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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"positive leadership"”.
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Positivity: A key for enhancing creativity. Enhancing organizational creativity through positive leadership
… explored how creativity can be enhanced through leadership. Specifically, what specific leader behaviour encourages employee creativity and why. Using a qualitative case-based study, nine interviews were conducted in three companies in the creative industry in Iceland: CCP, CAOZ and the Icelandic …
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Optimistic Managers & Their Influence on Productivity & Employee Engagement in a Technology Organization
… we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach, maintaining a positive perspective, and frequently providing recognition and encouragement—which increases the engagement and productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 …
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Be The Light: A Leader’s Vitality Fuels Extraordinary Results
… their full potential. This capstone, grounded in positive psychology and leadership science, makes the case that to lead others well, leaders must first nurture and protect their own vitality. Rather than focusing on burnout and what drains leaders, this literature review explores how to …
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Empowering Leadership: A Participatory Inquiry into Enhancing Leader Self-Efficacy at M.O.S.A.I.C
… Theme 1 focuses on the need for tailored leadership training, including personalized growth plans and specialized programs addressing self-efficacy needs. Theme 2 emphasizes the importance of internal support and resources, advocating for increased financial allocations, streamlined …
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Abusive Supervision and Its Consequences for Employees in the Hong Kong Hotel Industry
… this study addresses a significant gap in leadership research, which often highlights positive leadership qualities while overlooking the negative impacts of destructive leadership behaviours. Although some argue that abusive leadership can paradoxically enhance performance, a comprehensive …
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Quality and safety in healthcare: does leadership behaviour of commissioners affect outcomes?
… practices. This research aims to explore the leadership behaviour of Commissioners and the role it plays in determining Quality & Safety (Q&S) in healthcare. The research took a pragmatic mixed method approach using two phases: phase 1 used focused video ethnography to observe Commissioners …
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Testing a Model of Servant Leadership's Influence on Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects of Follower Trust and Prosocial Identity
<p>Servant leadership is beginning to emerge as a premier positive leadership approach in the 21st century. However, recent theoretical propositions detailing the process through which servant leadership impacts outcomes has not been tested. Using the JD-R framework, the present study investigates …
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Health Promoting Leadership in a Virtual Context
Organisational leadership is regarded as one of the most important aspects of the workplace as it has been linked to productivity and efficiency and significantly influences employee health and well-being. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the shift to virtual work has shifted job demands and often …
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Job Crafting and Employee Engagement Among Millennials in Retail
… and care, encouraged team cohesion, promoted positive leadership, granted job autonomy, imbued their roles with meaning, and implemented caring human resource management (HRM) practices as the broader context shaping workplace experiences. The autonomy in task crafting, team relationships in …
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Developing and validating a scale of altruistic leadership
… debate on altruism generally and altruistic leadership more specifically. Theoretical articulation of the concept of altruistic leadership is limited, with most leadership scholars focusing on self-sacrificial behaviours, rather than leaders’ motivational state. This thesis draws on the …
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-PERCEIVED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS AND JOB SATISFACTION OF NURSE MID-MANAGERS AND THEIR STAFF'S PERCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS AND JOB SATISFACTION
… self perception of his/her leadership behaviors and job satisfaction and the subordinate's perception of the supervisor's leadership behaviors and his/her own job satisfaction in a home health agency. Eleven nursing supervisors and forty-six staff nurses completed three …
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Exploring the Reliability and Validity of Research Instruments to Examine Secondary School Principals' Authentic Leadership Behavior and Psychological Capital
… Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-24) and the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ) in a sample of Arizona secondary school principals. A comprehensive literature review was conducted linking the constructs of psychological capital and authentic leadership to other forms of positive leadership, …
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The leadership trinity: examining the interplay between healthcare organisational context, collective leadership and leadership effectiveness in the health sector - a multiple case study of district hospitals in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
To address the current leadership challenges within the South African health system, it is important to understand what influences the nature and practice of leadership within healthcare organisations. This thesis presents research about the interlinkages between context, leadership practices and …
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Development and Application of Self-Awareness in Project Leadership: A Multiple Case Study of Department of Defense Project Managers
… developed in PMs and integrated into their leadership practice. In view of the importance of self-awareness in leadership, more understanding is needed on how self-awareness is being understood and made use of by DoD PMs.</p> <p>Purpose</p> <p>This study sought to describe how PMs in the DoD …
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Integrative Executive Leadership: Towards a General Theory of Positive Business Leadership
… for effective, ethical, and excellent business leadership that proactively manages its societal impacts. Integrating economic success with service of the common good requires a sound, shared understanding of “positive” executive business leadership to guide executive selection, education and …