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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…
Daniel Agyemfour-Agyemang Sarpong, Isaac Anyasor Kpabi, Gladys Esinu Abiew, Anita Ampofoa Adomako
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which leadership style contributes to strik ing actions in the Health Sector. The study adopted a quantitative approach with a sample size of 149. A Structured Standardize Questionnaire was used to gath…
Duke Ofosu-Anim
Research indicates leadership is an important discipline in political studies. However, leadership has received little attention within political science scholarship. Theorists attribute this neglect to perplexities of political leadership which is often in c…
Laura Nery Silva, Anita Diederichsen, Laura Talbert, Samuel C. Leslie, Simon A. Black
Effective leadership has been advocated as important in guiding successful conservation programmes to achieve more impactful biodiversity results. Conservation work demands diverse capabilities, so organisations must be aware of what influences leadership eff…
Yussif Mohammed Alhassan, John Yaw Akparep, Frederick Ngmenkpieo
Globally, improving the degree of self-development of workers is very critical for companies to promote sustainable development. In an attempt to find an appropriate way to motivate and empower employees to be creative, organizations and management experts ha…
Nwaobi Ijeoma Gloria, Kum Youdian Zeaghe, Nana Osei Tutu, Meme Mbe, Sintayehu Asfaw Ermeco
This paper explores the nexus between childhood trauma and the emergence of leadership. While it is easy to highlight the negative effects and outcomes of childhood trauma, the positive outcomes in later adulthood are often overlooked or misattributed especia…
Ibtihal Al-Bahrani, Mohammed Hokroh
This research study aims to identify the factors that influence educational leadership pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study took place in the girls’ section of an international school in Dammam city, Saudi Arabia. Through the application of a mixe…
Myada Abu-Chaled
Women have been discriminated against by society throughout human history in different fields. In most cultures, women had no legal standing and little access to education and financial sources. Nowadays, women’s rights are being violated daily in different a…
Marc Salama Asobee, Tariku Fufa Gemechu
This study investigated the leadership experiences of alumni of the Christian Bilingual University of Congo (UCBC) in the workplace, using a holistic leadership approach as a context, with the aim to learn the nature and challenges of their leadership practic…
Haya Kaplan, Huwaida Alatawna-Alhuashla, Bosmat Bar-Nadav, Khaled Al-Said
Heights in the Negev is an innovative program for promoting leadership and excellence among Arab-Bedouin beginning teachers (BTs). The program was designed to meet the needs of teachers during their induction period, to enhance their leadership skills and to…
Jianhong Tao, Zhiyan Yang, Yaya Liu
How to help enterprises develop “upstream” and improve employee innovative behavior has become an important challenge faced by leaders. For researchers, their innovative behavior comes not only from their own internal drive, but also from the climate of inclu…
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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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