Leadership Power Research Articles

Revisiting happiness at work within the hospitality sector: revealing the power of ethical leadership and group diversity

PurposeIndividual happiness at the workplace allows hospitality organizations to foster an optimistic work environment and endorse the well-being of their employees, which is essential for achieving long-term success. While ethical leadership has been verified as an interpreter of happiness, however, enhancing employee happiness at work remains a gap. The current study seeks to fill this gap by utilizing a multilevel model of the direct and indirect relationship between ethical leadership and happiness at work and also the mediation of group diversity in this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe study involved a cross-sectional study with a quantitative methodology. The authors collected data from 36 Jordanian hospitality teams. A total number of 960 participants were selected using the convenience sampling method. The model of the study was validated by multilevel structural equation modeling, and the hypothesized relationships were tested using SPSS 26.FindingsResults showed that ethical leadership directly promoted happiness and indirectly through group diversity. Moreover, group diversity was found to mediate this relationship.Practical implicationsFindings propose that leaders within hospitality organizations can attain happiness at work by showing more ethical leadership. Practitioners within the hospitality industry likewise ought to recognize that promoting altruistic attitudes among followers is capable of guiding ethical leadership into happiness at work. Moreover, building a developmental culture is crucial for hospitality teams to reinforce the impact of ethical leadership on happiness at work.Originality/valueThe current study magnifies the leadership-happiness research by unlocking both the direct as well as indirect links, the mediation effect, between ethical leadership and happiness at work.

Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data

Abstract Control over the legislative messaging agenda has important political, electoral and policy consequences. Existing models of congressional agenda-setting suggest that national polarization drives the agenda. At the same time, models of home style and formal models of leadership hypothesize that legislators shift their messaging as they balance coordination and information problems. We say the coordination problem dominates when conditions incentivize legislators to agree on the same message rather than fail to reach consensus. Conversely, the information problem is said to dominate in circumstances where legislators prefer to say nothing at all rather than reach consensus on the wrong political message. Formal theories predict that when coordination problems are pressing, legislative members follow the policy positions of party leaders. When their party’s information problem is acute, party members instead rely on the wisdom of the caucus to set the party’s agenda. To test these theories, we analyze the Twitter accounts of U.S. House members with a Joint Sentiment Topic model, generating a new understanding of House leadership power. Our analyses reveal complex leader-follower relationships. Party leaders possess the power to substantially affect the propensity of rank-and-file members to discuss topics, especially when the coordination problem dominates; these effects are pronounced even when coordination problems are pressing. That said, when the underlying politics are unclear, rank-and-file members exert influence on the discussion of a topic because the information problem is more acute. At the same time and for these uncertain topics, leadership influence decreases, consistent with theory. We show these results are robust to the underlying dynamics of contemporary political discussion and context, including leading explanations for party leadership power, such as national polarization.

The transformative power of women leaders in cardiology: breaking barriers and building excellence.

The transformative power of women leaders in cardiology: breaking barriers and building excellence.

The Global Power of Transformational Leadership in Nursing and Midwifery

Transformational leadership in nursing and midwifery contributes to professional development and service improvement. The professions have traditionally struggled to excel in leadership positions in developing countries with persistent minimal participation in senior leadership positions. This is due to structural and systemic exclusion of the professions from senior-level decision-making positions and inadequate capacity in leadership. This paper describes how the professions can adopt transformational leadership to improve leadership. The information here is based on experiences and a literature review. It provides a case example of transformational leadership experience in the Kenyan context and recommendations to strengthen transformative leadership in the profession.

Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress

AbstractToday, rank‐and‐file members are increasingly removed from the legislative process and often rely on congressional leaders for information to discuss major legislative decisions with constituents. As a result, preparing constituent communication materials has become an institutionalized responsibility for party and committee leaders, leading to a partisan discussion of legislation. Using a mixed‐methods approach of computational text analysis and elite interviews, I demonstrate how members of Congress use leader‐led, partisan messages for constituent communication. Echoing prior work on asymmetric partisanship, I find that Republican leaders are more likely to encourage party‐centric messaging, and rank‐and‐file Republicans, particularly in the House, are more likely to adopt party messaging. The findings illustrate the institutional power of party leaders in a centralized Congress, as well as the role that constituent communication plays in encouraging and maintaining asymmetric polarization.

Power and Influence in Leadership: A Discussion from the View of Collective Action

Power and influence are important factors and are closely linked to leadership and our acceptance of it. However, in the relatively recent systematic examination of these phenomena and their emergence and implementation, at least some facets remain underexamined. The focus is primarily on psychological incentive systems. In our article, we want to argue that this form of consideration is important, but not sufficient and sometimes even remains one-sided. This is due to the restriction of the incentive systems themselves, which primarily change the consequences of actions for the guided one or are related to the guided person’s lack of access to knowledge, for example. We, therefore, want to argue in favour of an extension of the theory and clarify as a core thesis why the power and influence of leadership also go hand in hand with the simplification of collective actions, fairness and cooperation. We want to realise this project at all levels on the basis of arguments from action theory (primarily decision and game theory).

