Categories | Themes | Frequencies |
Research Question #1: How do UCBC alumni describe their day-to-day leadership practices in the workplace from a holistic leadership approach? | ||
Meaning of leadership | Responsibility to influence people through supportive relationship, sacrificial service, communication, and role modeling that enable them to unleash their maximum potential to achieve collective vision | 147 |
Leadership role | People-oriented activities such as communicating with, developing, supporting, and serving teams; management tasks including planning, strategizing, project management, monitoring and evaluations and reporting, and organizational growth actions such as vision casting, partnerships development and fundraising | 180 |
Self-control | In a context of multidimensional challenges, discerning quietly and responding wisely while seeking counsel from advisors and depending on God’s assistance is critical in maintaining self-control as a leader | 233 |
Teamwork | Despite the challenges due to team diversity, it takes complementarity, mutual support, and collective efforts to effectively perform individual tasks and achieve common goal in response to changes and new challenges in the workplace | 148 |
Ethical values | Personal standards and boundaries, spiritual disciplines, organizational values and procedures are essential for a leader to uphold ethical values and morally handle ethical dilemmas, internal tendencies, external stimuli towards unethical practices | 174 |
Managing emotions | Stepping back for a while to calm down, identifying and verbalizing emotions and seeking reconciliation through honest dialogue and forgiveness to manage personal, interpersonal, and organizational effects of a variety of emotions | 241 |
Spirituality | Spirituality enables a leader to be connected and accountable to a higher power, work with a sense of life purpose/calling, strong conviction, high moral standards, self-control, and inner motivation to deal with unusual challenges in the workplace | 189 |
Research Question #2: What are the major challenges that UCBC alumni encounter in their leadership experiences in the workplace? | ||
Major challenges in leadership | Lack of continuous training, imbalance between workload and reward system, work-family conflict, and scarcity of funds | 95 |
Research Question #3: What are the areas of development that UCBC alumni identify in order to enhance their leadership development and effectiveness in the workplace? | ||
Areas of development | Resources mobilization and project cycle management, organizational development, personal leadership development, communication and teamwork | 135 |