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- Convenors:
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Asad Ghalib
(Liverpool Hope University)
Justice Bawole (University of Ghana Business School)
Issam Malki (University of Westminster)
Aminu Mamman (University of Manchester)
Ahmad Nawaz (Lahore School of Economics)
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- Formats:
- Papers Mixed
- Stream:
- Leadership pathways and spaces
- Sessions:
- Friday 19 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Leadership training programmes claim to develop a democratic, ethical, professional and rational generation of leaders of NGOs and other civil society organisations. This panel investigates if, how and to what extent such training has influenced the individuals and organisations that they represent
Long Abstract:
A number of empirical studies have shown that at the organisational level, strong and effective leadership emerges as an important success factor, along with powerful pressures for change coming from outside the organisation. Within a development context, challenges relating to leadership have become increasingly pronounced.
Henry Mintzberg argues that we have had enough of hubris in the name of heroic leadership, much as we have had enough of foreign experts pretending to develop the 'developing' countries. While he asserts that the development of leaders must happen indigenously, from the life experiences of individuals, not programmes that purport to create leaders, others, on the flipside have argued for tailored leadership programmes to train senior, middle and junior level leaders and managers. Developing capacity and creating a tailored leadership-training programme can lead to a significant awareness of key concepts, models and theories in leadership. Building capacities in leadership should, in theory at least lead to a more democratic, ethical, professional and rational generation of leaders of NGOs and other civil society organisations. This panel invites empirical papers that explore how such leadership training programmes have changed or have the propensity to modify and alter the behaviours of leaders across the developing world. It is hoped that strong empirical papers will lead to a meaningful contribution to the practice of leadership and its impact. Equally interesting would be to see if studies report that such programmes have made no tangible difference to individuals and organisations.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 19 June, 2020, -Ahmad Nawaz (Lahore School of Economics) Asad Ghalib (Liverpool Hope University) Irum Malik Awan (Cardiff University) Syeda Ayesha Subhani Bisma Jadoon (International Islamic university islamabad)
Paper short abstract:
Importance of quality primary education in a country's socio-economic development can not be underestimated. In this context, Good human resource in the form of qualified teachers having requisite training and skills is a way forward.
Paper long abstract:
The quality of primary education in Pakistan has been questionable since long time. Consistent government failures in the provision of quality primary education had paved the way for private sector to larger extent and NGOs to some extent to fill the gap. The literature highlights, among many others, the quality of human resource as the main culprit. This paper aims to find out the impact of teacher's training on the efficiency of primary education provided by the public, private and non-governmental sector. A primary survey is being conducted from 42 public, private and non -governmental schools in the Abbottabad region of Khyber Pakhtunkhaw Province of Pakistan through a standardized, validated and reliable questionnaire. By employing data envelopment analysis, our results show that on average, private schools perform better than the public and NGO schools. Further, Tobit regression analysis are performed to investigate the impact of teacher's training on the efficiency of primary schools controlling for other school related factors Surprisingly, our results suggest that teachers training and emphasis on attendance do not contribute to students' performance. Therefore, policy makers should focus on qualitative aspects of teachers through better training and behaviors.And the evaluation of teacher's training should be linked to the student's performance at schools. Further, the regulators should provide more training to the teachers of public sector urdu-medium (native language) schools.
Elizabeth Cornelia Annan-Prah (University of Cape Coast)
Paper short abstract:
Local government institutions have found that strengthening organisational capacity for designing policies and programme interventions is fundamental to achieving development goals. This research assesses the training strategies, whether customised, and their influence on the participants.
Paper long abstract:
The importance of leadership capacity in decentralised local government (LG) institutions have been emphasised because aside governance, LGs have a developmental role such as poverty reduction, quality public service delivery and accountability; as such LG institutions have found that strengthening capacity for designing policies and programme interventions is fundamental to achieving sustainable local development goals. research has found that developing customised or training strategies that are tailored to their work help Leaders build capacity to create and sustain the vision, inspire, model, prioritize, make decisions, provide direction, innovate and motivate others in an effort to achieving the mission of the organisation. The main objective of this article is to assess participants' views on the training programmes they have particiapted in, whether the programmes were customised or more tailored to their core mandates, the type(s)of strategies used, and how the training strategies influenced outcomes such as peer-to-peer connections, information sharing, empowerment, and learning to lead to the achievement of their functional mandate, which is local level development. The study employed the mixed method approach including qualitative, quantitative and documentary reviews. questionnaires and interview guides were used to collect data. The research found that LG institutions in Ghana designed training programmes that are tailored to participant's core mandates. A chi-square test of independence also found a strong association between the strategies and outcomes such as peer-to-peer connections, information sharing, empowerment, and learning. The research results have practical implications for LG institutions in terms of design of training programmes and leadership capacity building.
