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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…
Kent L. Willis, Christina Tuell
This paper introduces a construct for moving from theory to practice by underpinning the dissent leadership approach with the theory of distributed leadership. Navigating the decision-making process during uncertain times, such as the global coronavirus (COVI…
Tamburo Michael Renzi
The goal of all leadership styles in project implementation is to transform and lead the project to success. Transformative leadership styles utilize emotional intelligence to motivate team members in a project and create a psychologically safe environment wh…
Francisca Hongla Biaka
This study investigated the role of leadership styles on employee performance in Cameroon. It was anchored on the premise that leaders exhibit a series of leadership behaviours with remarkable influence on the output of employees. Specifically, the study iden…
Fatmah T. Alotaibi
Saudi Arabia is perhaps one of the most controversial countries in terms of its very poor overall gender gap performance, although it has, according to Pew Research, the fastest growing female labour force participation rate of all the G20 countries. Although…
Mohammed Issah
This study explored leadership behavior and practices of three academic program heads in higher education. The paper discusses the responses of three academic leaders in higher education institutions within the framework of adult learning, drawing specificall…
Dalal Mohamad Al-Zoubi
The main purpose of this study is to explore to what extent the principals of Jordanian public schools are practicing the functions of VM and what impact this practice has on students’ acquisition of the LLS. A cluster random sample was derived from the study…
Oroszi Terry
The application of power by leaders to achieve their goals is not novel. Leaders have exercised power for thousands of years. Regrettably, the prevailing thought is that all people using power are prevaricators, disingenuous individuals willing to slander or…
W. Michael Reid, Claudia Jennifer Dold
The staff of a state public health leadership institute used a national leadership competency set as guidance for its curriculum. An important competency of that and several other national competency sets is systems thinking. Efforts to provide useful trainin…
Xiaoxuan Zhang
In the face of the accelerated upgrading of the market and the increasingly fierce competition, innovation has become an important driving force for the survival and development of enterprises. As a new way of management and an important way to develop the ab…
Joseph Williams
The aim of the study was to conduct original research to better understand the relationship between participation in vigorous physical activity and the frequency in use of five servant leadership characteristics. The relationship between vigorous physical act…
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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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