Unpacking Psychological Ownership: How Transactional and Transformational Leaders Motivate Ownership

Psychological ownership represents feelings of responsibility for and possession over a target, which can be both tangible in terms of physical resources, or intangible regarding one's relationships. Here we examine how two well-established leadership styles can trigger six different facets of psychological ownership and their corresponding ownership behaviors, by using regulatory focus and identity theory to explain how psychological ownership emerges and influences an individual's work behavior. We provide specific propositions that link two leadership styles to an individual's activated regulatory focus and self-identity, which results in six different facets of ownership. We use these different facets of ownership to examine how each contributes to explaining how leaders motivate their followers to engage in and take on different work challenges and opportunities, thus advancing both the leadership and psychological ownership literatures. We combine leadership style and psychological ownership to determine the type of ownership behavior and work performance that results based on which ownership facets are triggered.

Fostering Creativity in Business

Changing dynamics in responsible and sustainable business comes as a must in the post-COVID-19 era, while energetic, influential, and powerful transformational leaders represent the vital solution to ensuring creativity in business and a luminous future for organizations worldwide. On the one hand, the newest challenges faced by companies due to the COVID-19 pandemic are analyzed, while, on the other hand, the dominant traits of leaders are displayed in an attempt to determine the successful mix between creative actions, human resources, innovation, intangible assets, intellectual capital, research, technological advancement, and visionary managerial business processes. The study shows that transformational leaders' general focus should be on the amazing benefits derived from addressing fundamental issues, such as the well-being of individuals, the health of the planet, reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), bringing circular economy (CE), artificial intelligence (AI), and smart cities (SC) closer to human beings' vital needs.

Beirut port blast: an escapable disaster in more than one way

Complexity academic level The blast at Beirut Port on the 4th of August was the cherry on the cake in a series of disastrous governmental failures manifested in the of lack of trust, an unprecedented economic crisis, hyperinflation, financial fallout, political bottle necks, toxic environmental situation and a vertical cleavage between the government and the people. The blast resulted in billions of dollars in losses both at the port and the surrounding Beirut area, destroyed more than 300,000 housing units, displaced their residents, ruined many artifacts of cultural heritage, injured thousands of people and killed hundreds. Definitely, it was a case of negligence in the storage of the Ammonium Nitrate, corruption, irresponsible leadership or all of these together. However, investigations are still underway to pinpoint the responsible individuals and to bring them to justice. This case looks at potential ways that could have prevented the blast, by questioning the reasons behind the non-voicing out of objections against the nature of the material stored unsafely for several years in Container 12 at the Port. Through the lens of Hadi Karim, a fictional character, the authors lead the readers to consider the disaster’s characterization, as well as applicable disaster management frameworks. The case also emphasizes the role of public leadership and leads the readers to consider measures and processes that could have been abided by to prevent the disaster. Case overview Against the backdrop of the recent Beirut Port explosion, this case examines how events unfolded leading up to the tragedy, highlighting how it could have been avoided, as well as the managerial and ethical dimensions involved. Leaning objectives At the end of the case, students will be able to: 1. Characterize the disaster in terms of type and nature. 2. Analyze the blast by referring to the relevant disaster management frameworks. 3. Analyze the critical role of ethical and transformational leaders pre and post disaster. 4. Reflect on the role of employees in preventing disasters mainly through whistleblowing. Social implications Shedding the light on an avoidable disaster, drawing lessons to avoid the occurrence of such events in the future, and raising awareness on disaster management and on whistleblowing as a tool in the ethical leader’s toolbox. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 10: Public Sector Management.

