The Critical Role of Middle Leaders in Schools:Cultivating a Culture of Trust and Supporting Educational Reform

This research delves into the often-underappreciated role of middle leaders in educational organizations,highlighting their significance as the linchpins between senior leadership and classroom teachers.Utilizing qualitative research methods,the study investigates the multifaceted responsibilities,challenges,and contributions of middle leaders in schools.Findings indicate that middle leaders foster a culture of trust within the institution by providing mentorship and guidance to new teachers.They undertake substantial tasks,such as team coordination,grade direction,and student supervision,in addition to their teaching duties.Despite their pivotal role,middle leaders often face mounting pressures and heavy workloads.This research underscores the need to recognize and support middle leaders in educational settings,acknowledging their vital role in fostering cohesion and facilitating the implementation of educational reforms.

How Group Leaders Build Stable Community Buying Groups:A Perspective Based on the Differential Mode of Association

Since 2016,community group buying has grown significantly in China,largely driven by its efficient logistics,supply chains,low prices,and convenience.This model has been further popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its effectiveness in meeting daily needs while minimizing human-to-human contact.A key component of this business model is the“group leaders”-influential individuals within a community responsible for managing group buying activities,which include order collection,supplier liaison,and goods distribution.Their primary task is to form and sustain a reliable community group buying consortium,a task that demands excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.This paper examines this phenomenon using the lens of the differential mode of association,a theoretical model explaining interpersonal relationships in traditional Chinese society.The research indicates that group leaders,through regular interaction with consumers,are able to alter their social network position,increase their influence,understand consumer needs,provide satisfying services,and enhance trust,thereby transforming consumers into loyal group buying participants.This transformation not only brings stability to group buying activities but also reinforces the community influence of group leaders,thus fostering the growth of community group buying.

China’s Change through Future Leaders’Eyes

Together for a Shared Future Compiled by Global Young Leaders Dialogue Price:RMB 118 Paperback,250 pages Published by Foreign Languages Press Together for a Shared Future is co-authored by 35 young people from 26 countries who participated in the project China Tour of the Global Young Leaders Dialogue(GYLD),an institutional platform for idea-sharing among young people from different countries.

振动信号小波leaders多重分形特征提取及性能分析

机械振动信号一般具有非线性、非平稳特性,多重分形特征是表示振动信号几何结构特征的一种重要手段。传统的多重分形特征计算方法计算量大,限制了多重分形特征的应用。小波leaders多重分形分析方法具有坚实的数学基础,且计算简便。针对齿轮正常状态和点蚀故障状态,提出基于小波leaders的多重分形振动信号特征提取及表示方法,提出基于bootstrap技术的最优块长求解算法,并建立振动信号小波leaders多重分形特征的统计性能分析方法。研究结果表明,小波leaders多重分形特征能够很好反映振动信号的几何结构特征,基于块bootstrap方法能有效分析多重分形特征统计性能,为机械设备状态监控和故障诊断提供了一种有效的选择。

An Analysis of the Development of Middle Leaders in Chinese Secondary Schools:The Role of the Principal

Numerous studies conducted on educational leadership have generally emphasized the role of principal,whereas,research on middle leadership remains limited[1].The purpose of this paper is to explore and investigate the development of middle leadership and seeks to fill in the gap by providing the analysis from a Chinese context.The author found that middle leaders are positioning at a challenging role,in which they are required to take charge of responsibilities of both a leader and a teacher,and in the meantime,they also need to negotiate between the senior leader,the colleagues.and subordinates.Furthermore,personal factors such as self-awareness and resilience are discovered to be pivotal for middle-leadership development.Apart from that,the principal plays a critical role in establishing collaborative school culture that facilitates the development of middle leaders based on the influences from the school’s history,culture,and policies.

Collective coordination of multi-agent systems guided by multiple leaders

A neighbour-based coordination scheme is proposed for a multi-agent system with multiple leaders. Under assumptions of the connectivity of the interconnection topology and a simple first-order dynamics model for each mobile agent, the results show that all the agents will flock to the polytope region formed by the leaders.

Evaluation of the effects of a leader-training program on public health nurse leadership for staff in Japan

This paper is a report of a study of the effects of a leader-training program, focusing on how public health nurse (PHN) leaders manage staff. In Japan, a system of training after graduation or training after acquisition of the PHN license has not been established. At present, PHN leaders are unable to devote as much time as they previously could to in-service education, and this has made it difficult to establish a suitable full-fledged in-service education system. Therefore, it is paramount for PHN leaders to acquire the necessary competence to train staff efficiently and, ultimately, play a more prominent role in the in-service education of novice PHNs. The effecttiveness of this program was evaluated before and after conducting the program over a 1-year period. A total of 145 leaders working for local government agencies in Japan participated in the program, and data from 87 participants were analyzed. Before the training program, Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle activities were less frequent than after the program. Intervention using a leader-training program that combines group and on-the-job training is effective for PHN leaders.

