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Characteristics associated with success: CEOs' perspectives
Tập 26 Số 3 - Trang 186-196
– This exploratory study investigated the characteristics that chief executive officers (CEOs) associated with their success., – Twenty CEOs were interviewed and asked to identify characteristics they possessed, and that they felt were related to their success., – The two dominant characteristics identified were achievement orientation and humanistic approach, followed by positivism. Very little o......
Technical note: a study of Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 113-116
This study empirically tested Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory (SLT) among 151 senior executives within service and manufacturing businesses of a large Fortune 100 company. SLT focuses on the interaction of the leader’s behaviour and follower readiness to determine leader effectiveness. SLT suggests that the appropriate level of task and relationship behaviour is the one that “......
Have We Misread the Psychology of Innovation? A Case Study from Two NHS Hospitals
Tập 13 Số 2 - Trang 17-21
Describes a research project using a qualitative research
methodology investigating innovation processes in two NHS hospitals.
Employs a multi‐perspective approach to examine the perception of
innovation processes by actors at different organizational levels,
whereas past innovation research has predominantly adopted a management
perspective of innovation by concentrating upon the views and opinio......
MRP Systems: Using New Technology in Manufacturing
Tập 4 Số 2 - Trang 26-29
Material Requirements Planning systems are complex and sophisticated and can bring about great changes; they have much to offer manufacturing industry but must be carefully implemented.
Seeing and Believing Management Productivity
Tập 3 Số 1 - Trang 2-4
If all human beings were motivated in the same way, the job of management would be relatively easy. Of course we do not all see the world in the same way. Perception is what we see, and attitudes are what we think about what we see. There are two views of perception: a macro, or organisationally influenced view, and a micro, or individually oriented view of the perceptual process.
Is personality associated with perceptions of LMX? An empirical study
Tập 28 Số 7 - Trang 613-631
– The paper seeks to investigate whether or not leader‐member exchange (LMX) is influenced by the personality of subordinates and/or supervisors., – Previous literature from the general leadership, personality, and LMX domains was used as a theoretical background for proposing certain types of relationships between the personality traits that make up the Big Five and employees’ perceptions of LMX.......
Creating organizational conditions that foster employee spirit at work
Tập 27 Số 4 - Trang 280-295
– This study sought to identify organizational factors that foster an individual's experience of spirit at work., – Ten women and three men, ranging in age from 26 to 81, who were in full‐time paid employment in a variety of occupations, and who self‐identified as having high spirit at work, participated in in‐depth, reflective interviews., – Inspired leadership emerged as central to influencing i......
Empowerment within the UK construction sector
Tập 23 Số 6 - Trang 333-342
The feasibility and success of empowerment are to some extent determined by factors relating to the culture and structure of the industries within which organizations are embedded. The UK construction industry is an example that has a unique socio‐technical context, some aspects of which seem well‐suited to empowerment strategies. However, despite support for empowerment, it has not yet been unive......
A Buddhist view of leadership: the case of the OTOP project
Tập 30 Số 8 - Trang 737-758
– This paper is concerned with the role of leadership in community organisations in Thailand. While previous studies of leadership have focused on leadership theories influenced by male‐dominated North American studies, the present paper aims to demonstrate that it is necessary to take the influence of cultural, historical and social structure into account. The purpose is to develop a model of lea......