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{"title":"Leadership Styles and Employees’ Productivity: A Case Study of Public University Libraries of Jamshoro City, Sindh Province, Pakistan","authors":"Tanveer Ahmed, Chao-guang Yang, Hongjuan Yang, Liaquat Ali Rahoo, Salman Mahmood, B. Poudiougo","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.103015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.103015","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this research study is to \u0000examine leadership styles (autocratic, democratic and transformational) \u0000containing along with employees’ productivity in carefully chosen public \u0000university libraries of Sindh Province. So, for this purpose, the descriptive survey \u0000design is used in this study along with the nature of quantitative research \u0000methodology. The overall population for this study is comprised of two main public universities of Sindh, Pakistan. 1) University of Sindh, \u0000Jamshoro; 2) \u0000Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) Jamshoro, Sindh \u0000Province, Pakistan. The sample size for this study containing a total of thirty-one (31) library employees called librarians, which signifies the \u0000total population of academic employees called librarians in the institutes \u0000considered, was used. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire survey. The sample size for \u0000this study was thirty-one (31) respondents. Data was analyzed through SPSS \u0000software by using different statistical techniques likewise frequency, \u0000percentages, mean and standard deviation. Results for this study revealed the \u0000implementation of autocratic, democratic, and transformational leadership styles by means of \u0000the University library employees called librarians. The transformational style of leadership is largely \u0000accepted followed by democratic style. This study consistently concluded that \u0000the leadership styles of university library employees distress the efficiency \u0000of the employees under their supervision. This research study also endorsed \u0000that the formation of a better working environment, along with the adoption of \u0000good leadership styles that will absolutely develop the responsive relationship \u0000amongst the head of departments of all libraries with their subordinates.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121619645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Relationship of Transformational and Transactional Principal Leadership on Teacher Job Satisfaction and Secondary Student Performance in Subang Jaya, Malaysia","authors":"Nazlina Mirsultan, Thangaveloo Marimuthu","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.103016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.103016","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigate the perceptions of teachers as to how the leadership of their principal affects their job satisfaction at public secondary schools in Subang Jaya \u0000and in turn, the effect it has towards students’ academic performance. This quantitative research concentrates on how teacher’s perceptions of their principal’s leadership style enhance teachers’ job satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to examine the unique impact that school principals have on teacher job satisfaction and finding which specific leadership practices were associated with teacher job satisfaction. The sample \u0000consists of 260 teachers from four public secondary schools at Subang Jaya, Selangor. \u0000The instruments used for this study were the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) developed by Bass & Avolio (2004) and the Job Satisfaction Questionnaire \u0000(JSQ) developed by Spector (1995). Data were analysed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, Chi Square test, Pearson Correlation test and Regression analysis. The \u0000researcher tried to explore transformational and transactional leadership styles to find out, which was more effective leadership style as principal in public secondary schools. The researcher conducted this study to obtained confirmation on the impact \u0000of principal leadership styles, and how it can affect teachers’ job satisfaction, and students’ performance in public secondary schools at Subang Jaya, Selangor. It was \u0000also to confirm that knowledge and perceptions of teachers can help principals to \u0000create a better working environment and helps to understand the needs of their teachers. The result of this study indicated that principal leadership style has a significant (p˂0.05) relationship to teacher job satisfaction in schools. Thus, the findings of this study contributed to the existing literature by providing a better understanding how teacher job satisfaction and student performance can be influence by the principal leadership styles.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131408293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovative Leadership: A Literature Review Paper","authors":"I. Alharbi","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.103014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.103014","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation \u0000and leadership have been two key areas of research in the last decades. Various \u0000scholars have come up with multiple definitions of the terms, all revolving \u0000around the influence notion. Leaders have been reported to influence other \u0000individuals to dedicate their efforts to attain a given objective. Leadership, \u0000however, is a broad term, possessing many definitions. It includes and affects various approaches, \u0000situations, skills, reactions, competencies, and qualities. On the other hand, \u0000innovation is a practical implementation of methods or ideas that facilitate \u0000introducing new products or improving how services and goods are offered. To \u0000clearly understand the real meaning of innovative leadership, it is crucial \u0000first to fathom the leadership and innovation concepts. The paper aims to \u0000review the innovative leadership style as portrayed in the literature, and \u0000combining the two terms, and offering more insight and structural foundation \u0000for researching elements of innovative leadership.