...Dirk van Dierendonck; Lin Xiu; Feng Lv Purpose This article provides deeper insights into the measurement of servant leadership within the Chinese culture. Servant leadership is viewed as a responsible leadership style that is beneficial to organizations by awaking, engaging and developing...

... (engaged leadership, EL). The paper specifically investigates an under researched aspect of EL – “connectorship” – with focus on developing a measure for connectorship. The authors present the conceptual framework for EL, followed by the operationalization of “connectorship” construct. Design...

... Measurement Organizational effectiveness Performance The Editor begins with the sobering comment that the “validity police” (citing Hirsh and Levin, co‐authors of Chapter 30) have killed the very concept of effectiveness as being uninteresting and unfruitful in understanding the performance...

...Gerry Larsson; Maria Fors Brandebo; Sofia Nilsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a short and easy to use yet psychometrically sound instrument designed to measure destructive leadership behaviours in a military context. Design/methodology/approach First, examples...

... were substantially insensitive to aspects of work that were perceived to be important and troubling to call centre employees and could therefore provide incomplete accounts of employee well‐being. Research limitations/implications Confirmation of the assessment's measurement properties...

... Picture” and the importance of measuring progress along the way while planning for the future. The bonus for readers is the valuable insights and tools contained in the appendices which include detailed information on the “Together We Win!” campaign, measurement tools, characteristics of culture, tracking...

... model for perceived cultural compatibility rather than the single factor view of culture offered by Veiga et al. and Very et al. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Organizational culture Measurement Organizational behaviour Merging with and acquiring other firms...

...Manuela Pardo del Val; Bruce Lloyd This paper aims to contribute to the empowerment literature by providing a concrete definition of the topic and thus a way of measuring the empowerment level in organisations. The tool designed to measure empowerment – resulting from the previous theoretical...

... for further testing. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Leadership Individual behaviour Measurement It appears that through most of the twentieth century authors and researchers used the concepts of management and leadership virtually interchangeably (see Kent, 1999). More recently, though, clarity...

...Harrie van Tuijl States that ProMES (Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System) can be interpreted as a method for the development of control loops for self‐management: “accepted control loops”. Whether practical applications of the ProMES method will lead to “accepted control loops...

...Claire Louise Management literature describes the “revolution” in business performance measurement which encourages the use of “soft” employee‐related measures, such as employee satisfaction, morale and commitment. Cultural issues have been identified as common stumbling blocks to progress...