Changing Leadership for Changing Times

Changing Leadership for Changing Times
Author: Leithwood
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335232124

Changing Leadership for Changing Times examines the types of leadership that are likely to be productive in creating and sustaining schools of the future. Based on a long term study of 'transformational' leadership in school restructuring contexts, the chapters in this book offer a highly readable account of such leadership grounded in a substantial body of empirical evidence.

International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration

International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration
Author: Kenneth A. Leithwood
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1188
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 940091573X

EDITORS This introduction to the International Handbook of Educational Lead ership and Administration describes some of the motivation for devel oping the book and several assumptions on which is based much of the work represented in its 31 chapters. A synopsis of the contents of those chapters is also provided. SOME KEY ASSUMPTIONS It is sometimes suggested that the search for an adequate understanding of leadership is doomed to fail. After all, there is little evidence of agreement about the concept in spite of prodigious efforts dating back hundreds if not thousands of years. Such a view is captured, for exam ple, in Bennis' observation that: Of all the hazy and confounding areas in social psychology, leadership theory undoubtedly contends for top nomination. Probably more has been written and less is known about lead ership than any other topic in the behavioural sciences. (1959, page 259) We do not find this state of affairs discouraging (nor entirely accurate) and, of course, it did not prevent Bennis from proceeding either. One reason for our desire to continue in the face of such discouraging words is that a great deal of leadership research aspires to develop a general theory, a theory which applies to all or most domains of organized human activity. This aspiration inevitably produces decontextualized and, therefore, abstract categories of practice. Howard Gardner's (1995) depiction of leadership as story telling is a case in point.

Leading School Turnaround

Leading School Turnaround
Author: Kenneth Leithwood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470767170

LEADING SCHOOL TURNAROUND Leading School Turnaround offers new perspectives and concrete, evidence-based guidelines for the educational leaders and administrators faced with the challenge of turning our low-performing schools around. Using the tools outlined in this groundbreaking book, school leaders can guide their schools to higher levels of achievement and sustained academic success. Based on research conducted in the United States, Canada, and England, Leading School Turnaround addresses in three parts the dynamic context of the turnaround environment, what turnaround leaders do, and the incredible challenges of moving from turnaround to "stay around." Filled with illustrative examples, the book outlines the best practices and behaviors successful turnaround leaders exercise. The authors include detailed information for applying the four main categories of turnaround leadership: direction setting, developing people, redesigning the school, and managing the instructional program. This important resource can help any school leader get their school back on the track to academic success.

Transformational and Transactional Leadership. Discovering the Mediating Part of Knowledge Sharing

Transformational and Transactional Leadership. Discovering the Mediating Part of Knowledge Sharing
Author: Asair Aslam
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 366879023X

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 16, , course: BBA, language: English, abstract: Leadership is a procedure of directing the conduct of different people towards the achievement of some objective and has dependably been thought to be a proposition of an association's prosperity. These days it is more vital than any other time in recent memory because of mind-blowing potential outcomes of upgraded correspondence advancements and augmenting global business. The focal thought of leadership is to work with individuals. Being in an organization, the leadership along with the organizational citizenship behavior always continued to stay at the top in the field of different organizational conduct exploration for ages. Furthermore, it has accomplished significant deliberation of intellectuals and researchers who practice to describe comprehensive leadership dynamics along with their sway on the behavior of the followers at the work place. The deliberate manners of the Organizational citizenship perk up the overall managerial efficacy; in addition to the fact that it goes further than the prescribed contractual obligations regarding profession. The main aim of this study is to investigate the connection between transformational and transactional leadership and organizational citizenship behavior in the organizational setup in Pakistan. The current study scrutinizes the undeviating and circuitous sway of the transformational and transactional leadership in the course of discovering the mediating part of knowledge sharing. For this purpose, the model was examined by utilizing the questionnaire that was filled by different participants selected on a random basis. The results collected from the 150 responses pointed towards the affiliation among the transformational and transactional leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior, which is statistically noteworthy where the knowledge sharing played an imperative part as a moderator. The outcomes support and add to the beneficial outcomes of a transformational and transactional initiative style interconnected with additional part conduct at work making it more important. The discoveries make a noteworthy commitment to the authority and hierarchical conduct writing and suggest that associations should execute hones that assistance in improving the level of authoritative citizenship conduct in associations.