Leadership Stance Research Articles

Sweden’s conflicting green leadership in the European Union

ABSTRACT This article examines the nuanced dynamics of green leadership within the European Union (EU), focusing on Sweden. Sweden has long been heralded as an exemplar of environmental and climate leadership within the European Union as well as a frontrunner in the adoption of green policies, notably in the realms of bioenergy and biofuels. However, its leadership stance has come under scrutiny due to the inherent conflicts within green initiatives, often referred to as ‘green-green dilemmas’ that arise when environmental actions, despite their sustainable intentions, clash over competing interests. Drawing on a variety of sources we delve into the complexities surrounding Sweden's green leadership. The article highlights how Sweden’s enthusiastic endorsement of bioenergy and biofuels, integral to its climate action strategy, has sparked debates and raised questions about Sweden´s perceived green leadership within the European Union. Sweden's approach to navigating these conflicts, alongside its efforts to negotiate and balance economic interests with environmental ambitions, offers a compelling insight into the challenges of maintaining green leadership in the face of conflicting green agendas.

Dual citizenship and wicked problems: a leadership stance in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy

ABSTRACT This paper raises and addresses issues to do with leadership and child psychotherapy, beginning with a report on a systematic review of papers about leadership in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy (JCP). The authors establish that leadership is expressed implicitly rather than as an important issue in its own right with relevance to clinical work, service development and the ongoing viability of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy. When reviewing the limited literature available, the authors classify them into five types of article: tribute to leaders past; clinical leadership; threat to survival and call to action; organisational leadership; and exemplary papers describing professional leadership. The authors query why the leadership literature is sparse and inexplicit and respond by using the theme of ‘dual citizenship’ to explore the issue from a psychoanalytic and organisational perspective. The psychoanalytic perspective explores tensions and barriers that may be profession-specific in relation to leadership. The organisational perspective explores the wider literature on leadership, starting with the concept of ‘wicked problems and clumsy solutions’. The authors introduce and describe a ‘leadership stance’ that is compatible with psychoanalytic practice in context. This requires opening up leadership activity to the same scrutiny and reflective practice as clinical work, which provides ways of containing organisational and career anxieties and perplexing clinical problems. This paper is a call to action in regard to integrating leadership into the training and the profession.

Josiah’s Reform as a Model of Leadership among the Servants in Batam based on 2 Kings 22-23:1-30

Reformist leadership is a term that refers to people who have a desire to carry out an act of change that is better than before. Reformers are defined as people who advocate reform or people who support reform. Practically reform is an action that leads to change for the better. So reformist leadership is in essence leadership towards change in accordance with God's will. In this study, an in-depth study of the explanatory and confirmatory studies of Josiah's reformist approach as a model of leadership based on 2 Kings 22-23:1-30 was carried out among the servants in Batam in order to ascertain the extent to which it is infused in leadership in Batam. Josiah’s story guides Christians to a critical dynamic in the way in which people, especially leaders lead their nations. Josiah constantly sought to do “right in the sight of God. Josiah’s enthusiasm, and determination to serve God faitfhully confirmed that it was indeed possible to do what God wills fully and his actions are a role-modeling behaviour for us. Josiah’s kingship greatly influenced the people of Israel but the core of his leadership stance is also important for the actions and even the lifestyles of ministry leaders, and others in leadership roles today.

USING BUSINESS LEADERSHIP MODELS TO ANALYSE THE LEADERSHIP APPROACH IN A DEVELOPMENTAL ORGANIZATION WORKING IN THE CAPE FLATS

This practical theological multidisciplinary research investigates the leadership stances in a Christian developmental organisation operating in gangster-ridden communities in the Cape Flats within the Cape Town conurbation. In this article “stance” is used as a technical term referring to certain well-defined aspects of a leader’s outlook and approach. The organisation is evaluated using a Christian transcendental leadership stance developed by integrating the transactional, transformational and transcendental business leadership stances with Christian spirituality. The analysis reveals that, within the overall transcendental leadership stance of the researched organisation, the primary purpose and motivational incentivisation is transformational. It is suggested that the research may provide leaders of other and African Christian developmental organisations with useful and productive insights into their own organisations.

