Educational Leadership Styles and its Relationship to Job Engagement in Secondary Schools in East Jerusalem schools from School teachers perspective

Aims: The study aims at investigating the educational leadership style and its relationship to job engagement in East Jerusalem high schools from schoolteachers’ perspective. Methodology: The study utilizes the descriptive analytical approach. Both educational leadership style questionnaire and job involvement questionnaire were validated and applied on a random sample of (224) schoolteachers in East Jerusalem. Results: The results shows that the level of the educational leadership style was moderate. The leisure style came first, followed by the autocratic style, whereas the democratic style came last. Also, the level of job engagement was moderate. The dedication dimension came in first, followed by vigor dimension and absorption dimension respectively. Moreover, the results show a positive relation between the democratic style and job engagement, and a negative relation between job engagement and both autocratic style and the leisure style. Recommendations: The study recommends promoting job engagement and democratic style of leadership by supporting an appropriate atmosphere for the teacher to offer his best

Towards Practical Model of Public Private Partnership (PPP) Implementation in E-Government in Jordan: Field Assessment*

Purpose: The main aim of this study is to evaluate the adoption of Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach in E-Government programs in Jordan which is considered a developing country, by evaluating the second stage of the three-stage model of PPP developed by (Al-Shqairat, 2009).  Design/methodology/approach: A mixed quantitative and qualitative research approach was adopted. Qualitative data was collected using semi structured interviews with eleven IT managers working in public organizations. Quantitative data, on the other hand, was collected using a questionnaire designed and validated for the current study. A total of 109 questionnaires were distributed to participant working in 13 different public entities. These participants were also directly involved in Public Private Partnership projects in these entities. The response rate of 56.88% percent was adequate for accuracy and the results were useful and representative of the target population. The questionnaire data was analyzed using parametric statistics including mean analysis.Findings: The main findings of this study shows significant support for the proposed implementation stage. Furthermore, the survey and the interview analysis highlighted that the benefits and obstacles are more important than any other aspect of the implementation stage. Originality/ value: This study is one of the few studies that attempted to propose and validate an empirical model of PPP Implementation in E-Government projects that could be adopted by governments while planning for a successful PPP approach in implementing E-Government initiatives in specific or an ICT related projects. Keywords: Public Private Partnership (PPP) implementation; E-Government; Jordan; Public Sector, Private Sector, PPP forms, PPP mechanisms

Sustainable supply chain management towards disruption and organizational ambidexterity:A data driven analysis

Balancing sustainability and disruption of supply chains requires organizational ambidexterity. Sustainable supply chains prioritize efficiency and economies of scale and may not have sufficient redundancy to withstand disruptive events. There is a developing body of literature that attempts to reconcile these two aspects. This study gives a data-driven literature review of sustainable supply chain management trends toward ambidexterity and disruption. The critical review reveals temporal trends and geographic distribution of literature. A hybrid of data-driven analysis approach based on content and bibliometric analyses, fuzzy Delphi method, entropy weight method, and fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory is used on 273 keywords and 22 indicators obtained based on the experts’ evaluation. The most important indicators are identified as supply chain agility, supply chain coordination, supply chain finance, supply chain flexibility, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. The regions show different tendencies compared with others. Asia and Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa are the regions needs improvement, while Europe and North America show distinct apprehensions on supply chain network design. The main contribution of this review is the identification of the knowledge frontier, which then leads to a discussion of prospects for future studies and practical industry implementation

An empirical study of oil and gas value chain agility in the UAE

Purpose The aim of this research paper is to investigate the agility of oil and gas value chains in the United Arab Emirates and to understand the impact of implementing supply disruption strategies, outsourcing strategies and management strategies on oil and gas value chain agility. The results can support the oil and gas industry across the UAE to build resilience in the value chain. Design/methodology/approach The research design consists of a comprehensive literature review, followed by questionnaire based survey responses of 106 participants and comprehensive statistical analysis, thus validate the developed theoretical framework and contributes to both practical and methodological approach. Findings The findings indicate that oil and gas value chain in the UAE has moderate significant degree of supply disruption when outsourcing strategies in place that are synchronized with the overall management strategies. Among the hypotheses developed, two were accepted thus warranting both Supply disruption strategies (r=+0.432) and management strategies (r= +0.457) found to have a positive moderate effect on value chain agility. The third hypothesis was rejected by revealing outsourcing strategies (r=+0.387) found to have positive moderate relationship with value chain agility. Therefore, implementation of all three strategies have a positive moderate effect on the agility of the value chain and therefore supports to sustain competitive position. Research limitations/implications The research provides guidance for oil and gas supply chain managers to better understand the critical factors that impact and determine value chain agility. The paper also describes relevant strategies that should be taken into consideration by these managers in order to build their agile value chains. The research contributes to social dimensions of supply chain sustainability of how resilient are the oil and gas value chain during uncertain conditions so that it can respond to uncertain changes in order to contribute to corporate social responsibility. Some of the limitations of this research include the geographic coverage of the study region and other methodological limitation. Originality/value This research is the first of its kind in the UAE region to assess the link between dimensions of agile value chain, outsourcing strategies, supply disruption strategies and management strategies primarily from the Emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai

Understanding the role of public-private partnership (PPP) in e-government implementation in developing countries : case study of Jordan

Public Private Partnership (PPP) is clearly considered as one of the main approaches that can be adopted in E-Government implementation to improve the transformation strategy tor e-government processes on the functions level: (e.g. customer-centric services), the processes level; (e.g. sharing processes) and on the capacity level; (e.g. capacity building). PPP does not weaken the public sector role in E-Government implementation, but it recreates this role in order to obtain more skilled public sector participation in EGovernment projects. The main aim of this research is to explain the nature of the role of public-private partnership (PPP) in the implementation of E-Government programmes in developing countries in order to develop a model for PPP, to indicate its role in such programmes, and then apply to Jordan. This research utilized qualitative case study methodology (QCS), which involves qualitative data collection and qualitative analysis procedures, and allows empirical research to investigate the complexity of the role of Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a contemporary phenomenon, in order to understand such role within the E-Government implementation context in Jordan.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo