Identification of Effective Leadership Indicators in Ghanaian Retail Banks Using AMOS Based Confirmatory Factor Analysis

In the light of the importance of banks to the economic growth process in Ghana, this study sought to identify the determinants of effective leadership style that is appreciated by employees in retail banking firms in Ghana, towards providing practitioners with crucial information that could enable them make informed decisions towards improving the workplace. Using data collected from employees in eleven firms which were analyzed using the AMOS programme, minimum was achieved for the leadership measurement model and the goodness of fit statistics showed that the overall model fit quite well to the data. Based on the findings from both factor analysis and Confirmatory factor analysis, the study established that managers of retail banks in Ghana could be perceived by their employees as good leaders if they give employees full credit for the work that they do. Handling employee issues very well and taking care of their complaints as well as putting in place systems for enhancing employees’ career advancement into specialist departments or management positions are also perceived as good determinant of leadership. It is therefore hypothesized that managers of retail banks in Ghana could be perceived as good leaders by employees if they are seen as giving employees full credit for the work that they employees do at the workplace, handling employee issues very well and taking care of complaints brought up by employees, as well as putting in place systems for enhancing employees’ career advancement into specialist departments or management positions are also perceived as good leaders.

Preface

This is our third International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Technology (ICMSCT 2021) Conference which is virtually broadcasted from Kasetsart University, Thailand on 27 - 28 October 2021. This successful conference was organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan, Malaysia and Kasetsart University Bangkok, Thailand, in collaboration with Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia), Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University (Thailand) and Chiang Mai University (Thailand). Due to pandemic Covid-19 which led to travel restriction to Bangkok, Thailand, this join forces of Asian educational institutions conducted the conference remotely through Webex for researchers to present papers in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Technology which are well represented in this proceedings volume. The conference presented Prof. Dhia Al-Jumeily from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom as a Keynote speaker and Prof. Kongkitti Pusawat from Kasetsart University, Thailand as an invited speaker in two-hour plenary session to share their experience and latest knowledge in mathematics and computing technology. During parallel sessions, many contributed papers were presented and discussed through question and answer session in a feasible Webex link platform for each parallel session. We believe that the participants of ICMSCT have gained knowledge and built networking with all researchers in the same field. We also hope this collection of papers can benefit the readers and continue to play a large part in the future of ICMSCT conferences. The organisers would like to thank the team from the Institute of Physics Conference Office, led by Dr Lorna Wroe for realizing this proceedings publication. We also thank the local organisers and conference office from Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan and Kasetsart University, Thailand for their splendid job. They were very committed and worked hard in making this conference a success. With the mandate from the Local Organising Committee, the Local Technical Committee was formed to attend the processing of the technical papers. Firstly, I am thankful for the advices given by the Chairman Dr. Khalid Abd Wahid. I wish to thank each and every member of the proceeding editors for making this end result possible: The proceedings of a very prestigious International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Technology. They are Norzieha Mustapha Syerina Azlin Md Nasir Wan Zakiyatussariroh Wan Husin Au Thien Wan Utriweni Mukhaiyar Sapto Wahyu Indratno Roliza Md Yasin Ainul Azila Che Fauzi Full credit should also be awarded to the local technical committee, expert reviewers and proof-readers, both from within and outside Malaysia for their time spent in reviewing the manuscript and helping us in improving the article. We ensure that a thorough peer review process was carried out and administered by the proceedings editors, in accordance to the high demand of IOP publication. Last but not least, we wish to thank all the participants who contributed and attended the conference which made the conference a successful event. Wan Fairos Wan Yaacob Editor-in-Chief List of COMMITTEES are available in this pdf.

