| Room 705 Tuesday Onsite Presentation Session 1

Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration

Session Chair: Praveen Kumar Gannu

09:30-09:55

68003 | Centering Entrepreneurship Education Program on Student’s Identified Existential Essence: Educational Leaders’ Contribution

Nana Yaw Wi Asamoah Boadi, Akenten Appiah-menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (Aamusted), Ghana

The work seeks to fill a gap in the educational leadership decisions that design an entrepreneurship education program for tertiary students. Secondary data sources are analyzed to identify low or no consideration of assisting students in identifying their existential essence in alignment with their innate entrepreneurial potentials, as well as the over-focus of entrepreneurship education programs on other stakeholder interests to the existential student in such program designs. Studies draw from the applicable studies and related theoretical frameworks to highlight issues of helping students identify their existence and their existential essence to become existential intelligent, to build a self-leadership skill, and to relate them to available commercial and social entrepreneurship opportunities. It concludes that an entrepreneurship education program that is designed by educational leaders should hold existential students at the center of it, amidst other stakeholders’ interests, and help the student understand their unique purpose in life and how that generates business opportunities to ensure greater success across many measures of value creation.

09:55-10:20

69178 | A Bibliometric Review of the Knowledge Base of School Principals’ Technology Leadership

Wu Ya Fen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Tsan-tong Yu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

To systematically review the research of the leadership in school principal on technology integration into the teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic, the study conducted a bibliometric review analyzing 224 journal papers in the Scopus database. The analysis strategies of descriptive statistics, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis were used to understand the performance, research topics, and the intellectual structure of school principal leadership research. Three important findings were concluded as follows. 1. Based on the quantity and developmental trend of publication, principals’ technology leadership research could be categorized into three phases, which included professional leadership, digital leadership, and transformational leadership. The top three influential countries concerning publication quantity and citation rates were America, Malaysia, and Turkey. 2. The top three influential journals of principals’ technology leadership were SAGE Open, Frontiers in Psychology, and International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education. 3. The topics of principals’ technology leadership studies could be grouped into three clusters. The emerging themes were digital leadership, principal component analysis, and professional development. Based on the findings: In the post-pandemic era, the role of school principals in technology leadership has become more significant and there is an opportunity to explore and develop the necessary skills for this kind of leadership.

10:20-10:45

67975 | An Investigation on Role of Modern Management in Cultural Values and Spirituality for Organizational Development

Gannu Praveen Kumar, Sahasra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India

One of the foremost organizational challenges of the future of work is how to maintain a culture when most, if not all, the employees are virtually distributed and may not even be employed by the organization in traditional ways. Spiritual values of the personnel are the prerequisites for the organizational health and development. This fact has made many organizations to think that personnel spiritual values be viewed as a potential resource in organization rather than as something to be ignored. There are very few studies that have investigated the role of spirituality as a yardstick for psychological change of personnel. The diagnostic questionnaire therefore has items with each item in this questionnaire being rated ranging from agree strongly to disagree strongly. The present study signifies that when working with personnel who are spiritually inclined, human resource managers promote better functioning by appealing to adopt more spiritually oriented values to guide their work and productivity. The findings with the experts and participants imply that workplace spirituality is one of the factors considered in organizational theory. Organizations must pay attention to employees spiritual needs to bring their entire self into the organization. In contrast, empirical findings prove the critical role of workplace spirituality in mediating the spiritual influence of leadership and organizational commitment. Thus, workplace spirituality can become a revolutionary antidote in overcoming contemporary human resource problems. This activity can increase employee loyalty, commitment, and performance.

10:45-11:10

68131 | An Action Research on Personnel Empowerment: A Case Study of Proactive Behavior Revitalization in Taiwan

Mingchang Wu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Chen Fu Wang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Chenju Ko, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

The human resource management on university campus is highly related with administrative efficiency and even general public’s perceptions toward university itself. Typically, in Taiwan’s aging society, employee resentment in long-serving lower-order senior administrative staffs, caused by decades of bureaucracy could hinder office leaders from incorporating them into a proactive workforce. Simultaneously, the workplace decentralization occurring in Taiwan societies necessitates some studies in the form of authentic action research, even single-subject case study, to encourage leaders and researchers to work with employees as individuals and be fully engaged in a particular participant’s story, assuring the participant’s individuality truly matters while providing others in similar contexts as his essential solutions. This study reports the journey an university division leader (and the researcher) undertook over 3 years to assist an elderly subordinate exhibiting extreme antagonism toward the organization. A series of qualitative analyses on a vast set of field texts, reflections, and thinking-aloud protocols finally revealed the efficacy of a new form of empowering leadership, on both sides of division office leader and targeted personnel, for enhancing proactive employee behavior in university staffs with a shared-context as the participant. Specifically, empowerment depended on using ‘positive advocacy’ in a way that eventually ended with transformations in not only the subordinate but also, what is more important, the leader and whole office team. The researchers additionally presented affective, behavioral, and cognitive models to systematically explain transformations that occurred and integrated elements from them to create an ecological system for facilitating proactive employee behaviors.