... leadership course (n=21), which in contrast incorporated theoretical instruction, skills practice, and experiential learning. Both samples included organizational leaders throughout the Minneapolis/St Paul area. Findings Results of a pre-post survey confirmed that when compared with participants...

...Romie Frederick Littrell Introduction The subsequent papers in this issue are products of a global project consortium studying preferred leader behaviour dimensions of employed business people across country and intra-country samples from project's 15 years of study, 1997 through 2012...

...Romie Frederick Littrell; Romie Frederick Littrell Purpose This article aims to introduce the theoretical underpinnings of a project that contributes to the empirical field research study literature concerning societal cultural and individual value priority effects on explicit preferred leader...

... and analysis beyond the existing limits and the framework of day‐to‐day perspectives of an organization (Argyris, 2000 ; Cooperrider and Whitney, 2005 ; European Commission, 2012 ; Porter and Kramer, 2011). Accompanying leaders in their transformation: retraining existing leaders while...

..., and is decreasing sharply and permanently when measured on a per student basis. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for university leaders that can provide the foundation for the transformation that needs to take place as universities face a permanent decline in public support. The primary goal...

... in terms of capabilities delivered. In the case of Berkeley‐Haas, the macro end of the reform is pinned down via an explicit leader archetype, that of a path‐bending leader, and an explicit supporting culture. At the micro end, the operative integration concept is termed “capabilities integration...

... leadership in different situations. Findings There are four elements or virtues in leadership. The importance of each virtue and the key points in each of them change as an organization or a venture evolves from one situation to another. Leaders should match their leadership with the specific situation...

... thinking system. With sufficient evidence demonstrated, it argues that a Taoism‐oriented model of leadership offers a complementary lens, through which leadership insights can be deepened, and may serve as an effective tool for adaptive leaders in a world where change is the only constant. Design...

...Paul Vanderbroeck Purpose First, this paper aims to demonstrate that there are specific obstacles to the progression of women to top positions. Second, it aims to give advice to individual women leaders and to organizations how to go about removing such obstacles. Design/methodology/approach...

... explanation for the inadequacy in distinguishing leader development from leadership development is due to the fact that the majority of the prior empirical studies of leadership examined leadership largely as an individual phenomenon, focusing on the behaviours and skills of the leader (Day, 2001). Thus...

...Richard Boyatzis; Richard E. Boyatzis; Franco Ratti Purpose The purpose of this study is to report data showing competencies that distinguish effective managers and leaders in a large Italian company and in Italian cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form...

...Yusuf Munir Sidani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of speech on transformational leadership attributions and the role of follower self‐esteem in fostering the relationship between followers and their leaders. Design/methodology/approach Survey research was used testing...

... The findings lead to the suggestion that great leaders, at times of national change, articulate a shared ideal or national vision and are primarily grounded in the positive emotional attractor. Furthermore, they appeal to their followers' cognition and affect. Research limitations/implications While...