{"title":"New Perspectives on Leaders’ Motivational and Emotional Experiences and the Role of Basic Psychological Needs Not to Fail Organizational Change in a Multi-Crisis Context—A Content Analysis","authors":"Jörg Krauter","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2023.123014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2023.123014","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to identify the motivational and emotional states and uncover the underlying role of basic psychological needs of leaders that will facilitate them to handle organizational change in a multi-crisis context. This study uses the qualitative research approach of qualitative content analysis to investigate leaders’ positive and negative motivational and emotional experiences and the role of basic psychological needs during change in a multi-crisis context. The study highlights the interplay between motivation, emotional experiences, and the fulfillment of basic psychological needs in leaders during a multi-crisis organizational change. Utilizing self-determination theory, it provides insights into how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and demotivators, alongside positive and negative emotional experiences, shape leaders’ responses to organizational change. It underscores the importance of situational need-based support in satisfying leaders’ basic psychological needs, which, in turn, significantly impacts their motivation and emotional states. The results highlight the need for organizations to foster an environment of need-based support that facilitates these intrinsic motivators and addresses potential demotivators. The study offers practical implications on how organizations can enhance their leaders’ motivation and emotional resilience and adaptation during change by focusing on strategies that ensure the satisfaction of leaders’ basic psychological needs. Despite these findings, it acknowledges the need for further research to examine these complex dynamics in different organizational contexts. This paper provides new findings and theoretical descriptions in the understudied area of leaders’ motivational and emotional experiences and the role of basic psychological needs during an organizational change in a multi-crisis context.","PeriodicalId":471341,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of leadership","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135495420","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":"Perceptions on the Implementation of the Philippine Development Plan in Ensuring Efficient Governance","authors":"Michelle S. Guillermo","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2023.124018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2023.124018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":471341,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of leadership","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135317466","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":"Equity in Gifted Education: A Case Study","authors":"Dusty L. Palmer, Vanessa de León, Cathy Palmer","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2023.123015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2023.123015","url":null,"abstract":"This case study focuses on equity audit efforts conducted by a principal intern serving in a job-embedded principal preparation residency program. Data from the equity audit is illustrated through tables along with the perception from the principal intern experience primarily focusing on equity within gifted and talented population. The case study is ambiguous yet intentional in providing instruction on how to conduct an equity audit and provide solutions to challenge the inequities found. This study can be used as a tool to use in educator preparation programs.","PeriodicalId":471341,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of leadership","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135594196","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":"Educational Administrators’ Leadership Styles and Teachers’ Organizational Commitment: Inputs for a Work Engagement Program","authors":"Chunliu Yue","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2023.123017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2023.123017","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author aimed to explore the relationship between authoritative, democratic, and laissez-faire leadership styles of administrators at Lingnan Normal University in Guangdong Province, China, and examine the impact of educational administrators’ leadership styles on teachers’ organizational commitment in tertiary education.","PeriodicalId":471341,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of leadership","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798300","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":"Is Training What <i>Made</i> and <i>Nurtured</i> Transformational Leaders?","authors":"Iskandar Deeb","doi":"10.4236/ojl.2023.123016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2023.123016","url":null,"abstract":"This quantitative and cross-sectional study examines the relationship between training and acquiring transformational leadership skills to discuss the assumption that transformational leadership skills can be acquired through training and that leadership is not a trait, personality, or character. James Kouzes and Barry Posner introduced a transformational leadership model named the Exemplary Leader. The authors claimed that leadership is not a trait, but a function and a skill available for everyone to acquire, and those who are willing to put the effort to apply and master the five practices of an exemplary leader can become great leaders and make extraordinary things happen in their organizations. For this study, a sample of 249 middle managers working in insurance companies in the UAE completed the LPI questionnaire and responded to questions regarding training history, training functions within their organizations, and their knowledge of transformational leadership. The study’s mean values indicated that participants exhibited high leadership practice levels. Further, Pearson’s correlation was deployed to examine the strength and direction of the relationship between training, knowledge of transformational leadership models, and exhibiting the five practices of an exemplary leader. Results revealed a weak positive correlation. In addition, an independent sample t-test was conducted to examine any difference between groups in relation to training functions within the participants’ organizations; the results showed no significant difference. This concludes that no relationship existed between training and exhibiting transformational leadership, unlike Kouzes and Posner’s assumption that leadership practices are not innate characteristics, but can be acquired by training.","PeriodicalId":471341,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of leadership","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135649316","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}