Managing Secondary Education for Functional Leadership, Values Re-Orientation and Sustainable National Development in Nigeria

The study examined the management of secondary education for functional leadership, values re-orientation and sustainable national development in Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted. The population comprised 142 principals of public junior and senior secondary schools in Edo Central Senatorial District of Nigeria. The entire population was used. The questionnaire was used for data collection and was validated by experts. The test-re-test reliability method was used and a reliability coefficient of 0.76 was obtained. The mean and percentage were used for data analysis. The study found that corruption, poor funding, get-rich quick syndrome among the youths, cultism, poor management of resources by school administrators, poor quality of teaching staff, low quality leadership by school heads, teachers being poor role model, lack of parental support in the area of students’ discipline and political instability were problems affecting management of the education system. It was recommended that the curriculum of the school should be re-adjusted and premium placed on values and dignity in hard work and that the quality of the teachers and instructors must be enhanced through in-service training.

Functional and Visionary Leadership in Self-Managing Virtual Teams

In this conceptual article, we present a theory of leadership in self-managing virtual teams. We describe leadership in this setting as a process that results in the creation, reinforcement, and evolution of shared mental models and shared norms that influence team member behavior toward the successful accomplishment of shared goals. We distinguish two types of leadership. We identify leadership that works within and reinforces existing models and norms to influence team contributions as “functional” leadership. We identify leadership that results in changes in models and norms as “visionary” leadership. We propose that successful self-managing virtual teams require both types of leadership and that they will exhibit a paradoxical combination of shared, distributed functional leadership complemented by strong, concentrated, and centralized visionary leadership and that visionary leadership is enabled by functional leadership in the form of substantive team member contributions.

Application of a Protocol to Observe Leadership Behaviors in Engineering Design Teams

This protocol study was conducted to increase understanding of the emergence and distribution of functional leadership behaviors in undergraduate engineering design teams. This study applies the protocol presented at the 2018 IDETC to observe design teams consisting of novice engineers constructing a function model during a video recorded session. The videos were then coded for leadership functions and analyzed to determine the distribution of informal leadership functions between the team members and the temporal emergence of the informal leadership structures within the teams. Leadership behaviors were observed to be predominantly transition and action functions with relational behaviors occurring less frequently. The behaviors were quantified by number of occurrences per quintile. The leaders observed to perform the most leadership behaviors early in the sessions often remained consistent. However, leadership functions were shared between team members as demonstrated by the leadership network graphs.

KEPEMIMPINAN LAKI-LAKI DALAM KELUARGA: Implementasinya pada Masyarakat Jawa

<p class="Iabstrak"><strong>Abstra</strong><strong>ct</strong><strong>:</strong> <em>The interpretation of leadership in the family has an important role to construct Sakinah family. Because of difference interpretation effects to household violence. The difference is trough leadership criteria whether absolutely be every man or just for certain man who is able to fulfill the requirement as written in Q.S. al-Nisā’ [4]: 34. This writing has a purpose to discuss absolute leadership pattern and functional leadership and the effect to the family. The description of leadership that discussed in this writing is about Javanese culture that has centralistic leadership and demand absolute obedience. One of the effects of practices absolute leadership is household violence. Violence in a family as the most little unit of society will effect to the existence of form a group and have a nation. Furthermore, exegesis that has the perspective of equality gender by observing local culture must be developed, in order to be easy to be understood and to be carried out.</em><em></em></p><p class="Iabstrak"><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Pemahaman mengenai kepemimpinan laki laki dalam keluarga, berperan penting untuk membangun keluarga sakinah. Namun<strong>, </strong>terdapat perbedaan dalam menafsirkan kriteria kepemimpinan dalam keluarga. Apakah kepemimpinan bersifat mutlak bagi setiap laki-laki atau hanya untuk laki-laki tertentu yang dapat memenuhi syarat sebagaimana disebutkan dalam QS. al-Nisa’ [4]: 34. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk membahas pemahaman tentang ayat yang terkait dengan kepemimpinan dalam keluarga dan implementasinya dalam kehidupan masyarakat Jawa. Pendekatan Antropologis digunakan untuk mendapatkan deskripsi mengenai tradisi kepemimpinan dalam keluarga di lingkungan masyarakat Jawa. Hasil temuan dari pembahasan ini adalah adanya pe­mahaman yang sentralistik terhadap ayat kepemimpinan dalam keluarga, sehingga berdampak pada terjadinya Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga (KDRT). Apabila keluarga sebagai unit terkecil dari masyarakat mengalami kekerasan, tentu akan ber­pengaruh pada kehidupan bermasyarakat dan berbangsa. Oleh karenanya, perlu dikembangkan pemahaman yang berperspektif kesetaraan jender dengan memperhatikan kearifan lokal, agar mudah dipahami dan dilaksanakan.</p>