Research background.Changing higher education environment, global competition of universitiesand colleges, need to react to the changes in labour market created new challengesfor highereducationinstitutions, that must implement innovations that help to keep their activityeffective and improve it.One ofthe traits of effective leadership is innovative leadership in higher educationinstitutionthat is especiallyoriented towards implementing changes in universities and colleges. Challenges for higher educationinstitutionin the context of innovations are widely determined in scientific literature. It is important to identifywhat are the roles of innovative leader in higher education, and to research the level of innovative leadershipin Lithuanian higher educationinstitutions.The object of the research is the innovative leader in highereducation.Goal of researchisidentify main roles of innovative leader in higher education and to determine howthey manifest at higher education organization “Kauno kolegija”.Methods of research.Methods of analysis and systemising were used performing theoreticalliterature analysis. Method of questionnaire survey was used to perform an empirical research, that is, toevaluate how roles of innovative leader manifest at higher educationinstitution“Kauno kolegija”(n= 49).Questionnaire was prepared,Cronbach’s Alpha= 0.76.Results and findings.Analysis of theoretical literature revelsthat working with people is an importantpart of innovative leader’s agenda. Such a leader should use style of transformational leadership (idealizedinfluence, inspirational motivation; intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration). On the other hand,innovative leader should take part in innovation process. He should initiate important innovations that wouldimprove higher education environment (help a university or college to correspond to challenges of our times;implement new methods of activity and education; stimulate meaningful researches; implement innovationsthat prepare students for international and internal labour market), and also take part in planning and executinginnovations.Results of empirical research performed in higher educationinstitution“Kauno kolegija” reveal thatinnovative leadership is yet not fully implemented in this organization. Abilities of formal leaders to act asinnovative leader and work with people as a transformational leader are not sufficient. Leadersin thisorganization do not take an adequate role starting innovations that would help organization to cope withchallenges of our times, management innovation,or innovationshelping students to become prepared forinternational labour market is rather weak.Main conclusions:1.Innovative leader should play two main roles in higher education organization: working with peopleusing the style of transformation leadership; and working with innovation process, stimulated right innovationscorrespondingtothe challenges in higher educationinstitution’s environment.2.Abilities of formal leadersin higher educationinstitution“Kauno kolegija”to act as innovativeleader and work with people as a transformational leader are not sufficient; role of innovative leaders inimplementing innovations that helpinstitutionto cope with challengesin the environmentis rather weak.
Grounding of research.Scientific problem discussed in the article-what factors influence children’sleisure time physical activity. Inorder to choose the right means to encourage children to be more physicalactive, it is important to analyse what factors can influence this. Leisure time is an important routine ofchildren’s everyday life, and engaging into physical activities during leisure time brings a lot of benefits.Theproblem isrelevantasit is important to discuss all the aspects related to the ways that could encourage childrenfor physical activity, including the analysis of factors, influencing their leisure time physical activity.Thegoalof research–to analysefactors influencingleisure time physical activity physical activity of children. Objectsof research: To discuss importance of leisure time physical activity for children.To identify groups of factorsimportantfor children leisure time physical activity physical activity. Research object subject–factorsinfluencingleisure time physical activity physical activity of children. Qualitative methods were used in thisarticle, performing comparative analysis of scientific literature. Scientific articles discussing results ofempirical research were chosen for the analysis. Most articles that are analysed were published in 2007–2015.Results of research.Results of research reveal that leisure time physical activity is especially importantfor children for overall benefit of physical activity for their physical and mental health (in childhood and infuture). According to the theories explaining factors influencing leisure time physical activity such groups offactors may be determined: psychosocial factors (internal factors), environmental factors including factors ofsocial support (family, school), physical environment and political factors. Results reveal that psychologicalfactors, such as extraversion, conscientiousness, enjoyment, self-efficacy are related to higher levels ofphysical activity. Gender also matters–boys are usually more physically active that girls (especially there aregreat differences in adolescence). Influence of socioeconomic factors is not obvious (smaller children’sphysical activity does not correlate to financial state of family, but it does in later age). Parents may have greatinfluence on children’s physical activity modelling, encouraging, providing and involving their children withphysical activities. But children’s physical activity is negatively influenced if home surroundings encouragesedentary leisure time activities. Efforts of school to create availability of organized physical activities withsupervision, also rational daytime table, giving children time for being physically active, may have benefit.However neighbourhood environmental and facility factorsare notrelevant to explain children’s andadolescents’ physical activity.Main conclusions of research.1. Physical activity should be a part of leisure time routine, assuringthat children would be physically active daily.2. Two main groups of factors can be treated as significant inaffecting physical activityof children: psychosocial factors, and factors of social support (family, home,school). Neighbourhood environmental and facility factorsare notrelevant to explain children’s andadolescents’ physical activity. In the context of what was discussed above.Keywords:leisure time,physical activity,children,adolescents.
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