Nine Principles for Enhancing Leadership Development Practices in Organizations

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI:10.1111/ijtd.12369

Anna Fabisch, Sofia Kjellström, Marlene Ockander, Gunilla Avby

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The significance of leadership for organizational success is widely recognized; however, there are numerous perspectives on the best way to develop leadership. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that professionals collectively identify as crucial for enhancing leadership development in organizations. The research questions addressed are: What key principles guide well-informed decisions in organizing leadership development practices? What generic aspects are related to these principles?

Employing a participatory research approach, we collected and analyzed data in collaboration with professionals working with leadership development in 17 municipalities and 10 regions in Sweden. The data were gathered by recording collaborative work during workshops, analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and interpreted using paradox theory. Our main theoretical contribution consists of nine key principles that guide well-informed decisions in organizing leadership development practices. These principles are structured within key questions that go beyond perspectives on the best way to develop leadership, addressing inevitable paradoxical tensions. Additionally, we identify three generic aspects for managing these tensions and enhancing leadership development practices in organizations: systematic deliberation, integration and continuous improvement. Based on these findings, we present two practical tools to help professionals strengthen leadership development as a cohesive support system. Rather than seeking a single best curriculum or framework, professionals can be supported by aligning the responses to Why? What? How and when? Who? and What works?, always related to Where? and by continuously applying systematic deliberation, integrating leadership development with business strategies and HR activities and pursuing continuous improvement.

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International Journal of Training and Development MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Increasing international competition has led governments and corporations to focus on ways of improving national and corporate economic performance. The effective use of human resources is seen as a prerequisite, and the training and development of employees as paramount. The growth of training and development as an academic subject reflects its growth in practice. The International Journal of Training and Development is an international forum for the reporting of high-quality, original, empirical research. Multidisciplinary, international and comparative, the journal publishes research which ranges from the theoretical, conceptual and methodological to more policy-oriented types of work. The scope of the Journal is training and development, broadly defined. This includes: The determinants of training specifying and testing the explanatory variables which may be related to training identifying and analysing specific factors which give rise to a need for training and development as well as the processes by which those needs become defined, for example, training needs analysis the need for performance improvement the training and development implications of various performance improvement techniques, such as appraisal and assessment the analysis of competence Training and development practice the design, development and delivery of training the learning and development process itself competency-based approaches evaluation: the relationship between training and individual, corporate and macroeconomic performance Policy and strategy organisational aspects of training and development public policy issues questions of infrastructure issues relating to the training and development profession The Journal’s scope encompasses both corporate and public policy analysis. International and comparative work is particularly welcome, as is research which embraces emerging issues and developments.