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Leadership in education is an innovative and challenging pedagogical phenomenon that implies the most optimal realization of educational goals and school achievements by leading the dynamics of teaching, developing educational strategies and encouraging the desired behavior and activities. In recent years, leadership has been a significant landmark of numerous reforms in the educational environment, but also an important area of scientific study. Actors in the teaching process who consider themselves as leaders play a key role in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching. As the success of achieving the vision of a leader depends on his characteristics, abilities and ways of perceiving his role by other participants in school functioning, the focus of this paper is directed on studying these aspects of the concept of leadership. The paper gives an analysis of the basic theoretical determinants of leadership and management in education, with special critical review of leadership styles in the teaching environment, their basic characteristics, values and limitations. Starting with classical leadership styles, the paper presents some of the modern leadership styles such as transformational and transactional leadership styles in education, whose key elements are reflected in the reconstruction of the school in order to design new educational strategies in a collaborative, motivating environment and, on the other hand, in achieving higher performance in teaching through the management and application of reward and punishment systems. These leadership styles are presented in pedagogical practice and they reflect the ways of effective management of modern teaching. The significance and implications of this paper are reflected in emphasizing the importance of recognizing the elements of leadership styles in teaching practice in order to provide conditions for improving educational work but also restructuring the school as a better educational organization for modern society.

Leadership is a complex activity in the education system that can best be described as a way of responding and adapting to the challenges faced by the entire education system. Our paper will emphasize the importance of the role of the teacher as a leader, who is increasingly shifting from a lecturer to a manager of learning and instruction. The goal of this paper is to present the teacher as a leader in the modern age. The research tasks are: 1. To present the types of leadership specific to teaching (transformational, transactional, and adaptable); 2.To identify teacher leadership strategies and competencies; 3. To discuss the impact of teacher leadership activities on student achievement. The reason for the research of the above-mentioned segments of leadership, in the field of teaching, lies in the fact that the education system is complex, flexible and open to change, and therefore in the near future we can expect a time when students will have the main role in organizing and realizing their own learning. A teacher who has the qualities of a good and efficient leader will be able to work effectively with these students.

It is usual to associate the word “demagogue” with bad political leadership. At worst, it is also usual to think about a leader that uses deception and feeds on the more primal emotions of the people to get what he wants. But, in reality, answering the question of what a demagogue was is far from easy. Thus, this paper hypothesizes that there is no substantial difference between a demagogue and a rhetor in Athenian democracy. As its method, the paper analyses the context of use of the term by the different actors as to shed some light on their intentions. First, the paper examines the concept of “demagogue” and how the term appears in the democratic tradition, by focusing on its usage in the works of authors such as Aristophanes, Lysias and Thucydides. Next, it refers to the way in which adversaries of Athenian democracy, especially deriving from philosophy, used the term. As this paper will show, there is a significant difference between the two usages, the former being descriptive and the latter pejorative. Finally, the paper concludes that both in the descriptive and pejorative sense, being a demagogue meant to be a rhetor, a leader of the demos.

The paper summarizes the premises of an emerging model of leadership. This model bears on all domains of leadership but not to the same extent. The political, economic and technoscientific initiatives regarding the environment are particularly concerned. The main purpose of the paper is to help understand, anticipate and possibly accelerate changes in the area of leadership. The model draws on extensive empirical research on social movements, uncertainty and complexity in postindustrial societies, risk perception and the role of the environment in perceiving risks. As it is impossible to include all links to these works in a single article, I limit my focus here on presenting a representative sample of the basic primary and secondary empirical references.

The introduction of digital technologies in educational institutions has gained significant momentum worldwide as societies recognize the central role of education in preparing individuals for a technology-driven world. This paper explores the concept of 'school digital capacity', which encompasses various factors critical to the effective integration of technology into teaching and learning practices. Educational leadership emerges as a cornerstone of this capacity, with leaders playing a critical role in shaping the digital landscape of their institutions. Using a mixed-methods approach, this research explores the perceptions of educational leaders in the context of a large-scale digital education reform project. Key findings highlight the importance of leadership and a coherent digital strategy in improving digital efficacy and teacher engagement with technology. However, challenges are evident, including a lack of clear strategies, inadequate human resource allocation, limited knowledge of digital education and insufficient professional development opportunities. The study highlights the need for improved training programmes for educational leaders to equip them with the necessary digital skills and strategic acumen. Collaborative networks between schools and increased support from ministries of education are recommended to facilitate effective digital integration and capacity development.