The Factors Affecting the Small and Medium Enterprises Management in Shanghai

Administrative aspects are recognized as crucial components for the efficient functioning of the entire enterprise, especially in influencing daily operations. Each administrative link influences regular operations in different ways. At the level of decision-making, the scientific implementation of command and control is highly urgent. The optimum performance of corporate departments relies heavily on the implementation of effective decision-making processes. Although prominent leaders and principals hold significant guiding power over each department, this authority is often misunderstood. The power of leadership should not be overexerted or left unused. Instead, it should be strategically employed to foster and enhance the efficiency and productivity of each department. This study investigates the lasting impact of administrative factors on the efficiency of enterprise management. By promoting efficient administrative practices and well-informed decision-making, leaders can ensure that each department operates at its highest potential. This approach not only streamlines the enterprise's daily operations but also contributes to its long-term success and sustainability. Overall, the study highlights the intricate and essential relationship between administrative factors and enterprise management efficiency.

The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom

This study utilizes both systems theory and Schein’s theory of organizational culture to understand how newsrooms can best mitigate forces negatively impacting the mental health of journalists. Through in-depth interviews with more than five dozen professional journalists, the study identifies four factors potentially affecting mental health: the profit drive of the news organization; the social media policies of the organization; the perceived level of job precarity within the newsroom; and the perceived decision-making power of newsroom leadership. Through theoretical analysis, the study then illustrates how organizations can enact a culture that potentially lessens the negative effects on mental health of these forces.

The effects of global populism: assessing the populist impact on international affairs

Abstract With the global rise to power of populist leaders over the past decade, research on populism, including its international implications, has flourished. However, we still lack a nuanced understanding of the international effects of this new populist wave. The special section that this article introduces seeks to bridge this gap by systematically examining three types of international effects of populism. One group of contributions addresses the impact of populism on the processes of foreign policy-making in countries governed by populists (politics). Another group focuses on effects in terms of foreign policy agenda and its substantive outcomes (policies). A third group of contributions studies the impact of populism on states' stances towards international institutions (international polity). This introduction proposes a theoretical framework that takes into account the existent diversity among populist governments, specifically addressing how the more or less authoritarian character of populism explains variations in international outcomes across politics, policies and polities. A better understanding of these varied characters and effects can contribute new insights to lively debates about the potential challenges posed by populism and populists in the contemporary international order, and the prospects for mitigation.

Sociopolitical Oppression and Suppression in Soyinka’s A Play of Giant

The concept of oppression is one of the most vital concepts in contemporary political discourses in the literary works. This concept has some interdisciplinary characteristics which are associated with culture, religion, sociology and politics. Therefore, this paper critically explores various sociopolitical oppression and suppression of Africans by their leaders (fellow Africans) in most parts of the continent as portrayed by Wole Soyinka. The paper reveals how African leaders misuse power, serve their personal interest instead of the citizens who voted them to power. In the Play of Giant, Soyinka uses satire to depict the attitude of many African leaders towards their citizens. It shows that the leaders have less sympathy towards the masses. It also shows inferiority complex, dictatorship, abuse of power, intolerance, immorality, and insensitiveness of African leaders which are all against the African cultures but inherited from colonialism.

Influence of Political Leaders in Five Countries on Climate Diplomacy via Twitter

Climate diplomacy is one of the hot topics in recent years that the world has paid extensive attention to. It goes beyond the traditional regional environmental issues; the worldwide impact of climate change makes international cooperation in this area more and more close. In order to explore the influence of political leaders on climate diplomacy and the reasons for their influence, this paper selects five countries with large differences in national conditions. And these countries will have a significant impact on international climate diplomacy in 2023. They are the United States, France, Brazil, Japan, and Senegal. This study quantitatively examines the data content analysis of climate-related tweets posted by political leaders from five countries on Twitter in 2023 and their social network influence through social network analysis and other quantitative studies to explore the influence of political leaders from five countries on international climate diplomacy. Finally, the conclusion is that the online power and influence of political leaders in each country do not exist independently but are closely linked to the real power of each country.

Unveiling the power of ethical leadership: Improving employee performance through promoting employees wellbeing in the tourism sector

Unveiling the power of ethical leadership: Improving employee performance through promoting employees wellbeing in the tourism sector

A comprehensive study on social networks analysis and mining to detect opinion leaders

In today's society, social networks are vital for communication, allowing individuals to influence each other significantly. Opinion leaders play a crucial role in shaping opinions, attitudes, beliefs, motivations, and behaviors. Recognizing this, companies seek to identify influential users who resonate with their target audience to leverage their impact. Consequently, detecting opinion leaders in social networks has become essential. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive literature review on opinion leader detection. We present a detailed overview of various methods and approaches developed in this field, examining their strengths and weaknesses to identify the most effective strategies for different social networks. Additionally, we highlight key trends, challenges, and future directions in opinion leader detection. Our goal is to equip companies with the necessary knowledge to harness the power of opinion leaders for enhancing marketing and communication strategies. For researchers, this paper serves as a foundational resource, outlining the current state of the art and identifying gaps in the literature for future studies. Ultimately, we strive to advance the understanding of effective opinion leader detection and utilization within the dynamic landscape of social networks.

