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This study examined the relationships among shared leadership, organizational attractiveness, and organizational identification among teachers in Malatya, Türkiye. Using a relational design and structural equation modeling, the research explored how these variables interact. Data were collected via validated scales, revealing positive and significant associations among shared leadership, organizational attractiveness, and organizational identification. Shared leadership and organizational identification were found to significantly predict organizational attractiveness, explaining a substantial portion of its variance. The model demonstrated a good fit, supporting theoretical frameworks related to social identity and shared leadership. Findings highlight that participative leadership is positively associated with teachers’ perceptions of their organizations within a centralized education system. This study offers valuable implications for school leaders and policymakers seeking to enhance teacher engagement and organizational culture. Limitations include the study’s regional focus and cross-sectional design, underscoring the need for broader, longitudinal research to deepen understanding in diverse contexts. Full article

The foundational work on civilizational populism by Yilmaz and Morieson has set the stage to explore the complex relationship between civilizational and national identities and how this relationship supports the populist discourse beyond national boundaries. Applying this framework to the case of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a populist party in Pakistan, the paper presents the findings of critical discourse analysis of the public addresses of PTI founder and chairman Imran Khan, delivered in 2022—the year he was removed from his office as Prime Minister of Pakistan through a parliamentary no-confidence motion. Using the Discourse–Historical Analysis (DHA) developed by Reisigl and Wodak and the Discourse Theory (DT) of populism by Laclau, this paper critically examines ten public addresses in 2022, five during his tenure as Prime Minister, and five following his removal from office. The analysis focuses on how Imran Khan constructed Pakistani identity around Islamic civilization and critically evaluates the possible implications of this discourse on religious extremism in Pakistan. The findings contribute to an understanding of how civilizational populism operates in practice, highlighting how populist leaders shift their strategic use of civilizational discourse when moving between positions of power and opposition. Full article

As the population of multilingual learners identified as English learners (ELs) grows in the United States, it is critical that education leaders are equipped to create school environments that are affirming and welcoming with high expectations for these students and their families. Nationwide, 10.4% or 5.1 million students were classified as EL in 2019. The state of California has the largest EL student population in the nation at 19.1%. This qualitative study explores the experiences of 25 school and district leaders in the Central Coast of California in their educational leadership preparation programs. Document review and critical content analysis were conducted of educational leadership preparation program websites including the course requirements, testimonials and mission statements. Leaders predominantly attended preparation programs at public universities that are Hispanic Serving Institutions. While they were interested in learning technical skills like education law and budgeting, they found it helpful to learn about a variety of topics such as instructional coaching and data analysis. However, they did not feel that there was enough of a focus on the needs of multilingual learners. This article examines how we might strengthen educational leadership preparation so that programs more effectively center the needs of multilingual learners as well as candidates’ identities as a resource. Full article

Set against the current societal and religious contexts that Church of England schools find themselves positioned in, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Plus (LGBTQ+) teachers must navigate the contested space between their embodied identity and expectations of others. Whilst this research focuses specifically on Church of England schools in England, broader questions of belonging, purpose, and pedagogy are argued to transcend geographical and denominational boundaries. In this series of six interviews with teachers at different career stages who work, or have worked, in Church of England secondary and primary schools, we explore their lived experience of balancing their queer identity against the professional standards of teaching and the views of the school community. Five LGBTQ+ teachers and one ally were interviewed—all but one of whom hold or held senior leadership positions. Key foci for the researchers were discussions around the often-unacknowledged pressure and responsibility that teachers might feel for being a role model for the LGBTQ+ community, with particular nuances due to the Church school context, and, in particular, if the teachers felt that the school environment enabled them to be their authentic selves. An overarching concern was the extent to which LGBTQ+ teachers felt that they were able to thrive in these communities. One consideration for the authors was a hope that key messages could be shared with Diocesan Education Leaders that might enable future generations of LGBTQ+ teachers to feel that they were being appropriately supported and enabled. Full article

Numerous studies of leadership preparation programs cite coaching as a critical and underutilized support that can accelerate leadership development and contribute to leader retention. While many leadership coaching models focus on reflection and problem solving, this study investigates coaching centered on leaders’ identities as necessary components to address complex equity issues. Additionally, we explore how leader preparation programs train and support coaches themselves to reflect on their identities. Employing a metasynthesis of three larger studies of leader preparation, this study reports on themes present across multiple data sources including: interviews with leadership candidates, coaches and instructors; observational field notes; and document analysis. Findings reveal how coaches and coachees interrogated their identities to do equity and justice-oriented work. Specifically, coaching models across leader preparation programs required both coaches and coachees to bring their whole selves to the work, make themselves vulnerable, utilize tools of inquiry and apply those tools to specific leadership competencies. Further, the impact of leadership coaching is both personal and professional, while also having systemic implications for schools. Implications for state policy include dedicating funds to prioritize coaching for equity in leadership preparation. For practice, this means embedding coursework that centers identity, race, and Anti-Blackness, and redesigning coaching to intentionally address both historical and present-day realities. Programs can leverage existing resources to train equity-focused coaches while intentionally investing time and training to support sustained, transformative leadership development, ensuring that both aspiring and practicing leaders benefit from meaningful leadership coaching. Full article