The key issue of leadership in the democratic process reflects different perspectives that affect the relationship between legitimacy and power, the perspective of a “prejudice” towards leadership due to the excessive concentration of power, and the types of trust and linkage that the leader can activate in the processes of personalization of politics, within, beyond, against or notwithstanding political parties. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the different paths and the different role of leadership in the transformation from party democracy to leader democracy on the celebration of the hundred years since Weber’s 1919 lecture “Politik als Beruf”. Regarding this topic, we consider the concept of plebiscitarism, the different ways in which this process develops, and the relationship between leadership, charisma and democracy in contemporary societies. In order to explore this research field it is necessary to consider the key role of charisma in the Weberian sociological work, not only in reference to the sociology of power, but starting from the relationship between disenchantment and bureaucratization in Western rationalization. The clarification of these concepts is far from nominalistic considering that they point out the different substance that plebiscitary disintermediation assumes in the relationship between leadership and democracy. Just this is the premise that allows distinguishing the difference between the personalization in liberal-democracies, the charismatic personalization and the populist personalization. Although a large part of the literature on populism tends to equate the populist leadership with the charismatic one, there is however a more recent questioning of the overlapping of the two phenomena. The paper aims to analyse the Weberian theory of charisma and to answer the question of whether charisma still has a chance in hyper-rationalized contemporary societies. Moreover, if the charisma requires a higher quality, who can be defined as a charismatic leader today?

The European integration and globalisation are two important challenges faced by the universities, together with the ageing process that affects the size and the distribution of the target group of any higher education institution – the students. In this context, the universities’ management system of human resources becomes very important. The performance and risks of any university are influenced by the quality of their employees and moreover, by the quality of the top-management team. This paper is trying to build on the model of recruitment developed by the Council of Europe, because HEIs need talented professionals, capable to work in multi-cultural environment. Thus, our paper tries to adapt the “Competency Framework and Core Values” of the Council of Europe to the specific of Danubius University of Galati, in order to improve the policy of recruitment, development and assessment of the management team. We hope that this paper will represent a starting point of redesigning the human-resources management system at our university, and also, it may represent an example of other universities in their process of renewing their strategies and policies of development. The value of this paper consists mainly in the innovative approach and to the fact that the results are original and unique and may be used for an education reform regarding HEIs’ management system.

In dominating narratives, economics has been portrayed as hard science, based on complex mathematical equations and rigid statistical models. It seems to be overlooked that it belongs to the domain of social sciences and that its roots stem from philosophy and ethics. After all, many classical economists were either ethicists (A. Smith) or clergymen (T. Bayes). Today’s managers also seem to be motivated mainly by the desire to increase their company’s profits. However, if managers wish to become both effective and respected leaders for their teams, they should build their power on ethical principles deeply rooted in Catholic Social Teaching. The purpose of the present paper is to attract attention to the relation of economics, management and religion. Behavioral economics and management come to our aid here by emphasizing that, when making decisions related not only to financial markets but also to managerial tasks, what matters is not only factors that are strictly financial, but also those are related to psychology or ethics. Using the example of ethical investing and faith-based funds or stock indexes the Authors show that Christian values and the social teaching of the Catholic Church are still important to some participants in the financial markets.

This paper presents a narrative review of the literature on clinical accountability, and draws particularly on England's experience establishing "clinical governance" as a base to examine the establishment of a clinical accountability framework for cancer services in Ontario. The review suggests that clinical governance and accountability approaches that actively mesh clinical and administrative approaches at both system and local levels are more likely to be effective in improving quality of care.

There is a tendency in discussions of higher education to treat the human administrators who run universities as solely rational subjects, separated from their idiosyncrasies, preferences, and emotions (Mumby & Putnam, 1992; Luthar & Šadl, 2008). In this paper, I argue that department chairs, as people managers, should be conceptualized as playing significant emotional role, rather than as solely serving instrumental functions as “bean counter[s]” (Chu, 2011, p. 52). In this paper, I argue that: 1) the role of chair is important and emotional; 2) leadership theories lack agreement on best ways to lead; and 3) department chairs are emotion workers. I close this paper by stating that department chairs need to be considered as performing work that demands ongoing emotional self-management and that research on chairs should have a dual focus of task-oriented and emotion work-oriented inquiry.

