Discursive leadership

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-77
Author(s):  
Cynthia M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Ivonne M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Ingrid N. Pinto-López ◽  
Yvonne Lomas-Montaudon
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Business School ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Leaders And Followers ◽  
Discursive Leadership ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Overall Effectiveness

This chapter analyzes discursive leadership in first-time leadership and introduces a scale that was developed to measure discursive leadership abilities based on seven distinct dimensions: overall effectiveness, tools used, guidance, modulating, empowerment, non-verbal cues, and climate and bonding. The scale was developed and pilot-tested at a private business school in Puebla, Mexico, based on followers' perceptions. Theory on discursive leadership was analyzed as a form of organizational communication and as a process between leaders and followers. An overview of the state of research in the field of business and management, specifically basic constructs, fundamental notions, and elements are presented, as well as new lines of research in the area.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability (CSRS) Initiatives among European and Asian Business Schools: A Web-based Content Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1231-1247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsin Abdur Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Kashif ◽  
Michela Mingione
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business School ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which MBA programmes offered by top European and Asian B-schools have a corporate social responsibility and sustainability (CSRS) orientation as per their websites. The websites of top-200 (based on the QS Global Business and Management University Rankings 2015) European and Asian B-schools were explored and content analysed to reach meaningful conclusions. The findings reveal European B-schools have much stronger CSRS orientation once compared with the Asian B-schools. Furthermore, only few B-schools promote CSRS centres on their websites which has some useful practical implications. This is the first study to explore the CSRS orientation among top-200 European and Asian B-schools based on an analysis of their respective websites. Additionally, a cross-continental comparison between European and Asian MBA programmes is unique to this study. The results have implications for global managers, in general, and business school policymakers, in specific, to embark the CSR initiatives to gain competitive advantage.

scholarly journals Future-proofing placements

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-444
Author(s):  
Julie Fowlie ◽  
Clare Forder
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Student Demand ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study centred on steps taken at a Business School in a UK university, to improve local work placement provision, respond to student demand and engage more productively with local businesses. It is situated against renewed focus on universities’ engagement with local economies and the graduate labour market context as demonstrated by the government’s Industrial Strategy (BEIS, 2017) and the OfS (2018) business plan. It aims to emphasise how moving the focus back from graduates to placement students could offer a useful collaborative opportunity for local businesses to articulate what they want from future employees. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows a mixed methods approach, drawing upon a case study on a new intervention piloted in the Business School as well as qualitative research gathered from questionnaires and interviews with students. Responses to questionnaires and interviews were analysed thematically in the Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) tradition. Findings The paper highlights the lack of literature on local placements and also demonstrates findings which echo existing research on typical barriers and drivers to placements in general. It offers original outcomes such as how for some students local placements offer a convenience value but for others they are part of committing to living and working locally after graduation. Research limitations/implications The small-scale nature of the study means that only indicative findings are presented. Further research is necessary for a more detailed examination of its implications. Practical implications Recommendations are made for a systematic approach to developing, or establishing for the first time, university–employer relationships in order to future-proof local placement opportunities. Originality/value The paper fills a gap in the literature on local placements and also provides a fresh approach to how universities and employers might work together to identify local skills gaps and increase the provision of local placements. It also offers ways in students’ often negatively framed reasons for not undertaking a placement can be mitigated through engaging with the local context.

scholarly journals THE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IMPLEMENTATION ASEAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTORS : AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF INDONESIAN PRIVATE BUSINESS SCHOOLS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Gading Baskoro ◽  
Bun Sucento ◽  
Linus Pasasa
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Business School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Private Business ◽  
School Students ◽  
Asean Economic Community

The primary purpose of this research is to identify the competitiveness position of Indonesian private business schools in the ASEAN region in facing ASEAN Economic Community in 2015. This research also tries to identify strategies for Indonesian private business schools in facing the era of ASEAN Economic Community. SWOT analysis is used as the base of this research. AACB's accreditation standards are use for determining factors driven the most to the competitiveness of Indonesian private business schools, while five factors of students' choice  are used to determine the strongest factor that influence ASEAN students' business school choice. Questionaires were distributed to Indonesian private business schools' lecturers and business school students in ASEAN region. After the data was gathered, AMOS Software is used to provide Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Path Diagram. Results from this study shows that Indonesian private business schools are in the Cell 3 of SWOT analysis diagram. "Participant Standards" is the factor that drives the most to the competitiveness of Indonesian private business school and "Overall Reputation" is the strongest factor that influences ASEAN students' business school choice. The research shows that Indonesian should support turnaround -oriented strategies by fulfilling AACSB's Participants Standards and improving their reputation in the ASEAN region.

