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Volume 25, Full Contents Dec 2022

Volume 25, Full Contents

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Statement From The Indiana Academy Of The Social Sciences And Board Of Directors Dec 2022

Statement From The Indiana Academy Of The Social Sciences And Board Of Directors

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Editors' Note, Nirupama Devaraj, Bharath Ganesh Babu Dec 2022

Editors' Note, Nirupama Devaraj, Bharath Ganesh Babu

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Mission And Editorial Policy Dec 2022

Mission And Editorial Policy

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Reviewers And Referees Dec 2022

Reviewers And Referees

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Of Movements And Markets: Religious Competition And The Problem Of Black Church Relevance, Omar M. Mcroberts Dec 2022

Of Movements And Markets: Religious Competition And The Problem Of Black Church Relevance, Omar M. Mcroberts

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Why do cross-denominational public religious movements such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appear, despite the market-like competitive behavior of churches? Religious economy theory offers one set of explanations, based on a supply-side approach to the dynamics of numeric religious growth and decline. Namely, ecumenical movements are engaged by denominations, or religious firms, in membership decline. The history of national Black ecumenical movements, however, points to ways that religious economic theorizing fails to account for the multiple modes of social consciousness regarding church survival that motivate institutional religious activity. Black churches have existed not merely as a market but as …


Author Biographical Notes Dec 2022

Author Biographical Notes

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Submission Guidelines Dec 2022

Submission Guidelines

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Cultivating Authentic Leaders: Toward Conceptual Coherence And Sustainable Practice, Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Elizabeth Nutt Williams, Lori Pyle, Steven E. Grande Dec 2022

Cultivating Authentic Leaders: Toward Conceptual Coherence And Sustainable Practice, Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Elizabeth Nutt Williams, Lori Pyle, Steven E. Grande

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this paper is twofold. One is to better understand the contested construct of authentic leadership and its cultivation and practice. The other is to offer a conceptual framework for practicing sustainable authentic leadership. Based on a review of authentic leadership literature with a focus on its sustainability, we introduce a conceptual framework through a lens of an ecological model to capture the dynamics of individual and systems perspectives. Practicing sustainable authentic leadership is not a simple act; rather authentic leaders need to embrace paradoxes to navigate today’s complex systems and to find new ways to create positive …


Testaments To Life, Elizabeth Gingerich Dec 2022

Testaments To Life, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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The Last Ant, Emilio F. Iodice Dec 2022

The Last Ant, Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Attitude Is The Foundation Of Your Success: Write Your Own Case Study, M. S. Rao Dec 2022

Attitude Is The Foundation Of Your Success: Write Your Own Case Study, M. S. Rao

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this research paper is to outline lessons on life, learning, and leadership to become a successful professional, entrepreneur, and leader. It unveils that attitude is the foundation of your success and elaborates with examples and illustrations. It explains employability, entrepreneurship, networking, soft skills, and hard skills. It explains the companies including Kodak, Nokia, and Blockbuster that failed to reinvent with changing times and technologies. It unveils the importance of technology and advises to learn, unlearn, and relearn. It illustrates the examples of companies including Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. It implores you to achieve success with integrity. …


Lessons From History: The Remarkable Leadership Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Why It Matters Today (Part 1), Emilio F. Iodice Dec 2022

Lessons From History: The Remarkable Leadership Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Why It Matters Today (Part 1), Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Few people had a greater impact on their generation than Eleanor Roosevelt. She was what she professed to be: a person not afraid of criticism, willing to sacrifice and take responsibility and to lead others by her example. Her life was filled with moments of courage, wisdom, compassion, empathy, and amazing emotional intelligence. The following is Part I of an overview of her life, her leadership secrets, and how she dealt with enormous challenges as a person ― a human being and a woman who grew up in an age of prejudice and discrimination.


Timeless Lessons About Leadership From The Midrash, Hershey H. Friedman Dec 2022

Timeless Lessons About Leadership From The Midrash, Hershey H. Friedman

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This paper examines two ancient Midrashim and shows that many important messages about leadership are embedded in them. The first Midrash describes the critical personality trait Moses possessed that made him uniquely suitable to be a leader of the Israelites — compassion. The second Midrash appears heretical since it has Moses correcting God. Indeed, God even openly admits, "You have taught me something." The primary lessons are that leaders must be compassionate, humble, willing to listen to advice, eager to make changes when necessary, and admit to mistakes.


