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Unwavering Gratitude: 2017-18 Report of the President
Get PDFEach year, Gonzaga University\u27s Office of the President produces an annual Report of the President. This publication that highlights just a few of the many accomplishments over the previous academic year, and is intended to convey gratitude to our Trustees and Regents, benefactors, and many supporters
A Journey in Servant-Leadership
Get PDFWelcome to our 2018 edition of The International Journal of Servant-Leadership. I would like to offer my special thanks to all of our contributing authors in this journal. The depth and breadth of articles and papers, poetry and research, film reviews and reflections demonstrate the vibrant nature of our ongoing journey in servant-leadership from around the world
5Cs of Managerial Leadership
Get PDFTwenty-first Century work life is portrayed by Hirschhorn (1997) as, new conditions of work [that] simultaneously pull us toward interdependence while pushing us toward estrangement. This is the new dialectic of the post-industrial age (p. 90). Dysfunctional families, socio-economic imbalances, and political instability caused by inapt leaders warrants to explore the impact of organizations on humanity. Great minds shape technology, innovation, research and development in these organizations. In return, big organizations drive the economy, politics, global warming, and business competition. Though many organizations invest in retention policies, employees have less loyalty, seek better compensation and work conditions. A concern for 21st Century workers is giving up individual interests and social welfare in exchange for meeting organizational demands and goals. According to Hirschhorn, postmodernism urges employees to tap into their passion for a more personalized connection to their job. Employees are choosing more fulfilling careers over job security
My Father as a Lifelong Servant-Leader
Get PDFMy father, Ted Potter, is supposedly retired. He has had a long, interesting, and varied career, first as a teacher, then as a real estate agent, broker, appraiser, and consultant. Although my dad has not formally studied the literature of servant-leadership, I believe his life and work exemplify much of what Greenleaf and other scholars have conceptualized as characteristic of the servant-leader approach to interpersonal and organizational management and leadership. Over the course of a few days at the end of summer, as the leaves on the trees began turning on their fall flare, I engaged my dad in an online conversation aimed at highlighting and exploring what I see as his servant-leader qualities and tendencies over the years and into the present. In the mode of a kind of appreciative inquiry (Hammond, 2013), I aimed to delve into my sense of my father as a servant-leader, to better understand how he developed into the man I know and love, and to test my evolving grasp of servant-leadership as a vital philosophy that can inform and enhance the life of an individual, a family, or an organization, as well as the larger community, in an outward flowing ripple effect
Servant-Leadership as Loving Leadership: Explorations for Catholic Health Ministry
Get PDFLeading within Catholic health care is a growing struggle as the health care environment undergoes monumental change. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a significant force in shaping health care policy, lists its five primary focus areas on its website: Improvement Capability; Patient and Family Experience; Patient Safety; Quality, Cost and Value; and Triple Aim for Populations (IHI, n.d.). Successfully addressing each area provides unique challenges to leaders because each area demands significant changes to individual behavior and organizational structure. Added to this is the reality that any improvement in one area likely adds complexity to another area. For example, patient safety advocates, most notably the Institute of Medicine, have championed the utilization of electronic medical or health records as mechanisms to eliminate variation and share real time patient information that is supposedly helpful to clinicians (Jarrett, 2016)
One Gaza Family Observes a Grim Holiday in Wartime1
Get PDFYesterday my son learned to open the deadbolt. Upset about his toys forgotten at daycare, he slipped out the front door while I was changing clothes, tried to go back to get them himself. When I came out of the bedroom, he was gone. For those two minutes, my heart stopped until I scooped him up crying in the driveway. Today, I thought of the mothers of Gaza
#MyNYPD Nodes and Networks: Mobilization and Engagement
Get PDFThis article will discuss a social network analysis of tweets within the #MyNYPD protest, a public protest against police brutality and abuse of power that occurred via Twitter. I examined the five days containing the most tweets from six months of collected data to understand: What are the relationships between/among players’ activity online? The tweets were collected through Node XL and then analyzed through Gephi, social network analysis software. Through examining the most proficient tweeters, either by the number of tweets or the number of retweets their tweets garnered, the connections between different players and their roles within the protest are discovered. This analysis of one day, April 9, 2015, visualizes the connections and communities formed within the #MyNYPD protest. Particular people enable the connections within the protest allowing the protest to sustain itself. These connections provide essential information in understanding how protests not confined to a specific geographical location can be maintained and flourish as agents of social justice
Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail
Get PDFBackground: Students who fail may face feelings of diminished self-perception, decreased sense of achievement, and experience negative emotions or moods such as: guilt, embarrassment, thoughts of reoccurring failure, feeling of letting others down or disappointing teachers and parents.
Aim: This paper is to discusses the topic of failure and providing thoughts and reflections on the topic. The authors believe that faculty can help students learn to fail and also maintain their self-worth and dignity. Helping students learn from these failures and promoting resilience and humility when faced with life adversities may be one of the best lifelong lessons faculty can teach.
Results: Failure is never an easy experience. When a student is faced with failure, it is critical for faculty to help the student find the positives of the experience. This as an opportunity to promote personal growth and character development. Educators are in a precarious position because learning outcomes are based on successful performance and failure can be looked upon negatively for faculty.
Conclusions: Faculty are perfectly positioned to help reframe failure for students struggling in college and help them find their true passion in life. College is a transformative experience, a time for self-discovery and finding one’s true identity. It is a time to learn life lessons and how to manage adversity facilitating strong, emotionally healthy, driven men and women of future generations
Even Your Failures Can Be Fabulous : Reflections on Stories, Movement, and Aging
Get PDFThis brief essay presents a collage of moments, snippets of stories, both personal and popular, that relate to metamorphosis and the migration of stories across a(n) (academic) lifetime