Leadership

This post is a review of ten years of the Leadership quarterly. It is a discussion of the qualitative including interviews , and quantitative  methodologies involved in the contributions of the journal in its first decade. There is an impetus  early in the review on the story of the conception of the journal. Professional body sponsorship, quality scholarship, and innovation were discussed as the three variables important to the sustainability and viability of new journals. It was noted that the Leadership Quarterly  is innovative and high in the quality of the scholarshipand thus, its prints were able to survive and grow without professional body sponsorship.Innovation and high quality scholarship were the two main pillars in this journals journey so far.

The founders of leadership quarterly focused on building a high quality editorial board for quality control. The diversity of  board members from a variety of disciplines and nationalities facilitated the  journal to grow into an interdisciplinary and international outlet for leadership research.The innovation of the journal has been widely applauded.

Empirical evidence of Leadership quarterly’s quality is provided by Anbar Electronic Intelligence which is an independent organization that evaluates scholarly and practitioner oriented journals.The content analysis was of the journal was done in four stages. Firstly, complete references including abstracts for all LQ publications were imported into the Endnote . Secondly, the authors supplemented the Endnote references by adding information on each publication’s purpose, primary theoretical bases, and publication type.
Empirical articles, were developed with  fields  to record descriptions of the method, sample, independent measures,criterion measures, and data analysis techniques.Thirdly, the information from the Endnote database was used to identify appropriate categories for a secondary coding .In the fourth and final stage, the coded data for each article were aggregated across the ten volumes of the journal and summarized.

The results indicated that there was a need to study the role of women in leadership, the review also suggests that leadership context has been understudied in both its social and temporal form. The results also led to the revelation about the need for organizational systems to develop leaders and the need to study organizational conditions that enhance the efficiency of leadership development efforts.It has been noticed that the journal made a key contribution to the field of leadership by increasing awareness
for more rigorous  identification and testing for appropriate levels of analysis.

The conclusions provided some directions for future study, building on the existing literature and appear  promising for leadership researchers in the next decade. There was an emphasis on building on and following the route of qualitative research.