the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
The authors' conducted a meta-analysis to test dispositional antecedents of intra-organizational influence tactics used. The antecedents tested included self-reported measures of impression management, Machiavellianism, self-monitoring, locus of control, social identity, intrinsic/internal motivation, and extrinsic/external motivation. Using Hunter and Schmidt's validity generalization procedures, the relationships between each dispositional variable and six...
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...
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....
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...
Mentoring relationships have been increasingly used as a means for leadership development across a range of contexts. However, it is unclear whether mentoring and its outcomes are a function of the type of mentoring provided within an organization's context. To begin to address this issue, the study presented in this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cyclical models of group development may be integrated with an interactive model of leadership emergence in autonomous teams. This paper contextualizes the interaction of a leader's traits and the situational factors in the cycling of an autonomous team within and between the storming, norming and performing phases of group development.
Efficacy beliefs have been a focus of organizational research for nearly three decades. Over this time period, efficacy beliefs have been related to a number of important individual, group and organizational outcomes. Although the independent effects of leadership and efficacy on important organizational outcomes are each well established, there has...
The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to explore how social identity influences the construction of leadership development programmes in the Basque Region. The Basque region is recognised as having a strong social and national identity. Historically leadership development has been focused on practising leaders and managers...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
