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Open Journal of Leadership (OJL) is an open access journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scholars and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various practices, developments and theories of leadership and leadership abilities, and achievements of dist…
Maximilian Mueller, Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea, Mladen Radujković, 1 1
Many researchers believe that leadership is “the most critical ingredient of team success”. The paper presents a shared leadership emergence in product development project teams. We conducted two steps research, by applying reflective practice perspective app…
Dennis Nkrumah, Seunghee Back
This study assessed the influence of LMX and PSM on teacher job satisfaction in Ghanaian secondary schools. The study sampled senior high school teachers currently teaching in the Greater Accra, Ghana. Greater Accra Region was chosen because it has the larges…
Duke Ofosu-Anim
The article seeks to show the presence of false dilemmas (FDs) in political leadership discussions. In some areas of the political leadership debate, argu ments are made from two opposing positions. When issues are presented from two dissenting viewpoints, es…
Musa Otieno Obuba
The moral components of authentic leadership, such as honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect, are believed to be important factors in effective leadership. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between the moral components of authentic leadersh…
Andrea Moreno Juarez, Vanessa de León
Equity is a core value utilized in education to guide policy development and opportunities for students. While federal and state policy includes provisions and requirements to address educational equity, the problem is that inequities continue to exist in edu…
Richard Pratt, Somsouk Sananikone, Sekson Yongvanit
Village Chiefs in Laos work at the community level in urban and rural villages. Officially they “administer” rather than “govern” in meeting their responsibilities to maintain peace and order and “lead the people toward development.” This research explores id…
Ezekiel Luka Zakiri
Failure to follow the ethics of a good spiritual electoral process is usually the result of poor leadership, followers, disunity, and division. The purpose of this research was to look into the factors that contribute to an effective electoral process in the…
Emmanuel Essel
As educational standards rise and women’s understanding of their independence grows, the job sector is steadily altering. Due to changes in their industrial structures and social dynamics, Ghanaian civilizations have progressed from conventional manufacturing…
Michael Miller
Higher education, globally, is at a critical juncture. Public demands for measurable outcomes from the college going experience coupled with student demands for on-demand education place these institutions at the forefront of change that they have never exper…
Peter Nientied, Merita Toska, 1 1, 1 1
This paper examines the relevance of leadership substitute theory for present- day organisations. The quest of leadership substitute theory has been assessing which aspects of the organisation, followers and tasks act as a substitute for leadership or negate…
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Open Journal of Leadership (OJL) is an open access journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scholars and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various practices, developments and theories of leadership and leadership abilities, and achievements of dist… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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