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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"leader behaviors"”.
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A Taxonomy of Effective Leader Behaviors in the Construction Industry
… is currently facing a shortage of effective leadership, and leaders face unique challenges in coordinating multiple teams of subcontractors on projects. The first step in remedying this shortage is to identify the behaviors of an effective construction leader. To address this need, a taxonomy …
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Impact of Transformational Leader Behaviors on Diverse Team Performance and Persistence
… internal network density represents an area that leaders can focus on to improve overall performance. Additionally, an organization's approach to diversity has also been shown to drive diversity-related concerns according to a member's social group representation within a larger group. …
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The Relationship Between Leader Behaviors and Subordinate Performance: Examining the Moderating Influence of Leader-Member Exchange
<p>Subordinates 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 …
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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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Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Nurse Leader Behaviors and Their Impact on the Workplace Environment
Nursing leadership is a crucial component in today’s healthcare organizations as nurses make up the largest profession in healthcare overall. Nurse leaders have the ability to affect the environment of the nurses’ workplace in both positive and negative ways, thus impacting their Quality of Nurse …
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An Analysis of the Leader Behaviors of Career-Bound and Place-Bound Public School Superintendents in Iowa
… whether the two career types exhibit different leader behaviors. The problem. The problem investigated was: Are there differences in either initiating structure or consideration behaviors between career-and place-bound superintendents? Procedure. A Career Patterns Questionnaire was designed and …
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The profile, functions, leader behavior and effectiveness of deans of occupational education in public community colleges of the United States
… descriptive data base of the profile, functions, leader behaviors and effectiveness of American community college deans of occupational education. These data were examined with respect to their relationship to institutional size, type of governance and source of funds. The study focused on the …
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Incorporating implicit leadership theories into the transformational and transactional leadership framework
The role of implicit leadership theories within the framework of transformational and transactional leadership theory were examined. Two major issues were how implicit leadership theories (i.e., good, neutral, poor leader prototype) relate to specific leader behaviors (attributed charisma, …
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Validating the Vroom-Yetton normative model of leader behavior in field sales force management and measuring the training effect of Telos on the leader behavior of district managers
… Problem Despite strong evidence that effective leadership by district managers is important for organizational success, there is a void of research dealing with the application of leadership theories and leadership training programs in field sales force management. The dissertation focuses upon …
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Examining Attitudes, Norms, and Control Toward Safety Behaviors as Mediators in the Leadership-Safety Motivation Relationship
… in the workplace. Findings suggest that unsafe behaviors and work-related accidents and injuries can be reduced through increasing employee safety motivation. Additional research has recognized leadership as a source of employee safety motivation. However, most studies have empirically assessed …
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Perceptions of Leaders: The Role of Leader Prototypes and Intervention to Improve Judgments of Female Leaders
Leader prototypes are our expectations for attributes a leader should possess, and these prototypes guide our perceptions and judgments of others with regard to leadership. This dissertation uses a connectionist perspective of leadership to investigate differences in perceptions and judgments of …
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A Different Way of Looking: Application of a Pattern Approach to Understanding Transformational and Transactional Leadership
Prior work in the transformational leadership realm has focused primarily on relations among leader behaviors and various criteria such as subordinate satisfaction and effectiveness. This restrictive focus has limited the degree to which one of Bass's (1985a) central arguments can be directly …
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Leadership Effectiveness: Investigating the Influences of Leader Sex, Gender, and Behaviors on Self and Other Perceptions
… role congruity theory both posit that women in leadership positions are likely to face more negative criticism than men in leadership positions. The purpose of the current study was to examine the influence of gender roles on leader behaviors as well as leaders' self perceived effectiveness. The …
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Contributions of student organization experiences on leader capacity development
… students develop their capacity for successful leadership. Student organizations serve as one avenue of co-curricular involvement that positively contribute to developing students’ leader capacity. Existing research related to student organization involvement often focuses on general connections …
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The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Long Term Care Organizations: The Direct Care Worker Perspective
… be a workforce concern for industry and policy leaders for decades to come. Issues such as turnover, recognition, and supervisory practices have all been studied relative to direct care worker retention, but leader behaviors are of special interest because of documented influence on …
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The art of change leadership and the science of implementation.
… of Implementation Science in K-12 public school leadership. Far from a checklist, Implementation Science is a framework for understanding change which values the perspective, expertise, and involvement of everyone within the organization. Teachers from two school districts, both of which …
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Leadership and Adult Development: A Study of Higher Education Academic Administrators
Leadership studies have been subject to increasing criticism. At the same time, many groups and institutions are claiming that leaders are needed in today's world, more than ever before. More specifically, higher education institutions and their critics are attempting to identify the leaders and …
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Gender and Leadership: Behavioral Differences Exhibited While Leading a Production Simulation
… empirical examination of gender differences in leader behavior during a production simulation task. Four categories of leader behavior were investigated--overall leader activity; amount of input from leaders solicited by group members; behaviors used to motivate workers' and demotivating …
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Leadership perceptions of men and women: a leadership categorization view
This study investigated the leadership perceptions of males and females from a leadership categorization (Lord, Foti, & Phillips, 1982) perspective. Subjects read vignettes of male and female student leaders which differed in terms of prototypicality of exhibited leader behaviors. Various measures …
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The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and the Emotional and Social Competence of the School Leader
… students often hinges on the effectiveness of leadership. Research reveals that transformational school leaders become effective change agents by developing a shared vision for the school, building consensus around key priorities, holding high expectations, providing support, modeling …
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