Leadership Styles and Employee Engagement: A Field Study at a Qatari Public Corporation: الأنماط القيادية وتأثيرها على الانغماس الوظيفي: دراسة ميدانية في مؤسسة عامة قطرية

The current study explored the relationship between leadership styles and employee engagement in the case of a Qatari public corporation. Survey research method was used in the research. In order to meet the research objectives, an online survey questionnaire was developed and distributed to a simple random sample of 294 employees. Descriptive and analytical statistical techniques available in SPSS were used to analyze the data of the 125 returned surveys. The results of the current study revealed that: (1) about 75% of the respondents are engaged in their work, (2) employees perceive their supervisors as transformational leaders rather than transactional leaders. Nonetheless, employees perceive their supervisors as neither pure transformational leaders nor pure transactional leaders, (3) there is strong and positive correlation between employee engagement and both transformational and transactional leadership styles. However, the correlation between transactional leadership and employee engagement was stronger than the correlation between transformational leadership and employee engagement. Based on that it is recommended to: (1) encourage supervisors to mix both transformational and transactional leadership styles by considering the situation and the nature of the task assigned to employees, (2) take action to develop leadership skills and behaviors, (3) show recognition for employee contributions and efforts, (4) strengthen the relationships between employees and their supervisors. In conclusion, it is important to develop strategies and practices to enhance employee engagement. One of the key factors in doing so is the development of leadership styles and behaviours.

Transformational Leadership of Nehemia in Spirituality, Integrity and Visioner to the Contemporary Leaders

The book of Nehemiah provides a remarkable example of transformation leader motivated by, and acting for, God's ends: God's glory and the good of those served. It also provides an example of the use of godly means: the pursuit of spirituality in leadership, integrity and visioner focus upon achieving desirable results. The Transformational leaders in organization and communication is very important. The formulation of the problems that the author raises in this scientific paper are: First, is the character of Nehemia the most dominant character modeled by the contemporary leaders? Second, which background category most dominantly determines the transformational leadership based on the book of Nehemiah for the contemporary leaders. The writer uses a quantitative descriptive method with a correlational survey type explanation method. From the results of the data analysis: First: “The transformational leadership based on the book of Nehemiah for the contemporary leaders are in the sufficient category” in this research is proven. Second, “The dimension of Spirituality as the character of Nehemiah who is most dominant in the role modeled by the transformational leadership based on the Book of Nehemiah” is proven to be true.

Effect of Idealised Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation and Individualised Consideration on Service Sector Employees’ Performance in Karachi, Pakistan

Transformational leaders motivate their employees in such a way that employees start adopting the vision of the organisation as their own vision. Precisely research concerning relationship between transformational leadership and employee’s performance has been conducted by many researchers as well as in leading sectors and industries of Pakistan. However, there is a dearth of researches that investigates the effect of four dimensions of transformational leadership on employee’s performance in services sector. Therefore, this study was carried out to assess the relationship between transformational leadership and its four dimensions on the performance of employees considering services sector in Karachi, Pakistan. Snowball sampling was utilised and participants were selected among the service sector employees in Karachi, Pakistan. Hypotheses were tested by utilising Smart-PLS. The findings revealed that individualised consideration and idealised influence significantly contributes towards enhanced performance of employees. Contrary to expectation, intellectual stimulation and inspirational motivation was found to be not significant with employee performances’. It is suggested that management of service sector organisations’ should acknowledge the importance of the dimensions of transformational leadership on employees’ performance, which will eventually will lead to the achievement of the strategic goals and tasks defined by the service sector organisation.

Remembrance in Action: Educating and Responding to the Holocaust in today’s world

A school librarian and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow addresses the challenge of teaching 21st century learners about the Holocaust, demonstrating how to enrich collaborative instruction and library programing through innovative Museum resources. This paper highlights “History Unfolded,” the Museum’s growing database of WWII era newspapers promoting historical thinking and media literacy; “Experiencing History,” a primary source digital learning tool; the availability of Museum exhibitions and supplemental Holocaust projects that can be successfully implemented by school library practitioners worldwide. As we face a resurgence of neo-Nazism and increased Anti-Semitism, school librarians can be transformational leaders in Holocaust education initiatives, encouraging an equitable and inclusive environment in the greater community.