. The implementation of transformational leadership in schools can bring significant changes in the learning and teaching environment. Transformational leaders are able to generate morale, increase commitment and foster innovation among teachers by providing a clear vision, consistent support and continuous inspiration. This research aims to explore how transformational leadership can be implemented in an educational context and its effect on improving teacher performance. Through case studies and in-depth analysis, this research provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of transformational leadership in education.

CONCEPTION OF LEADERSHIP OF MANAGERS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS IN UKRAINE

Relevance. The presented research was conducted on the basis of the study "Leader in Business Organization of Ukraine", conducted to clarify the practice of leadership and management in the modern business environment of Ukraine: diagnosis of management potential to form mechanisms for improving the effectiveness of business organizations [21]. We set a goal to empirically test what personal qualities are required for effective leadership according to the opinion of leaders and managers in Ukraine. Metodology. Sample. 104 respondents, aged 28 to 52, participated in the study. The employees of companies from different spheres of business activity and forms of ownership participated in the survey. The study was conducted using a social-psychological questionnairing. The research participants were asked to identify 10 personal qualities that are required for an effective Ukrainian business leader. Results. For centuries, the phenomenon of leadership has been studied by philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, so the views on the nature of leadership are extremely diverse. Leadership is known by its very nature to be both the result of objective as well as subjective factors. The study highlighted the clusters based on leadership characteristics that testify to the conception of business leadership of contemporary business executives and managers. The respondents identified 42 qualities that they believe are inherent in today's Ukrainian business leader. In the general selection with a frequency of more than 10%, there are 14 distinguished qualities (determination, consistency, reasonableness, being bright at decision-making in emergencies, enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, perseverance, observation, riskiness, responsibility, competence, sociability, self-perfection/self-development).

Effectiveness of Environmental Leadership Indicators Based on Local Wisdom in Development Horticultural Agriculture in Ngada - Indonesia

This research delves into the pivotal role of farmer groups in driving the development of horticultural agriculture in Ngada Regency, Flores, Indonesia, under the leadership of their respective group chairmen who adopt an environmental leadership approach rooted in local wisdom, recognizing its significance in fostering effective agricultural development. Employing an interpretive phenomenological qualitative research approach, the study unravels the intricate dynamics of environmental leadership by delving into the lived experiences and perceptions of participants. Data collection involves diverse methods including observations, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions (FGD) within horticultural farmer groups, highlighting nuances of their organizational structure and practices. Findings elucidate a spectrum of indicators emblematic of effective environmental leadership within the context of agricultural development, such as possessing an ecological vision, adeptness in motivating others, exemplifying leadership through personal conduct, effective communication skills, and a steadfast commitment to goal attainment, underscoring the interconnectedness between local wisdom, ecological stewardship, and leadership efficacy.

Effect of work environment, work discipline, work motivation, workload, and transformational leadership on performance of puskesmas employees

This study aims to analyze the influence of the work environment, work discipline, work motivation, workload, and transformational leadership on employee performance at Puskesmas Magelang Regency. The descriptive quantitative method was used in this research. The number of samples is 8% of the employees of all Puskesmas, about 137 employees. Data collection technique used google form online questionnaire from October - November 2022. Data analysis using the Structural Equation Modelling Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) technique with SmartPLS 3.0 Software analysis tool. This study found that work environment and work motivation significantly affected employee performance. Then, the workload and transformational leadership also significantly impact employee performance. Only work discipline did not have a significant effect on employee performance. The Four variables together significantly affect employee performance except for work discipline. Puskesmas leadership and other stakeholders need to pay attention to these four variables to increase the performance of Puskesmas employees, which will also affect Puskesmas performance.

Analisis Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Suksesi Keberhasilan Bisnis Keluarga

Family businesses are controlled by family members through blood ties or marriage and reflect characteristics such as family commitment, learning environment, reliability, spiritual strength, and dual leadership. Sustainability in family businesses is considered a core goal of business, but challenges arise from internal conflicts, generational differences, and adaptation to non-traditional methods. Heritage values and family traditions play an important role in in decision making. Factors such as inheritance for generations, risk management, and organizational culture also affect family business identity and performance. A literature review discusses preparation, family relationships, and planning as important factors in family business succession.