Henry Oghoator (Western Delta University) Ekhosuehi Oghator (University of Benin, Nigeria)
Paper short abstract:
Nigeria's Democratic Experience has witnessed developmental strides owing to inept leadership resulting in cries of inequality, ethnic militia and threat to nationhood. While relying on secondary sources of data and Conflict Theories of Social Inequality, the paper advocates leadership reorientation
Paper long abstract:
Nigeria's democratic experience since 1999 has witnessed poor dividends in terms of developmental strides owing essentially to lack-lustre leadership which has resulted in cries of inequality and marginalization. Thus ,ethnic militias, tribal conflicts, threats to nationhood, secessionist agitations, etc pervades the Nigerian landscape. In this paper, the secondary sources of data and content analysis were relied on. The paper opines that the cumulative negative effects of these tendencies on national cohesion and development leave much to be desired. Using Conflict theories of Social Inequality, the paper further opines that one major development challenge confronting Nigeria is the glaring absence of national cohesion and integration in consonant with the aeration that Nigeria. mere geographical expression.. This has been attributed to leadership incompetence that has failed to address emergent leadership cum developmental issues and peculiarities of the federating nationalities. Hence, the ethnic nationalities clamour to hold on to power at the central and hence be at the commanding heights of political control, resource allocation and disposition, while the minority ethnic nationalities suffer inequality and development I undermined. Hence the calls for self-determination, re-structuring . Interestingly, leadership response overtime is one characterized by absence of theoretical rigour and direction. This paper sought to interrogate the challenges of widening citizens' inequality, marginalization and rights violation, and its nexus with human development on the other hand, while advocating leadership re-orientation and indeed resilience as adequate mechanism for engendering a crop of citizenry that can participate equitably in nation-building and development.
Keywords: Democratic, Leadership, Development, Inequality, Resilience.
Omowumi Ogunyemi (Pan-atlantic university)
Paper short abstract:
Reports of participants and organizers of leadership programs on their experiences and the application of skills learnt give ideas of their impact. This paper gives insights of interviewing participants of a leadership program in Lagos, seeks to improve impact& dialogue with policy makers
Paper long abstract:
Many NGOs provide programs that aim to teach leadership skills with different approaches. Assessing the impact of such programs increases the cost of running them. It is however a worthwhile and necessary task if the program is to grow and enrich the lives of many more people. In Nigeria, it would be helpful to have a systematic evaluation of the impact of some of the programs that have been on for up to 10 years. This paper provides information from self reports and interviews of participants a leadership program in Lagos in a bid to identify their effectiveness and their perception of how the programs have contributed to their development. The interviews and narratives of both the participants who have completed the program and the program organizers may highlight ways in which policies can help increase the impact of these programs. It will also pinpoint the areas in which the NGOs will need support from the government and other organizations. Insights from this review will also bring to light the approaches that have been tested and may be a template for developing more effective leadership programs which are sustainable and can richly enrich the people who participate in them and those they serve.
James Olaniyi (University of Birmingham)
Paper short abstract:
The position of followers is further weakened by the hierarchical position and formal authority leaders have in organisations at the expense of followers, this paper will argue that leaders need to reach out to followers as partners in the quest to advance organisational goals
Paper long abstract:
The phenomenon of followership has for the recent past being neglected, this neglect is by both followers and leaders alike. The responsibility for this can be adduced to the way leadership and followership are practiced. While followers need to assert their relevance in organisations, leaders need to recognise the invaluable contribution followers make to organisations and consequently the work of leaders. The agitation for the enhancement of the position of followers has undoubtedly increased pressure on leaders to come up with innovative ideas on how to deal with followers (Collinson, 2006; Alvesson & Blom, 2015; Greyvenstein & Cilliers, 2012). Followers are usually viewed as appendages to leaders with little regard to their societal contributions which abound around us (Northouse, 2016).