A Professional Agency Perspective on Novice Teachers' Development of a Teacher Leadership Stance

The purpose of this study was to explore novice teachers’ perceptions of professional agency in facilitating their development of a teacher leadership stance during the initial years of their work. Participants were thirteen novice teachers who had less than three years of teaching experience in Qatari government schools. Analysis of interview data revealed that novice teachers perceived professional agency in their reflections on university preparation; their commitment to students’ social and emotional well-being; and their “becoming” a teacher. They further practiced agency in their relationships with other teachers, and in their contributions to the wider school context. Accordingly, a total of six novice teachers reported a clear teacher leadership stance. By contrast, enacting professional agency was restricted according to seven novice teachers due to the presence of contextual factors which hindered their development of a teacher leadership stance. Implications of these findings to teacher education and school administration are discussed.

Flight Decks and Isolettes: High-Reliability Organizing (HRO) as Pragmatic Leadership Principles during Pandemic COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has created a physical environment where neonatologists and neonatal staff face exposure to an easily transmissible, potentially fatal infection in the course of their duties. Leaders cannot reject an assignment, such as a resuscitation of a newborn, because of risk. As in military operations, safety and capability cannot be separated from neonatal operations. Leadership models developed in stable environments do not fully translate to dynamic, uncertain situations where the leader and subordinates personally face threats; the type of environment from which the High-Reliability Organization (HRO) emerged. There must be a shift from the increasingly abstract, academic, and normative representation of HRO leadership to its original, more pragmatic frame that iteratively supports engagement. The purpose of this paper is to present HRO as leadership principles, bridging the gap between abstract theory and practice by bringing attention to HRO as a scientifically supported pragmatic leadership stance.

The role of agency in the development of a teacher leadership stance among student teachers during the practicum experience

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the way student teachers enacted agency to facilitate the development of a teacher leadership stance during a 12-week practicum experience. Data collection included pre-and post-interviews, weekly journals, mid- and post-reflective essays, classroom observations, and multiple assignments from seven student teachers completing their final semester at the national university in Qatar. Findings revealed three patterns in student teachers’ enactment of agency during the process of developing a teacher leadership stance. By making choices and taking actions, student teachers supported their personal learning, their growth as a teacher, and their commitment to the teaching community. Accordingly, student teachers revealed three manifestations of a teacher leadership stance, namely a clear leadership stance, a developing leadership stance, and no leadership stance. Exploring the potential of a practicum experience with a focus on teacher leadership provided a nuanced understanding of possibilities and limitations, both personal and contextual. Implications for teacher education are further discussed.

DEVELOPING A RESILIENCE TOOL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A MUST-HAVE IN CAMPUS MASTER PLANNING

INTRODUCTION Resilience has become a prominent topic in the planning and design industry over the past several years. States, cities and entire regions face an ever-growing threat of environmental and societal challenges, including natural disasters, sea level rise, climate change, terrorism and financial insolvency. Around the world, universities are leading efforts in terms of research and problem solving regarding resilience and sustainability in their broader communities. As campus planners working nationwide with higher education clients, we see an increasing opportunity for higher education researchers, leaders and institutions to bring this same leadership stance to addressing their campus' own resilience. A campus master plan is perhaps the pinnacle opportunity to connect expert researchers with campus stewards and community leaders to engage in dialogue, identify priorities and advance resilience within their campus and community. A comprehensive master plan, by its very nature, will guide and protect an institution's long-range survival and plans. Such long-range planning is now more critical than ever given the deep financial pressures and flat or declining demographics that so many institutions face. Being proactive versus reactive increases the likelihood that institutions will succeed and continue to meet the needs of students and communities. Universities should continue or begin to address resilience challenges and opportunities in whatever scope possible. This paper will give university leaders and industry participants a broad framework to direct discussion and dissect levels of resilience, opportunities and potential shortfalls, and highlight resilient campus planning best practices. The aim is to provide a framework for institutions to measure and strengthen the resilience of their infrastructure, culture, and systems, while contributing to the resilience of their communities.

In the Corporate Interest: Fossil Fuel Industry Input into Alberta and British Columbia’s Climate Leadership Plans

Background This article examines the narrative strategies used by fossil fuel industries in responding to and shaping Alberta and BC’s climate leadership plans. Analysis This article makes inferences about fossil fuel industry influence by examining submissions of industry players to both regions’ public consultation processes. Conclusions and implications Key themes include: a need to take a leadership stance, a balance between environmental protection and economic growth, an appeal to protect industry competitiveness, and an emphasis on demand-side policies. These themes align with a policy discourse of weak ecological modernization and are central to advisory panel recommendations and subsequent subnational climate policies that facilitate market expansion and increased oil and gas production at a time when strong greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation efforts are urgently required.

Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

This article explores gender and entrepreneurial leadership, notably the meanings female entrepreneurs ascribe to notions of entrepreneurial leadership. Drawing from interviews with female business owners, the article questions the dominant hegemonic masculine entrepreneurial leadership model as well as that reportedly associated with women. Research findings illuminate the fluidity and variability of the entrepreneurial leadership construct. Our feminist poststructural lens and critical leadership stance adds new insight into the multiple subjectivities of entrepreneurs and surfaces contradiction and tension that shape the very sense of their entrepreneurial selves. By questioning accepted knowledge, this research offers new perspectives on the multiple realities of entrepreneurial leadership, which should be heeded by policy makers, academics and practitioners alike.

Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upon food, energy, water and the environment

Delivering access to sufficient food, energy and water resources to ensure human wellbeing is a major concern for governments worldwide. However, it is crucial to account for the ‘nexus’ of interactions between these natural resources and the consequent implications for human wellbeing. The private sector has a critical role in driving positive change towards more sustainable nexus management and could reap considerable benefits from collaboration with researchers to devise solutions to some of the foremost sustainability challenges of today. Yet opportunities are missed because the private sector is rarely involved in the formulation of deliverable research priorities. We convened senior research scientists and influential business leaders to collaboratively identify the top forty questions that, if answered, would best help companies understand and manage their food-energy-water-environment nexus dependencies and impacts. Codification of the top order nexus themes highlighted research priorities around development of pragmatic yet credible tools that allow businesses to incorporate nexus interactions into their decision-making; demonstration of the business case for more sustainable nexus management; identification of the most effective levers for behaviour change; and understanding incentives or circumstances that allow individuals and businesses to take a leadership stance. Greater investment in the complex but productive relations between the private sector and research community will create deeper and more meaningful collaboration and cooperation.

Understanding the Nature of a Person, and Leadership

Our human nature as rational beings with animal instincts, oftentimes, defines the type of persons we are as leaders in our family, community, and in the workplace. In this perspective, this reflection focuses to open a reflective internal and external discussion of my own personal leadership style; and to clearly articulate my own leadership stance based on my human nature of being able to love, and desire power to empower the others based on the dictates of my conscience. As a human being, it is in my nature: 1) to have a conscience and make decisions based on the dictates of my conscience; 2) to love the other and be loved by the other; and 3) a strong desire to acquire power and share to empower the other. To highlight these natural characteristics, this reflective paper 1) defines conscience, and explains decision-making based on my conscience; 2) defines love, and explains what is to love the other and be loved by the other; and 3) defines power, and explains how to empower the other. In addition, this paper defines servant leadership and explains the connectedness of these three characteristics of human nature to my own leadership stance as a servant leader to my family and the community.

Symposium Introduction: Stepping into Their Power: The Development of a Teacher Leadership Stance

AbstractThis introduction to the symposium on Teacher Leadership describes how a group of teachers have developed a definition of teacher leadership as a stance. The article explores how prior definitions of teacher leadership tend to focus on individual skills or roles. Neoliberal educational policies that emphasize market-based policy, privatization, individual effort and benefit, and efficiency have contributed to these task-oriented definitions of teacher leadership. The teacher leaders who participate in this project resist this framing and explore teacher leadership as a stance that values professionalism and the intellectual, political, and collaborative work of teaching.

Prairie restoration project: Alternatives for identifying gifted students

An authentic, challenging curriculum engaged middle school students from an urban district in exploratory work related to restoring a small prairie at the school. Integrated science-literacy-arts activities were coupled with a system of thinking skills that helped students view issues from different perspectives. Impassioned guest speakers and an enthusiastic teacher inspired students to build a relationship with the content, express their ideas creatively, interact with each other on student-designed projects, and to assume a leadership stance. Middle school students of all academic levels would benefit from teachers implementing similar subject-integrated, real-world-connected work in their classrooms.

Boundary Spanners and Advocacy Leaders: Black Educators and Race Equality Work in Toronto and London, 1968–1995

ABSTRACTThis comparative study examines the historical development of race equality efforts during the 1970s and 1980s in two global cities—Toronto and London—and the role of African Canadian and Black British educators in longstanding school-community partnerships. I characterize the leadership stance of Black educators as boundary spanners and advocacy leaders who bridged diverse communities and educational institutions in order to improve the educational experiences and life chances of Black students in both cities.

