Question Of Leadership Research Articles

Renewal of Modern Arabic Poetry: The Culture-Creativity Controversy

The present research raises critical issues regarding modern Arabic poetry, wondering about the limits of creativity starting from awareness about poetry writing to its reading prospects. It observes how the Arab poet is torn between focusing on the depth of culture (with what it imposes in terms of conforming to the prevailing poetic model) and between the temptations of creativity, which requires a level audacity and aspiration to different and renewed written models. The research disassembles the structure of poetry as a cultural system rooted in the Arab memory and discusses the question of identity in its relationship to creativity. It stresses the centrality of the traditional Arab poetic model while pointing to attempts at transcending such model. The most prominent of these attempts was that accomplished by the Arab poetic modernity movement in the forties and fifties of the last century (free poetry and prose poem). The research explores the rationale behind this decisive shift in the history of Arabic poetry at the levels of its creative and cultural foundations. In this regard, the research raised the question of leadership, the call for renewal, and defense of the pioneering poets of their innovative achievement against the successive creative booms. The research also discussed the controversy over tradition versus creativity, the question of dialogue in texts, the prospects for critical poetry reading with its scientific and cultural transformations, and the distribution of its theoretical and methodological references between Arab heritage and Western culture.

THE LEADERSHIP OF AN IDEOLOGICAL MOVEMENT: A STUDY OF ‘RASHTRIYA SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH MOVEMENT’IN BHARAT

A social movement without organization or leadership can hardly be thought of. The basic premise behind the analysis of leadership is that they are the chief architect of the phenomenon we call social movement and that social movement can never occur in a vacuum. Leadership in a social movement plays a major role in mobilizing the mass base. The individual who performs this task of mobilizing people for action is called the leader. Although we are accustomed to identifying a social movement with a single leader, it is more accurate to think in terms of a group of leaders often organized in a hierarchy.In the present paper, the question of leadership has been studied in the context of the ‘Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Movement’.The study tries to investigate the life history of the leaders in general and founder in particular which includes various aspects such as their family background, education level, and bringing up, extraordinary talents of the leaders. Further, an attempt has been made to depict the contributions which different leaders have made to this organization. Data were collected from the available literature and interviews of knowledgeable members who themselves have been involved in the activities of movement for more than five decades.

Russia‐Ukraine war, the leadership question and sustainable food security in Africa

AbstractExtant analyses identified the various channels through which the ongoing Russia‐Ukraine war is hurting Africa's aspiration toward sustainable food security. They however acknowledged that the crisis presents a viable opportunity to kickstart the process of reversing Africa's food dependence and minimizing the continent's vulnerabilities to future external food shocks. It is however feared that the well‐known leadership deficit in the continent poses significant impediment for exploiting opportunities offered by such ‘good crisis’. The international community is, therefore, called upon to help Africa to better prepare for the next crisis. Taking this as our point of departure, we argue that the onus of reversing Africa's food dependence rests squarely on Africa's political leaders and policy makers and not on any external intervention. We then propose a residual option for tackling the leadership challenge and for launching Africa on the path of sustainable food security in line with the target of SDG‐2. The study relied on qualitative descriptive analysis of both primary and secondary data.

Aisha Binani, the First Elected Female Governor in Nigeria that Never Was-UN Affirmative Action, Gender and the Leadership Question in Nigeria

Aisha Binani, the First Elected Female Governor in Nigeria that Never Was-UN Affirmative Action, Gender and the Leadership Question in Nigeria

Leadership Question and the Writer’s Style: A Literary Stylistic Analysis of Adaobi Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You By Chance

This paper interrogates some artistic positions taken by Adaobi Nwaubani in projecting leadership issues in I Do Not Come to You by Chance. The paper notes that in spite of the enormity of critical attention on leadership in African critical space, bulk of the critical materials center around the ineptitude of African leaders and its consequent underdevelopment of African societies and the suffering of the mass. Literary critics hardly pay attention to those artistic positions through which authors project leadership issues in their texts. It is against this backdrop that this paper is dedicated for interrogation of some aspects of literary techniques, through which Nwaubani addresses leadership issues in her text. The work reveals how the author uses characterization and setting to expose the corrupt nature of most political leaders in Nigeria, their gluttony, and the deteriorating nature of some public institution. It has also revealed the complicit roles played by former colonial masters, and world institutions in entrenching criminality in Africa, especially in the Nigerian leadership. The paper concludes that both contents and form are very critical in understanding a literary work and so, an analysis of one at the expense of the other may scuttle the totality of the import of the issues authors raise in their texts.

THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING MANAGERS : A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Introduction :The performance achievement produced by the organization cannot be separated from the role of a leader himself, how the leadership system is, knowledge about self-management in leading so that it will directly have an impact on improving the resulting performance. The aim of this study was to determine the role of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership. Methods : This literature review is based on the PRISMA checklist, searched through PubMed, ProQuest, Geogle Scholar. This research question is structured using the PICO method (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome) and uses keywords based on the database. Result : 4 Studies reviewed based on the specified inclusion criteria, show that the role of emotional intelligence affects the transformational leadership model, with the instrument used referring to the emotional Questions (EQ-i 2.0) instrument used in emotional intelligence, while in transformational leadership using Multi-factor Leadership Question (MLQ) Conclusion : Achieving the desired organizational performance certainly requires a leader who is smart in managing his emotions, so a manager needs to continue to learn in terms of managing his emotional intelligence which has a positive impact on the transformational leadership model used.
 Key Word : Emotional Intelegency. Transformational Leaderships. Nursing Manager. Sistematic Review

The Social Biography: Pitfalls and Temptations

AbstractThere were times – not so long ago – when it seemed that historical processes could be dissected as though human action did not matter. Those times have changed. Nowadays, scholarly biography is enjoying broad interest, also among social historians, as is shown in this issue of the IRSH, in which John D. French explains how biography can contribute to a better understanding of global labour history. This contribution addresses three issues. Firstly, the relationship between agency (subject) and structure, or the role of the personality in history and society; secondly, the question of charismatic leadership, and finally, the question of how to deal with issues of necessity and coincidence and with the selection of leadership.

The Question of African Leadership: Nigeria in Focus

This article is devoted to the study of the issue of leadership on the African continent, which is the object of the study, because, since 1963 Nigeria is a member of the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union), the Economic Community of West African States since 1975, and the United Nations since October 7, 1960. The subject of the study is Nigeria’s foreign policy on the African continent, as since independence Nigeria has pursued a number of foreign policy goals: the eradication of colonialism and other external forms of exploitation, The oppression and marginalization of Africans. The main conclusion of the study is that Nigeria’s role in the formation of AU and ECOWAS, was in conformity with its national interest and foreign policy pursuit, which was designed to promote regional integration and cooperation within West Africa and Africa in general. The role of Nigeria is fundamental for African organizations and their leadership prospects. Historically, Nigeria's Afrocentric foreign policy and its national interest have made it possible for Nigeria to pursue African oriented policy. The authors applied a number of methods to carry out this research: historical, legal and analytical. The historical method allows us to give the chronology of Nigeria’s leadership role in Africa from 1960 to 2020. The legal method permitted the analysis of the legal instruments, particularly from different constitutions, treaties since Nigeria’s independence till date. The analytical method consists of the analysis of the evolution of different transformations that occurred in the African continent from 1960 to 2020.

“The Lightest Ones of the World and the Greatest Ones of the World” in the Palestinian Traditions of the Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods

Abstract This article discusses the development of a rabbinic tradition that draws on verses from Samuel’s speech dealing with the authority of leaders (1 Sam 12:6–11) against the backdrop of rabbinic political circumstances. In its earliest manifestations, this tradition is integrated into a story describing one of the confrontations concerning the determination of the Jewish calendar. These confrontations occurred in the Beit Midrash in Yavne under the leadership of Rabban Gamliel. The article traces the changes the confrontation underwent during the transitions between the different literary genres and suggests that these changes were influenced by the character of the social tension that existed when each genre was redacted. This article deals with the question of authority, power, and leadership in Palestine in the period of the Sages.

