... to assess lack of motivation/propensity to leave the Swedish Armed Forces: According to a research review conducted by Tepper (2007) , the most commonly used instrument used so far is the 15‐item scale developed by Tepper (2000) . However, this scale has shown varied psychometric qualities. When...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Organizational change Armed forces United States of America Organizations are increasingly operating in an environment that has become global (Ghoshal, 1987), intensely competitive (David, 2006), and economically volatile (Hoskisson et al...

... Transactional leadership Armed forces H1b. More frequent transformational leadership behaviors by supervisors, as perceived by subordinates, will predict effective leadership outcomes at all rank levels. Not only do NCM and officer performance requirements differ on the basis...

...) and 421 recruits from 27 platoons in the Singapore Armed Forces independently assessed the quality of their relationship with their platoon commander using the LMX7 survey instrument. Findings Bivariate analyses indicated rank and type of service differentiated the quality of LMX between leaders...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Armed forces Decision making Leadership Training Personality Norway Within this context, the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy constructed a case called “the water jump”. One by one, physically separated from the group, the cadets stand half...

... (Griffith, 1988 ; Ingraham and Manning, 1981 ; Kirkland et al., 1993). Transformational leadership Leadership development Armed forces Personality Process analysis Norway Beginning with Burns' (1978) formulation, theories of charismatic and transformational leadership have...

..., 2005). Common themes here include being authentic, resilient, energetic, having conceptual skills, etc. Gerry Larsson can be contacted at: gerry.larsson@fhs.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Leadership Behaviour Armed forces Norway Sweden The model developed...

.... The elements and structure of beneficial experiences were empirically determined using a number of computational methods; heretofore, this has not been done. Leadership development Phenomenology Armed forces Competences United States of America Dubrin (2001, p. 3) suggests that “about 35,000...

... is shown in Figure 1 . Leadership Behaviour Senior management Armed forces Much research has been devoted to various aspects of direct, or face‐to‐face, leadership. In contrast, fewer studies have focused on indirect leadership, or the influence of a leader on employees not reporting...

... as providing a rating of current performance and future potential. The scale guides and definitions for both Ratings and Officers are presented by Young and Dulewicz (2003) . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leadership Competences Armed forces Managers As long...

... MCB UP Limited 2003 Armed forces Cognition Information processing Knowledge frameworks Leadership Figure 2 shows the model upon which Figure 1 is based. The top of the hierarchy represents the work context of respondents in the form of their overall work mission. Hunt (1997, p. 8...

... for large scale implementation in the Swedish armed forces. The model rests on an interactional person by situation paradigm. It emphasises “developmental leadership”, which is inspired by transformational and functionalistic leadership approaches. The developmental leadership questionnaire (DLQ...

... of two parts: 1. 1 An actual episode is cited, most commonly from General Grant’s autobiography. 2. 2 Kaltman summarizes a section on lessons learned from a leadership perspective. Leadership Armed forces Quality Methodology A couple of examples illustrating...

..., and personal commitments (CAP, n.d./a). Armed forces Commitment Morale Personnel psychology USA Voluntary organizations Excerpt from fieldnotes: At the Group Meeting there was fervor over the announcement of the change in uniform for CAP members (Civil Air Patrol, unpaid non‐military...

... to instructors. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Armed forces Defence Israel Management development Power GAINING POWER AND VIABILITY IN MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES 23 A case study concerned with the development and implementation of a management development programme in the Israeli Defence Forces...