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] This paper discusses Xenophon’s political philosophy and its Greek context. One of the major themes running through Xenophon’s works is leadership, which he tackles implicitly or explicitly in virtually all of his writings (be it his philosophical, historical or literary writings). For Xenophon, the leader was important not only as an individual leading the armed forces, but as a leader of a city or a community as well. Bearing in mind the importance of leadership and the role of leaders for Xenophon, the author of this paper tries to show that Xenophon’s political philosophy can be seen as part of his Panhellenic program. The aim of this program is to politically unite the Greeks by making them enter into an alliance in the name of a common Panhellenic crusade against Persia.

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The paper reveals some aspects of the problem of forming a complex of qualities that characterize the phenomenon of creative leadership in school students. The interest in this problem is explained by the increased need of modern Russian society and its relevance in scientific psychological and pedagogical and socio-psychological problems. The prerequisite for the study was the contradiction between the urgent need for creative leaders in various spheres of production, management, in creative and spiritual life and the absence of a systematic purposeful state policy in this field. At the same time, it is stated that if in foreign science from the beginning of the 1960s, studies of the concept of creative leadership are carried out, but in Russian scientific thought, the concept of creative leadership is still poorly understood from the point of view of its formation. Several aspects of the problem of leadership are reviewed, such as the ability of a leader to lead other people to solve various problems, including creative ones; the concept of creativity is analyzed as the ability to think in an original, non-standard, creative way, to generate innovative cultural products. The phenomenon of creative leadership is considered by the authors, first of all, as a person’s expressed ability to lead a group of people to achieve various goals that are important for this group, to implement creative ideas and projects, while the directions, methods, means of their implementation are innovative. The paper presents the results of an experimental study conducted to determine the nature of the relationship between creative leadership and creative thinking. The novelty of the study is determined by the use of an original series of methods that allow for a comprehensive assessment of the formation of creative leadership in school students and the presence of a correlation between the indicators of the creative leadership methodology with various factors characterizing creative thinking.

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This paper reports on the results of the successful use of the 'PS Scale', or Personality Strength Scale (Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann), for determining and measuring opinion leadership. It provides information on the results and experiences drawn from three representative sample surveys conducted in the Czech Republic, which have made use of the PS Scale for measuring personality strength, and thus also for measuring opinion leadership. The experiences drawn from using this standardised measurement tool have clearly demonstrated the usefulness of the scale, even in the case of the Czech language version, and revealed its validity and considerable reliability. The paper also reports on the connection between personality strength (opinion leadership) and selected social characteristics, including the standard EGP classification of social rank. Classic studies in this field, dating from the 1940s, were based on a small number of questions and led to the development of a dichotomous distinction between opinion leaders and opinion followers (P.F. Lazarsfeld, B. Berelson and Hazel Gaudet 1940) and local and cosmopolitan influentials (R.K. Merton 1949). Unlike these approaches, the PS Scale uses a standardised battery of questions comprised of ten items and establishes a scale ranging from a minimum of 75 to a maximum of 149 points. In a number of aspects the Czech results confirm those reached in the German studies by E. Noelle-Neumann; for example, the observation that a higher percentage of opinion leaders are formed in the groups of professions located at the higher end of the social scale. Nevertheless, even in the case of the Czech Republic, it was revealed that the opinion leaders are not recruited exclusively from the ranks of the higher social groups. Instead, they can be found in all groups of professions and in all status strata, albeit to varying degrees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After more than half a century of political independence, majority of African Countries are still saddled with the same challenging political leadership interrogations and difficulties. Careful analytical studies attribute this misfortune to her successive leaders or stakeholders at all levels. This one political malady or anathema which has continually kept Africa in a state of perpetual retrogression, is believed to have been birthed from its pragmatism, the illegitimate use of power and the egocentric styles of her political leaders characterized by pocket or belly-leadership as opposed to a people-oriented leadership, coupled with the menace of prevalent ethnic and/or sectional loyalty. Nevertheless, several authors, critics and political analysts have attempted to proffer some form of explanations to these perennial challenges of power and politics in Africa, nay Nigeria. One of such exponents is Chinua Achebe. This paper tends therefore to reexamine the sociopolitical and economic predicaments of power, politics and other related challenges that have greatly shattered the foundation of Nigerian Polity in Chinua Achebe’s novel Anthills of the Savannah. The method employed in the study is critical analysis. It also intends to advocate for a systemic ideology that could bring about possible and desirable pattern changes for a virtuous progressive leadership. Key words: Power, Politics, Africa, Leadership, Practicability and Literality.