HUBUNGAN FAKTOR INDIVIDU DAN ORGANISASI DENGAN KINERJA TENAGA KESEHATAN PADA PROGRAM PPIA

Transmission of HIV infection from pregnant women to babies can be prevented with the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mother to Child (PPIA) Program. However, in its implementation, four Community Health Centers in Gresik Regency have not met HIV testing requirements. Therefore, to achieve these standards, a study of the factors that influence the performance of the PPIA workforce is required. This research aims to identify factors that influence the performance of PPIA workers. Data were collected using a total sampling technique using a questionnaire on a sample of 45. Next, hypothesis testing was carried out. The research results show that most PPIA workers at the Gresik Regency Health Center perform poorly, while their knowledge tends to be low. There is no significant relationship between length of service, motivation, or leadership and the performance of the PPIA workforce. This indicates problems in understanding, motivation, and leadership in the work environment. Improvement efforts, such as designing human resource management (HR) strategies and developing the health workers' competencies, are needed. The results of this research can be used to design strategies to increase human resources to increase HIV testing outcomes for pregnant women and reduce HIV transmission from pregnant women to babies.

Examining transformational leadership, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction on Organizational Commitment: Employees PT. Pandungo Main Partner

Research Aims: This research aims to examine the influence of Transformational Leadership, Work Environment, and Job Satisfaction on Organizational Commitment. Design/methodology/approach: the study employed a quantitative research approach. 32 workers at PT. Pandungo Main Partner served as the study's sample. The research employs a non-probability sampling technique for sampling. A Likert scale questionnaire distributed in accordance with suitable criteria is used as the data collection tool in this study. Utilizing partial least squares structural equation modeling for statistical analysis (PLS-SEM). Research Findings: The study's findings demonstrate the positive and substantial effects of job satisfaction, work environment, and transformational leadership style on organizational commitment. Employee commitment, to the company overall and to their profession, is predicated on a favorable evaluation of their jobs. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This research provides new insight into how transformational leadership, work environment, and job satisfaction influence employee organizational commitment Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Work Environment; Job Satisfaction; Organizational Commitment.

Influence of Work Environment and Leadership Style Transformational to Employee Performance With Professionalism as an Intervening Variable In Pengadilan Negeri Jambi Kelas IA

The purpose of this study is to describe the work environment, transformational leadership style, professionalism and employee performance at Jambi District Court Class IA. Then to analyze the influence of the work environment and transformational leadership style on professionalism, analyze the work environment and transformational leadership style on employee performance, then analyze the influence of professionalism On employee performance, then analyze the influence of the work environment and transformational leadership style through professionalism on employee performance. This research is a research using descriptive and verifiative research methods, which is a method in examining a group of people, an object, situation and condition of a system of thought with a goal to make a description, a systematic picture according to the facts being investigated. The verification research aims to test hypotheses about the influence between variables of this study. This study involved employees at the Jambi District Court Class IA and for a sample of 84 people. Data was analyzed using SPSS.22. The results showed that the work environment is in good condition, transformational leadership style in high conditions, professionalism and employee performance are also high, that the work environment , and transformational leadership style are simulatively or partial has a positive and significant effect on professionalism, work environment and transformational leadership style simultaneously and partially has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, and professionalism has a positive and significant effect on performance employee at Jambi District Court Class IA. To be able to improve the professionalism of its employees at work by providing rewards, promotions so that they can work better for the progress of the agency. In addition, it also provides sanctions to employees who do not carry out their duties and responsibilities properly. In addition, it also provides services in the field of law to people who seek justice for the legal problems they face

Leadership, Learning and Teaching Practice in Higher Education: A 2016-2023 Bibliometric Review

The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) has now published its twentieth annual volume, maintaining a record of publication for two decades now. This year, on the occasion of the journal’s 20th annual volume, we seek to identify the distinctive contributions and influence of JUTLP as a research journal and how that influence has changed over time. This review has two broad purposes. First, it intends to empirically document the scholarly publications that has accumulated in JUTLP over its two decades of publication. Second, we seek to identify the noteworthy contributions that JUTLP has made to the field of leadership, teaching and learning practice in the higher education environment. This review is based on the analysis of 403 articles published in JUTLP between 2016 and 2023. Bibliographic data (e.g., authors, title, abstract, keywords, citations) in these articles were analysed using a bibliometric analysis method comprising of descriptive statistics, document citation and co-citation analysis, author co-citation analysis and keyword analysis. The review yields an empirically grounded findings on JUTLP ‘corpus of knowledge’ that provides useful indications and recommendations for the journal’s future development.

