... Outcomes Timing Senior management References to executive coaching were virtually non‐existent prior to 1980, but since then coaching has expanded rapidly into an established industry encompassing approximately $1 billion dollars worth of coaching fees annually (Sherman and Freas, 2004). Coaching's...

... background deviation Top management team Cognitive deviation Communication frequency Senior management Communication Since Hambrick and Mason (1984) published their seminal paper that introduced the upper echelons perspective in strategic management, research on top managers in the field...

.... Debmalya Mukherjee can be contacted at: dmukher@uakron.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Senior management Organizational performance International business Skills Globalization It is widely believed that organizational competitiveness in today's globalized business...

...). Michael A. Abebe can be contacted at: abebema@utpa.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Turnarounds Senior management Organizational change Business performance The role of strategic leadership during organizational performance decline is an important issue in organization...

... is an attempt at such integration of the said literatures. Chandrashekhar Lakshman can be contacted at: clakshman2007@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Leadership Senior management Knowledge management The long tradition of leadership theory and research has only...

... leadership theories is the leader's vision and its adoption by followers. As Baum et al. (1998) have put it, all those approaches share three common components: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Leadership Entrepreneurs Chief executives Senior management Employee involvement...

... stimulate and motivate followers. Accordingly, we hypothesize that: Emotional intelligence Senior management Leadership Performance management The reliability of the EQ‐i has been examined by a number of researchers (Matthews et al., 2002 ; Newsome et al., 2000 ; Petrides...

... theory. Leadership Senior management Narratives United Kingdom Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.(William Shakespeare, Macbeth, V...

... with the organisation's administrative heritage in order to increase absorptive capacity? Sarah E.A. Dixon can be contacted at: s.dixon@kingston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Senior management Change management Oil industry Russia First we present the theoretical...

... effectiveness and demonstrate value to the clients they serve. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Middle management Senior management Coaching Management development Recruitment Leadership Coaching of leaders engages these individuals in a process of working toward enhancement...

... significant contributions to both the leadership and knowledge management literatures. C. Lakshman can be contacted at: lakshmanc@longwood.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Leadership Chief executives Senior management Knowledge management Qualitative research Although...

... from the Top: 10 Vital Questions Every Leader Must Answer to Stay on Top of the Game . London : Piatkus Books   2005 . 216 pp.   £20 hardback , ISBN: 0‐7499‐2625‐2 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Leadership Senior management Leadership guru Graham Alexander...

... Gender Individual psychology Senior management Transformational leadership The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Leadership & Organization Development Journal "Perceptions of emotion expressiveness: gender differences among...

... differences is senior executive leadership. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Gender Senior management Individual psychology Transformational leadership Organizational culture in Western society is influenced by the rational traditions of theorists such as Weber, Taylor, and Fayol...

... ; Murray, 2001). 16. Insufficient equipment and infrastructure (Murray, 2001 ; Aggarwal and Rezaee, 1996). 17. Lack of senior management involvement (Travis, 2002 ; Whittaker, 1999 ; Murray, 2001). 18. Lack of knowledge transfer between IT and the business (Riggle, 2002 ; Travis, 2002...

... in each group) were interviewed in a focus group fashion. They were asked to give as many examples of positive and negative indirect leadership behaviours as they could think of. These interviews lasted about 60 min. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leadership Behaviour Senior...

.... As the article describes, this is no easy task, especially for those responsible for leading large institutions in what were once considered traditional industries. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Senior management Teams Development Corporate culture Organizational change Team building “Every time...

...Peter Simpson; Hugh Burnard The senior manager’s role is to constantly identify and clarify what to focus on and then to direct energy into that focus. This involves learning to gain clarity of purpose within a context of uncertainty and disagreement: the place of not knowing. Learning to work...