Hospitals are service organizations and act as the main health and treatment institutes in the society. To achieve organizational goals, hospitals need to implement a proper management system. The present study tries to compare management processes in educational hospitals located in Isfahan, Iran between 2009 and 2012. Study population of this descriptive-survey research was comprised of all nursing managers in the educational –treatment clinics affiliated with Isfahan Medical Science University. Sample (n = 165) was selected through census sampling. A standard questionnaire based on Stoner’s model (1995) was used for data gathering. Validity of the questionnaire was tested using face and content validity and reliability of the questionnaire was checked by Cronbach’s alpha (α = 0.85). For data analyzing, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as independent t-test ANOVA, MUANOVA and LSD were used in SPSS (ver.18). In 2009, the t-value for all the managerial processes were less than error level (0.05) in 2012 and, therefore, the four managerial processes were lower than the mean level. Comparison of managerial processes in the educational hospitals located in Isfahan based on demographical variables showed that obtained F for 2012 was significant (P≤0.05). Furthermore, means of programming, leadership, and control processes of the participant hospitals, based on education degree, were different. Proper management is the key to meet the organizational goals and surveying managerial processes can be a large step to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

The aims of the paper and presented research are to monitor trends in communication management and to evaluate specific topics that include decision-making style, leadership style, role enactment and the power of communication departments in Europe. This paper is based on data from the European Communication Monitor (ECM) annual research, the most comprehensive analysis of communication management worldwide. The ECM is an annual research project conducted since 2007. The ECM 2011 collected quantitative data through an on-line survey from 2,209 participating professionals from 43 European countries, with representation of every European region. This paper presents original connections about previous theory and offers empirical evidences about vertical and horizontal power of communication departments into organizations. On despite of the limitations of a self-reported survey, these evidences open new directions or research on hierarchical and social dimensions of power. The aim of this paper is to deepen the understanding of the power of communication management in organizations. Concretely, the paper aims to develop knowledge and understanding about horizontal and vertical power and the relationships established between these dimensions of power and strategic roles, decision making and leadership styles that communicators play. The paper presents original ideas by critiquing and re-focussing the literature and theory of power and leadership in organizations. The paper also presents new empirical data to support these arguments. // Las meta de este artículo y de la investigación que en él se presenta es hacer un seguimiento de las tendencias en gestión de comunicación mediante la evaluación de los estilos toma de decisiones, el estilo de liderazgo, los roles representados y el poder de los departamentos de comunicación en Europa. Este artículo se basa en datos del European Communication Monitor (ECM), el análisis más amplio de la gestión de comunicación en el mundo. El ECM es un proyecto de investigación anual desde 2007. El ECM recogió datos cuantitativos mediante una encuesta online a 2.209 profesionales de 43 países europeos con representación de todas las regiones europeas. El artículo presenta conexiones originales sobre la teoría previa y se ofrecen evidencias empíricas sobre el poder vertical y horizontal de los departamentos de comunicación en las organizaciones. A pesar de las limitaciones de ser una encuesta de autopercepción estas evidencias abren nuevas direcciones de investigación sobre las dimensiones jerárquica y social del poder. Pretende profundizar en la comprensión del poder de la gestión de comunicación en las organizaciones. Concretamente, pretende desarrollar conocimiento y comprensión sobre el poder horizontal y vertical y las relaciones que estas dimensiones de poder establecen con los roles estratégicos, los estilos de toma de decisiones y los estilos de liderazgo que desempeñan los comunicadores. Se presentan así ideas originales a través de la crítica y la re-visión de la literatura y teorías sobre el poder y el liderazgo en las organizaciones junto con nuevos datos empíricos para apoyar estos argumentos.

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of leadership in redressing the failed state status of Nigeria with a focus on the present administration (between 2010 and 2012). For the past three years, Nigeria has been keeping the ugly company and ranking consistently as the fourteenth on the list of failed states, but the governing elites have been making spirited campaigns and slow haste in explaining away this situation. Through heavy reliance on secondary sources of data, the utilization of elite theory as framework, backed by the analytical approach to the issues raised/discussed, the paper observed that the ranking of Nigeria on the failed state index ignores some historical facts and current situational realities which make the failed criteria suspect and questionable. There is therefore the need to rethink and tinker with some of these criteria to reflect socio-economic and political performance in realistic terms. Purposeful and people –centered approach to governance capable of redressing the dysfunctions of the Nigerian state is also canvassed.

