This study aims to explore whether an introductory undergraduate course in Public Administration might be an appropriate educational tool for enhancing public service motivation (PSM) among undergraduate students. A quasi-experimental design involves surveying participants both before and after the intervention (taking an Introduction to Public…

A substantial amount of scholarly work focuses on conceptualizing, theorizing and studying the policy capacity of governments. Yet, guidance for practitioners on developing policy capacity training programs is lacking. In this article, I reflect on my experience as a public servant in the provincial government of Prince Edward Island where I…

Research and practice regarding politics within and for the educational management administration and leadership community are well established. The 50th anniversary issue of the journal educational management, administration and leadership is an opportunity to examine knowledge production where I have developed a new conceptual framework based on…

This manuscript suggests that comic art or cartoons can be used for illustrating, depicting, skewering, or even satirizing ethical, unethical, and other practices associated with business decision-making. As a classroom instructional project, the approach presents arguments for why cartooning is a useful tool for business, education, and the arts.…

This study examined faculty socialization at the University of Mississippi regarding research and sponsored program administration through the lens of transformative learning. Participants were 10 tenure track faculty who had been employed at the University of Mississippi no less than one year, no more than seven years, and who had submitted a…

Educational leadership and supervision encompass a multitude of paradigms and thought processes. The descriptive nature of this area of management gives way to the method individuals use to oversee educational facilities and professionals in relation to their non-educational counterparts. The purpose of this study was to explore how might a…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a major disruption to higher education as face-to-face teaching had to shift to distance teaching overnight. In this paper, we describe the adaptation of an operations management undergraduate core module, taught to first-year students, from face-to-face delivery to emergency online delivery. In our online version, we…

This study examines the opportunities, challenges, and competencies required for business administration professionals, particularly the interaction between generic competencies and specific performance outcomes in organizational settings. Using competency-based education (CBE) principles, the research identifies competencies demanded by the…

The present study aims to generate broad insights from the large corpus of literature on the associations between a comprehensive range of school leadership practices and student outcomes in different school contexts. Three-level meta-analysis of 493 independent effects from 108 studies published since 2000 showed that the mean effect size was…

The expanding complexity and increasing disruptions of our world affects schools. During both stable and unstable times, successful educational leaders support their schools' ability to accomplish their core mission: student learning and development. Using a qualitative approach, this research explored experiences of educational leaders who…

In England, a substantial proportion of school inspections are conducted by current school leaders. This may lead to concerns that this gives their school (about 2% of schools) an advantage in the inspection process when it is their turn to be inspected. Yet scant evidence exists on this issue. This paper thus presents the first evidence on this…

This research aims to develop indicators of inspirational leadership among the school administrators. The research is divided into 3 phases: Phase 1: develop indicators of inspirational leadership among the directors. The draft behavioral indicators were presented 7 experts to check their appropriateness and feasibility. Phase 2 examined the…

Using interviews with global research stakeholders, this research explores how stakeholders within research-system-level research governance organisations conceptualised, responded to, and reasoned the realities of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they positioned procedural changes to their governance mechanisms. Given that…

A newly appointed SUNY Chancellor contemplated a proposal to integrate marketing, branding, and admissions of SUNY Broome Community College with Binghamton University. Their presidents asked the Chancellor to move the integration plan forward to the SUNY Board of Trustees and were waiting for a response. An educational leader profiled in this case…

The relevance of studying the theory and practice of building the reputation of higher educational institutions is of an enduring nature due to the fixed cyclical nature of their work process and the high degree of specificity of the results obtained. In the second and third decades of the twenty-first century, the rethinking and development of…