Positional Authority And Influence In Servant Leadership: A Conceptual Model, Kevin J. Hurt, Elliott Long Dec 2022

Positional Authority And Influence In Servant Leadership: A Conceptual Model, Kevin J. Hurt, Elliott Long

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This conceptual research paper reviews how positional authority affects the servant leadership-organizational performance relationship and provides insight on how servant leadership can be implemented and effective in the absence of positional authority, i.e. through the cultivation and leveraging of influence. A review of servant leadership literature is used to propose that servant leadership is positively associated with increased organizational performance. Through the lens of upper echelon theory as well as research on the performance of organizations whose executive team practices servant leadership, we develop a model and make a case that positional authority is an important moderator of the relationship …


The Challenge Of Christian Leadership, Joseph P. Hester Dec 2022

The Challenge Of Christian Leadership, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

I write this essay with some hesitancy. Being reared in a Christian home and educated in both Christian theology and secular philosophy, I am aware of the many pitfalls when discussing Christian ethics. We can be sure there will be many disagreements and versions of Christian ethics as there is about ethics in general. Several years ago, I published A Summoned Life, which is my own interpretation of the Golden Rule.


The Art Of Transformational Leadership: A Key To High-Performance Company, Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera Dec 2022

The Art Of Transformational Leadership: A Key To High-Performance Company, Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this research is to explore how transformational leadership impacts on organizational performance. We posit that transformational leadership is a significant indicator of organizational performance. This article suggests that executives that act as transformational leaders affect organizational outcomes. In particular, this article raises a vital question as to how managers can successfully contribute to performance at the organizational level. It highlights the potential consequences of applying transformational leadership.


Addressing The Well-Being Problem – A “Fundamental State Of Leadership” Approach, Raidah Bhuyan, Cam Caldwell Dec 2022

Addressing The Well-Being Problem – A “Fundamental State Of Leadership” Approach, Raidah Bhuyan, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The message of Jon Clifton’s (2022) new book, Blind Spot, is that the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous context of business has created enormous pressures on the modern employee with 28% of employees exhibiting chronic depression, extreme sadness, or other mental health problems. Those conditions negatively affect employee commitment and engagement and hamper the ability of organizations to succeed in a highly competitive global environment. The root cause of this “well-being problem” is the convergence of a multitude of economic and social problems that challenge the best efforts of even the most capable leaders.


Democracy: On The Edge Of Uncertainty, Joseph P. Hester Dec 2022

Democracy: On The Edge Of Uncertainty, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

I have considered once again the ancients and the moderns, and those who said that ethics was laid to rest in the graveyard of sociological and psychological babblings of feelings and emotions. I think too about utilitarians — whose philosophy has become the foundation of much of modern life — with its sterile pragmatism, captured and encapsulated by a framework eliminating the nonquantifiable while sneaking in the backdoor of our values offering empty moral platitudes and religious sentiments, e.g., thoughts and prayers.


College-Era Lessons In Values That Lasted A Lifetime, Ritch Eich Dec 2022

College-Era Lessons In Values That Lasted A Lifetime, Ritch Eich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Winter/Spring 2023 Dec 2022

Winter/Spring 2023

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Loving Yourself – That’S “Great Company!”, Raidah Bhuyan, Eddie R. Williams, Cam Caldwell Dec 2022

Loving Yourself – That’S “Great Company!”, Raidah Bhuyan, Eddie R. Williams, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Event-Related Potentials Of Individuals With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Performing The Attention Network Task, P. Dennis Rodriguez, Justin E. Stauffacher Oct 2022

Event-Related Potentials Of Individuals With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Performing The Attention Network Task, P. Dennis Rodriguez, Justin E. Stauffacher

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The current study sought to investigate the neural basis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by examining the performance of individuals with ADHD on the Attentional Networks Test (ANT) by Fan, McCandliss, Sommer, Raz, and Posner (2002), while recording electroencephalography (EEG) utilizing event-related potentials (ERP) methodology. Fifty-seven university students were divided into three groups: control, ADHD-inattentive subtype (ADHD-IA), and ADHD-combined/hyperactive impulsive subtype (ADHD-C/HI). The average peak amplitudes of the P300 waveform for each group were compared and analyzed for performance on each attention network measured by the ANT: the alerting network, the orienting network, and the executive control network. The average P3 …


Different Maternal Responses And Cognitions In Hypothetical Power Bouts: Relations To Parenting Styles, Kathy L. Ritchie Oct 2022

