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The relationship between principal leadership skills, organizational citizenship behaviour and intellectual capital in secondary schools in Pakistan / Muhammad Niqab
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to identify and analyse whether principal leadership skills (PLS) affect intellectual capital (IC) of secondary school directly or through the mediation of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) of teachers. This is basically a co-relational study, with the main focus revolving around the relationships among the PLS, IC, and OCB in secondary schools in Pakistan. This quantitative study was conducted using a survey instrument comprising 61 items representing PLS, OCB, and IC. Questionnaires were distributed to 465 teachers of secondary schools situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and affiliated with Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE), Islamabad, Pakistan. A total of 408 teachers returned the survey instrument in complete form. Data were analysed with the help of statistical tools, SPSS version 22, and AMOS graphics version 22. Demography of the respondents is such that 177 male (43%) and 231 female (57%) teachers took part in this study. They have different age, professional qualification, and majority of them (61%) possess notable experience. Majority (78%) of the teachers also possess academic qualification of master’s degree. Data obtained was found to be normally distributed. Results of the contemporary study show that principals working in these secondary schools possess leadership skills, although the level of these skills is different in different organizations depending upon their structural capital (Norms, service structure, infra-structure, planning and implementation procedures and training opportunities) and type of school. OCB is quite helpful in enhancing IC of the schools. Correlation among variables and its dimensions provides important information, that PLS especially the behavioural skills are required to boost OCB and IC. Correlation between OCB and IC is higher in all three types of schools. The proposed theoretical model is the firm integration of the three fields: principal leadership skills (educational leadership), OCB (organizational management) and IC (business education/human
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economics). This could be an interesting contribution to the literature. This study provides a roadmap for improvement in education system of Pakistan. Therefore more time and investment is being suggested for the development of intangible assets (intellectual capital) rather than the tangible assets (physical assets) to get a competitive advantage as this dynamic capability approach should bring more development in terms of the intellectual capital of the secondary school which in turn will improve student’s outcome because teachers have a direct relation with student’s outcome, the ultimate goal of a school
School effectiveness embedded in intellectual capital development: a case study
No full textThe paper aims to provide assistance to secondary schools in Pakistan in the process of developing
their ability to identify gauge and manage and value their intangible assets i.e. intellectual capital.
This study used structured survey instrument to collect data from 31 secondary school teachers
working in schools being operated under Federal Government, Pakistan Army and Air force (Fizaia)
and affiliated with FBISE Islamabad, situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Results
of the study illustrate that human capital is ranked highest among indicators of intellectual capital.
Interestingly skills and abilities are found at lowest level. The study suggests training need analysis
(TNA) for effective training which can enhance the skills and abilities of the teachers
Pakistani schools possess effective leadership: platitude or reality
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to find out the existing level of leadership skills of the principals working in secondary schools in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on the basis of teacher\u27s perception working with these principals. This study was conducted in 31 secondary schools in Pakistan. A sample of 408 secondary school teachers responded completely to a survey instrument comprising 18 items that measured the levels of three leadership skills: transformational, organizational and behavioral leadership skills. The overall findings reveal that the principals working in these secondary schools seem to possess an overall high level of leadership skills. However, there were variations in the level of leadership skills which may be due to structural capital of these organizations, and past job of the principals as leaders and administrators in other schools. The findings do reveal a strong need for boosting and enhancing leadership skills through leadership training for the school principals prior to their selection as school leaders. At the same time, this study also suggests that the authorities should avoid promoting teachers to the head-post without prior leadership training which is very necessary for school effectiveness in the long run
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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