Leadership & Organization Development Journal
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Examining the relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence in senior level managers
Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 68-78
Investigates whether emotional intelligence measured by the Swinburne University
Emotional Intelligence Test predicted transformational, transactional and
laissez‐faire leadership styles measured by the multifactor leadership
questionnaire in 110 senior level managers. Effective leaders were identified as
those who reported transformational rather than transactional behaviours.
Emotional intellige...
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....
Leading to inspire others: charismatic influence or hard work?
Tập 32 Số 7 - Trang 736-754
– The purpose of this paper was to examine inspiring others as a psychological
construct in leadership contexts by investigating lived and personal experiences
of inspiring leaders., – A phenomenological design was used to investigate
leaders' personal and lived experiences of leading to inspire others. In‐depth
interviews were conducted with seven participants nominated by others as
inspiring lea...
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...
Leadership in action: student leadership development in an event management course
Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 170-189
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership practice scores and
leadership behaviors of students before and after participation in an event
management course., – A mixed methods approach was utilized. The
Student‐Leadership Practice Inventory (S‐LPI) was administered to a sample of
184 students in three semesters of an event management course. Students
completed the S‐LPI at the begin...
Organisational Change and Leadership in a University: A Business School Case
Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 21-26
A new definition of university organisation structures has begun to emerge.
Customers in the form of students determine what the senior university
departments offer. Staff members work in programme teams to manage and organise
delivery. A professor is simply one grade of staff within the university
available to teach or left to his own devices in research. Vice Chancellors now
spend much of their ...
Managing Up in the Multi‐national Firm
Tập 7 Số 1 - Trang 21-26
When multinationals bring together individuals within the organisation who are
from different cultural bases, interpersonal behaviour is an issue of major
importance, particularly in superior/subordinate relationships. The best and
probably most productive interpersonal relationships occur when two styles
become complementary, the strengths of one compensating for the weaknesses of
the other. The ...
The relationship between charismatic leadership behaviors and organizational commitment
Tập 21 Số 1 - Trang 30-35
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 fi...
Quality behaviour for quality organizations
Tập 16 Số 6 - Trang 10-15
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 “qu...