A Grounded Research Approach to Sustainable Leadership Practices and Competencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Agna Fernandez ◽  
Francis David Kullu ◽  
Ramesh Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sustainable Leadership

Intercultural Communication and Sustainable Leadership

2014 ◽  
pp. 700-716
Author(s):  
Nelly Kostoulas-Makrakis
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Intercultural Communication Competence ◽  
Full Range Leadership ◽  
Sustainability Leadership ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

The environmental, economic, and social crises we are increasingly confronted with locally and globally, including climate change, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss, and also economic and social issues, such as poverty, social inequalities, violation of human rights, gender inequalities, loss of indigenous knowledge, etc. call for changes in the ways we think, work, and act. In this context, a course dealing with intercultural communication and sustainable leadership that is part of a M.Sc. programme on ICT in Education for Sustainable Development has been developed and is studied in this chapter. The course puts emphasis on the most urgent and critical social, environmental, and economic challenges facing the world and explores how leaders from education, business, government and civil society are responding to global/local sustainability challenges. In particular, it elaborates on the nature of sustainability leadership and how it can contribute to transformational change. It does this by locating sustainability within the leadership literature and presenting a model of sustainability leadership that integrates three complementary types of leadership, namely: distributed; entrepreneurial and transformational. The course also examines the importance of sustainable leadership practices within organisations (e.g. schools, business, NGOs, public) and assess the potential benefits if institutions are more actively engaged in sustainable leadership practices. It explores how intercultural communication can contribute to positive change for sustainability and discusses that new theoretical frameworks are needed to better understand effective transformational leadership. It also elaborates how cultural orientations and intercultural communication competence affect the full range leadership framework and transformational leadership dimensions. This course is delivered through a Virtual Learning Management System (VLMS) based on Moodle open LMS.

Sustainable Leadership Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chitra Kesavan
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Employee Retention ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Transactional Leaders

The chapter explains in detail the importance of leaders in an organization. The chapter also brings to light what extent the leader's contribution plays in employee retention in an organization. The two categories of leadership, such as transformational and transactional leaders, have been discussed in detail along with to what extent the transformational and transactional leaders support an organization in retaining their employees. As attrition is a burning issue in the present corporate world, it's the utmost responsibility of the leader in retaining the employees of their organization. There is a famous saying when an employee leaves an organization they are not quitting the management they are just quitting their boss.

scholarly journals Exploring Perceptions of Effective Leadership Practices of Presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Sydney Freeman Jr. ◽  
Robert Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Historically Black ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Historically Black Colleges ◽  
Effective Leadership Practices ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities

Anchored in the anti-deficit approach, this manuscript investigated perceptions of effective leadership practices of presidents at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This manuscript provides a unique contribution to the literature by utilizing a general qualitative research approach to learn from a diverse set of voices of leaders and scholars within this sector that serve in various roles (e.g., Deans, Vice Presidents, and scholars) or who study leadership at these institutions. The study found that effective leaders at HBCUs generally have success across two categories — experiential skills and professional knowledge. This study adds to the paucity of literature in this area by expanding and complicating our understanding of effective leadership practices of presidents at HBCUs.

scholarly journals A conceptual framework for the role of leadership in financial innovation adoption in the Australian banking industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-205
Author(s):  
Qaisar Ali ◽  
Shazia Parveen
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Innovation Adoption ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
The Impact

Despite being known as one of the most innovative countries in the world, innovation in Australia has remained stagnant since the 1990s. The main objective of this study is to analyse and evaluate the role of leadership in financial innovation adoption in the Australian banking industry. Specifically, this study focuses on exploring the drivers of innovation, testing the skill and knowledge of leaders to adopt an innovation, the impact of different leadership styles on innovation, and based on the nature of innovation propose the suitable leadership framework for Australian banks using a conceptual framework. The findings of this study are expected to allow Australian banks in evaluating their leaders’ role and formulate relevant strategies to ensure successful innovation adoption. It is projected that the findings will be robust for the businesses as the internal and external shareholders working with leaders to enhance organizational performance can befit from the insight provided in this study. Moreover, this study is projected to assist in charting directions for business leaders in the context of effective leadership practices necessary for improving employees’ retention, profitability, and growth which will ultimately contribute to business practices. The findings will help in providing a better understanding of leadership practices required for leaders’ professional growth which may create more job opportunities. The leaders may learn the ethical and sustainable leadership practices to meet the social expectations through compact strategies which may contribute to social change.

