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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…
Joseph Claudet
This article provides an overview of the use of problem-based inquiry as a data analysis and problem solving tool to energize educators’ teaching and learning improvement efforts in high needs elementary and secondary schools. Components of the problem-based…
Abdullahi Ali Mohamed, Lihua Yang
Since the end of the Said Barre era in Somalia, the country has been in constant political chaos. Among causes of the problems is a draft constitution with ambiguities in its clauses, power struggle between different political and clan leaders, lack of good l…
Simon A. Black
The leadership of Higher Education institutions has been placed under increasing scrutiny since the 1980s with the expansion of student numbers, changes in funding for student places, increased marketization and student choice, and continuing globalisation of…
Patricia Rodiles, José Ángel Chevalier
Today, the world’s current state reflects how we are living in a critical and chaotic time which brings multiple and challenging problems in social, economic, ecological and cultural aspects among many others. However, for women and men of good will, who year…
Ali Çağlar Güllüce, Eren Erkiliç
The aim of this research is to identify organizational citizenship behaviours of employees working in hotels operating in Rize. To this end, a questionnaire was applied to 228 employees working in these hotels. The gathered data were analysed with LISREL prog…
Yanling Zhang
Difficult employment of graduates has been an outstanding issue in the current development of China’s higher education, and the international financial crisis also makes difficult employment in a worse situation, therefore it is imminent to encourage students…
Reuven Shapira
Concealed managerial ignorance (CMI) is a dark secret that protects managerial authority, a terra incognita that evades customary research methods. A longitudinal semi-native ethnography of automatic processing plants and their parent inter-kibbutz cooperativ…
Jaap A. Hoogenboezem
Winston Churchill is, rightly, hailed as a great war-leader. In 1940, when the German armies were all-powerful, and an invasion of Great Britain seemed imminent, morale in Great Britain was slipping. Churchill, with nothing more than his speeches, managed to…
Godwyns Ade’ Agbude, Nchekwube Excellence-Oluye, Joy Godwyns-Agbude
Several researches have been conducted on the nature, character and causes of underdevelopment in Africa. Some scholars have alluded to the imperativeness of leadership in fostering development in Africa while some pointed a robust accusing finger to the stru…
Wiley W. Souba
Teaching people about leadership is different from creating leaders. Teaching leadership uses a third-person approach to impart someone else’s knowledge, which grants learners limited direct access to the being and actions of effective leaders. In contrast, c…
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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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