School Leadership Master’s Program Enhancement through Cross-Border Collaboration between Assiut and Kuwait Schools of Education

Egypt and Kuwait are currently executing a large-scale transformation in the national education system. On such time, school leadership capacity building and development is crucial and fundamental. Therefore, the current research seeks to scrutiny leadership components presented in the Education Administration Master program offered in Assiut and Kuwait Faculties of Education to cross match the presented knowledge and competencies with international requirements of highly credited leadership master programs. A comparative analytical study was implemented to compare the leadership models presented in the Assiut and Kuwait master’s programs in educational administration. The intended outcome is to enhance the current master program offered in both faculties. Received: 31 October 2021 / Accepted: 1 December 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

Hambatan Implementasi Manajemen Berbasis Sekolah di SMAN 8 Rejang Lebong

School-based management emerged as a solution to achieve equal distribution of educational needs in accordance with the context of each school. This study conducted a case study to reveal the obstacles faced by SMAN 8 Rejang Lebong in implementing the school-based management. All parts of SMAN 8 Rejang Lebong from leadership components, teachers, staffs, to students were involved as the informants who were selected purposively to provide the required data. Data were collected using interviews and observations which were then triangulated and analyzed using an interactive model. The findings revealed several obstacles in the application of school-based management, namely: first, curriculum management had been implemented properly, but student learning achievements were still not optimal. Second, the management of Educators and Education ahd been carried out, but the implementation was not optimal. Third, student management had been carried out, but funding for student activities was still lacking. Fourth, financial management had been carried out, but finances were too limited. Fifth, improvement in the management of facilities and infrastructure had been carried out, but it had not been able to support learning achievement. Sixth, the school had carried out the management of school and community relations, but the communication had not been established as expected.

Instructional Leadership and Students Academic Performance: Mediating Effects of Teacher’s Organizational Commitment

This study investigates the mediating effects of teacher organizational commitment on the relationship between principal's instructional leadership and students' academic performance. Principals' effective leadership performance is assumed to be responsible for students' academic performance. However, many findings from the literature indicate no significant direct effect between instructional leadership and students' academic performance. Therefore, the current study hypothesized that principals' instructional leadership indirectly enhances students' academic performances through teacher organizational commitment. Data obtained from 440 primary school teachers from the state of Azad Jammu & Kashmir of Pakistan and pre-existing school academic performance data obtained from each school participated. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling, employing AMOS. The study's findings indicate that there is an indirect positive effect of principals' instructional leadership and students' academic performance through teacher's organizational commitment. Hence, schools with higher instructional leadership levels had better teachers, commitment to school, teaching work, teaching occupation, workgroup, and higher student's academic performances. Therefore, increasing the instructional leadership practices in schools through teacher organizational commitment contributes to Pakistan's overall student academic performances. Therefore, it is recommended to use instructional leadership components in the curriculum that effectively train new principals.

A Study on the Influence of Project Leadership on Project Management and Performance

The current study was a survey into the issue of project leadership influence on project management and performance. It has objectively focused on effects of leadership skills, experience, quality and styles in enhancing project performance. Further, the study sought to answer questions on the impact of aligning, motivating, directing and influencing in enhancing project performance. Apart from conducting a review of past studies, theoretical foundations were also reviewed to underpin the hypotheses that guided the study. Quantitative data was collected using structured questionnaires and analysed descriptively. Further, regression analyses were done and results confirmed a positive and strong connection concerning leadership components and management functions on project performance. From obtained outcomes, recommendations are given for future studies to focus on, as well as for improvement in different industries while implementing various projects.

Predicting Leadership Initiative and its Success: A New Perspective on Leadership Emergence

Research on leadership emergence seeks to identify the mechanisms and variables that determine who will become leader in a group. In this paper, we aim to provide a new perspective on leadership emergence by disentangling two leadership components: (a) leadership initiative and (b) its success in attracting followers. Furthermore, in contrast to previous research on leadership emergence that focused almost exclusively on perceived leadership (usually assessed by questionnaires), we employed behavioral measures of both leadership components. In two large-scale lab studies (overall N = 754), we used an extensive set of variables as predictors of both leadership components, including not only a large number of personality traits and general intelligence, but also physical and physiological traits, such as facial attractiveness, height, waist-to-hip ratio, and testosterone. Across both studies, intelligence was the only robust predictor of both leadership components. In addition, leadership initiative was robustly predicted by extraversion and subjective competence, whereas success of leadership initiative was robustly predicted by the accuracy of the proposed answers. Importantly, several variables that were previously found to be related to leadership emergence, such as dominance, self-esteem, self-monitoring, self-efficacy, narcissism, height, and attractiveness, failed to predict any of the two leadership components in our studies.

