Search results for "leadership"

The Moderating Role of Performance in the Link From Interactional Justice Climate to Mutual Trust Between Managers and Team Members.

2016

The main goal of this study was to examine the interaction between team members’ performance and interactional justice climate in predicting mutual trust between managers and team members. A total of 93 small centers devoted to the attention of people with intellectual disability participated in the study. In each center, the manager ( N = 93) and a group of team members ( N = 746) were surveyed. On average, team members were 36.2 years old ( SD = 9.3), whereas managers were 41.2 years old ( SD = 8.8). The interaction between interactional justice climate and performance was statistically significant. Team members’ performance strengthened the link from interactional justice climate to mut…

Empowering team leadership and safety performance in nuclear power plants: A multilevel approach

2013

Abstract Despite the large body of work on team leadership, hardly any literature has dealt with team leadership in safety performance settings. The goal of the present study is to analyze how team leader behaviors influence team members’ safety performance in nuclear power plants. For this purpose, an empowering leadership approach was assessed. We consider a multilevel model in which safety performance is divided into three types of behaviors. The sample was composed of 479 workers in 54 groups from two Spanish nuclear power plants. The results suggested that leaders’ empowering behaviors generated higher safety compliance behaviors and higher safety participation behaviors by team member…

Leadership in an online multiplayer strategy game: case – Illuria

2011

This paper looks at leadership communication in the context of online multiplayer games and the groups that operate within them. In multiplayer games promoting teamwork and long-term cooperation, issues of management and leadership are prevalent. The study explores the experiences that members of multiplayer communities have towards leadership in multiplayer games by looking at one specific case of organised team play within the framework of a turn-based online strategy game. The data utilised in this study consist of themed player interviews conducted via e-mail. The analysis proposes three central dimensions that emerged from the data. These were labelled: (1) the leader as primus motor, …

De‐bureaucratising organisational culture at a public university: A mixed‐method study of the implementation of a liberal arts programme

2020

Artykuł przedstawia analizę procesu zaprojektowania i zaimplementowania nowego programu studiów Liberal Arts w polskiej uczelni publicznej. Studium implementacji tego in-nowacyjnego rozwiązania zostało oparte na różnych meto-dach badawczych, jak analiza sieci aktorów, analiza dyskursu i etnografia. W artykule zidentyfikowano aspekty kultury organizacyjnej uczelni publicznej ułatwiające wprow-adzenie nowego programu studiów. Analiza dotyczyła trzech płaszczyzn funkcjonowania uczelni jako organizacji „uczącej się”: (1) relacji władzy i odpowiedzialności (styl przywództwa) podczas kreowania innowacji instytucjon-alnej, (2) (nie)formalnych norm i praktyk komunikacyjnych zapewniających ewolucję …

School district administrators’ perspectives on the professional activities and influence of special educators in Norway and Sweden

2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate school district administrators’ perspectives concerning the professional activities and influence of special educators in Norway (n=266) and Sweden (n=29 ...

Latvia: School Principals and Leadership Research in Latvia

2016

This article is aimed at researchers in international education and leadership in education as well as others interested in comparative education policies and the situation in Latvia as a postcommunist country. The first years after gaining independence characterized by crucial changes in all spheres in education and life in general cannot boast with important research results as it was necessary to cope with the complexity of the situation and the endless challenges education was facing. First of all, it was necessary to evaluate experiences in the previous authoritarian education management. Secondly, rich expertise of democratic education in Western countries, including various forms of …

Controversias del liderazgo escolar en la implantación de materiales digitales

2019

. El presente texto parte de una investigación financiada por el programa estatal de I+D+i, y focaliza la atención sobre las controversias que suscita el ejercicio del liderazgo y de coordinación entre los distintos agentes escolares en siete centros de primaria, públicos y concertados, de tres comunidades autónomas. Todos ellos comparten la coyuntura de estar implementando las tecnologías digitales respecto a los materiales curriculares. La metodología ha sido principalmente de corte naturalista adoptando el modelo de estudio de casos múltiples. Entre los resultados, se destaca la existencia de roles y comisiones de coordinación diferentes en los distintos tipos de centros, disputa del lid…

Leadership ethical dimension: a requirement in TQM implementation

2002

Deals with theoretical arguments that justify why the leadership of managers and its ethical dimension is a powerful enabler for TQM efforts to sustain, together with a systematic management. Starts by setting out a multidimensional conception of leadership in which the ethical sphere is explicitly considered. The principles articulating TQM are then analysed, studying the role of leadership and its ethical dimension, in their implementation. Concludes with five propositions, stating that the explicit consideration of leadership’s ethical dimension is required in order to achieve a complete, deep and sustained deployment of TQM principles. Draws implications for managers and researchers.

Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism

2016

Transformational leadership on the athletic field: An international review

2016

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the international literature that used the paradigm of transformational leadership in the context of physical activity (PA) and sport. A bibliometric and content of all international publications (N = 28) analysis is performed by classifying research based on various parameters such as the contexts (high performance sports, educational/recreational sports, varsity sports, school/within-class of physical education), role of the leader studied (coaches, teachers/instructors, peers, parents), population (adolescents and adults), and variables that have been associated with transformational leadership style. This study supported the interest and app…