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THE IMPACT OF HEADMASTER’S LEADERSHIP PRACTICE ON THE FORMATION OF A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY AT SCHOOL
2019
In the context of general education content reform initiated in Latvia, which also provides change of teaching approach, the issue of the role of headmaster has raised. The introduction and implementation of competence approach requires strengthening and development of cooperation between teachers in professional learning communities (PLCs) at school, in order to address didactic issues, regularly analyze pupils` learning outcomes and find best ways to increase the learning outcomes of each pupil, and give an opportunity for teachers to improve their teaching by sharing good pedagogical practice. The change of teaching approach prompts a revision of school management practices as well. In o…
Participación en redes organizacionales y uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, un estudio de su impacto en los resultados de l…
2017
Las cooperativas de enseñanza o escuelas cooperativas forman parte de uno de los sectores más desconocidos dentro del sistema educativo valenciano. Estas cooperativas van más allá de suponer una mera realidad de empresas prósperas, aparecen en el panorama educativo como un modelo organizacional alternativo de la enseñanza con una clara vocación transformadora. Inmersas en otras concepciones de la educación dentro del propio sistema, las cooperativas de enseñanza plantean una oferta educativa sensiblemente diferente a la que podemos considerar tradicional, siendo generadoras de valor económico y social. Por este motivo, puede resultar relevante determinar los factores que influyen sobre los …
The Impact of Internationalization, Strategic Innovation and Managerial Digitalization on the Business Success of FINTECH Enterprises
2020
Promocijas darbs veltīts internacionalizācijas, vadības digitalizācijas un stratēģisko inovāciju ietekmei uz Vācijas mazo un vidējo uzņēmumu biznesa panākumiem finanšu pakalpojumu nozarē. Darba ievadā aprakstīta tēmas aktualitāte un nozīmīgums. Pirmajā nodaļā sniegts literatūras pārskats par panākumu faktoriem finanšu pakalpojumu nozarē. Otrajā nodaļā autore definē terminus “mazie un vidējie uzņēmumi” un “FinTech”, kā arī parametrus, lai novērtētu internacionalizācijas, vadības digitalizācijas un stratēģiskās inovācijas. Trešā nodaļa sākas ar izpētes jautājumiem un modeļa izstrādi ceļa diagrammas veidā, kas ļauj izstrādāt hipotēzes. Pirmajā empīriskā pētījuma daļā veiktas ekspertu intervija…
Entrepreneurial leadership and familiness as resources for strategic entrepreneurship
2012
PurposeThis paper seeks to investigate how familiness and entrepreneurial leadership are related to each other in family firms. Familiness and entrepreneurial leadership are viewed as resources for strategic entrepreneurship. The aim of the paper is to shed light on familiness in three family firms and contribute to the field's growing body of work.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs a case study method. The interviewees were interviewed by theme questions and secondary information was gathered to strengthen the empirical section. Qualitative interpretation of empirical data was used.FindingsThe findings demonstrate the variety of familiness and entrepreneurial leadership within fa…
IDENTIFYING FACTORS INFLUENCING SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PRACTICES: CASE STUDY OF LATVIA
2020
Based on the analysis of research literature and empirical data, the study aims to identify significant factors affecting school leadership practices in Latvia. In addition to studies of scientific literature, the authors used qualitative research methods – in-depth interviews with 7 school leadership teams of the same municipality and expert focus group discussion to describe the influencing factors that are relevenat in the context of Latvia. As a result of the study, the authors identified that school leaders’ work experience, beliefs and mental models, social skills and impact of the external parties have an influence on their practices.
Spanish Validation of the Leader Empowering Behavior Questionnaire (LEBQ)
2019
The concept of empowering leadership has attracted widespread academic and practical interest and different questionnaires have been developed to measure it. However, there are no instruments to measure empowering leadership in the Spanish language. This article presents the translation, adaptation, and validation of a scale to measure this construct. In addition, it analyzes the relationship between managers’ empowering leadership and employees’ job satisfaction. In turn, the study analyzes whether employees who participate in a greater number of continuous improvement programs have supervisors who favor more empowering behaviors. A total of 739 participants with various occupations from d…
Structural Source of the Trap of ICT Advancement - Lessons from World ICT Top Leaders
2014
In light of the significant consequence of the trap of dramatic advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) in the global economy, both nations and firms that have been compelling their productivity decline. This resulted in great stagnation of ICT advanced economies and therefore its structural sources were analyzed. Based on an empirical analysis tracing, the trend in marginal productivity of ICT and its subsequent prices among the top ICT leaders in the world over the last two decades correlating with the effects of ICT, two faces of ICT advancement were identified. On one side, advancement of ICT contributes to its prices increase by new functionality development, its …
Relación entre los estilos de Liderazgo Transformacional y Laissez-faire y el Síndrome de Quemarse por el Trabajo en profesores de educación secundar…
2018
Introducción: los objetivos del estudio fueron los siguientes: (1) analizar la influencia de los estilos de Liderazgo Transformacional (LT) y Laissez-faire (LLF) sobre el Síndrome de Quemarse por el Trabajo (SQT); (2) evaluar la influencia de las dimensiones de LT (Carisma o Influencia idealizada, Inspiración, Estimulación intelectual y Consideración individualizada) sobre las dimensiones de SQT Perfil 1 (Ilusión por el trabajo, Desgaste psíquico e Indolencia).Material y métodos: la muestra estuvo formada por 211 profesores portugueses de educación secundaria (28.9% hombres y 71.1% mujeres). LT (Carisma o Influencia idealizada, Inspiración, Estimulación intelectual y Consideración individua…
Transmitting the entrepreneurial spirit to the work team in SMEs: the importance of leadership
2007
PurposeTo establish the extent of the influence of variables which, under a particular style of leadership, form the necessary basis for encouraging and developing group, entrepreneurial activities carried out within the context of small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) thus explaining the transmission of the entrepreneurial spirit to the work team and, consequently, the existence of collective entrepreneurship in the firm.Design/methodology/approachFrom the results of a questionnaire carried out via personal interviews with over 100 firms, a confirmatory factorial analysis was carried out that provided us with the variables to be studied. The cause/effect relationships and their implicat…
Reducing the Cost of Being the Boss: Authentic Leadership Suppresses the Effect of Role Stereotype Conflict on Antisocial Behaviors in Leaders and En…
2021
What drives entrepreneurs to engage in antisocial economic behaviors? Without dismissing entrepreneurs’ agency in their decision-making processes, our study aims to answer this question by proposing that antisocial economic behaviors are a dysfunctional coping mechanism to reduce the psychological tension that entrepreneurs face in their day-to-day activities. Further, given the overlap between the male gender role stereotype and both leader and entrepreneur role stereotypes, this psychological tension should be stronger in female entrepreneurs (or any person who identifies with the female gender role). We argue that besides the well-established female gender role – leader role incongruence…