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115124971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a Conceptual Framework for Political Leadership Theory and Practice: A Thematic Analysis of the Literature","authors":"Duke Ofosu-Anim, Seung-Hee Back","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.103013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.103013","url":null,"abstract":"While there is agreement on the relevance of \u0000political leadership theory and practice, there is still deficiency in \u0000literature on viable approaches, enabling factors, and suitable personality \u0000characteristics. Suggested models for political leadership are mostly untested, which make their \u0000applicability and effects largely unknown. This paper proposes development of a \u0000conceptual framework and discusses how it can be used to design a model for \u0000political leadership. A thematic review of literature on political leadership \u0000identified 27 different theories and practices which elucidated fully or \u0000partially the components of political leadership theory and practice. The \u0000models were subjected to a thematic analysis to identify themes used in \u0000political leadership. The results were used to develop a conceptual framework. \u0000Two themes and four processes of political leadership were identified. From \u0000these results, a \u0000conceptual framework for political leadership theory and practice was \u0000developed. The framework illustrates the two components of the political \u0000leadership theory and practice while indicating a multidisciplinary set of \u0000relationships. As such the framework allows for individual themes to occur \u0000repeatedly through the political leadership continuum. The results of the study \u0000can serve as a preliminary model for developing an extended understanding of the theory and practice of \u0000political leadership, and also be used in disciplines such as political \u0000science, economics, sociology, and psychology, as a guide in determining \u0000inter-relational dynamics in political leadership patterns, behaviors, and \u0000character traits of leaders in future studies. The framework provides a \u0000foundation for gathering evidence from scenario-based case studies on the \u0000political leadership function. Attempts at utilising thematic analysis to \u0000develop a framework for ascertaining congruence between political leadership \u0000theory and practice is a new concept and it calls for further future study to \u0000improve the framework with an aim of advancing its practicality in explaining \u0000the concepts.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115393734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Influencing Childbearing Intentions among Female Employees of Department M in the Public Sector in China under the “Two-Child” Policy","authors":"Ximing Yang","doi":"10.4236/OJL.2021.102010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJL.2021.102010","url":null,"abstract":"Since \u0000China implemented a comprehensive two-child policy in October 2015, it has not \u0000reached the expected peak birth rate. Therefore, birth willingness, determining \u0000factors and policy optimization have become key topics of discussion and \u0000analysis. This study examined the factors influencing childbearing intentions \u0000among female employees of Department M in the Public Sector in China under the \u0000“Two-child” Policy Using a questionnaire survey and interview guide both \u0000capturing three dimensions that are individual basic information, actual \u0000marital status and family structure characteristics, data were collected from \u0000female employees of Department M in the Public Sector in China. Data were \u0000collected from 280 female employees. Logistic binary regression was carried out \u0000for quantitative data using SAS software while qualitative data were analysed \u0000using content analysis. The findings revealed that the influencing factors of \u0000the current female employees’ willingness to bear children in the Department M \u0000were marital factors, birth and support costs, growth environment, family \u0000conditions and external conditions. Therefore, it was concluded that the severe \u0000cost of childbirth and its own development situation will affect the \u0000willingness of female employees to bear children. And the recommendations of \u0000this study are that the government should pay more attention to the fertility \u0000environment of the whole society.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131816406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching Research Group Leaders’ Engagement in Curriculum Leadership: The Principals’ Perspective","authors":"Yiming Shan","doi":"10.4236/OJL.2021.102005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJL.2021.102005","url":null,"abstract":"Schools and teachers have been empowered with \u0000greater autonomy to make instructional decisions following decentralisation in \u0000education, both internationally and in the Chinese context. Thus, it is \u0000important to examine how teachers are involved in curriculum decision-making. Being the stakeholders who empowered teachers with \u0000autonomy, this study explored principals’ perspectives of how teaching research \u0000group (TRG) leaders are empowered to take on a curriculum leadership (CL) role \u0000in secondary schools in China. A qualitative approach was employed and involved \u0000interviewing 10 principals and collecting the job descriptions of TRG leaders \u0000in 10 secondary schools in Taiyuan City, China. The NCR was pioneered in 2001 \u0000in 38 experimental areas (e.g., provinces, autonomous districts and \u0000municipalities) selected by the MoE, which aimed at prompting the implementation \u0000of NCR. Taiyuan City is one of the experimental areas (MoE, 2001). The findings \u0000demonstrated the necessity for empowering TRG leaders, as they were found to be \u0000less empowered and exhibited less awareness of enacting the CL role, especially \u0000for the national curriculum. In terms of the theoretical contribution of this \u0000study, it explicates the involvement of teacher leaders in CL at four levels \u0000(i.e., the school level, the classroom level, the social relationship level, \u0000and the personal level). This provides a reference for an in-depth \u0000understanding of teacher leaders’ initiatives. In practice, the research \u0000findings are informative for entailing teachers with greater autonomy. This \u0000will ultimately prompt school development and thus broaden and add to the international \u0000body of knowledge on teachers’ engagement in CL.