The paper contains the results of an interesting research done by the author in some multinational companies which have branches in Romania, mainly in Bucharest, Arad and Timisoara. The objective of the research paper was to find out some particular aspects of the corporate management taking into account some key variables like: corporate values, leadership style, strategic perspectives and communication. In order to do this research we have developed a special survey based on a questioner. The survey shown us how all these above mentioned variables are influencing the corporate management and how important is each of them within the management process. The results of these surveys gave us the possibility to find out the way in which corporate management is influencing and is influenced by the variables considered. Last part of the paper presents some conclusions of our survey and the most important changes which should be taken into account by the corporate management team members in order to be more efficient and effective in their work.

In this paper, I aim at presenting and commenting on some relevant ideas about leadership belonging to great philosophers such as Adam Smith, John Dewey and R.G. Collingwood, in relation to the problem of communication or language. In this regard, one can state that Adam Smith is a real forerunner, since he proved, almost three centuries ago, the fundamental importance of speech to the art of leadership. At the same time, I will insist on Dewey’s view concerning the role of communication in society and, most of all, on Collingwood’s useful distinction between “dialectical communication” and “eristical communication” in connection to leadership and politics.

The premise of this paper is that, despite the existence of a well-established regulatory framework to enforce environmental laws and policies in each state of India, there has been a variation in the implementation of environmental judgments. This paper argues that an independent and proactive Court-appointed monitoring committee, namely the Dahanu Taluka Environmental Protection Authority (DTEPA), has not only ensured the effective implementation of environmental laws but has also exposed the anti-environment bias of both the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the State Government of Maharashtra. Further, the DTEPA has created a space for civil society groups and other stakeholders to be part of the monitoring committee to help implement Court directions. The paper also discusses how the DTEPA's inclusive approach has empowered the local people to participate in decision-making that affects their environment. It is argued that judicial intervention in the implementation of its decisions has become crucial to enforce its directions, and that this intervention is undertaken not to take away the power and functions of implementing agency, but rather to translate its directions into action at the grassroots level. Finally, the paper offers recommendations to monitoring committees in other environmental cases that are faced with political pressure or industrial lobbying.

In the Symposium of Plato, Socrates reports that Diotima once described to him a process of initiation by which a lover rises from desiring one beautiful body to catching sight of what seems to be the Platonic form of beauty. Scholars have debated whether the lover is to make this ascent by a rational process or a non-rational one, or by both working either in concert or independently. This paper argues that love leads and guides a process in this initiation that necessarily involves rational activity. No teaching is necessary or appropriate, so that the process is an example of learning without being taught. The philosophical insight that results is life-changing, but it does not amount to the kind of knowledge that would fully satisfy a Socratic seeker after knowledge.

The present paper attempts to deal with two classical themes in a new and fresh context. The amount of works on leadership and entrepreneurship is vast, but the authors identified a gap in the research of these concepts in relation with tech start-ups, a domain that developed significantly in the recent period. The authors performed a detailed literature review, followed by an interview with a selected panel of entrepreneurs in Romania. The results of the study highlights few important trends related to the leadership traits of Romanian entrepreneurs. The results also confirmed a positive mindset and attitude which triggers an optimistic outlook for the Romanian entrepreneurial ecosystem.

It is widely recognized that structural and social determinants of health (SDoH) account for a large proportion of health inequities in Canada. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), many health actors are required to provide leadership and direction in tackling health inequities. In this paper we argue that community health nurses (CHNs) are well situated to play a critical role in health system transformation in Canada. CHNs are known for having a holistic and collaborative approach with competencies beneficial for the reduction of health inequities. However, to become more consistently effective advocates of health equity, CHNs require competencies in the principles of equity and social justice, community engagement, communication, coalition building, and system transformation. Having a critical mass of CHNs with appropriate leadership skills in knowledge generation and mobilization, advocacy, and collaboration is fundamental to effectively addressing health inequities in Canada.

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This paper is written to articulate in a summary form 14 evidently-known essential and personalistic principles from the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas needed, especially by Pope Francis, to understand a third period of neo-Thomism we are now in: Born-again, or Ragamuffin, Thomism. It maintains that, without application of these principles to the Church’s “new evangelization,” this movement will fail. With that failure the Church will be unable to halt the cultural suicide in which the West is presently engaged.

