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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…
Hazaz Abdullah Alsolami, Kenny Teoh Guan Cheng, Abdulaziz Awad M. Ibn Twalh
Innovation leaders must possess multiple attributes in order to effectively manage the increasing demands for innovation in many facets of business organizations, especially in influencing creativity and innovation. Research findings have indicated that the b…
Pirjo Lahdenperä, Hans-Olof Gustavsson, Mats Lundgren, Ina von Schantz Lundgren
When newly immigrated children and young people begin school in Sweden, certain challenges arise. These may result from weak Swedish-language skills and different schooling backgrounds, as well as organizational and pedagogical limitations in the schools. Thi…
Rizwana Yousaf, Rudi Schmiede
Effective implementation of harassment Act might be inevitable to acquiring gender equality in higher education institutions and diminishing the influence of patriarchal and conservative mind set. This study intended to explore implementation of the harassmen…
Daniel S. Alemu
In an extension of studies on dysfunctional organizations, vis-à-vis leadership, the current research examines leaders of dysfunctional and functional organizations in view of the functions of leadership. Sixteen variables related to leadership functions were…
Ozkan Karaaslan
The aim of this paper is to review recent developments in leadership theories from paradigm perspective and introduce the new frontiers and challenges of leadership theories and practice. Considering that organizational analysis is rooted in different social…
Yaozhong Liu, Yudan Jing, Mei Gao
To study Transformational Leadership from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience allows us to better understand the neural basis of its behavior. After a brief introduction to Transformational Leadership and neurological leadership, this paper puts its foc…
Najah A. R. Ghamrawi, Norma Ghamrawi, Tarek Shal
This study explored the perception of Lebanese public school leaders pertaining to character education, and their expected role within its development and effective implementation. The sample included 153 randomly selected public school principals from all th…
Arto Haveri, Jenni Airaksinen, Henna Paananen
This article investigates the transformation of local government leadership as a change in interaction. Traditional interaction patterns are challenged by the increasing complexity of governance relations. The empirical analysis is based on biographical narra…
Nancy Coogan, Gordon Gates, Teena McDonald
Superintendents face numerous challenges navigating the turbulence within districts created by employee turnover that follows implementation of turnaround policies. Literature on educational policy, the superintendency, and resilience calls for researchers to…
Fernando Valle, Irma L. Almager, Ricardo Molina, Joseph Claudet
This case study examines pilot year implementation activities associated with an innovative school and university partnership effort to improve the instructional leadership competencies of aspiring assistant principals in an urban school district. This origin…
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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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