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The effect of leader performance and leader likableness upon ratings of leader behavior
The current study examined the effects of the leader performance and leader likeableness upon ratings of initiating structure and consideration and upon the latencies to make these ratings. One-hundred and ninty-eight male subjects read and listened to a description of a fictitious personnel …
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Leader consideration reconsidered: the l factor in leader behavior
In the current dissertation, I propose that leadership research has progressed by repeatedly reinventing the concept of leader consideration. First, I provide a historical review of the origins of leader consideration. Then, I conduct empirical demonstrations (using both meta-analytic and primary …
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Does The Leader Fit The Place? Examining Leader-Culture Fit And Its Implications For Leader Effectiveness
… study focused on a relatively new concept, Leader-Culture Fit (L-C Fit), to help bridge the empirical gap that exists between the literatures on leadership and organizational culture. L-C Fit, a subtype of Person-Environment fit, was examined here by testing the complex relationships between …
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Agnes Nestor: Labor Leader, Politician, and Social Reformer--A Portrait of a Leader
<p>School leadership is about effecting change in education and promoting excellence in teaching and learning. School leaders, however, practice leadership in multiple arenas with diverse stakeholders. Students, local community members, faculty, staff, and each layer of government represent unique …
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The Role of Leader Support for Safety Within the Leader Justice-Safety Performance Relationship
<p>Research indicates that leadership is a potent antecedent of safety performance and outcomes. Specifically, quality of leadership has been identified as a critical target for occupational safety research. The current studies focused on employee perceptions of leader justice, operationalized in …
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Measuring Purposeful Engagement in Leader Self-Development: A Scale Validation and Pathway to Leader Adaptability
<p>Leader self-development is an effective strategy for developing adaptability. However, previous conceptualizations and measurements provide little insight into the process of self-development. This dissertation aims to conceptualize and validate a reliable measure of purposeful engagement in …
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Organisational context : a moderator of leadership style, leader emotional intelligence and trust in the leader
… the exploration of how factors such as leadershipstyle and leader emotional intelligence are related to trust in the leader and whether or not organisational context is a moderator of these relationships. Quantitative data was collected from two hospitals in the Western Cape. The current …
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Leader Effectiveness in the Eye of the Beholder: Self-Affirming Implicit Policies in Leader Perception
… to extend current knowledge of how ideal leader prototypes and self-concepts solely and dually influence leader categorization and effectiveness judgments. Cluster analysis and policy-capturing were employed to examine independent and dependent variables as patterns. Findings partially …
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Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff
… of disempowerment (Shujaa, 1998). Black school leaders (BSLs) who understand the systemic and institutional pressures Black children may face and have to overcome, having undergone similarly racialized experiences in school, are uniquely placed to create liberatory spaces for Black students by …
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Becoming an ethical leader: The leader development journey of South African chartered accountants in business leadership
… that highlight the need for effective ethical leadership. Despite the urgency, existing research does not understand the lifelong process that develops Ethical Leaders. All the existing research has been done in Western contexts and with a focus on adulthood development. This study’s purpose …
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The Relationship Between Leader Behaviors and Subordinate Performance: Examining the Moderating Influence of Leader-Member Exchange
… interpret and react to the behaviors of their leaders. Based on a theory of organizational trust, it was argued that greater trust between subordinate and leader is required to respond appropriately to relations-oriented behaviors than task-oriented behaviors due to a higher level of personal …
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Self-other agreement and leader effectiveness: An examination of differences across rater sources and leader behaviors
The study sought to identify the specific leadership behaviors and rater sources for which self-other agreement is most predictive of leader effectiveness. Hypotheses were based on the premise that certain sources may be better suited to provide feedback on specific leadership behaviors because …
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Personality and leader emergence in groups
Trait-based approaches to leadership have been around for a long time. Starting out as one of the original theories of leadership, research in the area of trait- based perspectives began to slow and give way to other, different domains of predicting leadership in the 1950s. Only recently has there …
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Emotional contagion in leader-follower interactions
… has been theoretically important to charismatic leadership for over 80 years as Weber (1920) referred to the emotion, passion, and devotion that ensue from charismatic authority, and is still evident in modern theories of charismatic and transformational leadership. When leaders express positive …
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Implicit Theories of Leader-Follower Relationships
… sound measure of implicit theories of leader-follower relationships (ITLFRs), which are defined as the implicit beliefs one holds about the malleability or fixedness of leader-follower relationships. A series of five studies were undertaken to test various forms of validity and …
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Developing the Girl as a Leader
… can create young women who are engaged, active leaders. Girls receive differential treatment in combined-sex education environments. Girls often do not receive the encouragement or instruction to assume leadership. I want to identify the elements of single-sex education that foster female …
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Signaling Dynamic Authenticity as a Leader
… theorizes on signaling dynamic authenticity as a leader. At its core, authenticity involves being self-referential. It implies that knowing oneself is a prerequisite to being true to oneself. One’s numerous selves morph into self-concepts and build an individual’s self-monitoring personality, …
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