An Exploratory Study of Organization Design Configurations in Health Care Delivery Organizations

Organizations are configurations of variables that support each other to achieve customer satisfaction. Based on Treacy and Wiersema (1995), we predicted the emergence of two configurations, one supporting a product leadership stance and one predicting the customer intimate approach from a set of 73 for profit health care clinics. in addition, we predicted the emergence of a configuration where the scores on most variables were near the mean for each variable. Using cluster analysis and discriminant function analysis, we identified three configurations: one a “master of two” strategy, one “stuck-in-the-middle,” and one showing scores well below the mean on most variables. the implications for organization design and manager actions in the health care industry are discussed.

Preparing teacher leaders: Perceptions of the impact of a cohort-based, job embedded, blended teacher leadership program

This qualitative study was designed to examine teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of the impact of a graduate program designed to prepare teacher leaders. Impact was investigated through interviews with 20 graduates and 6 principals. Using Mezirow’s concept of transformational learning, the study documents perceived transformation of teachers’ frames of reference: two related to teaching (adopt an inquiry stance; learn to view oneself as an autonomous professional), and two related to leadership (adopt a leadership stance; view student learning as a communal responsibility). The study includes implications for the design of graduate level teacher education programs to enhance their impact and effectiveness.

Seeing No Evil

Eric Ketelaar (1998) has argued that primary duty of archivists is maintain integrity of archives. This principle is included in mission statement of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which reads in part: [NARA] serves American democracy by safeguarding and preserving records of our Government, ensuring that people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage. We ensure continuing access essential documentation of rights of American citizens and actions of their government. The Society of American Archivists (SAA), in accordance with its status as largest archival professional association in U.S., declares that its mission is to provide leadership ensure identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value.Some commentators believe that SAA has turned a corner and in recent years has taken more of a leadership role in speaking out on matters of import archival profession (Montgomery, 2009a). However, two recent controversies involving NARA suggest otherwise, indeed, suggest that SAA lacks will take any role whatsoever in matters involving archival ethics and professional standards of practice. In 2006, an independent researcher brought light that NARA had entered into secret agreements with several government agencies pull and reclassify publicly available records from its open shelves; agreements stipulated that NARA would hide reclassification program from public. In 2008, another independent researcher made public his unsuccessful attempts access NARA's own records, those of Office of Presidential Libraries. He documented a course of improper handling of records, unprofessional responses his requests for information, and inappropriate withholding of these records.SAA's failures take a leadership stance with respect these situations were compounded and enabled by majority of individual archivists who chose remain uninformed, and silent, about issues raised that were of critical importance their profession. Howard Zinn commented on this phenomenon thirty years ago, arguing that is a powerful form of social (Zinn, 1977). He described professionalism as the almost total immersion in one's craft, being so absorbed in day-to-day exercise of those skills, as have little time, energy or will consider what part those skills play in total social scheme (Zinn, 1977). He defined social control as maintaining things as they are, preserving traditional arrangements, preventing any sharp change in how society distributes wealth and power (Zinn, 1977). Zinn's conception of professionalism as social control is played out in failures of archivists speak up and take action when confronted with activities antithetical foundational principles of their profession.The Reclassification ScandalBackgroundIn 1995, President Clinton signed Executive Order (E.O.) 12958, requiring government agencies declassify all of their historical records that were 25 years old or older by end of 1999. The E.O. provided exemptions for certain categories of records, such as those relating intelligence sources and methods. A few agencies, notably State Department and Department of Energy (DOE), acted quickly comply with E.O.'s comprehensive mandate, making significant headway in declassifying many of their older records (Aid, 2006). By 1999, however, tide had turned in Clinton administration's approach security classification issues. DOE officials became concerned that implementation of E.O. had resulted in release of classified data on nuclear weapons by other agencies; Defense Department and intelligence community agencies were also resisting mandatory declassification requirements of E.O. (Aftergood, 2005).Beginning in late 1990s, these agencies, concerned that sensitive information may have been improperly declassified under provisions of E. …

HIPAA and Nursing Education: How to Teach in a Paranoid Health Care Environment

Nursing faculty are affected by the paranoia that exists today as health care institutions individually interpret the Privacy Rule contained within the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Because nursing students and faculty have been thrust into this environment, faculty must understand the Privacy Rule to ensure that both they and their students are in compliance. In this article, we provide a framework for faculty as they take a proactive leadership stance in relation to HIPAA. A multifaceted approach is necessary as faculty begin to navigate the challenges imposed by HIPAA. Strategies discussed include informing faculty and educating students, while developing a value system related to confidentiality issues and creating a safe environment for sharing information.

The First Domino: International Decision Making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956 by Johanna C. s> Granville (review)

150 SEER, 83, I, 2005 Rhodes's finest asset is having an eye to a good quotation, be it Trotskii's surprisinglyaccuratepredictionin 1933 of thewar of brutalconquest thatwas to come, or a Himmler memorandum from December I941 ordering a comradely evening to rebuild the spirit of brutalized perpetrators, or the survivorof a mass Riga shooting, FridaMichelson, playing dead under a pile of shoes and hearing the apres-shooting chat of Latvian auxiliaries:"'Let's have a smoke"; "A fine performance"; "It was very efficiently organized"; "They have experience"' and, of course, '"I hope we get our cut of the booty".' If this is not a book to offermajornew insights,it is repletewith good observationsand telling aperSus. Department ofHistoy MARK ROSEMAN IndianaUniversity Granville,Johanna C. TheFirstDomino: International Decision Makingduring the HungarianCrisisof I956. Eastern European Studies, 26. Texas A&M UniversityPress,College Station,TX, 2004. xx + 323 pp. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography.Index. ?35.50? WHEN it comes to Hungarian history, the English reader is seldom spoilt for choice. The thirteen days of the 1956 revolution representperhaps the only period in the troubled past of the Magyars to have inspired an enduring historical interest in the Anglo-Saxon world. In many British academic libraries, musty yellowed volumes on the I956 crisis take up much of the meagre shelfspace devoted to Hungarian history.This is a poor reflectionon the country's historical prominence, yet the significance of 1956 is beyond dispute. After all, Hungarian scholarsrecently went so far as to describe the 'Magyar October' as the 'greatest challenge to the Soviet empire', one that shatteredthe myth of Moscow's total control in EasternEurope and signalled the 'failureof Soviet-stylesocialism'.The Hungarianrevolutionis also saidto have led to the ultimate, if flawed, attempt to create a more human 'feasible socialism'duringthe late Kadairyears. Such grandioseclaims aside, the 1956 revolutionwas undeniably a momentous event, in which Budapest,for once, occupied centre stage in world affairs.Yet the English historicalliteratureon this unique chapter in Hungarian history has so far made little use of key documents declassified since the early I990s. Despite the opening of the Hungarian, Soviet and otherEastEuropeanarchives,only a few editedbooks, a study on the political legacy of I956, and a document collection have been added to the voluminous English historiographydating from the Cold War. Although some of the more significantfindingshave alreadybeen published in academic journals, Johanna Granville's monograph is the first book in Englishcomprehensivelyto coverboth the domesticand foreignpolicy aspects of the 1956 revolutionusingthe newly availablearchivalmaterial. Inevitably, this work relies heavily on contemporary Hungarian and Russian secondary sources. Even so, the American author quotes extensively from a variety of primary sources, especially Russian ones. The notes of the secret emergency sessions of the Soviet Presidiumbetween 23 October and REVIEWS I51 4 November, taken by Vladimir Malin, are cited particularly frequently. Although this important set of documents contains no verbatim minutes, and the notes of the crucial proceedings on 31 October are so compressed as to be virtually inscrutable, the records effectively dispel any preconceptions about unanimous Soviet deliberations. In her original treatment of the Hungarian crisis as a case study of 'regime confusion', Granville argues convincingly that 'Homosoveticus[sic] waffled just like his Western counterpart' (p. 69). Using the Malin notes, she illustrates the flaws in Soviet information-gathering and decision-making. She also debunks the tired thesis that the Hungarians harboured unrealistic ambitions, which made a Soviet intervention inevitable. Indeed, the documents leave no doubt that Imre Nagy decided to remove Hungary from the Warsaw Pact only after the Soviet leaders opted to launch a second invasion. These new archival sources, however, provide less satisfactory answers to the question of what caused the sudden U-turn in the Soviet leadership's stance towards Hungary on 3 I October, only twenty-four hours after it had contemplated troop withdrawal and a relaxation of Moscow's control over the client states. It is also unclear how far anti-Russian outbursts and the rapid political transformation in Hungary contributed to Soviet militancy. We now have a better appreciation of the confusion and mistrust that permeated the Kremlin; the fundamental misperceptions of the Soviet leadership; and the misinformation that emanated from Andropov and his staff at the Soviet embassy. There...