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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…
Dwight E. Mayhand
In an era of growing diversity amongst people in global organizations, the paper addresses the question of why people choose to reject or accept other cultures into their organizational environments. The document collects and reviews the literature on the beh…
Lori J. Sipe, Mark Testa
Mentoring programs have become mainstay methods of developing leadership skills in the hospitality and tourism context. The following provides the theoretical foundation and overview of a mentoring program implemented for a blended graduate hospitality manage…
Da Wang
The aim of this research was to provide a new development direction and guidance for the construction of prestigious school group by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the development of Hangzhou prestigious school group in the past 20 years. The a…
Wilson Mugizi, Paulus January Masheija
This study explored the determinants of female teachers’ progress to leadership in government-aided primary schools in Ntungamo District. Specifically, the study explored how personality characteristics, school factors and social factors determined female tea…
Simon A. Black
This study aims to identify whether a published leadership framework recommended for conservation professionals aligns with knowledge established in the wealth of literature relating to the New Psychology of Leadership. Wildlife conservation involves the prot…
Victor Manuel Monteiro Seco, Pedro Miguel Castanheira Teixeira
Purpose: The authors examine the role of values, trust, organizational culture, learning organizations and authentic leadership in explaining the quality of leadership. Design/Methodology: This is a theoretical text that allows approaches and intersections of…
John Yaw Akparep
Effective conflict resolution demands that causes of conflicts should be known. University for Development Studies (UDS) over the years had been plagued by many students-management conflicts like other universities in Ghana. This paper therefore examines the…
Joseph G. Mews
This causal-comparative study reviewed the leadership style preferences of faculty and staff from participating higher education institutions (HEI). A total of 146 participants completed the Leadership Style Questionnaire (LSQ), a research instrument consisti…
Neville Greening
The healthcare industry faces unique challenges that set it apart from other types of industries. Healthcare leaders and staff experience high environmental complexities that require a unique combination of leadership skills and knowledge. Leadership is incre…
Nguyen Hai Thanh
Leadership plays an important role in guiding and orienting the development of organizations at all levels. Each level of leadership sets certain requirements for personality, the higher the leadership position is, the greater the personality requires. Theref…
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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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