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Book Review: Leadership -- Touching Lives, Elizabeth Gingerich Dec 2020

Book Review: Leadership -- Touching Lives, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Commander In Chief: The Qualities Needed Of Leaders Of Freedom-Loving Nations In The 21st Century, Elizabeth Gingerich Dec 2020

Book Review: The Commander In Chief: The Qualities Needed Of Leaders Of Freedom-Loving Nations In The 21st Century, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Action Steps To Overcome Organizational Crisis, M. S. Rao Dec 2020

Action Steps To Overcome Organizational Crisis, M. S. Rao

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this research paper is to offer innovative tools and techniques to avert corporate crises to ensure organizational excellence and effectiveness. It explains calm leadership and advocates soft leadership. It illustrates with inspiring examples of leaders including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Boris Yeltsin, who handled substantial crises successfully. It provides a list of leaders who led during turbulent times, saved their companies from the brink of disaster, and emerged in stronger positions; several are specifically profiled: Steve Jobs, Lee Iacocca, Ed Whitacre, Isaac Perlmutter, Richard Clark, and Gordon Bethune. It explains decision-making on complex issues and crises …


Common Denominators Of Great Leadership, Emilio F. Iodice Dec 2020

Common Denominators Of Great Leadership, Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Transformational Leadership: Implementing A Cultural Approach In Organizations, Mostafa Sayyadi Ghasabeh Dec 2020

Transformational Leadership: Implementing A Cultural Approach In Organizations, Mostafa Sayyadi Ghasabeh

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This study provides support for the positive impact of transformational leadership on knowledge management. This article reveals that transformational leaders contribute to knowledge management by acting as effective change agents through better management of firms’ internal resources (i.e. organizational culture). In terms of mediating effects, this article shows that organizational culture is important in the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management. The study also shows that transformational leaders not only directly impact knowledge management but, more specifically, foster a more effective culture, which positively contributes to the effectiveness of knowledge management.


University Professors As “Transformative Leaders”, Cam Caldwell, Verl Anderson Dec 2020

University Professors As “Transformative Leaders”, Cam Caldwell, Verl Anderson

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

University professors have a moral obligation to be ethical leaders in guiding their stewards. Transformative Leadership, a concept identified in both the educational and business leadership literature, provides a valuable model for university professors to consider as they interact with students and help them to learn and to prepare for the challenges of the modern world. This paper integrates the education and business leadership perspectives of Transformative Leadership and identifies the contributions that this leadership model can contribute to the effectiveness of university professors who adopt its principles.


Building Relationships And Resolving Conflicts: Infusing Critical Thinking Into Workplace Practices, Joseph P. Hester Dec 2020

Building Relationships And Resolving Conflicts: Infusing Critical Thinking Into Workplace Practices, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

As we are now living in a world characterized as a “new normal,” nothing is more important than leaders who are adept at critical thinking enabling them to enhance their businesses by making judicious decisions while remaining sensitive to the needs of their employees. When talking about critical thinking, often neglected is the descriptor “critical.” Among other things, “critical” means significant, vital, essential, and analytical, and involving skillful judgment as to truth and merit. From the point of view of commonsense, “critical” may also imply an effort to see a problem or situation clearly and truthfully in order to make …


Fair And Stable Prices In The Age Of Greed: The Torah View, Hershey H. Friedman, Murray Mizrachi Dec 2020

Fair And Stable Prices In The Age Of Greed: The Torah View, Hershey H. Friedman, Murray Mizrachi

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Much of the Jewish legal tradition deals with business ethics. This paper focuses on an overlooked precept: ensuring price stability. There is a tendency to trivialize the law mandating that prices be kept low and affordable, but in the wake of the 2020 world pandemic, these laws are more important than ever. Indeed, very few people are aware that the ninth blessing of the ancient Amida (also known as shemoneh esrei) prayer, established by the 120 members of the Great Assembly in the 5th century BCE, is a prayer for divine protection against individuals who would raise prices …


The Process Of Establishing A Green Climate: Face-To-Face Interaction Between Leaders And Employees In The Microsystem, Ingeborg Flagstad, Svein Åge Kjøs Johnsen, Leif Rydstedt Dec 2020

The Process Of Establishing A Green Climate: Face-To-Face Interaction Between Leaders And Employees In The Microsystem, Ingeborg Flagstad, Svein Åge Kjøs Johnsen, Leif Rydstedt

