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      Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Statement of the Issue An essential facet to health and human service organizations (HHSOs) successfully addressing the challenges facing many disenfranchised communities today are organizational leaders and managers of the social work profession, trained in macro practice [1]. Despite this understanding, few professionals with backgrounds in social work occupy such positions of leadership within HHSOs, resulting in a significant deficit in the unique values and perspectives brought forth by such experiences [2]. Social work education plays an integral role in preparing students with values of social justice and ethical-professional acumen to compete for leadership positions within HHSOs. The Rothman [2] Report provides a well-documented assessment of the deterrents to schools of social work establishing and sustaining macro practice concentrations (e.g. limited financial investment)....

      Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Opinion Leadership is a timeless subject and will remain so in the affairs of humans till, perhaps, eternity emerges. The currency of leadership in social discourses is testamentary to its nebulous nature, evident in the absence of consensus on what the concept means. There have been several publications on leadership from diverse perspectives depending, of course, on the values of the different theorists. The more theories on leadership that are churned out by the theorists, the more confusing and elusive the concept becomes. It is, however, possible to classify all existing literature on leadership into two broad categories, namely, those that portray leadership as an art that can be learnt, and those that see it as an in-born or innate gifting. It is on either of these two perspectives that most of the theories on leadership hinge. Dr. Ololo’s book, The Shepherd Leader… presents a unique dimens...

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction Leadership has been studied from different dimensions. This includes both the positive and the negative leadership approaches. Leadership approaches often is considered as a positive aspect to enrich followership domain. Rajbhandari & Rajbhandari [1] states leadership is not complete and always needs maintenance especially with the maintenance of psychological, sociological and physiological (PSP) parameters in both the domains of leadership and followership. The leadership maintenance paradigm therefore enriches leaders and the followers in educational settings, thus eliminating the negative leadership and turning it into positive leadership through generating systemic and conducive PSP by having the mirror effects from leadership to followership and vice versa [2,3]. One of the dimensions of studying negative leadership is through understanding the school bullying. The question about explorin...

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction In the contemporary advanced learning contexts, the university is one of the most important institutions of society, and since ancient times has been at the forefront a center of radiation for every new thought and knowledge, a platform from which the views of thinkers and scientists emerge philosophers and pioneers of reform and development. Universities have become institutions that no society can live in the era of dispensing them is that individuals in various scientific disciplines are at a high level; Is responsible for the management of modern life, so officials of the university education system are trying to increase its efficiency as far as possible. Academic guidance services are an urgent need to achieve the goals of university education aimed at stimulating the talents of diverse students to grow academically and ethically integrated psychologically, socially and behaviorally, and prep...

Juniper Publishers-Social Sciences Abstract To act as a project leader to manage a large research or engineering project is a dream for many researchers. Traditionally only those with administration power can get the chance to be project leader and it may take him a long time to obtain the funding from governmental agency. In this paper, the author will introduce a karmic management approach for an ordinary researcher how to push forward a large project if he really has the dream. This approach has been practiced by the author in the last six years and reasonably validated. Keywords: Large project; Karmic Management Approach; Funding; Technology Introduction To act as a project leader to manage a large research or engineering project is a dream for many researchers. In parallel to the “three-storey building” metaphor proposed by Feng [1] who described a perfect human life is similar as climbing a...