Leadership & Organization Development Journal

- Bằng cách giới thiệu khái niệm "sự tham gia đầy đủ", bài báo này nhằm đề xuất rằng sự tham gia của nhân viên có khả năng bền vững hơn khi sức khỏe của nhân viên cũng ở mức cao. - Bằng chứng nghiên cứu về các khái niệm riêng biệt được xem xét và chứng cứ về những lợi ích mà cả sự tham gia và sức khỏe mang lại cho các tổ chức được trình bày. - Hầu hết các quan điểm hiện tại về sự tham gia của nhân viên thiếu những yếu tố có liên quan trực tiếp đến sức khỏe và phản ánh một quan điểm hạn hẹp, dựa trên cam kết. Quan điểm này tập trung quá nhiều vào những lợi ích cho tổ chức. Một khái niệm rộng hơn về sự tham gia (được gọi là "sự tham gia đầy đủ"), bao gồm sức khỏe của nhân viên, là cơ sở tốt hơn để xây dựng những lợi ích bền vững cho cả cá nhân và tổ chức. - Các nghiên cứu khám phá mối liên hệ giữa sự tham gia của nhân viên và sức khỏe cần thiết để xác thực và phát triển các giả thuyết được đưa ra trong bài báo này. - Một mô hình để cải thiện sự tham gia đầy đủ trong các tổ chức được trình bày cùng với những minh họa từ các nghiên cứu trường hợp ngắn. - Sự tích hợp của sức khỏe và sự tham gia dựa trên cam kết vào cấu trúc duy nhất của sự tham gia đầy đủ cung cấp một quan điểm mới mẻ.

The proportion of the workforce on temporary contracts of employment is increasing, as organisations use non‐permanent staff as a flexible resource. Rousseau and Wade‐Benzoni suggested such temporary staff have a different psychological contract with the organisation than their permanent counterparts. Temporary staff, it is argued, will have a transactional contract, with the emphasis upon the economic elements of the contract while permanent staff will have a more relational contract, involving commitment to the organisation, and an interest in a satisfying job. These differences, it is argued, will influence staff attitudes and behaviour. The article tests these suggestions on employees of a large holiday sector organisation. The results present a consistent picture, at variance with the above suggestions. The levels of relational and transactional contracts of permanent and temporary staff did not differ significantly. In addition they had higher, rather than lower, levels of job satisfaction and commitment to the organisation.

Goal setting and feedback techniques have previously been used to improve safety behaviour. Describes a pilot study of the application of a behaviour‐based quality improvement process in a continuous process production plant with a particular focus on certain aspects of the organizational structure and climate which might be conducive to the changes necessary to facilitate this approach. Since “quality improvement”, unlike “safety improvement”, is more likely to be contingent on interactions with other people, the need to optimize communication and interpersonal relationships at work are important. Suggests that an internal customer, linking‐pin model provides the optimal conditions required, and ensures a high level of employee participation in the process of continuous quality improvement.

States that managers must often try to motivate employees working in another country. Senior accounting managers in Hong Kong were interviewed on their experiences leading professionals in China. Results of structural equation analyses suggest the usefulness of Deutsch’s theory of co‐operation and competition to understanding how interaction between leaders and employees develops future motivation. Co‐operative goals were found to contribute to a constructive discussion of opposing views between managers and employees which, in turn, resulted in productive work and stronger work relationships; these outcomes, in turn, developed motivation to work hard and well on future assignments. These results were interpreted as suggesting that managers can motivate employees through developing strong co‐operative goals and the skills of constructive controversy.

This article discusses the minimal conditions that must be present in order for movement towards resolution of interpersonal conflict to occur, and brings into question earlier assumptions about the amount of skill a person functioning as a third party mediator must possess in order to be effective.

Examines the practical utility of research on managerial behaviour and managerial effectiveness for training and development programmes. Casts doubt on the relevance of models in the literature that tell managers what they should do. Reviews studies of effective managers. Concludes that the design of programmes in particular settings requires a study of who is an effective manager in that setting; that the concepts and methods available in the literature will be used; that such research has potential use for programmes where training is a stepping stone to change.

– This study seeks to test the researchers' theory that a leadership development intervention called “leader assimilation” for newly appointed leaders and their subordinates will facilitate feedback‐seeking and a leader‐team dialogue which will accelerate leader/team learning, leader adaptation, and relationship building between the new leaders and their teams., – Robert Yin's positivistic multiple case study research method was used. Four primary modes of data collection were used in each of the three cases: observation during the five steps of the intervention, documentation review after the intervention, a pre‐ and post‐survey, and individual interviews with the leader and the leader's direct reports approximately seven days after the last phase of the intervention., – The researchers found support for their theory from a leader and team perspective. The three leaders in the study experienced accelerated learning, adaptation, and they built relationships with their teams. The leaders' teams experienced new learning and they built relationships with their new leaders., – The generalizability of findings is limited by the number of cases studied and by industry, leader, and team variation across cases., – The study provides supporting evidence for the importance and effectiveness of leader assimilations in helping new leaders learn, adapt quickly, and build relationships with their teams early in their transition., – The study is one of the first to report on the outcomes of an early leadership development intervention to help new leaders transition from one leadership role to another.

This article reports on a study to measure the relationship between the six leadership behaviors identified by Conger and Kanunago and the two organizational commitment components identified by Porter and Smith. A total of 245 respondents from six organizations in south‐eastern USA participated in the study. Pearson correlations of the factors from the two scales were computed and revealed that five of the six C‐K factors were significantly correlated with the two commitment factors. These findings indicate leader’s sensitivity to member’s needs is related to organizational commitment, having a clear vision and articulating it seems related to commitment, and managers need to be clear about the goals and values of the organization. This study has implications for the strategic role of managers as change agents in organizations.