Prompted by participation gaps in the tech industry, this study explores the relationship between recent college graduates’ college experiences and their perceptions of their tech work environments. Using survey data from 15 research universities across the U.S., the findings suggest that gender and racial/ethnic identity influence the likelihood of viewing the field of computing as inclusive. Participants who were computing majors or felt a strong sense of belonging within the computing community were more likely to view the computing career environment positively. Notably, positive predictors of perceptions of an inclusive tech work environment, including majoring in computing as an undergraduate and feeling connected within computing, directly related to early career professionals’ undergraduate experiences. This study’s implications are relevant to various higher education stakeholders, including STEM department leaders, career development staff, and student affairs staff focused on fostering a strong pipeline from computing undergraduate programs to computing careers. Full article

Despite growing global interest in customer experience management, limited research has systematically integrated both quantitative and qualitative approaches to identify service performance gaps and formulate strategic responses in airport settings. This study addresses this gap by examining how Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport can enhance its passenger experience through empirical analysis and international benchmarking. The research investigates the alignment between international passengers’ expectations and their actual experiences across seven key airport touchpoints: check-in, security, immigration, boarding, accessibility, facilities, and retail areas. A structured survey of 474 outbound international passengers was conducted between June and July 2024 using purposive sampling. Quantitative data were analyzed using Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA) to evaluate six experience components: affective, cognitive, sensory, conative, physical, and social identity. The IPA results revealed notable service gaps, particularly in conative engagement, physical comfort, and social identity, which were subsequently prioritized for strategic improvement. To validate and enrich strategy formulation, qualitative benchmarking was conducted through semi-structured interviews with ten executives at Hong Kong International Airport, a global leader in passenger experience management. The resulting strategic framework, termed the SCOPE strategy, integrates passenger insights with expert perspectives to guide the design of seamless, personalized, and empathy-driven airport experiences. Theoretically, this study contributes a validated six-component passenger experience model and demonstrates the utility of IPA in service design for complex transport hubs. Practically, it offers airport authorities a replicable, data-informed roadmap for enhancing emotional engagement, service consistency, and cross-stakeholder collaboration in similarly scaled international airports. Full article

Background: Sexually expansive (sexual identities beyond traditional monosexual categories) Latina/e/x women navigate intersecting systems of oppression shaped by cultural expectations, gender norms, and heterosexism. Despite their resilience, they remain underrepresented in minority stress research. This study examines how individual (sexual and ethnic identity centrality), relational (social support from family, partners, and friends), and communal (community connectedness) protective factors relate to internalized heterosexism and improved or diminished mental health factors (life satisfaction and psychological distress). Methods: Grounded in an intersectional ecological systems and minority stress framework, this study uses secondary data from the Generations Study, a national longitudinal investigation of sexually expansive adults in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019. A subsample of sexually expansive Latina/e/x women (n = 120) was analyzed using one-way ANOVA, multiple regression, and moderation analyses. Results: Sexual and ethnic identity centrality was independently associated with lower internalized heterosexism. Family, friend, and significant other social support were significantly associated with improved and diminished mental health factors, as was community connectedness with sexual identity centrality. ANOVAs and moderation results were non-significant. Conclusions: These findings highlight the protective impact of identity affirmation and social support on mental health, offering valuable insights for clinicians, researchers, and community leaders supporting a strong yet underrepresented group. Full article

Public sector organizations increasingly face demands for innovation. However, the hierarchical and rule-bound nature of bureaucracy can hinder employees’ ability to engage in creative and change-oriented behavior. This study investigates how organizational identification—a psychological sense of oneness with the organization—is associated with innovative work behavior among South Korean public officials and how this relationship is moderated by charismatic leadership. Grounded in social identity theory and leadership literature, we argue that employees with strong organizational identification are more likely to exhibit innovative work behavior, particularly when supported by leaders who articulate an inspiring vision and embody core public values. Using data from the 2024 Comparative Survey on Perceptions of Public and Private Sector Employees (N = 1012), hierarchical regression analyses reveal that both organizational identification and charismatic leadership significantly promote innovative work behavior. Furthermore, charismatic leadership enhances the positive effect of identification on innovative work behavior. These findings contribute to behavioral public administration research by clarifying how employee identity and leadership style interact to foster innovation, even within rigid procedural environments. Full article