Practical and Theoretical Wisdom in Management Scholarship: Re-assesing the Use and Appropriations of Aristotle’s Philosophy

Within contemporary discussions on organizational wisdom, management scholars frequently turn to Aristotle’s work to conceptualize wisdom as phronesis, or practical wisdom. Contrary to the prevailing view, this paper argues that Aristotle did not propose an exclusively practical or particularistic conception of wisdom but, instead acknowledged that wisdom broadly conceived consists of two types of intellectual virtue: theoretical wisdom (sophia) and practical wisdom. Aristotle’s ultimate position regarding the relations between sophia and phronesis has remained, however, ambiguous, giving rise to different interpretations, and, more substantively, to the major appropriations of Aquinas, Heidegger and Gadamer. An analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of exemplary contributions to management wisdom suggests that research has predominantly applied Heideggerian and Gadamerian understandings of Aristotelian wisdom, while an Aquinian interpretation is largely absent in contemporary elaborations. Interpreting the Aristotelian notion of wisdom as dedicated purely to practical phronesis narrows the discussion on the nature of (organizational) wisdom within an Aristotelian framework in ways that do not give full credit to the breadth and complexity of Aristotle’s thought.

Diversity Accountability Index for Journals (DAI-J): Increasing awareness and establishing accountability across psychology journals

To increase awareness and establish accountability, we propose that journals rate themselves using this table with an emerging list of accountability benchmarks. Recommendations are derived from Buchanan, Perez, Prinstein, & Thurston's 2021 paper, Upending Racism in Psychological Science: Strategies to Change How Our Science is Conducted, Reported, Reviewed, and Disseminated. Benchmarks were based on Centola et al., 2018, which showed 25% as the tipping point for shifting majority opinion on social norms. In order to over-correct for racism that has permeated our science, we suggest partial credit (score of 1) for journals that meet the 25% threshold and full credit (score of 2) for journals that go well above this threshold (i.e., 33% or one third of their publications). In the present table, “Most” refers to 70-100% of published articles, “Some” refers to 30-50% of published articles, and “Few” refers to 0-10% of published articles. Buchanan, N. T., Perez, M., Prinstein, M. J., & Thurston, I. (invited resubmission). Upending Racism in Psychological Science: Strategies to Change How Our Science is Conducted, Reported, Reviewed, and Disseminated. American Psychologist. (PsyArXiv Public Access: https://psyarxiv.com/6nk4x)

Diversity Accountability Index for Journals (DAI-J): Increasing awareness and establishing accountability across psychology journals

To increase awareness and establish accountability, we propose that journals rate themselves using this table with an emerging list of accountability benchmarks. Recommendations are derived from Buchanan, Perez, Prinstein, & Thurston's 2021 paper, Upending Racism in Psychological Science: Strategies to Change How Our Science is Conducted, Reported, Reviewed, and Disseminated. Benchmarks were based on Centola et al., 2018, which showed 25% as the tipping point for shifting majority opinion on social norms. In order to over-correct for racism that has permeated our science, we suggest partial credit (score of 1) for journals that meet the 25% threshold and full credit (score of 2) for journals that go well above this threshold (i.e., 33% or one third of their publications). In the present table, “Most” refers to 70-100% of published articles, “Some” refers to 30-50% of published articles, and “Few” refers to 0-10% of published articles. See: Buchanan, N. T., Perez, M., Prinstein, M., & Thurston, I. (invited resubmission). Upending Racism in Psychological Science: Strategies to Change How Our Science is Conducted, Reported, Reviewed, and Disseminated. American Psychologist. PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/6nk4x

Moral Personhood and Personal Identity

This chapter applies Locke’s kind-dependent account of identity to persons. First, the author argues that Lockean persons belong to a moral and legal kind of being: they are subjects of accountability. This interpretation gives full credit to Locke’s claim that ‘person’ is a forensic term, but it also shows that his arguments presuppose a particular conception of morality that is grounded in divine law and the power to enforce morality by reward and punishment. Next, the chapter asks how Locke’s moral and legal account of personhood enables us to specify persistence conditions for persons. It is argued that it is helpful to examine Locke’s understanding of just accountability. For Locke sameness of consciousness is a necessary condition for moral accountability. This makes it possible to establish that sameness of consciousness is a necessary condition for personal identity. Yet it is also acknowledged that Locke thinks about moral accountability in particular and controversial ways. The chapter ends by offering fine-grained distinctions for understanding the relation between morality and metaphysics in Locke’s account of personal identity.