What Leads to Effective Emergency Management? A Configurational Analysis of Empirical Cases of Local Chinese Governments

This study investigates the foundational elements that contribute to effective emergency management in urban settings, with a particular focus on experiences from Chinese municipalities. Drawing on resource dependence theory and attention allocation theory, this research develops an analytical framework encompassing four pivotal factors: environmental resources, information sharing, social participation, and leadership attention allocation. Utilizing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we examine these factors across sixteen critical incidents of urban accidents and disaster responses in China. Our findings reveal that a high degree of leadership attention allocation is an essential prerequisite for municipal governments to exhibit robust emergency management capabilities during crises. Furthermore, two primary pathways affecting emergency management capacity were identified: the “resource–leadership attention type” and the “social participation–resource coordination type”. These findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of the complexities of emergency management and enlighten the local governments to take some effective measures to enhance emergency management capacities to mitigate disaster losses.

Personal and organizational factors supporting Green HRM performance in the tourism industry

This study examines the relationship between employees' green environmental behavior and environmentally friendly organizational performance. Using the SEM-PLS analysis method, this study involved 307 respondents of tourism actors by testing survey data in the form of structural models involving personal and organizational factors related to employees' green environmental behavior. The findings show a positive and significant influence of employees' green environmental behavior on the performance of environmentally friendly organizations. In addition, factors such as environmental literacy, environmental empowerment, and environmental leadership also have a significant influence on employees' green environmental behavior. However, it was found that factors such as employee religiosity, green environment self-efficacy, and green environment training did not significantly influence them. The study provides new insights into factors influencing employees' green environmental behavior and provides a solid foundation for developing workplace strategies and policies that support green environmental behavior.

The development and validation of a spiritual leadership scale within the South African context

Orientation: Globalisation and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a change in leadership in the work environment – this necessitated a relook into classical leadership constructs, but importantly, with the consideration of contextual influences. Spiritual leadership (SpL), which is the focus of this article, has however been predominantly viewed from a Eurocentric perspective.Research purpose: To develop and validate an instrument to measure SpL within the South African context.Motivation for the study: It is argued that SpL is important for organisational performance, employee contentment and wellness. Albeit the theory of SpL carries academic rigour and potency, it has not yet converted into an empirically developed and tested instrument within the South African organisational context.Research approach/design and method: This empirical study was conducted from a quantitative positivist paradigm, utilising a cross-sectional design. A total of 5308 participants completed the self-administered survey from organisations in both the public and private sectors. The analysis includes item screening, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), test for common method bias (CMB), determination of convergent validity and invariance analysis (configural, metric and scalar).Main findings: The results yielded reliable and valid SpL instrument, which is invariant with regards to the private and public sectors used in this study. The results of the study were also not influenced by CMB.Practical/managerial implications: This study provides a validated contextualised scale that can be used to measure leadership efficiency and efficacy.Contribution/value-add: The practical and academic value is the newly developed SpL instrument for the context of South African organisations. It can thus be used with confidence by organisational researchers and academics.

Data-Driven Gut Feeling? A Conceptual Paper of Situational Awareness for Effective Educational Leadership in a VUCA Environment

Data-Driven Gut Feeling? A Conceptual Paper of Situational Awareness for Effective Educational Leadership in a VUCA Environment

Community leaders’ sensemaking of environmental jolts: Stabilizing and silver lining framing of disruption

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining catastrophe for many communities across the world. This study focuses on a small, urban community in the United States at the regional epicenter of the pandemic with high rates of illness, death, financial hardships, and a halt to in-person school and services that lasted over a year. Drawing on institutional theory with a focus on environmental jolts and leadership sensemaking, we conducted a thematic analysis of 20 interviews with cross-sector community leaders, including city officials, school district administrators, directors of community-based organizations, and church leaders to evaluate how they made sense of COVID-19 disruptions and framed their responses to the environmental jolt caused by the pandemic in Spring, 2021. Findings illustrate how leaders framed the jolt as highlighting existing issues, maintained a focus on priorities and purpose pre-dating disruptions, and emphasized opportunities emerging from the crisis. We discuss how leaders engaged in sensemaking both as a form of stabilization, providing a rationale for maintaining pre-pandemic priorities, and as a way to motivate and leverage opportunity through an emphasis on the silver lining of the jolt. We close with implications of these findings for ongoing and future responses to environmental jolts and crises.

Nursing Innovation: A Positive Disruption.

Organizations that foster psychologically safe environments create space for innovative cultures to emerge. The prioritization of nurse-led innovation signals broader cultural values around learning, a willingness to invest in people and their ideas, and an organizational focus around growth and operational excellence. Embracing innovative behaviors can propel emerging areas of nursing science, practice, and workforce solutions. This month's Magnet® Perspectives explores innovation and the critical role of nurse leadership in shaping today's healthcare environment, and the future of nursing.

