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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…
Dan Henk
Since the mid-20th century, America’s military personnel have repeatedly displayed a troubling lack of cross-cultural skills in their contacts with foreign societies, resulting in fraught human relations and frantic, temporary military initiatives to generate…
Rapeerat Thanyawatpornkul
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the current state of AI literacy, identify critical skill gaps, and evaluate the effectiveness of training strategies for driving successful AI-driven organizational transformation within Thai enterprises. Design/Method…
Doyi Mazenzele, Lihoya Chamwali
This study aimed to assess leadership strategies and their perceived influence on strategic plans execution in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tanzania with cases from Kinondoni District. It was grounded in Strategic Leadership Theory, complemented b…
Canadra Jimerson, Robert E. Levasseur
This study addressed the alarming rate of public school teachers leaving the profession and the leadership factors influencing it. The research explored two questions: 1) What factors affect teachers’ motivation to remain in the profession? and 2) What leader…
Tara M. Tietjen-Smith, Samantha Gorse Roberts, Haley Nichole Blount
Sport is replete with examples of leaders who push the boundaries of ethical leadership. The concept of toxic, or destructive, leadership has been extensively discussed in the fields of business, politics, and the military, but not as greatly in the sports in…
Sarkhan Bayramli
Mega‑projects frequently struggle with ineffective governance mechanisms, particularly in the execution of cross‑disciplinary meetings. Traditional status meetings often result in disengagement, lack of accountability, and limited decision‑making impact. This…
Randolph R. Shelton, Robert E. Levasseur
Many United Methodist church leaders face challenges to achieve church sustainability. There is limited research that examines the leadership strategies that have been successful in ensuring sustainability. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological stu…
A. Olu Oyinlade
Every organization and its component units have someone at the helm as the head. The head may be a manager or a leader, and sometimes the two co-exist in one person. However, it is an error to address a manager as a leader when the person does not have a foll…
Nathan Bond
Schools have become complex organizations that face challenges related to accountability, demands from parents, and higher enrollments of students with unique learning needs. To address these challenges, schools are creating opportunities for teachers to assu…
K. A. Hossain
Leadership has always been an indispensable imperative instrument to the leaders in steering the development of an organization, a country or the globe as a whole in a relative dealing with associated contemporary factors in every era everywhere in every civi…
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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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