School strike for climate are leading the way: how their people power strategies are generating distinctive pathways for leadership development

AbstractSince November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving rise to a new generation of young people who have learnt how to lead change. This article focuses on the question of leadership across social movements and in global youth movements. It then investigates the different forms of leadership emerging in School Striker for Climate (SS4C) through a qualitative survey of its leaders. We argue that leadership is multifaceted, shaped by the different strategies that movements use to engage people in collective action. We present three different people power strategies – mobilising, organising and playing by the rules – and explore how these different strategies generate varied pathways for leadership development. We identify the strengths and limits of each strategy, and we find that peer learning, mentoring, learning by doing, confrontation, reflective spaces and training are important leadership development tools. This article’s greatest strength comes from the positionally of us as researchers – two of us are student strikers, and the third is an active supporter, giving us a distinctively engaged perspective on a powerful movement for change.

Counter-hegemonic leadership for democratic alter-politics in our times

This article sets out to grapple with strategic challenges facing democratic alter-politics in our times, dwelling on the question of leadership to explore ways of overcoming the frailties and risks that beset grassroots collective agency for democratic renewal. Discussion begins thus by fleshing out the notion of contemporary democratic alter-politics which breaks both with top-down statist rule and conventional activism, fostering openness, diversity, assembly-based democracy, attention to process, egalitarianism, prefiguration, work in everyday life along with mass mobilization, and engagement with institutions to effect change. In a second step, the argument brings out the strategic limitations of this alter-politics by engaging with relevant theories and reflections on strategy. The following key part of the article sketches the outlines of a strategy of counter-hegemony that could tackle some of these limitations by reconfiguring democratic leadership. Drawing on recent social movements and organizational studies, critical analysis will seek to indicate how the pursuit of effective leadership can be aligned with the alter-politics of egalitarian collective self-direction to boost and expand it in the political circumstances of the present. The nub of the argument is that ‘another leadership’ that is assembly-based, technopolitical, reflective, distributed, ‘servant’, and feminized can further democratic alter-politics.

Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership. By Lara M.BrownNew York, NY: Routledge, 2021. 235 pp.

Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership. By Lara M.BrownNew York, NY: Routledge, 2021. 235 pp.

The large group in training Parts I and II

This article studies the work of large groups in the training of group psychotherapists and is organized in two parts for sequential publication. We review the literature on the history and evolution of large groups in general, concentrating on those devoted to the large group in training, starting from the very first, Skynner’s, from which we take our title. The core of the paper explores the learning experience provided by the Large Training Group (LTG) serving students on the Diploma and Qualifying Courses at the Institute of Group Analysis, London (IGA). We describe the LTG from the standpoint of its staff and participating students over a period of some eight years; discuss the role of the staff sub-group in the evolution and co-creation of a particular discourse and we give special attention to the question of leadership and the role of the convener. Each of its two parts contains a vignette that is discussed in the light of the literature reviewed; and each contains a summarizing table, the first devoted to our principles of practice and the second to the primary purposes of the LTG and our staffing responsibilities.

Perspektif Hukum Gereja Tentang Kepemimpinan Kolegial-Partisipatif Dalam Gereja Partikular

This article is primarily focussed on participatory-collegial leadership. The principal objective is to offer a canonical analysis and practical reflections on that kind of leadership within the particular Church. To achieve this objective, the article is developed in four parts. The first, serves as a point of departure, examines the fundamental equality and dignity of the Christian existence of all the members of the People of God, and in their own way share the priestly, prophetic, and kingly office of Christ, and to the best of their ability carry on the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the world. From this essential theological basis, the second part deals with the question of participatory-collegial leadership within the context of relationship between lay people and clergy as well as between diocesan bishop and clergy. The third part is a critical evaluation of the question on the participatory-collegial leadership in daily life with contemporary challenges and what should be thought of in the future as the way forward. The author argues that each member of the lay faithful, together with ordained ministers, shares a responsibility for the Church’s mission by exercising their sharing together in the priestly, prophetic and royal office of Christ towards a dialogical, participatory and co- responsible church. To make this a reality, it is obvious that what so called participatory-collegial leadership must exist in the daily praxis of the church and not top-down, authoritarian, dominative one.

