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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…
Bozena Padykula, Karen Wexell
The United States experiences an economic and healthcare crisis that calls for change. Transformational leadership model by Kouzes and Posner (2003) defines traits that are important to embrace by today’s healthcare leaders in promoting organizational change.…
Courtney Keeler
The following short report lays the groundwork for rethinking the practice and implications of public health leadership in the context of liberation health. Liberation health reduces to a universal idea: health is freedom . In short, everyone holds a subjecti…
Jinzhang Gao
Leadership is a kind of scarce resources and a determinable factor in an organization. Effective leadership is one of the key factors in its growth, change and regeneration whereas currently, leaders in some organizations do not have the leadership in match w…
Syeda Asiya Zenab Kazmi, Marja Naaranoja
The study offers grounds to measure level of “creativity” through directional “leadership management options” (i.e. transactional leadership, laissez-faire leadership) in teams marked by individual differences or diversity. The study results confirmed that tr…
María Pilar Cáceres Reche, Inmaculada Aznar Díaz, Francisco Raso Sánchez
The current work presents a descriptive study which focuses on analyzing the self-perceptions of student representatives in order to determine their characteristics and leadership profile, based on their situation and context (Sheffield University’s Student U…
Rebecca A. Feather, Patricia R. Ebright
Purpose: Nurse managers’ behaviors and job satisfaction are commonly addressed in the literature; however, registered nurse perceptions of nurse manager behaviors provide a unique perspective that may inform future strategies designed to enhance RN job satisf…
Ali Sabanci, Ahmet Şahin, Gamze Kasalak
Responsiveness to the rapidly changing environment and a set of circumstances might be a key argument for educational leaders. We addressed the following specific questions: 1) What are your school leader’s weak characteristics as a school leader? 2) What are…
Wiley W. Souba
Personal transformation is a prerequisite for sustainable transformation of our health care system. Integrating research from the language sciences, phenomenology, psychology and neurobiology, this article reviews the science of leading oneself. Because this…
Mark R. Testa, Lori J. Sipe
Development of a compelling organizational culture continues to be an imperative for organizations seeking a competitive advantage. Identifying culture deficiencies or gaps is an important step in creating such a culture. For culture development efforts to be…
Dama Mosweunyane
Bureaucracy is the most important concept that has received prominence and used in most organisations in the world. In this paper it is argued that the concept is often abused by organisations, since it is not always followed strictly by those who claim to em…
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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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