Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017: Explorations of Chaos and Complexity Theory
by Şefika Şule Erçetin (Editor), Nihan Potas (Editor)

About this book
The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences. The text explores chaotic and complex systems, as well as chaos and complexity theory in view of their applicability to management and leadership.
This proceedings explores non-linearity as well as data-modelling and simulation in order to uncover new approaches and perspectives. Effort will not be spared in bringing theory into practice while exploring leadership and management-laden concepts.
This book will cover the analysis of different chaotic developments from different fields within the concepts of chaos and complexity theory. Researchers and students in the field will find answers to questions surrounding these intertwined and compelling fields.

Table of contents

• 1 Complexity Theory as a New Lens in IR: System and Change 1
• 2 The Chaotic Awareness Reality and the Complexity in Turkish Novels 17
• 3 An Assessment on Positive Reflections of the Restructuring of Public Banks After February 2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey and 2008 Global Crisis to Turkish Finance Sector 23
• 4 Organizational Intelligence 41
• 5 The Views of Trainee Substitute Teachers on Organizational Socialization 61
• 6 Prerequisites to Getting Rid of Chaos in a Collaborative Learning Classroom: Addressing the Chaos Theory 677 The Concept of Self-Organized Criticality: The Case Study of the Arab Uprising 73
• 8 Migration Process and Its Effects on Mental Health 87
• 9 Exploratory Factor Analysis in the Measurement of the Four Dimensions of Sustainable Leadership Construct 103
• 10 A Comparative Analysis of the Fractal Leadership Practices of Female and Male School Principals 115
• 11 Veteran Principals’ Views over the Effect of Positive Discipline on Classroom Management for Novice Teachers 139
• 12 Evaluation of Teaching Practice Performance of Students of Secondary Mathematics Education by Fuzzy Logic 153
• 13 Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for Turkey 163
• 14 Complexity in Abstract Poetry 173
• 15 We Need Resilient School Leaders in the Face of Chaos and Complexity 179
• 16 Supervision and Chaos in the Turkish Education System 183
• 17 Interorganizatio nal Symbiosis Scale (Inorsyms) 201
• 18 Game Theory and John Forbes Nash in the History of Economic Thought 213
• 19 The Relationship Between the Mathematical Thinking Levels and Conflict Management Strategies of School Directors 231
• 20 Complexity in Management: Problems and Strategies 241
• 21 Al-Qaeda: A Model for “Sustainable Disorder”?  251
• 22 Examination of Working Women’s Self-Esteem 265
• 23 Discussion on Erçetin’s Quantum Leadership Paradigm in Terms of the School or Classroom Management 277
• 24 Relationship Between Quantum Leadership Behavior of School Principals and Levels of Creativity of Teachers 293
• 25 Scale Construction for Revealing the Happiness Perception of Secondary School Students 307
• 26 Teacher Views on Increasing the Quality of Life in School 315
• 27 Development Plans in Turkey in the Context of Lifelong Learning (1963–2018) 323
• 28 Palestinian Postgraduate Students in Turkey: Faced Challenges, Provided Supports and Proposed Solutions 329
• 29 Consumer Buying Behavior and Perception toward Shopping Malls with Special Reference to the City of Kolkata, West Bengal, India 343
• 30 Assessment of School Administrators’ Views Toward Social Media 357
• 31 How Do Different Groups Conceive Primary School English Language Education? A Sample of Cono Tribe 371
• 32 Organisational Trust in Schools: A Critical Review of Empirical Research in Turkey 379
• 33 Teachers’ and Educational Administrators’ Opinions About Adolescents’ Cyber Bullying/ Cyber-Victimization Experiences 399
• 34 A Study on Validity and Reliability of Teacher Efficacy Scale 411
• 35 Unmasking the Ideological Stance of Political Leaders by Critical Discourse Analysis: Ahmadinejad as a Case Study 431
• 36 Complex Situations that University Students Came Across in University Experience and Suggested Solutions 449
• 37 Investigation of Organizational Intelligence Level of Schools According to Teachers’ Opinion 459
• 38 The Views of the Teachers on Their Identification with the Schools They Work 469
• 39 Being a Refugee University Student in Turkey from the Perspective of Syrian Female Students 475
• 40 Syrian Refugees: The Demographic Impacts on the Republic of Turkey and Reflections on the Social Studies Coursebooks 487
• 41 Anger Management at the Edge of Chaos 497
• 42 Perceived Uncertainty: A Study of Validity and Reliability 509
• 43 Is There a Holistic Relationship Between Simulacra and Zuhur in the Media?  523
• 44 An Epistemic Structuring in the Context of Complexity Science and Chaotic Awareness Theory 529
• 45 An Analysis of Variables Predicting Attitudes of High School Students Toward Teaching Profession: A Case Study 535
• 46 The Determination of the Turkish Perception of Graduate Students Through the Method of Metaphor 551
• 47 Investigation of the Critical Leadership Scores of Candidate Teachers by Parental Education Levels 557
• 48 The Leadership Types Which the Ombudsmen Can Utilize at the Ombudsman Institution 569
• 49 Investigating University Preparatory Students’ Level of Learned Helplessness in Learning English in Terms of Different Variables 587
• 50 Metaphorical Perceptions of the School Directors and Teachers Related to School Principalship 607
• 51 Randomness and Chaos 621
• 52 Analysis of Professional Interests of High School Students 647
• 53 Examining the Relationship Between School Culture and Leadership Behaviors of Teachers 663
• 54 Educational Organizations in the Light of Change and Suggestions for Adaptation to Change 677
• 55 The Commodification of Religion from Modern Society to Postmodern Consumption Culture 695
• Index705
  

Series: Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Length: 725 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2019 edition (September 7, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3319898744
ISBN-13: 978-3319898742

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