Tag Archives for " Leadership "
- in Blog by Kafilat
- |
- 1 comments
How Aversive Leadership Impacts Employee Proactivity and Moral Disengagement
Understanding the relationship between aversive leadership and its outcomes is crucial for organisations aiming to foster a positive work environment and promote employee well-being and productivity. Research looking at the relationships between aversive leadership, moral disengagement, and proactive personality traits. In organisations leaders tend to establish behavioural standards by modelling behaviour and enforcing them through […]
Read more- in Blog by Kafilat
- |
- 1 comments
A Review of Humble Leadership
There are well over 120 different types of leadership. Moral-oriented forms of leadership focus on promoting ethical behaviour. These include styles such as ethical leadership (maintaining ethical norms), servant leadership (personal/professional development of followers) and humble leadership. Humble Leaders Humble leaders demonstrate humility by:• Being willing to evaluate their skills and behaviours honestly.• Acknowledging the […]
Read more- in Blog , Leadership , Podcasts , Research by David Wilkinson
What is the Criteria for Assessing Ambidextrous Leadership?
In this podcast David talks with Jan Laser who is a HR Business Partner in an Organisation in Hamburg, Germany. Jan publishes academic papers whilst not being employed as an academic. In this podcast, Jan and David talk about publishing papers as a non-academic independant researcher and about his latest paper ‘Criteria to appraise top […]
Read moreHow Leader Humour Helps to Develop Employee Creativity
Leader humour is one of the primary leadership behaviours and impacts a wide range of outcomes, including performance, as well as higher employee job satisfaction, stress reduction and higher employee engagement Employee creativity Employee creativity is often the foundation of organisational innovation, which itself is the basis of a business’s competitive advantage. Consequently, determining which […]
Read more- in Blog , Leadership , Research by Kafilat
How New Leaders Emerge and Form Their Identity
In order to grow and maintain their performance organisations need to produce new leaders on a fairly consistent basis. As less experienced team members step into key roles and form their identities as leaders, they are essentially going through a process of self-discovery. Leadership identity develops as individuals step into the leadership role, and that […]
Read more- in Blog , Podcasts by David Wilkinson
How good leaders learn from failure
You don’t need a leader if you aren’t going anywhere. But if you and your organisation or business is on a journey, especially when all around you is changing, one thing is inevitable – failure. In his latest book, Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong, James Wetrich explores the role of failure in good leadership […]
Read more- in Blog , Leadership , Learning , Research by David Wilkinson
- |
- 2 comments
Why Leadership Development Courses Do More Harm Than Good
Leadership development programmes are probably one of the most popular forms of development for aspiring and active leaders. Their aim is to make leaders more conscious of the impact they can have and equip them with the tools of leadership. A recent study examining the impact these programmes have has discovered that the programmes may […]
Read more- in Blog by David Wilkinson
Does gender make a difference in terms of leadership? – A new study
One of the often-asked questions is whether gender makes a difference in terms of leadership. There is a vast array of research looking at areas to do with gender and leadership, a proportion of which is in contention, with contradictory findings being reported. So, what is the current state of research about the relationship between […]
Read more- in Blog by Kafilat
- |
- 1 comments
How to protect yourself from the effects of an authoritarian leader
There has been a growing interest over the last 5 to 10 years in the concept of employee or psychological resilience within organisations and in organisational research. Some of the reasons for this increased interest in resilience include evidence of: • increased performance• increased tolerance to uncertainty and ambiguity• more positive reactions to change However, […]
Read more- in Blog by Kafilat
- |
- 1 comments
Is Laissez-faire leadership really the leadership style to avoid? – New study
New research about Laissez-faire leadership may challenge your previous thoughts and ideas about this style of leadership and whether it really is as bad as it is held out to be. Nature of Leadership The nature or style of leadership in organisations has been shown in many, many studies to have a significant impact on […]
Read more