Outstanding Primary Leadership in Times of Turbulence

Leadership and management in schools have sought to produce high quality education for all pupils. To inform and support school leaders’ educationalists have developed theories and undertaken research studies identifying the relationships, contexts and characteristics that enable effective leadership. However, recent times of turbulence in primary schools have had an inevitable impact upon the key drivers for successful leadership and management. This study builds upon our previous research into outstanding leadership in primary education to examine the impact that such change has had upon the leadership of serving head teachers. It utilises an adapted Q-sort methodology to identify the views of serving head teachers to gain insights into the impact that such change has had upon their leadership. Overall, the analysis identified a need for aspirational characteristics of leadership, underpinned by personal values to guide schools in such times, as they strive to produce high quality education.

The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Innovation and Creativity in Management to Improve Employees’ Academic Performance at Sohar University

This study investigated the relationship between transformational leadership practices and norms and employees' performance at Sohar University in the Sultanate of Oman. This research is based on the fact that traditional methods of leadership handicap the development of modern leadership practices in Sohar University in particular and in Oman in general. This study may contribute to some significant solutions to the extant literature especially in that transformational leadership practices could be of great value if they are supported by modern techniques and high training skills for employees. The present paper adopts qualitative research method. Questionnaire was used as a research instrument of collecting data. The 5-Point Likert Scale was adopted to help researchers analyze the data. The study concludes that Transformational leadership skills are very essential for high-ranking leaders to acquire in Sohar University in the Sultanate of Oman. The study also finds that transformational leadership skills are very essential for high-ranking leaders to acquire in Sohar University in the Sultanate of Oman. Having conducted statistical analysis, this study draws some conclusions and suggests some recommendations for transformational leadership and its use in developing administrative creativity and improving job performance among Sohar University employees. This can be summarized as follows. First, transformational leadership skills are very essential for high-ranking leaders to acquire in Sohar University in the Sultanate of Oman. second, transformational leaders with outstanding leadership skills are found astonishingly effective in managing and leading those working under them. Third, employees are found to be greatly affected by their leaders in respect with academic and managerial activities and finally the study found that Universities in the Sultanate of Oman do not pay special attention to transformational leadership skills, which this negatively affects the quality and credibility of teaching.

Analysis of the effective leadership style of madrasa heads in the 21st century

One of the government's policies in education in the 21st century is the enactment of educational autonomy. This policy needs to be accompanied by a change of leadership in the education unit. The leadership qualities of the head of the madrasah will determine whether the madrasah achieves its expected goals or not. The purpose of this research is to analyze outstanding leadership in the 21st century, which includes the characteristics, style, nature, requirements, quality, and competence that a madrasah head must possess. This research was conducted at SDN 5 Cileungsir, Ranch Subdistrict, Ciamis Regency, in March 2020. This research used a library study approach. The data used in this research is secondary data, as the techniques carried out are collecting various credible sources from books, written documents, and articles taken from quality national and international online journals and have been accredited. All references that the author provides in this article aim to inform the reader of the tips and requirements to be an ideal and competent leader in the 21st century, especially leaders in schools. All descriptions are equipped with explanations and examples of events that are often encountered in the field to be understood easily. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that a leader must display exemplary behavior in the madrasah he leads. The behavior of the head of the madrasah must reflect the high spirit of work and should be an example or role model for all people in madrasahs. The ideal educational leader of the 21st century is an innovative leader, a leader who can innovate, has managerial skills and technical skills, and is highly dedicated to what he leads. Managerial expertise is needed for leaders to handle the complexities of educational institutions, and educational leadership skills are needed to obtain innovative leaders in leading educational institutions to conform to a 21st-century education. He must have the vision, mission, willingness, and commitment to make changes, progress, understand processes, and create innovations and solutions. Besides, a leader must also have expertise and quality. Thus, if a leader can realize all these components, then the madrasah under its management can innovate better under the demands of education in the 21st century and per the objectives to be achieved.