scholarly journals Role of Starting School Age in the Academic Performance at the Tertiary Level

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Mahwish Ali Baber ◽  
Nawaz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Business School ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
School Age ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Starting School ◽  
Answering Questions

<p>The purpose of this research was to find out whether starting school earlier than four years of age gave any academic benefit to the students in the long run. This research aimed to find out whether the students who started schooling earlier than four years of age are able to achieve better grades and are better at self-regulation at the tertiary level. For this purpose, a sample of 108 students from a private business school comprising both early and late school starters were made to fill in questionnaires reporting their school starting age, their CGPA and answering questions that showed their level of self-regulation. The findings of this study suggest that there is no difference in the academic performance of the two groups, both in terms of their CGPA and their self-regulation skills.</p>

The paediatric patient

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sainsbury ◽  
Allan M Cyna
Keyword(s):  
Paediatric Patient ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Day Surgery ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Anaesthesia Care ◽  
Short Time ◽  
First Time ◽  
Communicating With Children

Anaesthetists usually develop their communication skills through experience over many years of trial and error. Much angst can be avoided by learning some simple techniques that can facilitate interactions during the delivery of anaesthesia care. Caring for children from newborn to adolescence provides the anaesthetist with unique opportunities to use communication to improve anaesthesia care. To a parent, the matter of handing over control and protection of their child to the anaesthetist is invariably difficult, emotional and can lead to significant distress. This is irrespective of whether the surgical intervention is major or not. For their child to attend the hospital for a procedure, families have frequently made unspoken and intricate arrangements in their schedule. Making these arrangements adds to the other stresses of coming in for surgery. Being mindful of this can help the anaesthetist communicate in a way that recognizes the possible complexity for some families of even attending the hospital on time. In recent years the increasing popularity of day-surgery admission has meant that many parents meet their child’s anaesthetist for the first time only minutes before the procedure. However, much can be done to enhance patient and parent rapport even when only a short time is available. Flexibility in approach is paramount. The age of the child determines how the ‘LAURS’ of communication can be implemented to facilitate patient rapport, trust and engagement during anaesthesia care. Communicating with children is similar to, yet differs from, communicating with adults. Children live in a subconscious world of play and make-believe. They are highly responsive to suggestion, and the use of subconscious language and non-verbal cues is frequently more effective than the usual adult logical communication most doctors are familiar with. Because of this, children often do not appear to be paying attention and instead frequently behave spontaneously, subconsciously or contrary to what is being asked of them. Adults when stressed will often do this too. As with adults, the aim of communicating effectively with children is to promote autonomy and a sense of control.

scholarly journals Sustaining Economic Geography? Business and Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1355-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Al James ◽  
Michael Bradshaw ◽  
Neil M Coe ◽  
James Faulconbridge
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
Prior Achievement ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
Business And Management

This Exchanges commentary is concerned with the health of Economic Geography as a sub-discipline, and economic geography (as a wider community of practice) in one of its historical heartlands, the UK. Against a backdrop of prior achievement, recent years have witnessed a noticeable migration of economic geographers in the UK from Departments of Geography to academic positions in Business and Management Schools and related research centres. For the first time, a new (2018) research report by the Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG – We’re In Business! Sustaining Economic Geography? – has empirically evidenced this trend since 2000 (see supplementary material). In this parallel commentary, we summarise the major findings of that project in order to identify: the scale of this cross-disciplinary labour mobility; its operation at different levels of the academic career hierarchy; and the underlying motivations and variegated outcomes experienced by those making the transition. We then move to consider the wider implications of this ‘Economic Geography Diaspora’ for sustaining Economic Geography teaching, research and knowledge production. While economic geography clearly has a healthy appeal to Business and Management as an interdisciplinary community of practice, we raise multiple concerns around the largely uni-directional nature of this ‘movers’ phenomenon in UK universities. We make a number of suggestions for possible interventions to effect positive change and to prompt a larger conversation that benchmarks this UK experience against other national contexts.

scholarly journals User Experience (UX) in Business, Management, and Psychology: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Current State of Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Luther ◽  
Victor Tiberius ◽  
Alexander Brem
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Bibliometric Mapping ◽  
Current State ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Business And Management

User Experience (UX) describes the holistic experience of a user before, during, and after interaction with a platform, product, or service. UX adds value and attraction to their sole functionality and is therefore highly relevant for firms. The increased interest in UX has produced a vast amount of scholarly research since 1983. The research field is, therefore, complex and scattered. Conducting a bibliometric analysis, we aim at structuring the field quantitatively and rather abstractly. We employed citation analyses, co-citation analyses, and content analyses to evaluate productivity and impact of extant research. We suggest that future research should focus more on business and management related topics.

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