Nursing Lecturers’ Transformasional Leadership In Classroom Management At Nursing And Health Faculty Of Muhammadiyah University Of Semarang

A nursing lecturer is an individual responsible for learning process management of nursing students who are expected to professionally provide health services (care provider) in the forms of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual services to individuals, families, and communities in the future. A nursing lecturer is expected to have competences as a classroom management leader who gives opportunities for students to properly actualize their emotions, the one who effectively utilizes resources, and who does not only focus on the working results (Cummings et al., 2010 and Wong, 2012) known as transformational leadership. Transformational leadership is widely acknowledged as one leadership model which improves human resources. This research aims to figure out the lecturers’ transformational leadership in classroom management at Nursing and Health Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Semarang. This non experimental (descriptive) research is conducted with a survey approach on a population of 24 nursing lecturers fulfilling inclusion criteria. Result of the reseacrh showed that 79.2% of nursing lecturers are females with an average of 42 years old. 93.9% are master graduates. 54.2% of lecturers have good transformational leadership while the other 45.8% still have poor transformational leadership. 70% of lecturers have charismatic competence while the other 30% have less charismatic competence. 62.5% of lecturers have idealistic persuasive competence while the other 37.5% have less idealistic persuasive competence. 54.2% of lecturers have good inspirational motivation competence while the other 45.8% have less inspirational motivation competence. Most transformational leadership components in classroom management are classified into the good category. However, 45.5 % of them tend to be poor.

Liminal leadership: leading betwixt and between

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the literature on liminal leadership, present a comprehensive perspective of it compared to other types of leadership, propose a conceptual framework of liminal leadership and provide a case on how liminal leadership addresses modern workplace issues in the ever-changing and competitive global environment. Design/methodology/approach This research is conceptual in nature. For this, the authors searched literature on organizational and leadership theories of liminality within organizational settings and analyzed various leadership perspectives to develop a construct of liminal leadership. Findings The comparative analysis revealed different and/or similar characteristics of liminal leadership with other types of leadership theories. On the basis of the comparative analysis, a synthesis of liminal leadership and a proposed conceptual framework to pursue future studies of liminal leadership are provided. Research limitations/implications First, the notion of liminal leadership is emerging; few have been conducted to investigate the concept. Therefore, the authors’ approach to compose the theoretical background of liminal leadership is limited. Second, they drew a logical framework of leadership components a liminal leader might use from chosen leadership theories which had some kinship and likeness to liminal leadership. However, the comparative analysis of the relationship is limited because of the conceptually based nature of analysis. Third, the proposed model of liminal leadership is tentative and conceptual in nature. Empirical studies are needed to verify the psychometric structure and reliability of the model. Originality/value Despite its importance and a sense of urgency, almost no discussion on liminal leadership or liminality can be found in the field of HRD. The limited knowledge associated with liminal leadership places high value on the results of this study. This paper will provide a seminal base that may stimulate future human resource development (HRD) scholars. The purpose for this study is to contribute a conceptualization of liminal leadership as it applies to the field of HRD as leading and facilitating organizational changes.

Major Leadership Features of the Peace Process in Colombia

This article examines the main leadership components of peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba. It identifies the leadership factors associated with the success of the four-year peace process that started in 2012; while comparing it to previous peace dialogues in Colombia to draw out the political learning process. The hypothesis is that three components, namely political learning in its complexity, the inclusion of women, and the inclusion of victims, have been crucial for the success of the peace process. Firstly, the concept of political learning is understood as materialising as a political leadership function. Second, in an idiosyncratic and to some extent patriarchal culture like Colombia’s, it is essential to examine the role of women in the peacebuilding process as engaging negotiators and mediators, rather than as only being passively exposed to politics. Third, the inclusion of victims in peace negotiations was an uncommon decision, and it appears to have eased the Accords. This article also contends that leadership as process, and in particular leadership styles, are fundamental to understanding the complexity that led to ending the world’s longest-running civil war.