...Esme Franken; Geoff Plimmer; Sanna Malinen Purpose Support from managers that enables employee growth promotes adaptation to changing and complex job challenges. Guided by social exchange theory, this study aims to establish growth-oriented management (GOM) as a key management capability...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Top leadership Top management Individual follower Organizational change Leadership Managers Senior managers The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him […] We want...

...Travis L. Russ Purpose This study seeks to explore whether McGregor's Theory X/Y assumptions are related to managers’ communication apprehension (CA) – their degree of comfort when interacting with others. Design/methodology/approach Surveys measuring Theory X/Y assumptions and CA were...

...André A. de Waal; Béatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden; Christopher Selvarajah; Denny Meyer Purpose Despite the abundance of literature on management it seems that the quality of management has not improved enough to prevent scandals which have occurred in recent years. It could be that either...

... leadership behavior and not related to transactional leadership behavior. Practical implications Results suggest that managers wishing to improve their skills as leaders may want to increase the frequency with which they attempt to look at issues from the perspective of their subordinates. Originality...

... success; to identify and empirically test two new foci of organizational identification, namely manager and top management identification (TMID); and to investigate how these two new identification foci affect the relationship between various types of organizational justice and change‐oriented behavior...

...Michael K. Muchiri; Ray W. Cooksey; Lee V. Di Milia; Fred O. Walumbwa Purpose This paper seeks to examine gender‐ and management‐ level differences in perceptions of effective leadership within a framework of new leadership models that focus on the processes of influencing self and others rather...

... cultural orientation mediates the relationship between leadership vision and organizational support for innovation, whereas in FPs, a competitive cultural orientation mediates this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This is an empirical study that draws upon a large survey of 1,448 managers...

...Richard K. Ladyshewsky Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the manager as coach (MAC) role as an organisational development strategy, in particular, aspects of the relationship between manager and employee that make it successful. The purpose of the MAC in the business context...

...Anusuiya Subramaniam; Rozhan Othman; Murali Sambasivan Purpose This paper aims to examine implicit leadership theory (ILT) among Malaysian managers and the impact of the gap between the ILT and actual leader behavior on leader‐member exchange (LMX) quality. Design/methodology/approach A survey...

...Gunnar Augustsson; Gunilla Olofsdotter; Lars‐Erik Wolvén Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the complexity of manpower management in temporary work agencies (TWA). The aim is to investigate to which extent the managers reflects the features of boundary spanners. Design...

...Tricia Vilkinas; Jie Shen; Greg Cartan Purpose This study sets out to investigate the leadership roles, the predictors of leadership effectiveness for Chinese managers, and the relative effects of gender and rater differences on perceived leadership roles. The study is important as it seeks...

.... A structural model was constructed to explain the relationship in excellence in leadership. Findings From the three ethnic groups, 512 managers participated in the research. The findings suggest that Malaysian managers maintain distinctive leadership behaviour along ethnic lines and a Malaysian leadership...

...Jarna Heinonen; Jouko Toivonen Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore how employee attitudes affect management behaviour in the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) setting. The paper focuses on the co‐evolutionary processes of practices and elements of the social structure, i.e...

... identifies attributional accuracy of managers as the fundamental component of the functional model developed here. The model of leadership developed here focuses on such key leadership constructs as leader information processing using complex schemata, leader attributions and their accuracy, leader behaviors...

... of the coaching of site managers in construction projects. The study shows that coaching actively helped the site managers to relate to their previous experiences and modes of operating and to conceive of new and effective ways of leading their work. Findings The participating site managers looked upon...

...Nicky Dries; Roland Pepermans Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the utility of using some indication of emotional intelligence (EI) to identify high potential in managers. Presupposed correspondences between the EI Personal Factors Model (Bar‐On) and Briscoe and Hall's metacompetency model...

...David Cromb Bruce   Hoag and Cary L.   Cooper . Managing Value‐Based Organizations . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   2006 . 320 pp.   £65.00 (hardback) , ISBN: 184064981X © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Value Organisational change Work Employees...

...David Cromb Martin   Beirne . Empowerment and Innovation: Managers, Principles and Reflective Practice . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   2006 . 129 pp. , ISBN: 1‐84376‐246‐3   £35.96 (hardback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Empowerment Organizational...

...Mike Young; Victor Dulewicz Purpose To develop a model clarifying the personal factors and behavioural characteristics (competencies) relevant to effective command, leadership and management in the Royal Navy. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire study was conducted on a sample of 261...