... leadership styles and the needs of the situation. Contingency theory suggests that the effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon the match between their leadership style and the situation. While similar, these two theories are different in scholarship and practice. This chapter examines the historical...

... thinking, racial and gender equality, mentorship, and e-leadership. This chapter also explores how these interconnected issues present both challenges and opportunities for leaders navigating the evolving educational landscape. Globalization continues to shape higher education, influencing curricula...

... of man days and the loss of production to the lowest possible extent. This article delineates the industrial relations in Kerala newspaper industry. The data were analyzed related to age, occupation, region of working, education and experience on the leaders' attitude on various factors related to labour...

...., 2015 ). Lyubomirsky et al. (2005) showed that the ability to cope in stressful times, meaning to be resilient, is necessary for long-term well-being in the private and business space. Tugade and Fredrickson (2004) stated further characteristics of resilient leaders such as optimistic thinking...

...Abstract Though scholarship has documented Black opera leaders' contributions to the art form in the United States ( André, 2018 ; Caplan, 2017 ; Cuyler, 2021 ; Southern, 1997 ; Turner, 2015 ), they have received scant attention in rubrics that theorize a definition of Black opera ( André...

... schools create policy, use resources, and influence other people to achieve educational goals. Together, these notions constitute an idea that school leaders and administrators can provide insight, oversight, assistance, and guidance toward creating educational environments for students with and without...

... to leadership development, in particular at early career stages and where inclusivity and diversity feature as part of leadership development programmes. Coaching is evident at the senior levels and offers a wider range of individual leader, senior team and organisational leadership development opportunities...

...Abstract This chapter argues that despite the horizontal and self-organizing character of cocreation processes, leadership is essential for initiating and facilitating collaboration and securing the production of effective SDG solutions. Leadership is defined as a two-way street between leaders...

...Furthermore, followers can infer on the social distance based on leaders' expressions of socially disengaging emotions. When a low social presence mitigates these signals in digital communication, this can impede socially disengaging emotions to increase the social distance between leaders...

.... Access adult learners articulation agreement case study community colleges concurrent-use campus educational hierarchy faculty, funding (US public education) institutional collaboration leaders partnership models project champion public good public resources social responsibility transfer...

...Abstract For an organization to be competitive, it needs to constantly innovate. For this to happen, you need the right combination of leaders, talented people, organizational characteristics, and culture. In the chapter, the authors included different perspectives of leadership and models...

...Abstract Willpower is a quality that predicts positive outcomes in many areas of life and it is the greatest human strength which can make people go a step further ( Baumeister & Tierney, 2011 ; Karp, 2015 ). Brunch and Ghoshal (2004 ) indicate that leaders need more than motivation to spur...

...Social distance matters. Shamir (1995) showed that close charismatic leaders influence individuals’ self-efficacy more than do distant charismatic leaders. Similarly, Wu, Tsui, and Kinicki (2010) found that “individual-focused” leadership influenced followers’ self-efficacy whereas “group...

...When employees themselves also identify strongly with the organization, the messages of leaders high on organizational identification are likely to fit better with their preferences and expectations. This makes it easier for leaders to prime or draw on followers’ own identities and work values...

... and could benefit from using them. We seek to understand this resource underutilization by (a) drawing on and expanding resource theories to explain why employees do not use existing resources and (b) proposing that leaders, managers, and supervisors can play a key role in facilitating the utilization...

...-based Fermenich commented on the importance of listening: Learning, or attempting to learn, a foreign language is a highly effective way to demonstrate interest in other people. People appreciate the gesture because they know that learning a foreign language is difficult and represents the leader’s...

... to strategic challenges and being sustainable for meeting future generation's information needs. It is hoped that by exploring head library administrator's competitive behavior in this study, the researcher has laid the initial framework for understanding how a library's leader will competitively respond...

... have also become more culturally diverse. Workforce diversity is defined by differences in gender, age, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. This paper examines the role of women leaders in relation to organizational behavior. This research article will address five questions: First, why...