The Challenge of Authentic Leadership | Business Ethics

By na - Of all the styles and types of leadership, something called authentic leadership seems the easiest to achieve - after all, who wouldn't want to be, and come across as, the genuine article? But it may be more complicated than that. Columnist Gael O'Brien asks: "Is it possible that a 21st century leadership can emerge that involves self awareness, emotional intelligence, and authenticity?" ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 132 )

Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate School Change: Introduction

By na - This paper, a companion to two other syntheses (Boyd, 1992; Hord, 1992), reviews the literature to determine the characteristics that appear to facilitate or impede the implementation of school improvement interventions for at-risk students. In the context of this paper, characteristics are the personal qualities that contribute to a person's leadership practices. This paper examines the influence of these personal characteristics on educational leadership. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 98 )

Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals

By Clete Bulach, Diane Boothe, Winston Pickett. - The authors describe various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. They have developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal. The instrument consists of 49 positive and negative behaviors that measure how a principal interacts with staff in the following five leadership domains: human relations, trust/decision making, instructional leadership, control, and conflict. A correlation coefficient of +.95, as measured by the Cronbach alpha, was obtained indicating the instrument has excellent reliability. Reliability on each of the five factors ranges from a high of +.86 to a low of +.81. The instrument has adequate construct validity in terms of those behaviors principals practice that teachers like or find offensive (as reported by 375 teachers). The behaviors measured by the survey are listed along with the average response of the teachers who responded to the survey. The authors also describe some results with the first use of the survey in a Louisana study where a +.95 correlation was found between scores on the leadership behavior survey and scores on a culture and climate survey. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 112 )

Leadership, Common Purpose and Shared Values | Business Ethics

By na - Where can you find a company where employees are happy, have high energy, great morale, and speak the same organizational language? Where people know not only what the organization's values are, but use those values as their basis for making decisions? No, we don't need to go to Shangri-La to find it. The road map, according to Joel Kurtzman, leads to common-purpose companies. Kurtzman has spent more than 30 years working with global companies and their leaders. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 91 )

Performance Indicators for Effective Principal Leadership in Improving Student Achievement

By na - he Performance Indicators for Effective Principal Leadership in Improving Student Achievement have been developed by Colleen Seremet, Assistant Superintendent, Dorchester County Public Schools; Bonnie Ward, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Kent County Public Schools; Carol Williamson, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction, Queen Anne%u2019s County Public Schools; and Lani Hall Seikaly, Project Director for the School Improvement in Maryland Web site. The performance indicators are intended to provide clarity and specificity about the skills, beliefs, and knowledge a principal needs to demonstrate effective leadership in improving student achievement. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 118 )

Leadership for School Reform: Do Principal Decision-Making Styles Reflect a Collaborative Approach?

By Raymond B.Williams - hool reform has and will continue to be an important cornerstone of government's economic growth plans. This paper examines New Brunswick%u2019s new educational policy and a key strategy for its implementation, the transformation of schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). This transformation is based on an approach to school leadership that relies substantially on principals%u2019 capacity to adopt a collaborative leadership style. The study presented provides insight into decision making, a vital component of New Brunswick principals%u2019 leadership styles, and presents a cautiously optimistic view for the success of this latest reform. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 105 )

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP (PART I)

By Arthur F Carmazzi - Inspirational leadership perspective.For this dynamic of leadership to happen, for a leader to be able to cultivate an environment where leaders are nurtured within the group, he/she must ascend to the class of an Inspirational Leader. To attain this requires 8 ascents of psychological awareness. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 110 )

Leadership Theories - Eight Major Leadership Theories

By Kendra Cherry - Actually, more like a quick summary of eight different leadership models or approaches. It's interesting that there are so many divergent approaches to the Psychology of leading. Good place to start though. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 125 )

The New Psychology of Leadership: Scientific American

By Stephen D. Reicher, Michael J. Platow and S. Alexander Haslam - A not terribly interesting approach to leadership, in fact, just another model to add into the mix. They'll be another one coming in a few minutes if you don't like this one. Think about it. Excerpt: In recent years, however, a new picture of leadership has emerged, one that better accounts for leadership performance. In this alternative view, effective leaders must work to understand the values and opinions of their followers--rather than assuming absolute authority--to enable a productive dialogue with followers about what the group embodies and stands for and thus how it should act. By leadership, we mean the ability to shape what followers actually want to do, not the act of enforcing compliance using rewards and punishments. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 111 )

Women in the Boardroom: Should the U.S. Have Quotas? | Business Ethics

By na - Columnist Gael O'Brien says the U.S. has failed to show leadership in gender diversity on corporate boards, raising questions about what it can learn from other countries that have imposed quotas for women directors. While quotas can stir up discomfort, she writes, there's a "complacency, even smugness" about boardroom diversity in the U.S. that argues in favor of requiring companies to take action. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 173 )

How US Airways Dealt with a Hostile Work Environment | Business Ethics

By na - Columnist Gael O'Brien recently encountered a two-hour flight delay stemming from an argument between two stewardesses on a US Airways flight. While it was a major inconvenience for her and other passengers, she writes, the airline's handling of the situation demonstrated a "formula for leadership that builds trust and reputation, a formula we don't see often enough." ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 94 )

Self-Deception and Challenges for Leaders

By na - Recent crises have led me to wonder what some leaders see when they look in the mirror. Sometimes a distorted reflection can be the result of leaders isolating themselves, choosing to be surrounded by people who gain the most by taking viewpoints the leaders most want to hear. In a political arena that could help explain why Hosni Mubarak so badly misread his leadership crisis. However, in the aftermath of some recent corporate crises, I think self deception, no matter how a leader might arrive there, reflects an image that allows leaders to disengage and disconnect from their actual impact on others. Aside from the damage it does to those affected, it creates an understandable gap in trust, which is the very thing leaders want to re-build after a crisis. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 105 )