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Restoring culturally appropriate African leadership : a case study of Finnish, Kenyan and Tanzanian perspectives on a leadership and management train…
2009
Agency-centred coupling — a better way to manage an educational organization?
2014
Teachers at the present time face continuous changes in their work and organizational practices. However, we lack empirical evidence as to what this implies for teachers and their work. This paper describes how two Finnish educational organizations restrict or enable teachers’ professional agency, in terms of how the teachers influence the conditions and contents of their work. The paper further addresses how agency is related to: (i) organizational and educational transformations, (ii) teachers’ professional development and identity negotiations and (iii) teachers’ commitment to the educational organization and well-being at work. This paper provides the comparative research evidence on bo…
Uztvertās līderības un iesaistes saistība ar apmierinātību ar darbu
2019
Šī pētījuma mērķis ir izpētīt sakarības starp darbinieku apmierinātību ar darbu, iesaisti darbā un uztverto līderību. Lai to izdarītu, tika izvirzīti divi pētījuma jautājumi. Pirmais, vai pastāv statistiski nozīmīga sakarība starp uztverto līderību, iesaisti darbā un apmierinātību ar darbu? Otrais, ja pastāv, tad cik nozīmīga tā ir? Pētījumā piedalījās 101 respondents, no kuriem 82% bija sievietes un 18% vīrieši, vidējais respondentu vecums ir 33,24 gadi un vidējais respondentu darba stāžs ir 3,11 gadi. Pētījuma datu ievākšanai tika izmantotas trīs aptaujas – Spektora apmierinātība ar darbu, Utrehtas iesaiste darbā un Bleika un Moutona uztvertās līderības aptauja. Pētījuma rezultāti uzrāda,…
Laadunhallinnan kriittiset menestystekijät ja niiden vaikutus palvelupisteen laatujohtamiseen ITIL-organisaatiossa
2017
Laatu on yksi merkittävimmistä organisaation päätöksentekoon vaikuttavista tekijöistä. Onnistuneen laadunhallinnan kriittiset menestystekijät määräytyvät organisaatiokohtaisesti, ja niihin voidaan vaikuttaa etenkin johtamistyylillä. Lisäksi ITIL-viitekehys voi ohjata organisaation toimintaa. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten laadunhallinnan kriittiset menestystekijät vaikuttavat palvelupisteiden laatujohtamiseen ITIL-viitekehystä noudatettavassa ITpalvelutuotannon organisaatiossa. Teoreettisessa viitekehyksessä laatu kuvataan prosessien lopputuotteen erinomaisuutena. Lisäksi esitellään kokonaisvaltaisen laadunhallinnan kriittiset menestystekijät ja organisaation laatujohtam…
Varjosta valokeilaan : kriittisiä diskurssianalyyseja huonosta johtamisesta
2015
The aim of this dissertation is to qualitatively describe and explain bad leader- ship and the role of the bad leader within. The dissertation consists of five orig- inal articles and the introductory section. The study is based on the foundation formed by research on bad leadership and research on discourse analysis. The focus is on the role of language in the construction, reconstruction and mainte- nance of meanings. The first of the articles contains the description of the discursive approach applied in the studies. This approach is implemented in the four remaining arti- cles, with analyzed samples of 430 media texts, a published research report (95 p.) and over 3 hours of transcribed …
Clinical Changes of Respiratory Parameters in Institutionalized Older Adults after a Physiotherapy Program Combining Respiratory and Musculoskeletal …
2022
Nowadays pulmonary diseases are an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality. Diaphragmatic breathing is a controlled-breathing technique that aims to optimize thoracoabdominal movements. The aim of this study was to apply a respiratory and musculoskeletal physiotherapy program in institutionalized older adults and to assess the effects on their pulmonary function tests and oxygen saturation. A randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted with thirty institutionalized older adults, randomly assigned to a control group (CG), who conducted musculoskeletal exercises; or an experimental group (EG) who, in addition, carried out diaphragmatic breathing, administered for eigh…
Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland
2023
The daily life of early childhood education and care (ECE) in Finland changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The pandemic has had a significant impact on society at many levels, and it also has affected the work and workload of ECE leaders and the realisation of leadership. The aim of this research was to investigate ECE leadersʼ views on pedagogical leadership from the perspective of opportunities and challenges during exceptional times. The research uses the conceptualisation of broad-based pedagogical leadership as an analytical framework. The data consisted of the responses of ECE leaders (n = 492) to an electronic survey conducted in February 2021. There were sever…
Ethical Ratings: A Systematic Analysis Oriented to Business Economics
2013
Abstract In a previous study we have researched the causes of the current global crisis, which manifests itself in financial terms, but whose origin is due to the ethical model of reference. Following these ethical issues, the aims and topics of the present paper are: producing a systematic analysis of the ethical indicators used in the current international practices; extrapolating the ethical ranking models with a high relevance in Business Economics and highlighting the strong limits of the methodology in current use.
Public Governance Principles in General Education School Management of Latvia
2015
In contemporary world the effect of globalisation and information technologies cause transformational processes of states` public management that promote the application of new managament approaches and principles in public institution management.The changes in the public managament have effected and still effects processes of management also in education. The increase of school autonomy, a stronger focus on the process of education and its results created the need to expand the application of contemporary public management principles also in the managament of education institutions. The main goal of the report is to analyze the principles of public management and their implementation in th…
Control and Trust in Local School Governance
2014
External school inspection and state supervision represent key instruments in many European countries for improving the quality of education. Although some countries, such as England, France, and the Netherlands, have a long tradition of school inspectorates, other countries such as Sweden only recently reintroduced a school inspection system (Johansson O, Holmgren M, Nihlfors E, Moos L, Skedsmo G, Paulsen JM, Risku M, Local Decisions under Central Watch – a new Nordic quality assurance system. In: Moos L (ed) Transnational influences on values and practices in Nordic educational leadership – is there a Nordic model? Springer, Dordrecht, 2013). In Denmark, the relationship between the state…