scholarly journals Systemic leadership for socio-political stewardship

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Taylor ◽  
S. A. Lynham
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
Do So

The role of business leadership in defining, and enacting, societal values and providing consolidating influences relative to change processes is increasingly being recognised. This role is best defined as one of “stewardship”, embracing the securing of social, political and economic futures. For business leadership, the increased recognition of the ability for it to influence the trajectory of change, and indeed the expectation that it should do so, brings with it a need to revisit contemporary understandings of leadership and how that leadership is best engaged so as to facilitate desirable outcomes.This paper adopts a critical position relative to the conventional “leader, follower, situation” configurations of leadership thinking. Drawing on theory located within the knowledge domain of systems thinking and network theory, leadership is redefined at a conceptual level, hence to understand the processes by which it is enacted and experienced and how, therefore, it can be better practiced in the broader socio-political domain. Leadership is considered as an emergent phenomenon that creates definitional distinction between actors and process so as to provide new insights.The paper includes outcomes of a research study that was conducted amongst business leadership in South Africa. The study covered the period 1984-1994, a period of considerable large scale change in South Africa, during which time lessons about leadership were learned. These lessons validate the significant potential that business leadership has for monitoring and influence beyond the immediate concerns of business itself. The assumption of the role of “steward” typified much of what emerged from that engagement, but also gave opportunity for reflections about revised theoretical frameworks for leadership practice in the 21st Century. The case material arising from this research also provides demonstration of the appropriateness of the theoretical propositions that form the conceptual basis for the paper.

scholarly journals The Effect of Principal’s Distributed Leadership Practice on Students’ Academic Achievement: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Ghirmai Jambo Daniel ◽  
Hongde Lei
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Principal's Role ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Role Of Principal ◽  
Do So

Distributed leadership as a new scenario of educational leadership has become a popular topic in the contemporary world. Many notable researchers and members of the discourse community have contributed significantly to its development. However, little attention has paid to its effectiveness. Hence, the main purpose of this article is to analyze the existing evidence for the effect of principal’s leadership practice on students’ academic achievement from a distributed perspective. To do so, a systematic search of academic databases was conducted and 68 references spanning from the year 2001 to 2018 were selected and systematically reviewed. Due consideration was given to their concepts of distributed leadership practice, principal’s role, and students’ academic achievement. The findings of this article show that distributed leadership has positive and indirect effect on students’ academic achievement and the role of principal is indispensable. Nevertheless, there is little emperical evidence, a lack of universal accepted patterns and best practices of distributed leadership which strains further investigation. On the basis of evidence currently available, it seems reasonable to recommend scholars, policy developers, and practitioners to recognize the role of principal on distributed leadership and its best practices. 

The Central Role of Discourse in Large-Scale Change: A Social Construction Perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Barrett ◽  
Gail Fann Thomas ◽  
Susan P. Hocevar
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Change ◽  
Large Scale Change

scholarly journals On Quantifying and Understanding the Role of Ethics in AI Research: A Historical Account of Flagship Conferences and Journals

10.29007/74gj ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Prates ◽  
Pedro Avelar ◽  
Luis Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Work And Employment ◽  
And Robotics ◽  
Do So

Recent developments in AI, Machine Learning and Robotics have raised concerns about the ethical consequences of both academic and industrial AI research. Leading academics, businessmen and politicians have voiced an increasing number of questions about the con- sequences of AI not only over people, but also on the large-scale consequences on the the future of work and employment, its social consequences and the sustainability of the planet. In this work, we analyse the use and the occurrence of ethics-related research in leading AI, machine learning and robotics venues. In order to do so we perform long term, historical corpus-based analyses on a large number of flagship conferences and journals. Our experiments identify the prominence of ethics-related terms in published papers and presents several statistics on related topics. Finally, this research provides quantitative evidence on the pressing ethical concerns of the AI community.

