Employee Readiness for Change in Public Higher Education Institutions: Examining the Joint Effect of Leadership Behavior and Emotional Intelligence

This study aimed to examine the effects of leadership behavior and emotional intelligence (EI) on readiness for change and to investigate the moderating effects of organizational commitment on the relationship among leadership behavior, EI, and readiness to change. Data was collected using surveys and Partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS SEM) was employed. The findings of the study indicated that leadership behavior and EI have significant effects on employees’ readiness for change. More importantly, it confirmed the moderating effect of organizational commitment. This study provides an empirical explanation of the joint effect of some crucial change management determinants.     

The rebellion in Chinese Turkestan

La Politique Islamique d'Allemagne. By B. Vernier. Paris : Centre d'Études de Politique Étrangère. Sect. d'Information Pub. 15. 1939. Ed. Hartmann.

Publication of the Institute for Spreading Information about the East. Editor, A. P. Barannikov. Academy of Science, U.S.S.R. Leningrad. 1939.

Islam in the World. By Dr. Zaki Ali. Pp. 428. Lahore: Sheikh Muhammad Ashraf. 1938.

Survey of the Import Trade of India for the Fiscal Year, April 1, 1938, to March 31, 1939. H.M. Stationery Office.

India's North‐West Frontier. By Sir William Barton. John Murray. ros. 6d.

The Naked Nagas. By Christoph von Fürer‐Haimendorf. Pp. ix + 243. 24 plates and map. Methuen. 1939. 15s.

Peaks and Lamas. By Marco Pallis. 9½×3½”. Pp. xx+423. 95 photogravure illustrations and 3 maps. London : Cassell. 18s.

John Nicholson—The Hero of Delhi. By Hesketh Pearson. Collins.

Syria As It Is. By Helen Cameron Gordon (Lady Russell). 9½” × 5½”. Pp. 197. 24 gravure plates, 3 maps, glossary, bibliography, and index. London : Methuen. 1939. ros. 6d.

Minaret and Pipeline. By Margaret Baneri. Translated from the German by L. M. Sieveking. 8¾” × 6″. Pp. 422. Oxford : University Press.

Ataturk, and the True Nature of Modern Turkey. By Gerard Tongas. Translated from the French by Major F. F. Rynd.

China Fights for the World. By J. Gunnar Andcrsson. Translated from die Swedish by Arthur G. Chater. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd. 12s. 6d.

The Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. By A. S. Attiya. With 2 coloured and 8 monotone plates and 4 maps. Methuen and Co. 30s.

Buried Empires : The Earliest Civilisations of the Middle East. By Patrick Carleton. 9” × 6”. Pp. 290. 13 plates, 2 maps. London : Edward Arnold and Co. 10s. 6d.

The Cull Chinese Bronzes. By W. Perceval Yetts, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology in the University of London. Pp. x +197. 35 plates, 44 figs. London : Courtauld Institute of Art. 1939. £2 2s.

Last Lectures. By Roger Fry. Introduction by Sir Kenneth Clark. 10”×8”. Pp. xxix + 370. Illustrations. Cambridge University Press. 21s.

Berichte des Asien Arbeitskreises. Siebenberg‐Verlag, Wien and Peking. No. 1, February, 1939; No. 2, June, 1939.

The Annual of the East, 1939–40. Published by the Syndicate of the Annual of the East, 160, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Pp. 148. Price 3s.     

Extreme but not exceptional: Towards an analysis of the agrarian question in Uganda

The article presents an analysis of the social relations of production and their contradictions in African peasant agriculture, which combine the ‘dull compulsion’ of market forces on petty commodity producers with various forms of extra‐economic coercion. Two paths of accumulation from below and from above are distinguished, the latter based in possession of, or access to, state power. Class formation and agrarian crisis are investigated through the mechanisms and effects of the two types of accumulation, illustrated by data on two villages in different areas of Uganda, which provide an extreme but not exceptional case of the agrarian question in contemporary African conditions. The analysis allows some strategic political conclusions to be suggested.     

Protecting human rights in the era of uncertainty: How not to lose the war against ISIS

As the brutal and violent attacks on civilian populations multiply throughout the world perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL, or the Islamic State, also known as Daesh), the need for an effective response to terrorism has grown in intensity. The ISIS attacks in Paris have in particular introduced a wave of nationalist, securitized alarm, reinforcing a general concern about the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers while underscoring the shift from a regional to international nature of both threat and risk. These issues of security and terrorism have also illustrated the willingness of great powers to support military actions against ISIS in order to stem the atrocities perpetrated by this group, while placing the overthrow of the Assad regime on the backburner for the time being at least. We argue that the defeat of ISIS need not be accomplished by stigmatizing refugees and subjecting them to religious litmus tests. Closing Europe's porous borders and politicizing the attempt to admit refugees at a time when the growing humanitarian crisis poses mounting human rights challenges to the international community is fundamentally wrongheaded. We argue that these approaches, while temporarily satisfying, strengthen the hand of ISIS and other terrorist groups that tend to portray such policies and practices largely in terms of civilizational clashes. Defeating ISIS requires strategic patience and long-term logical and prudent decision making. While doing so, it is important to avoid the enemy's repressive, atavistic, and unsavory methods. The burden is on the international community to fulfill the commitment to international human rights law and international humanitarian law, which continue to be one of the most effective and legitimate tools in our arsenal to confront terrorism.