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Self-leadership is a process of self-influence that promotes self-direction and self-motivation levels through cognitive and behavioral strategies that contribute to personal performance. This paper presents the adapted and validated version of the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ), composed of 35 items and nine dimensions, for the Brazilian context. The sample consisted of 580 students of management courses at several higher education institutions in Brazil. The scale had acceptable validity and reliability from Confirmatory Factor Analysis. From this version, it is possible to foster new studies about self-leadership in the Brazilian context, allowing the advancement of this theory in the country.

Policy-makers and the public are demanding information about how countries' educational Policy-makers and the public are demanding information about how countries' educational systems and schools improve school outcomes as well as ensuring student achievement. They have started to pay attention to national and international exams in measuring student success and making comparisons among countries to see the whole picture of their country in education. In this context, we will discuss cultural, and societal contexts and their influence on various leadership roles (distributed, instructional, transactional and transformational leadership styles), behaviors, and practices. Then, we will provide a map of how the distribution of school leadership is in seven countries (Finland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, and USA). Finally, we will debate what differences among the leadership styles of seven countries. For this purpose, we used cluster analysis technique. Participants consisted of 1166 school principals in lower secondary schools (ISCED 2) in seven countries. We find out the distribution of distributed leadership in Cluster 1 and it consists mostly of Turkish, American and Finnish principals, respectively. In other words, we implied that Turkish, American and Finnish school principals have similar aspects in this Cluster 1. In Clusters 2, Turkish, Korean, American and Swedish school principals have similar characteristics. Especially, Korean and Turkish school principals are come forward. In Cluster 3, we have the distribution of Swedish and Singaporean school principals is similar. Cluster 4 shows that the largest portion is belonging to Japanese principals. To sum up, the study expressed that leadership styles in different countries clustered in various ways because of individual, national and international cultural and social values. For this reason, we recommended that beyond the leadership styles of countries, researchers should also focus on individual, national and international cultural and social codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The construction of information-based leadership is of great practical significance in driving the development of higher education. By giving full play to the application advantages of modern information technology, an educational system covering all levels of higher education is constructed, we will comprehensively improve the level of informationization and intellectualization of higher education, and help to realize high-quality development of higher education. This paper analyzes the role of modern information technology in improving the leadership of information-based education in colleges and universities, and puts forward some relevant strategies to improve the leadership of information-based education in colleges and universities by using modern information technology.

The rapid development of information technology, for the overall promotion of service innovation provides a good development opportunity, but also put forward higher requirements for innovation capacity. As a key driving factor of development and innovation, information technology needs more attention. It leadership will accelerate the service process on the basis of promoting the strategic development, which will have a profound and positive impact on service innovation. Based on the study of the mechanism of information leadership in service innovation, this paper puts forward some suggestions to strengthen information construction and enhance innovation ability.

Leadership styles and leader-staff relationships have always impact on organizational effectiveness. It is important to study of this dimension in Kosovo Customs, taking into account the impact and contribution it has to the country’s budget. The purpose of this research is to analyze the style of leadership that is mostly used in this organization at both management levels and to see whether that style has influenced the organization’s effectiveness. In this study data were collected from various levels of Customs employees. The survey questions have been raised based on two instruments, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, and the Leadership Describing Questionnaire. Also, correlations of leadership styles are tested based on Pearson’s theory. The paper analyzes four leadership styles used by the leaders at two managerial levels, the results of the study show that the democratic style is the dominant style of leadership in this institution. Also, the survey results show that, as top-down, also bottom-up, there is a good relationship between leaders and subordinates at both levels of management. Thus, this leader-staff relationship positively affects the effectiveness of Customs.

African biblical scholars have recognized the importance culture plays in biblical interpretation for Christianity’s sacred texts to be authentically African. Cultural resources can liberate biblical interpretation from expert ideological dominance by creating critical reading masses in order to empower the community for transformation from the reality of multifaceted injustices such as poverty. Also the approach creates room for an equal fair dialogue with mainstream interpretive methods in biblical studies. This paper elaborates a model to the preceding aspects through transformative contextual exegetical interpretation of Prov 31:1-9 using the holistic cultural context, of the Bena of Tanzania. The said setup akin to the ancient Israelite one is inherently life-giving and sustaining to potentially transform the well-being of humanity for sustainable development. The reading goes beyond a stance of pure self-interest by challenging the victims to become involved in the eradication of poverty in African communities, especially with respect to leadership.

