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- Toward a New Understanding of Leader Accountability: Defining a Critical Construct
- This paper defines leader accountability as the leader's willing acceptance of the responsibilities inherent in the leadership position to serve the well-being of the organization; the implicit or explicit expectation that the he/she will be publicly linked to his/her actions, words, or reactions; and the expectation that the leader may...
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- Leadership Behaviors and Subordinate Resilience
- Utilizing a sample of 150 part-time MBA students, the study presented in this paper evaluated the relationship between leader behaviors and subordinate resilience. The authors' proposed that the transformational leadership dimensions of Attributed Charisma, Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration, as well as the transactional leadership dimension...
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- Race Effects on the Employee Assessing Political Leadership
- Machiavellianism has commonly been defined as the need to develop and defend one's power and success. Scholars have adopted the perspective of Machiavelli to examine political dynamics in organizations. The Mach IV has been the primary measure of Machiavellianism as a distinct personality construct. The purpose of this paper is...
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- Reconceptualizing Social Skills in Organizations
- The study presented in this paper applies a three component model of communication competence (motivation, knowledge, and skill) within an organizational context and analyzes the relationship between job performance, position level, and communication competence. Data analysis revealed high job performers had significantly higher levels of motivation to adapt communication and...
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- Business, Ethics, and Leadership in a Post Enron Era
- Conventional wisdom paradoxically tells one that even though change is constant, certain things never really change. Or even when things appear to change, they wind up coming back again. Not all of conventional wisdom is just a casual cliche, or a cosmetic bromide. Things do and can repeat themselves. Similar...
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- The Impact of Ethical Leadership Behavior on Employee Outcomes
- The topics of authentic leadership and the ethical behavior of leaders have received significant interest in recent years due to the plethora of ethical scandals in corporations. In this paper, the authors' have developed a theoretical framework that maintains that employees' psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between leaders' ethical behaviors...
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- Moral Leadership in a Postmodern World
- This paper examines the gap between moral purpose and moral performance as a problem created in part by the alienation of spirituality from civic life. This is a nation of privatized morality that places corporate and civic leaders in a labyrinth of uncertainty when they try to establish a moral...
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- Ethical Dimensions of International Grantmaking: Drawing the Line in a Borderless World
- By their very nature and purpose, foundations are powerful leaders in society. Pressure to maintain the public trust has consequently focused attention on their behavior. While codes of conduct have been produced, foundation officers have yet to make explicit the values that shape their work. The pressure and complexity of...
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- Heroes or Villains?: Corruption and the Charismatic Leader
- In this paper, the authors' extend current research about corporate corruption and charismatic leadership by developing a multidimensional model involving stakeholder pressures, environmental factors, charismatic leaders', and their followers. Specifically, the authors' propose that stakeholder pressures place strong demands on leaders of organizations, increasing the motive for, and likelihood of...
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- A Multiple-Level Theory of Leadership: The Impact of Culture as a Moderator
- In an effort to present a multiple level theory of leadership, the authors' suggest a set of conditions that may moderate the acceptance of a leader's behavioral patterns. By considering leadership theories at multiple levels of analysis and by conceptualizing culture at a higher level of analysis, the authors' suggest...
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- Identifying Leader Social Cognitions: Integrating the Causal Reasoning Perspective Into Social Cognitive Theory
- This paper proposes a leadership model that combines Bandura's social cognitive theory with the causal reasoning perspective. The model suggests that leader causal reasoning processes affect leader perceptions of goals, self-efficacy, and leadership task schema that, in turn, affect the leader's selection of strategies and enactment of behaviors. Each leader...
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- Gender Differences in Social and Emotional Skills and Charismatic Leadership
- The relationships among leader gender, social and emotional skills, and charismatic leadership were examined from a dataset of 108 senior leaders and 325 of their direct followers in numerous organizations, including universities, government agencies, and for-profit companies. Results showed that female leaders scored higher on social and emotional skills, and...
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- We the Leaders: In Order to Form a Leaderful Organization
- This paper endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for organizations known as "Leaderful practice." Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as "Being out in front." It is submitted that in the 21st Century organization, everyone will need to share the experience of...
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- Towards a Deeper Understanding of Hope and Leadership
- A cognitive based theory of hope developed within the field of positive psychology has been discussed in relation to organizational leadership. Hope in this context can be described as a positive motivational state that contributes to leaders and followers expending the requisite energy necessary to pursue and attain organizational goals....
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- The Proposed Contagion Effect of Hopeful Leaders on the Resiliency of Employees and Organizations
- The emergence of positive psychology and positive organizational behavior has clearly shown that hope is a strength that has many important implications for embattled organizations - both in terms of effective leadership and employee retention and performance. The purpose of this paper is to not only give the background of...
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- Yes, You Can Teach Business Ethics: A Review and Research Agenda
- In the face of continuing doubt as to the value of teaching business ethics, evidence is reviewed suggesting that the endeavor is a worthy one. Specifically, this paper examines three common concerns raised by various stakeholders as to the viability of teaching business ethics. The paper concludes that these concerns...
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- Motivation and Transactional, Charismatic, and Transformational Leadership: A Test of Antecedents
- Relationships between leaders' motivation and their use of charismatic, transactional, and / or transformational leadership were examined in this study. One hundred eighty-six leaders and 759 direct reports from a variety of organizations were sampled. Leaders were administered the Motivation Sources Inventory MSI while followers reported leaders' full range leadership...
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- Toward a Contingency Model of Leadership and Psychological Empowerment
- In this paper, the authors' develop and present a contingency model of leadership and psychological empowerment that specifies the circumstances and situations under which follower self-leadership should be encouraged. The model suggests that certain key contingency factors, including follower development, situational urgency and task structure, dictate which of several leadership...
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- The Effects of Subordinates' Personality on Appraisals of Transformational Leadership
- To enhance leaders' development, a great variety of appraisal systems have been applied, becoming popular measure tools for leader performance. In these measurements, the research is usually focused on personality of leaders. It is argued in this paper, that subordinates' personalities have also impact on ratings they give of their...
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- Charismatic Leadership Development: Role of Parental Attachment Style and Parental Psychological Control
- Despite the importance of charismatic leadership on individual and organizational outcomes, there has been little research examining the development of charismatic leaders. The study presented in this paper investigated the relationship between parental attachment style, parental psychological control and emergent adults' displays of charismatic leadership. Participants were 81 undergraduate students...
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