Digital Leadership: Attributes to modern healthcare leaders (Preprint)

BACKGROUND Living in this digital era requires widespread adoption of information technology in modern health care industry. OBJECTIVE The aim of the current research was to study key attributes and behaviors related to successful leaders need to achieve vision and successful IT adoption. METHODS A Delphi technique with three rounds was held and guided by structured questions. Part of the study conducted online due to COVID-19 guidelines on distancing norms and lockdown in some areas. The answers of the participants were evaluated on the five- point Likert scale. RESULTS The findings showed that leadership qualities in health care sector resemble those required in other sectors. For digital innovations in rapidly changing healthcare space, leaders need to play more proactive role, be visionary, more dynamic, and lead by example to take the organization to the next level. CONCLUSIONS Leaders need to come out of their ivory towers, understand the fast-evolving scenario where the outstanding leadership qualities are essential to prove one’s mettle; outshine others; and create strong foundation for adoption of modern efficient customized digital technology in the fast growing health care sectors.

Daniel, Margaret

Margaret Daniel (1908–1997) provided outstanding leadership and left an indelible mark on the social work profession in both social work education and practice through her work at the Veterans’ Administration (VA) and through her contributions at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), leading to high standards in social work education.

Nurse Leaders’ Reflections and Difficulties Fighting the NCP Epidemic： A Qualitative Study

Objective. To understand the difficulties and survival strategies in nursing during NCP outbreak, and to reflect and summarize the experience. Background. Since December 2019, the highly infectious novel coronavirus pneumonia overwhelmed health care systems and medical workers who had to provide care in situations involving high personal risk and stress, some becoming infected and dying. Nurse leaders had to develop new strategies for nursing care. Methods. Using the phenomenological research method in qualitative research, 8 head nurses who participated in NCP treatment were interviewed in-depth, and then Colaizzi 7-step analysis method was used to summarize.Results. Working under great pressure, nursing leaders led the team through a period of crisis: shock and fear, learning in chaos, supporting nurses, and rewarding nurses. Conclusion. As important intervention performers in the crisis, nurse leaders need to have their own outstanding leadership to effectively manage internal conflicts and interpersonal relationships, strengthen teamwork training and establish supportive system so as to better deal with the management of similar public health events in the future. Relevance to clinical practice. Findings will assist nurse leaders to prepare themselves in the outbreak. It is hoped that the results of this study will contribute to disaster management in similar infectious outbreaks in the future.

Digital Leadership: Attributes to modern healthcare leaders (Preprint)

BACKGROUND Living in this digital era requires widespread adoption of information technology in modern health care industry. OBJECTIVE The aim of the current research was to study key attributes and behaviors related to successful leaders need to achieve vision and successful IT adoption. METHODS A Delphi technique with three rounds was held and guided by structured questions. Part of the study conducted online due to COVID-19 guidelines on distancing norms and lockdown in some areas. The answers of the participants were evaluated on the five- point Likert scale. A semi structured questions guided the conducted sessions with members of senior leaders and directors of health information technology departments across key hospitals three cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from February 2020 to September 2020. RESULTS The findings showed that leadership qualities in health care sector resemble those required in other sectors. For digital innovations in rapidly changing healthcare space, leaders need to play more proactive role, be visionary, more dynamic, and lead by example to take the organization to the next level. Some digital leadership attributes required from today’s digital leaders expect them to be turnaround leaders, have strategic management capabilities, and outstanding interpersonal skills. CONCLUSIONS Leaders need to come out of their ivory towers, understand the fast-evolving scenario where the outstanding leadership qualities are essential to prove one’s mettle; outshine others; and create strong foundation for adoption of modern efficient customized digital technology in the fast growing health care sectors.

Russian gastroenterology as an autonomous clinical discipline and the role of academician Vladimir Kh. Vasilenko, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

The process of differentiation of clinical medicine and the formation of multiple new clinical disciplines substituting former therapy and surgery is an important stage of the historical development of clinical internal medicine in Russia, stretching over the third quarter of the 20th century. The author illustrates this process by the example of gastroenterology, showing the constitutive role of academician V.Kh.Vasilenko. Addressing a wide range of sources (literature, archives, including family records; memoirs and personal memories), he creates a faithful portrait of V.Kh.Vasilenko – a physician, scientist, citizen, and a human being. The author holds the opinion that V.Kh.Vasilenko, along with I.A.Kassirskiy and A.L.Myasnikov, who were part of the outstanding leadership team of the therapeutic elite of their time – radiated especially bright light, had an amazingly brilliant talent and unique personality. Key words: V.Kh.Vasilenko, physician, scientist, citizen, human