Strategic leadership has been proposed as critical to organizational effectiveness. As African economies transition from socialist to open market states, strategic leadership will be instrumental to the effectiveness of African organizations. Unfortunately, few studies of strategic leadership in African organizations exist. To fill this gap, a model of strategic leadership is proposed here. Str...

this study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. a total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the iranian food industry smes. the results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

The goal of this study was to investigate the relation between a set of pre-decisional beliefs including students' task value, self-e$cacy, and learning and performance goal orientations and "ve post-decisional, implementation strategies students use to regulate their e!ort and persistence for the academic tasks assigned for a speci"c class. A group of eighth grade students (N"114) completed a ...

How do organizations build an internal capability or processes to implement a service excellence strategy and thereby create sustained competitive advantage? Drawing on integrated extended self psychology of ownership framework as well Bowen Ostroff’s human resource (HR) system strength perspective, this study examines linking perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWS) over...

Background: This study is grounded in the theory of self-determination, achievement goal theory, and perceived motivational climate. The was to examine relationships among coach autonomy, motivation, task ego orientation, climate young ice hockey players. Material methods: participants included 401 players aged 14–18 years old. To calculate power prediction between independent variable “perceiv...

The objective of this article is to analyse the potential ComunicARTE, an innovative Spanish Language teaching/learning program that uses project-based learning develop dialogic spaces which promote communicative competence students, together with social, emotional and motivational outcomes. Two schools have been observed in mind: experimental one using a control one. This longitudinal study pr...

The effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on L2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, Iran. This study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their L2 reading and L2 writing achievement. It also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...

the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational structure and marital satisfaction. participants (n = 122; 72% female) were recruited among married students of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who completed personal concerns inventory (pci) and marital satisfaction questionnaire (msq). principal component analysis (pca) was used to summarize the pci data. a summar...

Krouse, RZ, Ransdell, LB, Lucas, SM, and Pritchard, ME. Motivation, goal orientation, coaching, and training habits of women ultrarunners. J Strength Cond Res 25(10): 2835– 2842, 2011—Ultrarunners participate in running events that exceed the 26.2-mile marathon distance (e.g., 50k, 50–100 miles). Very little research exists on ultrarunners, especially women. This study is a descriptive study de...