South Africa is a leading example of democracy in Africa albeit many argue that it has lost meaningful direction in aspects which range from its practice of majority rule, social cohesion, and neoliberalization of its political economy and international diplomacy. South Africa could fairly well be viewed as an emerging middle power but many of its actions have belied this thus allowing certain analysts to consider it as inconsistent, confusing, and even sinister. Some of the core problematic areas of South African democracy include poverty, unemployment, inequality, high level of HIV/AIDS, corruption, fast decaying educational system, electricity (load) shedding, fast loss of rand value in the international market and rampant strike actions, especially in the mining industry. However, this paper depends on the documentary method of research to examine the drama surrounding the security upgrade of the President’s home at Nkandla. The findings show that in a democratic society like South Africa, majority rule may sometimes be a limitation of democratic practices. In order to avert the challenges which majority rule may pose to the other principles of democracy, the principles of values, such as separation of power among the three levels of government and rule of law, must be respected.

Novice Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) leaders making the transition from scholarly teaching to SoTL to SoTL Leadership face many challenges within higher education. Not only does traditional academic culture confine most academics to disciplinary silos, but promotion and tenure requirements encourage faculty members to conduct SoTL work “off the side of their desk,” if at all (Boyer, 1990; Dobbins, 2008; Webb, Wong, & Hubball, 2013). This paper shares some of the findings from a recent study that investigated what constrained educational leaders’ understanding of SoTL while enrolled in a SoTL Leadership program at a Canadian research-intensive university. The paperwill also explore implications for the support and enrichment of educational leadership.Les leaders novices en Avancement des connaissances en enseignement et en apprentissage (ACEA) qui font la transition et passent de l’enseignement intellectuel à l’ACEA puis au leadership en ACEA font face à de nombreux défis dans l’enseignement supérieur. Non seulement la culture universitaire traditionnelle confine la plupart des professeurs dans des cloisonnements disciplinaires, mais les exigences de la promotion et de la permanence encouragent les professeurs à mener du travail d’ACEA « sur le coin de leur bureau », si même ils le font (Boyer, 1990; Dobbins, 2008; Webb, Wong & Hubball, 2013). Cet article partage certains des résultats obtenus suite à une étude récente qui a enquêté sur ce qui limite la compréhension des questions touchant l’ACEA des leaders en éducation alors qu’ils sont inscrits dans un programme de leadership en ACEA dans une université canadienne centrée sur la recherche. L’article va également explorer les implications du soutien et de l’enrichissement du leadership éducationnel.

This position paper is written in reference to the recent extensive media coverage of the report of the Independent Panel describing Harassment, Including Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Abuse of Power at UNAIDS Secretariat by several newspapers and authoritative journals such as Science and The Lancet. Unfortunately, none of these publications provide any clear evidence to support the accusations and merely repeat what are, in our view, unsubstantiated statements made in the report. Given the critical role that Africans have played in dealing with one of the most severe epidemics that the world has seen and the gravity of these charges, we believe it is essential to reaffirm that African voices and leadership is imperative for the global AIDS response.

Research background: Since the extension of the Corona virus there are people saying that all this is happening because of globalisation, phenomena that diminished the control of states at the borders, lack of strong internal security rules, loose of political responsibility and decisions, etc. In this paper we investigated the situation from different economical perspectives and we clearly show the existence of positive effects of globalization. We will never know certainly enough at which percentage the current crisis results from a mismatch between the intensity of economic and human exchanges and the inability of public authorities to be prepared and take fast and appropriate decisions. It is well accepted that in a globalized world, interdependence prevails over sovereignty. Purpose of the article: We will analyse if this reality is really one of the main problems which cause the current disaster. Nevertheless, it would be too easy to blame only the lacks of effective globalization, much complicated is to identify the problem and solve it. Searching if the globalization is the cause or the solution may be interesting since from the political side, we will see a wave of critics and sceptics, many politicians will try to reposition in order to gain visibility and votes. Methods: Using descriptive and comparative analysis we demonstrate that societies may obtain greater benefits from cooperation, collaboration and integration, even in pandemic times. Findings & Value added: In a global world, we can see that borders do not protect against a pandemic and that all the major challenges facing humanity can only be solved by multilateral systems and by multilateral negotiation. We clearly demonstrated that global society has greater benefits from cooperation, collaboration and integration.