Reconfiguring Quotation over Time and the System-Internal Rise of BE like

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-101
Author(s):  
Alexandra D’Arcy
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Pathway ◽  
Parallel Data ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Direct Quotation ◽  
Over Time

Recent work on first person dialogue in conversation (“direct quotation”) assumes that quotation is undergoing rapid and large-scale change as a consequence of the emergence of BE like. In this chapter I merge archival and contemporary materials to explore the parameters of change across two longitudinal speech collections. My concern is the role of grammatical constraints on quotation, alongside evolution of the functional, pragmatic, and lexical repertoires. Drawing on parallel data from two varieties of English, I present a comparative variationist analysis of direct quotation, spanning the late nineteenth century to the present. Analysis reveals a longitudinal and multifaceted trajectory of change, resulting in a highly constrained variable grammar in which contextual factors can be seen to evolve and specialise. There is no evidence that recent changes are the result of new quotatives; rather, the system-internal evolutionary pathway that set the scene for BE like is laid bare.

scholarly journals Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic

This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicization of culture and identity, to discuss the hierarchies and inequalities that underpin political, economic and social citizenship in Africa and the world over, and the role of the media in the production, enforcement and contestation of these hierarchies and inequalities. In any country with liberal democratic aspirations or pretensions, the media are expected to promote national citizenship and its emphasis on large-scale, assimilationist and territorially bounded belonging, while turning a blind eye to those who fall through the cracks as a result of racism and/or ethnicity. Little wonder that such an exclusionary articulation of citizenship is facing formidable challenges from its inherent contradictions and closures, and from an upsurge in the politics of recognition and representation by small-scale communities claiming autochthony at a historical juncture where the rhetoric espouses flexible mobility, postmodern flux and discontinuity.

The Potential Role of the SME Sector in Pakistan in a World of Increasing International Trade (The Quaid-i-Azam Memorial Lecture)

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4I) ◽  
pp. 25-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Berry
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Export Orientation ◽  
Do So

A major challenge to economic policy in Pakistan at this time is to energise the private SME sector of the economy. This follows in part from the fact that other sectors are unlikely, under present circumstances, to provide the needed growth either of output or of reasonably remunerative employment; in fact, there will be a major employment challenge over the coming years as labour supply continues to expand rapidly and as neither the large-scale private sector nor the public sector are poised to create significant numbers of jobs, and though agriculture and the non-agricultural microenterprise sector can and probably will do so the levels of productivity and hence of remuneration are likely to be unattractively low. By contrast, the SME sector does have substantial untapped potential to contribute to those objectives; both economic logic and the experiences of other developing countries point to that potential, as well as providing evidence on how it may be achieved. A dynamic SME sector is an important complement to a more open economy; in most of the countries which appear to have reaped major benefits from export orientation the SME sector has been importantly involved in that process. Achieving the maximum contribution from SME, however, will require significant improvements in the support system. If achieved it will not only constitute an important source of dynamism in and of itself, but will also complement efficient large enterprise, strengthen the demand for agricultural products, and make it easier for microenterprise to graduate into the SME size range.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: The Importance of Health and Children’s Education for Slum Entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
pp. 104225871990077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Vinit Parida ◽  
Joakim Wincent
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Subjective Value ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

Research has focused on the role of entrepreneurial action in alleviating poverty. However, there is a gap between individuals’ short-term outcomes from entrepreneurship overcoming immediate resource concerns and the large-scale impact of entrepreneurship on institutional and system change. Therefore, in this study, we explore entrepreneurs’ beliefs about how entrepreneurial action can alleviate poverty. To do so, we conducted a qualitative study of entrepreneurs of businesses located in Indian slums and identified the impact of expectations, role models, and the subjective value of their children’s education in attempts to alleviate poverty.

scholarly journals The REM-theory: Implications for the study of large scale change

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
G. Goldman
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Scale Change ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
The University ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
South African Higher Education

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) merger is typical of the transformation in South African Higher Education. This merger does not conform to the “norm”, as it is ideologically motivated and thus the ideal base to study individual experiences of large scale change. Following a qualitative, grounded theory approach, 40 academic employees from UJ were interviewed. Findings indicate that academic staff relay their experiences and perceptions of the merger in three discernable time frames, each with its own dynamic. Collectively, these time-frames constitute the Reflective Experience of Mergers (REM) theory, which examines how merger experiences of academic staff shape their perceptions of and attitudes towards the merger over time. The REM- theory reiterates the temporal nature of change, its effect on the emotional and psychological wellbeing of individuals, and the role of leadership during a merger.

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