The Effect of Employee Development Policy, Work Environment, and Transformational Leadership on Employee Creativity in Indonesia's Creative Industries

This research investigates the impact of employee development policy, work environment, and transformational leadership on employee creativity within Indonesia's dynamic creative industries. A quantitative analysis employing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS) was conducted to analyze data collected from 120 employees across various sectors of the creative industry. Descriptive statistics, measurement model assessment, structural model analysis, and hypothesis testing were employed to examine the relationships between the variables of interest. The results reveal that employee development policy, transformational leadership, and work environment significantly influence employee creativity within Indonesia's creative industries. Specifically, organizations that prioritize employee development, foster transformational leadership behaviors, and provide supportive work environments are more likely to enhance employee creativity. These findings underscore the importance of organizational strategies and leadership practices in fostering a culture of innovation and creativity within Indonesia's burgeoning creative economy.

Transforming environmental leadership into environmental performance: The mediating role of green intellectual capital

AbstractAccording to upper echelon theory, this research seeks to explore how environmental leadership (EL) influences environmental performance through green intellectual capital (GIC), while also considering environmental climate as a moderator. We analyze the data from 317 Chinese manufacturing companies in two waves to test these hypotheses. The findings suggest that EL positively affects environmental performance via green structural capital and green relational capital (GRC). Moreover, environmental climate strengthens the impacts of EL on green human capital and GRC. This research enriches the existing literature on EL and GIC by revealing the vital roles of EL in promoting environmental performance and GIC, as well as explaining the mechanism between these relationships.

Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition

The technological push for hydrogen-based steel production has become a flagship project of the Swedish state for advancing its global environmental leadership and becoming the world's first fossil free welfare state. The new production process has the potential to drastically cut emissions in a heavy polluting industry. The plans also entail a drastic upscale in steel production, energy and iron ore consumption and risk increasing existing pressures on Indigenous Sami land, local communities, and biodiversity. This article sets out to investigate the frontier-making function of green steel imaginaries to contribute to debates on sacrificed spaces of extraction for green commodity demand. The article speaks to a call for a critical turn in sustainability transitions literature by introducing the concept of hype to scrutinise the material consequences of growth-based green transition imaginaries. This article builds on a narrative analysis of government, industry, and company actors’ visions of a green steel future. The analysis illustrates how sociotechnical imaginaries are constructed to enable particular industrial futures over other green transition pathways. We show that the sociotechnical imaginary of green steel, fuelled through hype, serves to advance the new commodity and growth of the industry while effectively cancelling out democratic nuance and non-extractive alternatives. The findings illustrate the importance of pluralising green imaginaries to ensure inclusive transition pathways and to nuance and discursively dismantle the hype of green transitions that fail to break with the growth paradigm.

Laudato Si, Environmental Theology and the Leadership of Pope Francis

This article explores the interaction between environmental theology and leadership in the context of Pope Francis' "Laudato Si'", with a particular focus on the role of Christian leaders in addressing environmental issues. Using descriptive qualitative methods, the study analyses the encyclical "Laudato Si'" and related Catholic Church documents. The article finds that theological concepts such as "Salvation and Liberation,""Obedience to God the Creator," and "Social and Ecological Justice" play an important role in shaping Christian leaders' attitudes and actions towards the environment. This article provides insights into how Christian leadership can inspire and mobilise environmentally responsible action, showing that this responsibility is not only a moral imperative, but also an expression of deep Christian faith.

학교 환경교육 사업 운영을 통한 담당 교사들의 학습에 관한 질적 사례연구

Objectives This study aims to explore how teachers perceive the operation of school environmental education projects and identify the meaningful learning experiences they encounter in the process of carrying out environmental education tasks.
 Methods To achieve the research objectives, in-depth interviews and open-ended surveys were conducted with 11 teachers from elementary, middle, high, and special schools who have participated in the Chungcheongbuk-do Office of Education's Green School policy project for over two years and have continuous experience with Green Schools. The collected data were analyzed through qualitative research methods, and the research results were derived through discussions.
 Results Teachers, in the process of carrying out environmental education tasks, strengthened school environmental education on an educational dimension tailored to the specific situation, surpassing visible outcomes and pursuing educationally substantial activities. The efforts made by teachers were found to have an impact on changing their perspectives on the existing environmental education tasks. Through the learning process facilitated by these tasks, teachers recognized the overall necessity of environmental education in schools and, consequently, secured environmental education leadership at the school level.
 Conclusions The operation of school environmental education projects should be a process where teachers actively engage in and prioritize the implementation of substantial activities with an educational focus for better environmental education. Through realizing activities that prioritize educational objectives, teachers can create meaning in the operation of projects at both individual and community levels. This approach allows teachers to secure voluntary motivation for active participation in their roles as practitioners of environmental education.