Different Maternal Responses And Cognitions In Hypothetical Power Bouts: Relations To Parenting Styles, Kathy L. Ritchie

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

In order to explore how parental styles and maternal cognitions interacted with difficult extended discipline episodes called power bouts, 88 mothers were categorized as either Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, or Uninvolved. Mothers then read six hypothetical vignettes about a 4-year-old child misbehaving and were asked how they would respond to the child and how they would respond a second time if the child did not behave. These open-ended responses were coded on a scale of increasing power assertiveness with 0 being giving in and 5 indicating using punishment through spanking, removal of privilege, or time out. Using Bell and Chapman’s (1986) …


The Mediating Influence Of Confidence, Autonomy, And Identification On The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Harmonious Passion, Angelica Tabares, Lise Malherbe, Kevin J. Hurt Jul 2022

The Mediating Influence Of Confidence, Autonomy, And Identification On The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Harmonious Passion, Angelica Tabares, Lise Malherbe, Kevin J. Hurt

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The current paper explores the relationship between servant leadership and harmonious passion. Harmonious passion refers to a strong desire to freely engage in an activity and is a result of an autonomous internalization of the activity into one's identity. While passion and leadership have been generally linked, the specific relationship between servant leadership and harmonious passion is underdeveloped within the field of servant leadership research. Our paper presents a conceptual model and propositions linking servant leadership and harmonious passion through the mediating mechanisms of follower confidence, autonomy, and identification. Implications and future research are discussed.


Ubuntu Leadership – An Explication Of An Afrocentric Leadership Style, Eugene Laloo Jul 2022

Ubuntu Leadership – An Explication Of An Afrocentric Leadership Style, Eugene Laloo

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The development of leadership theories has mostly followed a Western perspective, with non-Western leadership theories often excluded from recorded chronologies of leadership. Ubuntu leadership, a leadership style promoted following South Africa’s first democratic election, is one such leadership theory. While Ubuntu has been an ethnographic philosophy and a long-established part of African cultures, the philosophy gained prominence following eminent South African leaders’ call to bring Ubuntu principles into the national reconstruction and development plan of post-apartheid South Africa. While Ubuntu leadership has since been extensively studied, this leadership theory is still relatively unknown beyond Africa. This paper explains Ubuntu leadership …


Book Review: Fdr Fireside Chats ― Perspectives On American History From Presidents Washington To Biden, Elizabeth Gingerich Jul 2022

Book Review: Fdr Fireside Chats ― Perspectives On American History From Presidents Washington To Biden, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Title: FDR Fireside Chats ― Perspectives on American History from Presidents Washington to Biden Author: James H. Erickson, Emeritus Vice Chancellor of the University of California ASIN: B09NGRHBF2 Publisher: Independently published (December 10, 2021) Pages: 137 ISBN-13: 979-8782651480 Best Sellers Rank: #3,109,391 in Books Reviewer: Elizabeth F. R. Gingerich


Book Review: Liberation, Elizabeth Gingerich Jul 2022

Book Review: Liberation, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Author: Emilio Iodice Publisher: Cranberry Press, San Antonio, Texas Pages: 781 Publication Date: October 29, 2021 ISBN-10: 1954759010 ISBN-13: 978-1954759015 Reviewer: Elizabeth Gingerich


Book Review: It's The Manager: Moving From Boss To Coach, Cam Caldwell Jul 2022

Book Review: It's The Manager: Moving From Boss To Coach, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Authors: Jim Clifton & Jim Harter Publisher: Gallup Press Original Release Date: 2019 (448 pages) ISBN:1595622241 (ISBN13: 9781595622242) Reviewer: Cam Caldwell


Resolving Conflicts Through Soft Leadership — An Academic Case Study, M S. Rao Jul 2022

Resolving Conflicts Through Soft Leadership — An Academic Case Study, M S. Rao

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose is to present a case study on soft leadership to resolve conflict effectively. It adopts the 11 Cs of Professor M.S. Rao, the father of “soft leadership” — character, charisma, conscience, conviction, courage, communication, compassion, commitment, consistency, consideration, and contribution. It draws a blueprint to resolve conflicts amicably. It emphasizes that leaders have to act according to the situation, with more emphasis on soft leadership, for resolving conflicts to achieve a win-win outcome. It describes how to redress grievance in a private Indian educational institution through soft leadership. It offers practical ideas and innovative tools and techniques to …