Determining Leaders and Communities on Networks Using Neighborhood Similarity

Networks are used to represent interactions in a wide variety of fields, like biology, sociology, chemistry, and more. They have a great deal of salient information contained in their structures, which have a variety of applications. One of the important topics of network analysis is finding influential nodes. These nodes are of two kinds —leader nodes and bridge nodes. In this study, we propose an algorithm to find strong leaders in a network based on a revision of neighborhood similarity. This leadership detection is combined with a neighborhood intersection clustering algorithm to produce high quality communities for various networks. We also delve into the structure of a new network, the Houghton College Twitter network, and examine the discovered leaders and their respective followers in more depth than which is frequently attempted for a network of its size. The results of the observations on this and other networks demonstrate that the community partitions found by this algorithm are very similar to those of ground truth communities.

Opinion Leaders and Lead Users in Marketing and Management Accounting and Impact on Small Business Performance

This paper empirically investigates into the business performance benefit that lead users or opinion leaders among small business owners draw from their higher involvement in management accounting or marketing topics. This work also contributes to a better identification of network members’ roles solely through their ties between each other. Indeed, lead users and opinion leaders can be differentiated by a higher degree centrality in comparison to their peers. However, being an opinion leader or a lead user does not yield a measurable business benefit to the small businesses studied in this sample.

Analysis on Evaluating Comprehensive Efficiency of Enterprise Leaders＇ Performance Based on Scientific Development Outlook

In former researches there are primary theoretical studies and qualitative analyses on enterprise leaders＇ effectiveness and performance, and there are a few studies on quantitative analyses which mostly relies on the method of comparing differences and ratio of divergence to evaluate leaders＇ performance by stage statistics. This paper illustrates how to evaluate Comprehensive Efficiency （CE） based on Scientific Development Outlook, which reflects overall development of enterprise leaders＇ performance, depends on measuring Output Efficiency Index （OEI） and Cost Efficiency Index （CEI） of enterprise leaders＇ performance, and adopts the C^2R model in Data Envelopment Analysis （DEA）.

Xi Meets European Leaders on Advancing Ties, Global Governance

Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean- Claude Juncker met in Paris on March 26 and agreed to strengthen China-European Union (EU) relations and global governance cooperation.

Leaders or Managers to the Army

In recent years, the status of leaders has been highlighted and their role has been often overstated. The aim of the contribution is to show that in conditions of the armed forces, the role and the competence of the manager are often more important than competence of a leader. On the basis of the experience of the authors and more experienced officers, and by means of methods of targeted interviews and discussions, the areas have been identified where management capabilities are more important than leadership capabilities. More than 30 experienced officers have contributed their views on the presented results. There are areas, such as strategy, environment, organizational culture, external and internal changes, efficiency, and results and performance. In conclusion, authors suggested solution for nomination of leaders and managers to command positions.

Culture-Based Leadership for School Principal in the Era of Millennial Generation in ASEAN

The era of the AEC(ASEAN Economic Community)is an era of regional globalization,and this needs to be examined carefully in the world of education in Indonesia so that Indonesia’s HRs(Human Resources)are ready to face increasingly fierce competition with other countries.In this regard,it is necessary to lead a culture-based education leader at the school level to produce quality education that is able to produce students who have personality integrity,disciplined attitude,and are creative,innovative,and competitive.Education in ASEAN countries has now entered the era of globalization,where one of them is marked by the ease in which people get information from various parts of the world as a result of rapid technological developments.This has both positive and negative influences on those who receive it.The positive influence of globalization on changes in values and attitudes causes a shift in values and attitudes of all irrational people to be rational while the negative influence of globalization on society is that people feel facilitated with advanced technology that makes them feel they no longer need others in their activities,where sometimes they forget that they are social beings who need to interact with one another.

基于改进Leaders算子的审计潜在疑点发现

数据库查询方法审计疑点发现依赖于审计人员先验知识,当经验不足且审计数据量巨大时,难以发挥大数据优势并从海量数据中发现疑点。为解决这一问题,提出基于改进Leaders算子迭代聚类的审计大数据潜在疑点发现方法。该方法在无先验知识的情形下,通过Leaders算法自动完成审计大数据的初始聚类,在此基础上通过随机抽样融合方法对初始聚类结果优化,最后通过多次迭代聚类的方法,对实例数较少或可疑程度易被掩盖的小簇进一步聚类,实现审计大数据的精确聚类,并将实例较少且行为明显异常的数据聚类识别为潜在疑点,配合审计人员审计经验快速精确定位审计疑点。实验结果验证了算法的有效性,表明算法有助于从海量数据中自主发现审计疑点,缩小疑点筛查范围,提高审计效率。

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