The rhetorical question could be that after all the attention devoted to leaders, what have they been able to show for it, because leaders alone can not turn around the fortunes of an organisation without the active participation of followers, and this may have brought the realisation that it is time to focus on followers who are the incubators of leaders. The quest to understand followership inspires this study to explore the cultural influences on followership which is the process of following and followers
Oluwatosin Ajibade (Adeleke University)
Paper short abstract:
Leadership is empowerment, lack of it cripples and incapacitates small business enterprise. Small business owners in Accra and Lagos have shown that effective leadership is extremely important for sustainability Leadership training is the key to keep small business enterprise in business
Paper long abstract:
Effective leadership is one of most essential parts of the overall method for an organization to sustain their business in the face of problems caused by the rapid growth of the economic environment. Leaders are the one who control and take charge of the operation of an organization and good leaders are able to set optimistic goals and objectives while steering the operation of the company towards those goals through effective strategies. Leadership is a kind of power where one person has the ability to influence or change the values, beliefs, behaviour and attitudes of another person. Small medium enterprise have been the hope for economic development, especially in the wake of growing unemployment that plagues most developing countries. Small business owners who have weathered the storm of the unstable economic climate, unfavourable government policies, political instability, and other peculiar uncertainties in Ghana and Nigeria; all point to the knowledge of proper and effective leadership, whilst the lack is the poison that kills businesses. The knowledge of effective leadership will lead to a great increase in the amount of small medium enterprise that exist.
Temiloluwa Ajibade (Dominican University Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria)
Paper short abstract:
Servant leaders have the mind to serve first and lead their followers to serve. In most countries of the sub Saharan Africa, transparency, accountability and good governance have become a major clamor. To achieve the goal of good governance, leaders must embrace the act of servant leadership.
Paper long abstract:
Servant leadership is a leadership concept that deals with the act of a leader serving his followers. Servant leaders have the mind to serve first and lead their followers in the act of services. In most countries of the sub-Saharan Africa Leadership transparency and accountability and good governance have become a major clamor. Records have shown that corruption is high in Sub-Saharan African region. Corruption is a major impediment to governance, it fuels bad governance, erodes public confidence, undermines public service. In a democracy, leaders gets its power from the mandate of the people via election to represent their interest. It is therefore expedient for these set of leaders in every capacity to have a mind of servant leadership.
This study aims to emphasis the need for people places of authority and leadership to embrace the act of servant-leadership in order to enhance good governance in the society. The study opines that in order to achieve the goal of good governance, leaders must be oriented to embrace the act of servant leadership. Leadership should be born out of understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. only servant leaders have made the difference in the lives of their people and advanced their governments over time through vigorous and sacrificial pursuit of positive change with great respect for acceptable societal values.The government must be service oriented and promote effective delivery of public services so as to enhance improving the standard of living of the citizens.
Justice Bawole (University of Ghana Business School) Asad Ghalib (Liverpool Hope University)
Paper short abstract:
Public administration system is the key to ensure national development. Its role needs to be examined and analysed considering the contemporary and multi-dimensional aspects including the context and capacity of states. This paper sheds light on the key factors of development among African nations.
Paper long abstract:
National development and effectiveness of a country's public administration system is largely dependent on states' capacity or incapacity. Thus, a state with the needed capacity is able to navigate both of its domestic and international environment for political will, advocate logic and feasible ideas, understand the economic structures and implement policies through a strong bureaucracy or civil service (Cummings & Nørgaard, 2004). This suggests that the role of certain critical actors - politicians and civil servants cannot be overemphasized. Their behaviour is somewhat shaped by the state's own structures and behaviour, and the capacity of states to lead, transform and enjoy legitimacy will in turn be shaped by its relationship with these actors.
Rose (1987) advance that policy making typically reflects a combined effort of both politicians and senior bureaucrats. But they both approach policy and problems of governing from different angles and offer different contributions. This paper draws on Cummings and Nørgaard's (2004) conceptualization of state capacity to discuss the implications of state (in) capacity on national development and the mediating role of a strong public administration system.
The rest of the paper is structured as follows. The term state (in) capacity is foremost defined. Related theories on state (in) capacity are also reviewed and discussed. The paper further examine the components or construct of state (in) capacity. Subsequently, the paper discusses the implications of state (in) capacity for national development and the mediating role of an effective public administration system and strengthened state capacity.