scholarly journals An initial examination of sustainable leadership and employee engagement within extension nutrition programs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel L. Gordon-Poff
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Initial Examination ◽  
Nutrition Programs

Nutrition programs operated by Cooperative Extension organizations seek to provide nutrition education to a low-income audience nationally. There is research on the effectiveness of these programs, but gaps exist on the role of the leader and how their practices impact the educators and the programs as a whole. A transformative mixed-methods approach was used to capture both quantitative and qualitative data through a theoretical lens. Sustainable leadership and employee engagement were used as conceptual frameworks. Open-ended interviews with twelve leaders of Extension nutrition programs were conducted. An online survey was distributed to 100 nutrition educators to determine their perceptions of their leaders' sustainable leadership practices and also a personal employee engagement inventory, with a 63 percent return rate. The analysis of these interviews and surveys found that both the leaders and the educators reported the use of sustainable leadership practices by program leaders. The qualitative portion of the study revealed six of the seven leadership traits were described by the leaders during their interviews. Also, there was no significant relationship between the reported levels of sustainable leadership practices by the leaders and the educators. From the employee engagement inventory, the educators of averaged an average level of employee engagement. Lastly, there was a significant positive relationship between the use of sustainable leadership and educator employee engagement. The use of sustainable leadership and the relationship between employee engagement can have implications for these programs nationally. This and future research on leadership and its impact on employee engagement can help inform policy and practice within national nutrition programs.

scholarly journals Exploring the Process Toward Corporate Sustainability at a Thai SME

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9204
Author(s):  
Sooksan Kantabutra ◽  
Prattana Punnakitikashem
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Sufficiency Economy Philosophy ◽  
Leadership Actions ◽  
Close Fit

Given that corporate leaders seek to ensure the long-term sustainability of their organization, this study explores how a business adopting a Thai Sufficiency Economy philosophy improves its sustainability performance. Adopting the Sufficiency Thinking model as the research framework, this study uses a qualitative research approach with a set of different data collection techniques to explore a sample Small–Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) called Plan Creation. Collected data are identified as themes, according to the Sufficiency Thinking model. Our findings reveal that there is a close fit between the collected data and the Sufficiency Thinking model. Virtuous attributes, individual and shared knowledge and the decision-making framework of Sufficiency Mindset are observed through the sustainable leadership actions, leading to, among other things, social and environmental innovation. Implications for practicing managers and directions for future research are also discussed.

scholarly journals Examining effective leadership practices across cultures : a comparative study of higher education leaders in Kenya and the United States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kennedy A. Musamali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cultural Competencies ◽  
Higher Education Leaders ◽  
Effective Leadership Practices ◽  
The Relationship

While many studies have examined effective leadership, few studies have examined effective leadership practices in higher educational settings (Braun, Nazlic, Weisweiler, Pawlowska, Peus and Frey, 2009; Bryman, 2007; Spendlove, 2007; Vilkinas and Ladyshewsky, 2011). In addition, far fewer studies have examined the relationship between cultural competencies and effective leadership skills in higher education (Smith and Hughey, 2006; Tang et al., 2011; Walker and Dimmock, 1999). In this study, a quantitative research approach was used to compare educational leaders from top ranked public universities in the midwestern state of Missouri in the United States to their counterparts in Kenya. The aim of the study was to examine whether there were any significant differences in how effective leadership was practiced in these two cultures. This study also examined the relationship between effective leadership and cultural competencies. Knowledge gained from the study was expected to facilitate a better understanding of effective leadership practices across cultures and provide insight on ways to advance, train, and develop cross-cultural leadership competencies in higher education settings."

Sustainable Leadership Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Dalia Štreimikienė ◽  
Asta Mikalauskiene ◽  
Remigijus Ciegis
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Sustainable Leadership
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