Relationship between Church Appointed School Administrative Leadership and the Management of the Students’ Unrest in Siaya County

This article investigates whether local governments are able to act in a unified manner when responding to reputational threats posed by negative media coverage. Based on an argument that local governments facing political instability are less able to perform in unison, the article investigates a number of expectations, including various types of political instability (council, agenda and policy area instability) and their relation to different types of responses to negative media coverage from the political and administrative actors (communication behaviour, responsibility and blame-avoidant behaviour, and sanctioning behaviour). The article finds such relationships for some of these aspects. The analysis also indicates that the reputational history of a local government is related to the degree of unified behaviour. The empirical analysis is primarily based on a survey sent to all Danish public managers in the three upper levels of the local government hierarchy. Point for practitioners Reputation management has become an area for strategic management in the public sector, not least in local governments. This article demonstrates that public managers need to pay attention to the degree of political instability characterizing their local governments when dealing with reputational threats. If the local government is characterized by political instability, the need to address potential disagreements between administrative and political actors becomes vital. Furthermore, public managers need to take into account the reputational history of their organization as it may challenge the ability to coordinate a unified response across the political and administrative leadership during reputational threats.

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How bureaucratic leadership shapes policy outcomes: partisan politics and affluent citizens’ incomes in the American states

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x18000405 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 305-328 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel Berkowitz ◽

George A. Krause

Keyword(s):

Political Institutions ◽

Policy Preferences ◽

Administrative Leadership ◽

Policy Outcomes ◽

Partisan Politics ◽

State Governments ◽

Electoral Institutions ◽

American States ◽

Policy Objectives ◽

Executive Agency

AbstractWe maintain that political institutions’ policy objectives are best met under conditions when they are unified, and also when their administrative leadership is effective. We apply this argument to the understanding of how unified Democratic and Republican governments in the American states have influenced the incomes of affluent citizens. We find that affluent income gains occur under unified Republican state governments when compensation to executive agency heads is sufficiently high. These income gains are notable relative to both divided and unified partisan control of state governments. The evidence highlights the asymmetric role that bureaucratic leadership plays in attaining policy outcomes consistent with political institutions’ policy preferences, while underscoring the limits of electoral institutions to shape policy outcomes of their own accord. Efforts to lower the capacity of the administrative leadership constrain unified political institutions from converting their policy objectives into policy outcomes.

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An Evaluation Study of a Community College Administrative Leadership Development Program

10.22371/05.2003.003 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

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Cristina Chiriboga-Hahn

Keyword(s):

Community College ◽

Leadership Development ◽

Development Program ◽

Evaluation Study ◽

Administrative Leadership ◽

Leadership Development Program

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The Role of Training and Development Programs in Developing the Innovative Capabilities of the Administrative Leadership, Case Study: Ministry of Culture and Sport, Doha, Qatar

The International Journal of Business & Management ◽

10.24940/theijbm/2019/v7/i5/bm1905-015 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Khaloud Al Sulaiti

Keyword(s):

Training And Development ◽

Administrative Leadership ◽

Development Programs ◽

Innovative Capabilities

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Management of pre-university Egyptian education: politics, issues and trend

Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences ◽

10.1108/jhass-04-2021-0079 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

M.A. Zaki Ewiss

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Behavior ◽

Policy Decision ◽

Administrative Leadership ◽

Main Task ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Educational Management ◽

Content Type ◽

Managerial Competencies ◽

Education Politics

PurposeEducational management's main task is to achieve learning quality outcomes in acquiring knowledge, scientific skills and social values. This study aims to provide a background on Egyptian thought development in educational management from 1990 to 2020.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, we used the descriptive method to collect and interpret data. This method aims to describe an object of phenomena after data collection, analyze it, identify the conditions and relationships between variables and monitor the challenges arising from Egypt's educational system's problems.FindingsThe results showed the following: (1) the trend toward decentralization of educational management is not fulfill during that period and (2) the district and directorate administration continued to receive administrative instructions from the managerial ladder's highest authorities. The Ministry of Education was in control of policy decision-making processes and administrative and financial responsibilities. Many decisions and laws hinder decentralization, such as centralizing examinations, curricula and teachers' recruitment and transfer.Originality/valueThe challenges of developing educational management are related to the shortage of modern management methods in administrative leadership, organizational behavior and decision-making, such as human relations and decentralized administration. Also, the insufficient material resources, managerial competencies and educational, intellectual stagnation among many leaders and administrators.

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The effect of administrative leadership on the organizational performance in the case of the Ministry of Education in Jordan

Multidiszciplináris Tudományok ◽

10.35925/j.multi.2021.5.30 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 277-287

Author(s):

Senan Amer ◽

István Kunos

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Performance ◽

Administrative Leadership ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Great Role ◽

Operation Efficiency ◽

Statistical Measures ◽

Employees Satisfaction ◽

Effective Performance ◽

Administrative Leader

This study aims at showing the influence of the administrative leadership on the organizational performance of the workers in the Ministry of Education Center in Jordan, which is one of the major successes in any organization. the administrative leadership contributes effectively in reaching the aims of the organization through effective performance which comes from the way any administrative leader treats his staff according to the nature of their task. also, the study investigates the effect of administrative leadership, involving the dimensions of administrative creativity and decision-making ability on organizational performance involving the dimensions of operation efficiency and satisfaction of employees, based on the perspectives of employees in the Ministry of Education Center in Jordan. 420 questionnaires were distributed amongst the study sample, of which 381 were returned and analyzed. This implies that 93% of the questionnaires account for the data generated in this study. Different statistical measures and tools were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that the leader has a great role in improving the performance of each worker in the ministry and there is an effect of administrative leadership (administration creativity and the ability to make decisions) on the organizational performance (operation efficiency and employees’ satisfaction) in the Ministry of Education Center in Jordan. Based on the results, recommendations are given by the researchers.

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