Is “Bad Leadership” a Problem Worth Addressing?

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Jo Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Bad Leadership

scholarly journals CONFLICTS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN POLICY APPROACHES IN NIGERIA: A DIALECTICAL MANIFESTATION OF POVERTY OF LEADERSHIP

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 04-08
Author(s):  
James Nde Jacob ◽  
Ochoga Anita Onmoba
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Elite Theory ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Bad Leadership

The paper discusses the conflicts and contradictions in policy approaches in Nigeria since 1960 with a view to ascertaining the role of bad leadership in policy outcomes. It adopts essentially the secondary methodology in data gathering through textbooks, journals and research articles, while the elite theory is chosen to explain the influence of the elite class on policy issues in Nigeria. From the findings, the paper argues that the heterogeneous configuration of Nigeria, colonial legacy, and institutional constraints have remained the major factors affecting smooth policy making and implementation processes in Nigeria due largely to the dearth of national leadership. In addition, the paper undertakes conceptual clarification of terms as used in relation to Public Policy in modern Nigeria; traces the history of Public Policy in the country; draws conclusion and made recommendations.

Predictive Analytics of Workplace Bullying and Bad Leadership Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Garcia ◽  
dt ogilvie ◽  
D. Anthony Miles
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Behavioral Traits ◽  
Bullying Behavior ◽  
Bad Leadership ◽  
Hostile Work Environment

Bad leadership and aggressive behavior in the workplace have been a recurring problem for most companies in the United States. With the rise in hostile work environment litigation, management has to address the problem of workplace bullying of employees. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the problem of workplace bullying and bad leadership behavioral traits on the victims and victims' actions to deal with bullying behavior. The researchers conducted a nationwide study with 327 participants that have experienced workplace bullying and bad leadership. The researchers used a first-generation, researcher-developed survey instrument to conduct this study. The results of the study show there is strong causal influence of workplace place bullying traits and victim behavior such as employee resignations and HR complaints. Management should carefully evaluate the effects of workplace bullying and bad leadership on its workforce.

ICTs and Indigenous Languages as Agents for the Actualization of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Festus Prosper Olise
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Bad Leadership

This paper advocates for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and indigenous languages for the actualization of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria because both tools are capable of transforming the rural and urban populace. It explores the MDGs so as to unravel the ways ICTs and indigenous languages can facilitate the speedy actualization of MDGs in Nigeria, a country with peculiar cultural heritage and with over 750 indigenous languages. It also analyzes some of the contending constraints confronting Nigeria from actualizing MDGs such as corruption, extreme poverty, lack of attention to indigenous languages, high cost of ICTs which are products of bad leadership. The effective use of Nigeria’s different indigenous languages and ICTs, it maintains, remains the most effective way towards educating Nigerians and achieving the MDGs in Nigeria come 2015.

What we know about Leadership

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hogan ◽  
Robert B. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Future Leaders ◽  
Bad Leadership

This article reviews the empirical literature on personality, leadership, and organizational effectiveness to make 3 major points. First, leadership is a real and vastly consequential phenomenon, perhaps the single most important issue in the human sciences. Second, leadership is about the performance of teams, groups, and organizations. Good leadership promotes effective team and group performance, which in turn enhances the well-being of the incumbents; bad leadership degrades the quality of life for everyone associated with it. Third, personality predicts leadership—who we are is how we lead—and this information can be used to select future leaders or improve the performance of current incumbents.

An empirical investigation of the antecedents, behaviors, and outcomes of bad leadership

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Erickson ◽  
James B. Shaw ◽  
Zha Agabe
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Bad Leadership

scholarly journals Leadership crisis in Nigeria: Theological study of John 10:11-15

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Mary Emilia Aboekwe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social System ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Leadership Crisis ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Bad Leadership

The circumstance of every nation is determined by the quality and vision of her leaders. Since after independent, Nigeria has been so unfortunate not to have gotten competent, effective and purposeful leaders capable of turning her highly great natural potentials into real economic and political powers. Both leaders and the lead fail to identify the essential values that sustain various societies constituting the nation and infuse such values into the nation’s social system. This incompetence has led to leadership crisis and has now clogged on its wheel of striving for development. It is this bad leadership and perhaps the poor handling of many ethnic groups in the country that have triggered the conflict and anxiety that have trailed quest for national integration since after independence. This paper therefore, using the periscope John 10:11-15 which deals with the parable of the Good Shepherd, examines the leadership qualities of Jesus Christ and recommends it to Nigerian leaders. It further examines the text to ascertain its theological implications. The study traces two kinds of leadership operated in Nigeria (military and civilian) since after independence. While emphasizing the need for moral education and constant value re-orientation as the means to surmount the Nigeria’s leadership challenges, the study recommends among others, the urgent need for paradigm shift in our social system in order to restore value based Nigerian society that would directly translate to value based leadership. Keywords: Leadership, Crisis, Education, Value

scholarly journals The structural advancement of religious communities and the commercialisation of the Christian religion in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Diara ◽  
Mmesoma Onukwufor ◽  
Favour Uroko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Armed Robbery ◽  
The Real ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Spiritual Problems ◽  
Bad Leadership ◽  
The Church

This article examines the activities of Christian religious communities and the birth of a commercialised Christian religion. It begins by creating an atmosphere that the Nigerians find themselves in, and explaining as to why they rely more on religious vendors for solutions to their physical and spiritual problems. Thus, the real causalities are the people with no contentment. The commercialisation of religion in Nigeria has been characterised by increased poverty and social vices such as armed robbery, bad leadership and bad citizenship. Findings reveal that adherents of the various churches that have commercialised their blessings comprise both the poor and the rich of the society. The poor are seeking God for instant blessing, while the rich are seeking God for the sustainability of their wealth and protection. True religion is now lost in Nigeria. Some pastors treat the church as an investment, expecting to get something in return personally when the institution prospers financially. This is evident in the rise in sugar-coated preaching in most Nigerian churches. It was discovered that commercialisation of churches is mainly for financial gains, and it is an offshoot of the proliferation of churches in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Assessing Nigerian political leadership with a democratic paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-72
Author(s):  
Ignatius C. Uzondu
Keyword(s):  
Political Leadership ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Democratic Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bad Leadership

A sober reflection or speculation on African leadership portrays the practice of authentic democracy as a perennial problem in Nigeria and in African continent. Democratic/electoral process is where citizens choose representatives in government by means of free, fair, contested and regularly scheduled elections and where adults have the right to vote and their votes count. But Nigerian democracy lacks basic trust. It is really a universal problem but Africans and Nigerians in particular got larger portion as our democratic practice is very poor. The citizens should be the starting point and focus of democracy, but this is not the case in Nigeria as many political and elected elites represent their business interest. This democratic deficit or deficiency is seen in local, state and federal levels of Nigerian government and this leads gradually to a serious decline in citizen’s active participation or active citizenship. Using expository and analytic method of inquiry, we found out that Nigerians and Africans may have been drifting from this form of government due to some of its demerit. Again, Africa has been long known for its communitarian living/communalism which we found to have enormous similarities with democracy though the difference is clear. Corruption, bad leadership, lack of originality and the likes are the causes of lack of authentic democratic practice and leadership in Africa and in Nigeria. Finally, this study concludes that the dividends of authentic democracy will be fully evident and rooted in Nigeria and Africa only when we embrace democracy in full. Keywords: Political leadership, Democracy, Communalism

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