International Journal of Behavioral Sciences

Leadership plays a vital role in determining organizational effectiveness, particularly through its influence on decision-making processes. Effective decision-making is a fundamental managerial function that shapes organizational performance, strategic direction, and long-term sustainability. Leadership style, defined as the consistent pattern of behaviors adopted by leaders to influence and guide followers, significantly affects how decisions are formulated, communicated, and implemented within organizations. This conceptual paper examines the impact of three classical leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire on decision-making effectiveness through a comprehensive review of existing theoretical and empirical literature.

A crucial factor influencing employee conduct, productivity, and organizational efficacy is company culture. By analyzing current theoretical stances and experimental research, this study investigates the connection between organizational culture and worker performance and production.Organizational culture represents the shared values, beliefs, assumptions, and behavioral patterns that shape how employees interact, make decisions, and perform their responsibilities within an organization.The paper examines the main theories of organizational culture, such as Cameron and Quinn's Competing Values Framework, Denison's Organizational Culture Model, and Schein's Organizational Culture Model.

This study explored how much “research scholars in the department of Social Science and Arts of the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur”, understand and use digital technologies. The findings based on 84 questionnaires show that scholars of the Social Science faculty have a relatively high digital literacy compared to those in the Arts faculty. Most of the respondents indicated that they were skilled in using open-access sources. However, about a quarter (26%) of participants are comfortable with using video or audio sharing sites for academic or professional purposes.

Occupational burnout constitutes a pervasive yet chronically under-surveilled public health threat, its insidious temporal evolution rendering episodic self-report instruments structurally inadequate for early detection. This paper introduces BurnoutSense, a passive digital phenotyping framework that continuously harvests eight heterogeneous smartphone behavioral data streams encompassing application usage ecology, communication metadata, geospatial mobility, screen interaction dynamics, inferred sleep rhythmicity, keystroke kinematics, ambient noise exposure, and battery/charging cadence to construct individualized multivariate behavioral signatures sensitive to occupational mental health deterioration.

The rapid rise of short-form video platforms such as Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts has fundamentally reshaped the way people consume information and entertainment. While these applications offer quick engagement and social connection, their excessive use has raised serious concerns about their psychological and academic impacts. This research investigates the relationship between short-form video addiction, mindfulness, academic anxiety, and academic engagement among university students. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of cognitive-behavioral addiction and mindfulness theory, this study examines how addiction to short- form videos influences learners’ emotional well-being and academic functioning.

The proliferation of internet-capable devices and social media platforms has created an intricate web of risks for Nigerian undergraduates, including cyberbullying, addiction, misinformation, and exposure to indecent content. While media literacy has been widely proposed in Western scholarship as a sustainable intervention for responsible online behaviour, its protective mechanisms remain insufficiently understood in non-Western contexts, particularly with respect to the psychological pathways through which literacy operates.