... Sweden Leadership Behaviour Psychometric tests Armed forces Destructive leadership Measurement Destrudo‐L Military The vast majority of leadership studies have focused on positive aspects such as how leadership can contribute to organisational effectiveness, individual work satisfaction...

... 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...

... Publishing Limited 2010 Transformational leadership Transactional leadership Armed forces Transformational leadership theory is one of the most popular theoretical frameworks in the leadership area. In many studies, transformational leadership has been lauded for its superior, positive...

... in order to construct experiences useful for the cadets' leader development (Dewey, 1961). Kristian Firing can be contacted at: Kristian.Firing@lksk.mil.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Armed forces Decision making Leadership Training Personality Norway...

...) 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...

... development Armed forces Personality Process analysis Norway Beginning with Burns' (1978) formulation, theories of charismatic and transformational leadership have sparked a renewed interest in individual differences as predictors of effective leadership (Bass, 1985 ; Burns, 1978 ; House...

... Larsson can be contacted at: gerry.larsson@fhs.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Leadership Behaviour Armed forces Norway Sweden Another research field with a similar label but a different meaning is the rapidly growing research on distributed or shared leadership (see...

... the viability of the derived features and corresponding structure. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Leadership development Phenomenology Armed forces Competences United States of America Dubrin (2001, p. 3) suggests that “about 35,000 research articles, magazine articles...

... management Armed forces In the first data collection phase, three high‐level managers were approached and they all agreed to participate. When interviewed individually (see below), each of them was asked to suggest a name of an employee we could interview. The employee was to be working at least two...

... overall performance grade and/or leadership/management appraisals and higher scale scores (Table III). Leadership Competences Armed forces Managers As long as there remains potential gain to be derived “from identifying the relationships between managerial success and individual...

... 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...

... learning transfer from the leadership programme back to the workface. Armed forces Cognition Information processing Knowledge frameworks Leadership © MCB UP Limited 2003 This discussion explains the development of an empirical research instrument designed specifically to map leaders...

... only on the obstacles, you will lose sight of the goal (Kaltman, 1998, p. 242). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Leadership Armed forces Quality Methodology Military leadership development in many western countries is explicitly based on theories such as situational leadership (Hersey...

... misunderstanding of volunteer motivation and the symbolism of organizational uniforms led to dysfunctional organizational change. An alternative solution that makes positive symbolic change is proposed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Armed forces Commitment Morale Personnel psychology USA Voluntary...

... of Haifa and Micha Popper is a commander at the School of Military Leadership, Israel. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Armed forces Defence Israel Management development Power ...