The Power of Principal Leadership in Boosting School Quality

The Power of Principal Leadership in Boosting School Quality

Environmental performance reclaimed: unleashing the power of green transformational leadership and dynamic capability

Environmental performance reclaimed: unleashing the power of green transformational leadership and dynamic capability

Book Review: Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders

Book Review: Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders

SOCIAL CRITICISM IN THE SHORT STORY SCREAMING GRAVES BY KHALIL GIBRAN (A SOCIO-LITERARY ANALYSIS STUDY BY ALAN SONGWOOD)

The research is entitled “Social criticism in the short story Screaming Graves by Khalil Gibran (A socio-literary analysis study by Alan Songwood)”. The aims of this research are: First, to find out the substance of the short story Shurakh al Qubur. Second, to find out the social criticism conveyed by the author in the short story. Third, to find out the relationship between the short story Shurakh al Qubur and the social conditions of Lebanese society. In order to analyze the social criticism in the short story, the researcher used Alan Swingewood's literary sociology theory. Swingewood believes that literary works are a reflection of the social conditions in which they were created. In principle, there are three things related to the sociology of literature, namely first, research that views literary works as social documents in which they are a reflection of the situation at the time the literature was created. Second, research that reveals literature as a reflection of the author's social situation. Third, research that captures literature as a manifestation of historical events and socio-cultural conditions. In this study, researchers used the first perspective, namely literary works as social documents. This research produces first, the substance of the short story Shurakh al Qubur which explains that this short story is the author's criticism of the government which is described through the story between the king and the suspect. Second, criticism of authoritarian leaders in power and criticism of autocratic government systems. Third, social criticism in the short story which reflects the conditions of the Ottoman Empire during the leadership of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. This criticism is represented in the figure of a king who is cruel in punishing his people.

Aplikasi Konsep Religious Marketing dalam Praktek Komunikasi dan Dakwah Islam

The accelerated pace of technological advancement has facilitated the acquisition of information by a multitude of entities. Furthermore, it has altered the behavioural patterns of individuals, enabling the modern person to exercise greater autonomy in determining their own behavioural choices. This development necessitates that da'wah activists adopt innovative approaches to the dissemination of religious teachings. It is not within the power of religious leaders to impose their teachings on society. One such method is the utilisation of marketing concepts in the process of socialising religious teachings, which is commonly referred to as religious marketing. This study was conducted using the library research method with the objective of investigating the potential applications of marketing concepts in the context of da'wah activities. In practice, the marketing mix concept, as applied in commercial marketing activities, can be applied to activities aimed at socialising religious teachings. However, it is important to note that there are several key differences that must be taken into account when implementing the religious marketing concept in the context of promotional activities for religious teachings. One area in which the religious marketing concept is particularly prevalent is in the promotion of zakat funds. It is crucial for zakat fund management institutions to comprehend the tenets of religious marketing, as they must devise innovative strategies to attract donors and encourage them to entrust their zakat funds to these institutions.

El Horizonte Medio en el valle de Casma: un estudio de las vasijas del sector III del sitio arqueológico Pallka

The present study performs an interpretation of the iconography of the vessels recorded in sector III in the Pallka archaeological site. This ceramic material, that comes from archaeological excavations, was analyzed later following a detailed description of each decorative detail, in addition to comparative analyzes of interpretations made by other researchers. The analysis of the iconography where these vessels were recorded indicates that the Middle Horizon in the Casma Valley is a period marked by continuous cultural interactions, which served to legitimize the role and justify the power of local leaders. The context where the ceramic material was registered (funerary structure) allows supporting the leadership and prestige of the local elites and the processes of political, economic and ideological integration that occurred in the Casma valley, during a period marked by ideological mechanisms that promoted intense interaction and regional integration.

Uncovering Employee Engagement in the Power of Leadership, Communication, and Teamwork Study

This study investigates the impact of servant leadership, communication, and teamwork on employee engagement at PT Irawan Djaja Agung, aiming to address a gap in research regarding their combined influence in Indonesian organizations. Through a quantitative survey of 70 employees and analysis using Smart-PLS Version 3.0, the research finds significant positive relationships between servant leadership, communication, teamwork, and employee engagement. The results highlight the importance of nurturing supportive leadership, enhancing communication channels, and fostering teamwork to bolster employee engagement. Organizational leaders are urged to consider implementing recognition and reward systems, while employees are encouraged to strengthen interpersonal relationships for improved collaboration. Further research could delve into additional factors affecting employee engagement in similar contexts. Highlight: Synergy of Leadership, Communication, Teamwork. Quantitative Analysis with Smart-PLS. Actionable Insights for Organizational Improvement. Keyword: Servant leadership, Communication, Teamwork, Employee engagement, Organizational development