Leadership Matters

Leadership (re)constructed: How Lens Matters

Crisis Leadership and Why It Matters

60 December January 2011 threatening H1N1 pandemic. Add to this list the run-of-the-mill business crisis such as a product recall (e.g., Toyota), labor strikes, and class action lawsuits (e.g., Wal-Mart), as well as new crises sparked by the proliferation of social media and you may begin to wonder whether crises, generally defined as rare and extreme high-impact events, have become the new nor...

Construction of Leadership among School Teachers: Does Social Identity Matters?

Present study attempts to interrogate the dominant trait based approach of leadership and tried to relook it from group perspective. Investigation was conducted in two phases where teachers were asked about the quality of ideally effective leader they would prefer. The obtained responses were thematically transformed into broader variable which were factor analyzed. Under social identity tradit...

Primary school leadership practice: how the subject matters

Teaching is a critical consideration in investigations of primary school leadership and not just as an outcome variable. Factoring in instruction as an explanatory variable in scholarship on school leadership involves moving away from views of teaching as a monolithic or unitary practice. When it comes to leadership in primary schools, the subject matters. More sophisticated constructions of te...

The ripple effect: why promoting female leadership in global health matters.

Leadership positions in global health are greatly skewed toward men; the imbalance is more pronounced in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The under-representation of women in leadership is a threat to gender equality, and also impacts the improvement of women's health outcomes globally. In this perspectives piece, we assert that the promotion and retention of women in global health lea...