JLOS的目的是發表研究報告，旨在幫助我們理解和預測有效的領導力——人、團體和組織的領導力。JLOS通過推廣前瞻性思維獎學金，不斷更新和振興領導力獎學金、實踐和政策。雖然組織中的領導可以是非正式的，但它發生在人們在管理的正式職位范圍內擔任和采取行動的背景下。因此，我們尋求推進對跨組織和文化的管理者和領導者具有明確功能價值的研究。JLOS旨在促進學術研究，提出和/或尋求重大問題的答案，擁抱悖論，解決學術和實踐知識中的關鍵裂縫，挑戰傳統、范式和現狀，在領導力和管理領域的學習曲線中制造震蕩和不連續的增長。

The purpose of JLOS is to publish research aimed at helping us understand and predict effective leadership – leadership of people, groups, and organizations. JLOS continuously renews and reinvigorates leadership scholarship, practice and policy by promoting forward thinking scholarship. While leadership in organizations can be informal, it occurs in the context of people holding and acting within the scope of formal positions of management. Thus we seek to advance research that has clear functional value to managers and leaders across organizations and cultures. JLOS serves to promote scholarship that asks and/or seeks answers to grand questions, embraces paradox, addresses key fissures in scholarly and practical knowledge, and that challenges traditions, paradigms, and the status quo to create jolts and discontinuous growth in the learning curve of the field of leadership and management.