Impacts of changes to business travel practices in response to the COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand

Air travel forms a substantial component of an organisation’s carbon profile, and questions around business travel are becoming more pertinent given the accelerating climate crisis. The current coronavirus pandemic, however, has effectively stopped much travel and organisations had to adapt by switching most interactions to online meetings. Drawing on social practice theory, this paper examines changes in staff air travel behaviour observed in a New Zealand government agency, following the nationwide lockdown in 2020. Integrating air travel data, a staff wellbeing survey and 18 interviews, the research reveals fundamental differences in the meaning of face-to-face versus online meetings, the inseparable nature of productivity and personal wellbeing, and the change processes that staff noted when faced with a (temporary) new reality of restricted mobility. Whether modified routines remain or not will not only be influenced by the government’s imposed carbon budgets, but also will be a question of organisational leadership, politics, and ultimately the ethics of trading off environmental impacts with other perceived needs.

Identifying distinctive traits of healthcare leaders in Israel: in-depth interviews with senior physicians – an exploratory study

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the views of physicians in senior management positions regarding the distinctive characteristics and roles of leaders in the Israeli health-care system and what might be the interactions between management and leadership.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 13 semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with physicians in senior management positions. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using the qualitative-phenomenological method.FindingsInterviewees discerned leaders as exhibiting traits of transformational leadership and managers, as expressing characteristics of transactional leadership. Most interviewees asserted that physicians should act as social leaders promoting public health and equality in health care, beyond their clinical practice. They agreed that physicians should fill most senior positions in the health-care system, provided they undergo appropriate training in management, leadership and interdisciplinary collaboration.Originality/valueInterviewees revealed gaps between the aspiration to lead, perceptions of physicians as leaders and what occurs in reality: physicians wish to assume leadership roles in the health-care system and emphasize the qualities of transformative leadership, but medical education does not include leadership training. Therefore, there is a need to develop training programs for physicians in management and leadership. There is also a need to integrate physicians from various communities to promote local leadership in the health-care field and to reduce disparities. The consideration of health-care leadership is especially applicable in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has placed the question of leadership within and outside of the medical community in a broader social context.

Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership question

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pathetic nature of the Nigeria healthcare system has become more glaring. In First World countries, the ravaging nature of the pandemic, marked by a high death toll, elicits trepidation among Nigerian citizens. What is more, these fears are not necessarily as a result of the lethal nature of COVID-19 but rather, they are consequent of certain conditions amongst which include: an inept and unconcerned leadership, accompanied by dilapidated health institutions characterized by poor working conditions and incentives. It is in lieu of these unhealthy conditions that the dreaded disease found its footing in the Nigerian environment. Against this background, this paper argues that the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, its local dispersion occasioned by paucity of medical personnel and supplies due to decades of neglect of health care system is worrisome. This study recommends an overhaul of the healthcare system with the aim of achieving a robust health care system for Nigerian citizens. Thus far, various scholars have focused on corrupt leadership practices of Nigerian leaders without a detailed and in-depth study on the nexus between the health sector and this failure. It is this obvious gap in scholarship that this present study sets out to fill. The paper adopts a qualitative approach which will be anchored on primary and secondary sources of historical methodology. Thus, its significance lies in its ability to bring to the fore the nexus between leadership failure in Nigeria and the neglect of primary healthcare system. It will also expose the vulnerability of the Nigerian rich and poor in the face of the global pandemic.

5G SEP leadership in 2021

In 2021, the 5G industry has gone from strength to strength. However, while 5G coverage and data speeds continue to improve, publications on 5G patent leadership continue to suffer from a lack of rigor and transparency. This article is intended to provide some much-needed clarity to the question of 5G patent leadership by detailing the results of a review of eight different 5G landscaping reports, each scored for rigor and transparency. This article also examines 5G leadership by company in 2021 by applying the most rigorous and transparent essentiality audit data to declared patent family counts to calculate industry shares of 5G patent families held by the top companies.

Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett

Reviewed by: Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett Craig Peariso Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. By Kate Dossett. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xx, 338. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5442-3; cloth, $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-5441-6.) Much has been written about the Federal Theater Project (FTP), a part of the United States government's Works Progress Administration that from 1935 to 1939 paid out-of-work writers, actors, directors, and crews to stage theatrical productions. The segregated "Negro Units" within the FTP, however, have received less attention. In Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal, Kate Dossett offers a rich archival history of a number of Negro Unit productions, setting aside the question of white leadership within the Negro Units and highlighting the political complexity of Black-authored works produced by the FTP. As political opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal increased, its programs actually gained acceptance among many African American writers and activists for their potential to ensure at least a minimum standard of living for all Americans. For that reason, among others, the Negro Units were embraced by a number of playwrights as an opportunity to give form to a variety of political content. Through close study of manuscripts from local productions of Black-authored (or coauthored) plays, Dossett weaves an engaging narrative of the ways authors and performers (though her emphasis is clearly on the authors) used the theater to envision "radical paths to the future" (p. 39). [End Page 358] Dossett's study opens with a chapter on the 1934 play Stevedore, a play about the lives of working-class Blacks produced by members of New York's Theatre Union, a group of white leftist playwrights and directors. Though the play would seem to fall outside her specific focus on federally funded and Black-authored works, it is nevertheless important to her history, as it not only served as an important model for many in the FTP looking to produce socially and politically relevant work, but also "became important to a community of black theatre critics, audiences, and performers who were willing, skilled, and increasingly able to adapt white dramas in order to develop a politically useful black theatre" (p. 41). Having established Stevedore as a type of precedent, she goes on in the next chapter to discuss Black-authored works such as Stars and Bars (1937–1938) and Liberty Deferred (1937–1938), which adapted the Living Newspaper form as a means of "subjecting white spectators to the black gaze" (p. 121). With these first two studies in place, Dossett proceeds to devote the second half of the book to the various representations of Black heroism found in Negro Unit plays. She first offers a comparison of the characters of John Henry in Natural Man (1937) and Bigger Thomas in the stage adaptation of Native Son (1941) and then, in a different register, a consideration of Theodore Ward's Big White Fog (1937–1938). Looking to move beyond the now clichéd narrative that portrays Big White Fog as a "'pro-communist'" drama—noting that its labor politics are actually relatively anodyne—she chooses instead to focus on the play's gender politics, offering it almost as a partial counterpoint to the overwrought masculinity of Natural Man and Native Son (p. 165). Finally, she turns to Haiti (1938) and Go Down Moses (1938), two productions offering what she seems to see as a more hopeful model of Black male heroism by rooting it, respectively, in the Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War and Underground Railroad. As a whole, Dossett's study makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of the history of African American theater, and American theater more generally. At a time when, as she notes, calls to improve and acknowledge the importance of Archives for Black Lives have become common on multiple social media platforms, Dossett returns to some of those archives to remind readers of their richness and intricacy. Craig Peariso Boise State University Copyright © 2021 The Southern Historical Association

Leadership, performance and socialist reforms: how did reform leadership emerge and create change?

ABSTRACT Audacious economic reforms in socialist China and Vietnam have successfully defied worries and woes from the Western pundits of economic reforms. Unlike their negative appraisals, the grand scale reforms in the two countries have transformed their ailing economies to one of the most miraculous of all economic growths and developments in modern human history. This collection raises a rarely asked question of ‘which leadership style was pivotal in garnering the miracle at the firm level?’ Six pieces of research are collected under the similar topic that bears the question of leadership and innovation in China and Vietnam either as a single case study or as a comparative analysis of the two countries and with other East Asian economies (e.g., South Korea, Japan). The analysis presented in this collection finds that emotional, traditional, philosophical, and cultural leadership styles are necessary in tandem with transformative, strategic and design leadership to offset the pangs of radical reforms.