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This study explores the processes of establishing a green organizational climate in small-scale companies. Previous studies have primarily focused on factors associated with pro-environmental behaviour in large organizations. The role of a green organizational climate—specifically, the interactional processes involved in the construction of a green climate—has largely been unexplored. Entrepreneurial small companies constitute an ideal arena in which to study the initial phase of greening processes. The present study examined the process of establishing a green organizational climate in seven small-scale Norwegian companies. This article presents a systems model that was developed to analyse how processes at different levels interact …


“Jiffy” – The Right Mix For Business, Ritch Eich Dec 2020

“Jiffy” – The Right Mix For Business, Ritch Eich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Spiritual Leadership: The Challenge, Joseph P. Hester Dec 2020

Spiritual Leadership: The Challenge, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


China: Covid 19 Control – A Response For Global Emulation?, Lin Chen Dec 2020

China: Covid 19 Control – A Response For Global Emulation?, Lin Chen

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Winter/Spring 2021 Dec 2020

Winter/Spring 2021

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Senior Editor's Note, Kenneth D. Colburn Jr. Nov 2020

Senior Editor's Note, Kenneth D. Colburn Jr.

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


Michael Lewis’S The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, David Mcclough Nov 2020

Michael Lewis’S The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, David Mcclough

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The Undoing Project examines the relationship between two psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, whose work altered how we understand the functioning of the mind. In this book, Lewis embarks on a journey to understand and explain psychological research to a popular audience. Lewis is an expert writer who knows what sells books. The Undoing Project is an informative, entertaining, and quick read. Lewis has produced a well-researched book that is accessible to a broad audience.


Statement From The Indiana Academy Of The Social Sciences And Board Of Directors, Mssj Staff Nov 2020

Statement From The Indiana Academy Of The Social Sciences And Board Of Directors, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


Colonizationism Versus Abolitionism In The Antebellum North: The Anti-Slavery Society Of Hanover College And Indiana Theological Seminary (1836) Versus The Hanover College Officers, Board Of Trustees, And Faculty, J Michael Raley Nov 2020

Colonizationism Versus Abolitionism In The Antebellum North: The Anti-Slavery Society Of Hanover College And Indiana Theological Seminary (1836) Versus The Hanover College Officers, Board Of Trustees, And Faculty, J Michael Raley

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

In March 1836, nine Hanover College and Indiana Theological Seminary students, almost certainly including Benjamin Franklin Templeton, a former slave enrolled in the seminary, formed an antislavery society. The society’s Preamble and Constitution set forth abolitionist ideals demanding an immediate emancipation of Southern slaves with rights of citizenship and “without expatriation.” Thus they encountered the ire of Hanover’s Presbyterian trustees—colonizationists who believed instead that free blacks and educated slaves, gradually and voluntarily emancipated by their owners, should leave the United States and relocate to Liberia, where they would experience greater opportunity, equality, and justice than was possible here in the …


Authors' Biographical Notes, Mssj Staff Nov 2020

Authors' Biographical Notes, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


Diabetes Care In An Urban Indigenous American Community: Challenges And Suggestions For The Future, Margaret Pollak Nov 2020

Diabetes Care In An Urban Indigenous American Community: Challenges And Suggestions For The Future, Margaret Pollak

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Indigenous Americans living with type 2 diabetes in urban areas like Chicago face significant challenges to meeting the care recommendations of their medical providers. Based upon mixed-methods research, including both qualitative and quantitative measures, in Chicago’s Indigenous community, I have found that diabetes-care and -prevention challenges faced by individuals in this community include (1) the high financial and time costs of care, (2) lack of recognition of or response to acute symptoms of high glucose levels, (3) prioritization of other life responsibilities, (4) distrust of western medicine, and (5) fatalistic views about diabetes development and prognosis. If we are to …


Documenting Current Practices Of Accommodating Linguistic Needs Of Deaf Defendants, Beau Shine Nov 2020

Documenting Current Practices Of Accommodating Linguistic Needs Of Deaf Defendants, Beau Shine