This article reports the findings of an ethnographic and historical study into an ultras group called Melbourne Croatia Fans (MCF), a group of mostly Croatian–Australian young men in their twenties who support Melbourne Knights (formerly known as Melbourne Croatia) in the second-tier Victorian Premier League competition. The aim is to explore identity formation and negotiation, and how identity formation informs relations with outsider groups. The interviews with the football club president, football club secretary, two MCF leaders, and the participant observation date back to the 2010–12 period. The supporters perceive that the club has fallen on hard times for reasons not of their own making. They participated in the former National Soccer League (NSL) (1977–2004) from 1984 to 2004, which was the first-ever national competition in Australia to involve club rather than state teams. However, the club was effectively banned from the new A-League (2005–present), which began based on a private-equity ownership model and a one-team-one-city concept. Despite this, the club can play in the annual knockout competition, the Australia Cup (formerly the FFA Cup), that features both A-League and lower-league teams. We observe here a group of young Croatian–Australian men, part of the Diaspora of Croatians that left the country, mostly in the communist era and afterwards, who aim to construct workable hybrid identities for themselves in an Anglo-majority nation on the other side of the world. They fight on two fronts—against an Anglo, corporate-style administration that effectively bans their club for reasons of ethnicity from the new national league, and against the Serbian youth who often live in the who live in adjacent or nearby suburbs and follow Serbian-origin clubs. Full article

With the increasing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in scenarios such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and military reconnaissance, the need for secure and scalable formation control has become critical. Traditional centralized architectures face challenges such as limited scalability, communication bottlenecks, and single points of failure in large-scale swarm coordination. To address these issues, this paper proposes a blockchain-based decentralized formation control framework that integrates smart contracts to manage UAV registration, identity authentication, formation assignment, and positional coordination. The system follows a leader–follower structure, where the leader broadcasts formation tasks via on-chain events, while followers respond in real-time through event-driven mechanisms. A parameterized control model based on dynamic angle and distance adjustments is employed to support various formations, including V-shape, line, and circular configurations. The transformation from relative to geographic positions is achieved using Haversine and Euclidean methods. Experimental validation in a simulated environment demonstrates that the proposed method achieves lower communication latency and better responsiveness compared to polling-based schemes, while offering enhanced scalability and robustness. This work provides a feasible and secure decentralized control solution for future UAV swarm systems. Full article

Drawing on in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, this study explores the therapeutic benefits of outdoor experiences through the lived experiences of 24 outdoor practitioners, including educators, environmentalists, therapists, and program leaders. Three core themes emerged: (a) nature as an emotional regulator and reflective space; (b) therapeutic benefits of human–nature relationships; and (c) decolonial, bioregional, and cultural healing. Although practitioners facilitated physical challenges and skill-building for their participants, they primarily described outdoor experiences as relational, somatic, and culturally rooted practices that foster emotional regulation, grief processing, identity integration, and social inclusion. Healing emerged through solitude, silence, ancestral connections, sacred landscapes, inclusive dynamics, and the restoration of cultural knowledge. This study’s results challenge Western-centric outdoor education models by foregrounding Indigenous and postcolonial perspectives embedded in Indian ecological traditions. The results contribute to global discussions on decolonizing outdoor fields and offer implications for culturally responsive, emotionally safe, and ecologically grounded practices. Full article

The historical evolution of two designations for East Syriac Christians in China—taso (達娑, including its variants) and erke’ün (也里可溫)—from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty is examined. Analyses of historical records and Old Uighur Christian manuscripts reveal their usage patterns, referents, and historical development. Taso and its variants served as both self-referential and externally applied designations from West Asia to East Asia before and during the early Mongol–Yuan period. Erke’ün, initially an official title for East Syriac Church leaders under Mongol–Yuan rule, replaced Taso and expanded to denote Christians in general. This terminological shift reflects significant transformations in the community’s identity and institutional standing within China. The findings offer new perspectives on the transmission and adaptation of East Syriac Christianity in the Chinese context. Full article

This article explores the papacy as a multifaceted form of cultural heritage, emphasizing the pope not only as a religious leader but also as a living symbol and institutional embodiment of Catholic heritage. Positioned at the intersection of theology, history, and heritage science, the study seeks to bridge the gap between spiritual authority and cultural memory by introducing a novel interpretive category: the pope as a living component of intangible religious heritage. The research combines a comprehensive literature review with an analysis of papal documentation, especially papal constitutions. Special attention is given to public engagement with the papacy, as reflected in internet search trends during significant ecclesiastical events such as papal deaths and conclaves. The results indicate that the pope functions as a living link in the continuity of Catholic identity, with digital indicators revealing peaks of global interest aligned with pivotal moments in Church leadership. The study also defines the roles and functions of the pope as a narrative bearer, initiator, and symbolic custodian of papal cultural heritage. Overall, the findings reinforce the papacy’s dual role as both a theological and sociocultural institution, offering new perspectives for understanding religious leadership as a medium of cultural transmission and public relevance in a digitized world. Full article

The impacts of the climate crisis compel congregations to reimagine their mission and identity in various ways. Working with data taken from U.S. clergy participating in an online program for education and support on climate and environmental issues, as well as selected congregational leaders from their congregations, this article examines the ways that ministers and their congregations in primarily North American mainline Protestant contexts frame the climate crisis and how those understandings both create tension and open space for new conversations about their Christian and congregational vocation. It also describes how these ministers and congregations engage with environmental issues through means beyond technological solutions and consumption choices, such as collaborating with other community organizations, hosting rituals for grieving or meaning-making, and inviting transformative encounters with the more-than-human world. Finally, it will suggest possible strategies for leaders and their congregations to frame and creatively engage with the environment through various methods. Full article