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"03 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132648633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding Authentic Leadership Style: The Satya Nadella Microsoft Approach","authors":"D. Prakash, Meenakshi Bisla, S. Rastogi","doi":"10.4236/OJL.2021.102007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJL.2021.102007","url":null,"abstract":"The paper endeavours to analyze authentic dimensions of Leadership with \u0000Satya Nadella’s leadership and his aggressive strategy leading to an increase \u0000in Microsoft’s profitability. A total of 7 interviews of Nadella from 2014 to \u00002020 were coded in NVivo to prepare Word query, TreeMap and cluster analysis. \u0000Also, besides tweets associated with #Satya Nadella were captured using \u0000NCapture and exported to NVivo to obtain the sentiments by performing sentiment \u0000analysis. The Twitter analysis of Nadella’s personality is majorly positive and \u0000neutral which reflects his success and influence across the globe. The traits \u0000of Nadella are linked with authentic leadership style. The study discusses the \u0000latent dimensions for becoming a successful authentic leader that is highly \u0000recommended for leaders to boost their leadership skills and increase \u0000organization’s profitability in this competitive world.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132651011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"English Learner Policies into Practice: The Power of Campus Leadership","authors":"V. León, Katie Walker, Andrea Moreno Juarez","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.102011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.102011","url":null,"abstract":"English \u0000learners (ELs) are a central and yet marginalized student population attending \u0000many public schools today. There are currently language policies written into \u0000legislation that provides support for EL students. The question is, how do the \u0000beliefs of school leaders influence their response to issues of policy implementation \u0000and compliance for EL students? In this study, campus administrators (leaders) \u0000in Texas school districts utilize responsive interviews to examine how the \u0000beliefs and practices of campus administrators shape their response to issues \u0000of compliance and implementation of language policies for ELs indicating how \u0000leaders accept educational responsibility for EL students. Ultimately, \u0000successful campuses are bred through a supportive, culturally competent climate \u0000and culture that is modeled and nurtured through an involved campus \u0000administrator who is willing to accept educational responsibility for EL \u0000students.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116994836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing Human Capital through Instructional Leadership: Learning to Coach during Principal Preparation","authors":"Irma L. Almager, S. Cumby, M. H. Almekdash","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2021.102012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.102012","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Aspiring leaders need to be equipped to transform schools with both the \u0000understanding and skills to purposefully increase implementation of a rigorous \u0000curriculum in every classroom as they learn to lead diverse schools. To provide \u0000a rigorous curriculum, principals need effective skills to grow teachers’ \u0000instructional and pedagogical competencies. The development of these necessary \u0000skills should begin during the principal preparation program with the \u0000candidate’s ability to demonstrate instructional coaching competencies. Methods: The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to determine whether there \u0000was an improvement in principal candidates’ performance on the linear \u0000combinations of the indicators across the four examined Evaluation Cycles and \u0000in a qualitative phase, to pinpoint the significant improvements in principal \u0000candidates’ performances on observed indicators. Findings: The \u0000quantitative data showed that as candidates received ongoing coaching specific \u0000to their needs, their ratings improved. The qualitative results furthered the \u0000finding. This article argues that transforming schools must include developing \u0000human capital through instructional leadership and it must begin during \u0000principal preparation. Implications: Principal preparation programs and \u0000school districts should emphasize the importance for the principal’s \u0000instructional leadership skills as they are responsible for hiring, growing, \u0000and retaining effective teachers.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116356526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Foundational Leadership Theory: The Inward and Outward Approach to Examine Ethical Decision-Making","authors":"Lara Fuller","doi":"10.4236/OJL.2021.102006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJL.2021.102006","url":null,"abstract":"Western societies tend to rely on societal norms to guide \u0000decision making. However, decisions based solely on societal norms may fluctuate \u0000between acceptable/unacceptable. As a result, leaders are paying heavy fines, asked \u0000to resign and in some cases found guilty in courts due to these fluctuations. This has become problematic for ethical leadership decision-making. \u0000This study introduces the foundational leadership theory which builds on ethic position \u0000theory by applying leader-member exchange concepts. Research confirmed that foundational \u0000leadership-integrity, assurance and pragmatism significantly predict organization \u0000commitment. Therefore, foundational leadership theory establishes employees’ ethical \u0000perception of their leader and influences organizational commitment. CEOs, leaders, \u0000managers and supervisors should apply this foundational leadership model to evaluate \u0000ethical decision-making.","PeriodicalId":284389,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Leadership","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132146829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}