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Deaf defendants are an underexamined population in criminal justice research, and very few studies have examined their involvement in the criminal justice system. In addition, research on accommodating the linguistic needs of deaf defendants is sparse. Failure to accommodate the linguistic needs of deaf defendants presents several concerns, including disparate treatment and violations of ADA-guaranteed rights that may lead to inadmissible evidence, dismissals of cases, and not-guilty verdicts, as well as lawsuits and litigation, all of which create additional strain on an already overburdened system. The current study combines previous research on deaf defendants with the findings of data gathered …


Elfrieda Lang: The Difficult Career Path Of A German American Female Indiana Historian, Bruce Bigelow Nov 2020

Elfrieda Lang: The Difficult Career Path Of A German American Female Indiana Historian, Bruce Bigelow

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Despite not going to high school, a German American woman became a major published history scholar, an assistant editor of the state history journal, and curator of special collections at a prestigious library in an era of patriarchy in the American history profession.


A Comparison Of Self-Control Measures And Drug And Alcohol Use Among College Students, Brooke E. Mathna, Jennifer J. Roberts, Marthinus C. Koen Nov 2020

A Comparison Of Self-Control Measures And Drug And Alcohol Use Among College Students, Brooke E. Mathna, Jennifer J. Roberts, Marthinus C. Koen

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Research has shown a link between drug and alcohol behaviors and self-control; however, much of the research focuses on only the general theory of crime (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990), without regard to Hirschi’s (2004) self-control theory. The purpose of the current study is to examine three measures of Hirschi’s self-control theory and to understand the link between Hirschi’s self-control theory and drug and alcohol behaviors. This study draws from a sample of undergraduate college students (N = 640) to examine the role of Hirschi’s self-control in the explanation of drug and alcohol behaviors. The current study uses a previous measure …


A Terror To The People: The Evolution Of An Outlaw Gang In The Lower Midwest, Randy Mills Nov 2020

A Terror To The People: The Evolution Of An Outlaw Gang In The Lower Midwest, Randy Mills

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The details of the heretofore unexamined Reeves Gang may serve as an important case study of violence and lawlessness in the Lower Midwest in the decades following the Civil War. Unlike the “social bandits” such as the Jesse James and Dalton Gangs of the Middle Border region, most outlaw gangs made little attempt to get along with locals. These groups ruled by fear and typically fell afoul of vigilante hangings and shootings— a one-act play, if you will. The Reeves Gang, the focus of this study, would come to be atypical, their tale turning into a three-act play, moving from …


Gentrification And Racial Transformation In One Neighborhood In The City Of Cincinnati During The Great Recession, Evelyn D. Ravuri Nov 2020

Gentrification And Racial Transformation In One Neighborhood In The City Of Cincinnati During The Great Recession, Evelyn D. Ravuri

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

This article examines the process of gentrification and racial transition in one neighborhood in Cincinnati between 2000 and 2016. Madisonville (Tract 55) was defined as a racially integrated middle-class neighborhood in the 1970s. In the early 2000s, substantial private and public investments in the neighborhood initiated the process of gentrification and an in-migration of wealthier (mostly white) residents. This revitalization of Madisonville coincided with the Great Recession of 2008 and with a massive exodus of the middle-class African American population. Median housing values and median rent in Madisonville increased significantly between 2010 and 2016, indicating that cost of living had …


Table Of Contents, Mssj Staff Nov 2020

Table Of Contents, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


100 Years After Suffrage: Just How Far Have Women Come?, Laura Merrifield Wilson Nov 2020

100 Years After Suffrage: Just How Far Have Women Come?, Laura Merrifield Wilson

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Women earned the right to vote 100 years ago with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, effectively ending the suffrage movement that had transpired over generations. Their hard-won victory doubled the American electorate and provided women with an essential right of citizenship of which they had long been deprived. Not all women were welcomed at the polling place, though, and the exclusion of women of color, particularly in the Jim Crow South, revealed yet another barrier to eventually be struck down. In the 100 years since women earned their right to vote, they have begun “outvoting” their male counterparts and …


Reviewers And Referees, Mssj Staff Nov 2020

Reviewers And Referees, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


Volume 23, Full Contents, Mssj Staff Nov 2020

Volume 23, Full Contents, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Future Shock 2.0, Elizabeth Gingerich Jul 2020

Book Review: Future Shock 2.0, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Grit, Grace, And Gratitude, Elizabeth Gingerich Jul 2020

Book Review: Grit, Grace, And Gratitude, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.