Biblical Servant Leadership and the Senior Executive Service (SES) Role in the Federal Government: Quantitative Correlational Study

Considering the traits of biblical servant leadership, this leadership style may be ideal for the entrusted federal government positions of the Senior Executive Service (SES). The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SES, was created by Congress to provide a government mobile cadre of managers for the federal government. These federal government employees are the backbone of the executive leadership in the federal government. The SES is mandated to respect and adhere to the fundamental principles of ethical service (behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner). The SES are federal government employees and are the link between a federal agency’s career employees and the politically appointed agency head. For those in the SES position, their leadership must ensure that their federal government agency is productive and efficient throughout administrations. The SES position is held to a very high ethical service standard. Since those in the SES positions lead the moral-ethical service standard for the federal government, should their leadership traits not be of a high ethical standard? Maybe biblical servant leadership? This study, which was a quantitative correlation, provides a research approach to exploring the foundational elements of biblical servant leadership and secular servant leadership and the SES role. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to discover the extent to which foundational elements of biblical and secular servant leadership models were identifiable in the essential leadership behaviors of the SES. The correlation design was used to determine to what extent a correlation exists between biblical servant leadership and the leadership behaviors of the SES role. The instrumentation used to measure the study variables included the Servant Leadership Scale, the Hall-Tonna Inventory of Values, and the Awareness Survey Questionnaire

Community Formation and Effective Leadership in African American Churches in High-poverty Communities

African American church traditions were reputable for serving “the least of these (Matthew 25:35 - 46) (TLOT) through intentional, Bible-based community fellowship and relationship. However, African American churches are moving away from community ministries to inside worshiping that does not fulfill God\u27s agenda. As a result, the phenomenon of serving in isolation versus serving through community formation is incrementally deviating from the biblical worldview. This qualitative phenomenological study explores, community formation and effective leadership in African American churches in high-poverty communities in the aggregate city of Newark, NJ. This research aims to explore community formation and effective leadership in African American churches in high-poverty communities. At this stage in the research, a servant-leader profile is generally defined as Ministry leaders with proven character, doxological motives, and a passion to fulfill the divine agenda of Jesus (Howell, Jr., 2003, pp. 296–301). The following general findings of this research were: 1) “For many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14), especially when serving in urban America; 2) Effective Christian leadership in HPC is a direct result of a leader’s authentic relationship with Jesus, their clear calling, and passion to serve; 3) Bygone African American church traditions are the possible solution to effective church leadership in HPC based on this study’s findings. The servant-leader theory aligns with the biblical worldview and Shepherd motif doctrine steering this study (Ezekiel 34:1 – 6, 23, 37:24; Jeremiah 3:15, 10:21; Psalm 23, 78:70 – 72; Matthew 25:35 – 46; John 10:11 – 15; Hebrews 13:20)

A Correlational Study of Emotional Competence and Christian Practices among Millennials

While emotions management is critical to effective leadership, literature describes present and emerging leaders in the millennial generation as not being proficient at managing their emotions. If this is true, how could the Christian community promote leadership development for millennials? Toward determining if a connection exists between emotions management and faith, this non-experimental quantitative correlational study explored the relationship, if any, between millennials’ emotional competence and Christian practices. Survey instrumentation was employed. The survey included two validated instruments, one for emotional competence and the other for spiritual growth. Study invitations were emailed to 395 millennials at a church in VA’s Richmond metro region. The electronic survey was available for four weeks. A sample of 45 millennials participated in the study. Results showed a statistically significant positive correlation between emotional competence and three of four Spiritual Development Modes: (a) growing with God, (b) growing with the Word, and (c) growing with others. There was no statistically significant correlation between emotional competence and critical reflection

Using RGB colour combination in coloured quick response (QR) code algorithm to enhance QR code capacity

A Quick Response (QR) Code is a two-dimensional barcode that stores characters and can be read by any smartphone camera. The QR code has the capability to encode various data formats and languages; nevertheless, existing black and white QR code offers limited data storage. Even though there exist research on coloured QR Code to increase the storage capacity, requirement for larger data capacity by end user keep increasing. Hence, this thesis proposes a coloured QR Code algorithm which utilizes RGB colour combination to allow a larger data storage. The proposed algorithm integrates the use of compression, multiplexing, and multilayer techniques in encoding and decoding the QR code. Furthermore, it also introduces a partial encoding/decoding algorithm that allows the stored data to be manipulated. The algorithm that includes encoding and decoding processes is based on the red, green, and blue (RGB) colour techniques, which are used to create high capacity coloured QR code. This is realised in the experiments that store American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) characters. The ASCII text characters are used as an input and performance is measured by the number of characters that can be stored in a single black and white QR code version 40 (i.e. the benchmark) and also the coloured QR code. Other experiment metrics include percentage of missing characters, number of produced QR code, and elapsed time to create the QR code. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm stores 29 times more characters than the black and white QR code and 9 times more than other coloured QR code. Hence, this shows that the coloured QR Code has the potential of becoming a useful mini-data storage as it does not rely on internet connection