{"title":"Servant Leadership: An Imperative Leadership Style for Leader Managers","authors":"Bharat Kantharia","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1980625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1980625","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of this research paper is to understand the deeper nuances & benefits of servant -leadership style vis-a-vis other leadership styles & its perspective with reference to Indian ethos. It compares in detail with transformational leadership style. Servant leadership seems to cut across all leadership theories & provides foundational philosophy for theories which are congruent with the growth of humankind. Author attempts to construct a framework for measurement of servant leadership in organizations, and same can be implemented in Indian organizations.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124787029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership, Team Mental Models, Team Efficacy and Intra-Team Conflict","authors":"Eunice L. Chua, Oluremi (Remi) B. Ayoko","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1872711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1872711","url":null,"abstract":"This study advances research in the area of leadership, team mental models, team efficacy and intra-team conflict. Specifically, we built and tested a conceptual model of the relationship between leadership behaviors, team mental models, team efficacy and conflict in 36 combat teams. Data analysis revealed that teams with well-defined transformational and transactional leadership behaviors were positively associated with increased team mental model (task work and team work) while team mental models were positively connected with team efficacy. Results also indicated that higher levels of team efficacy were directly associated with lower levels of intra-team conflict (task, relationship and process) while team efficacy successfully mediated the link between team mental models and intra-team conflict. Implications of findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124590189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Master or Comrade: Empowerment Theories and Applications in Parent Organizations of LAUSD","authors":"Andrea M. Slater","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1937784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1937784","url":null,"abstract":"Within the service area of the Los Angeles Unified School District, dozens of parent organizations operate, utilizing compelling words like empower, transformation and revolution throughout their mission statements in a district that is facing increasing dropout rates and decreasing college preparatory programs according to the California Department of Education. Central to the research is the understanding that the leadership models employed by the parent organizations directly impacts the parents’ involvement and effectiveness of the organization. This research applies the empowerment and social justice evaluation theories of Freire, Martens, and Gramsci to examine the alignment between the ideology and practice of the parent organizations that serve largely African-American and Latino populations to determine why participation in these organizations has not resulted in the large scale transformation in the public school system sought by the engaged members. The methodologies used include case studies and data analysis of two prominent South Los Angeles organizations examining the materials, websites, organizational transparency and community resources to determine the roles of minority parents in the leadership, democratic principles and equity within the organizations.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124030434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will the Global World Change the Leaders? - Prophets and Pioneers of the Future","authors":"C. Sitnikov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1496983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1496983","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides insights into the capacity of these leaders to re-shape mentalities, believes, meanings, consciousness of individuals and shapes models of spiritual, \"reenchanter\" business leaders binding the individuals, business organizations and surrounding world, and several tools and methods used to reenchant the organization and its members. The approach was a qualitative one, based on the link between empirical observation and leadership theories. In particular, leaders in various lines were observed, as constructive poles, reforming or recreating meanings of daily life in post-modern world. Various literatures had been investigated, as well as different trends of opinion, leader's discourses, and mass-media. A rate of uncertainty accompanied the research as result of \"advertising\" behind personalities. Difficulties in finding the \"core\" of these individuals joined the track of research, reason for developing several models of leaders. So far, reenchanting was mainly tackled from sociologic point of view while the assignation to post-modern management connects the spirituality of leaders and leading from soul producing the kind of leaders that individuals, organizations and world long for.The research revealed a set of characteristics of leaders who, cultivating a deep inner spiritual life, bring the rational to supra-rational and teach unobservant, uncertain and unconscious individuals to notice what nature and life are trying to show them. In addition, a major finding was the substantiation of a cluster of methods and tools that leaders can use to reenchant the individuals.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124563655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change Management for Survival: Becoming an Adaptive Leader","authors":"B. T. Lowder","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1411492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1411492","url":null,"abstract":"The paper evaluates change management as an imperative for success for the individual leader and his or her organization. Change management is first analyzed from an individual perspective and then from an organizational perspective. An individual must thoroughly understand the various stages involved in change management to successfully navigate dramatic change in their lives. Likewise, at the organizational level an adaptive leader must understand the important change management process while also being proactive in change implementation by focusing on developing an adaptive work environment (Asoh, 2004; Locke & Tarantino, 2006; Powell, 1987; Williamson, 1991). The adaptive leader understands that, as Heifetz and Laurie (2001) state, an adaptive leader “must strike a delicate balance between having people feel the need to change and having them feel overwhelmed by change, leadership is a razor’s edge” (p. 134). This paper establishes and evaluates the key steps used by an adaptive leader during the change management process to ensure the effective implementation of organizational change in a manner that has a positive impact on the organization’s workforce.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121837537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities","authors":"Amanda H. Goodall","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1383076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1383076","url":null,"abstract":"There is a large literature on the productivity of universities. Little is known, however, about how different types of leader affect a university’s later performance. To address this, I blend quantitative and qualitative evidence. By constructing a new longitudinal dataset, I find that on average the research quality of a university improves some years after it appoints a president (vice chancellor) who is an accomplished scholar. To try to explain why scholar-leaders might improve the research performance of their institutions, I draw from interview data with twenty-six heads in universities in the United States and United Kingdom. The findings have policy implications for governments, universities, and a range of research and knowledge-intensive organizations.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115877093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of Their Performance","authors":"Jonathan C. Borck, C. Coglianese, J. Nash","doi":"10.15779/Z387Z7Z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z387Z7Z","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and states have developed environmental leadership programs (ELPs), a type of voluntary environmental program designed to recognize facilities with strong environmental performance records and encourage facilities to perform better. Proponents argue that ELPs overcome some of the limitations of traditional environmental regulation by encouraging managers to address the full gambit of environmental problems posed by their facilities, reducing the costs of environmental regulation, easing adversarialism, and fostering positive culture change. Although ELPs have been in place for at least five years at the federal level and in seventeen states, these programs have been subject to little empirical evaluation. In this paper, we chart a course for assessing whether ELPs achieve their goals. Drawing on archival research and interviews with government officials who manage these programs, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of these programs, describing program goals, activities, communication strategies, and data collection practices. We find that EPA and many states have established ELPs to improve the environment and to achieve various social goals such as improving relationships between business and government. When it comes to collecting data that could be used to assess these programs' successes, however, government efforts fall short. Even when agencies collect reliable data, these data usually cannot be aggregated sensibly and are insufficient to draw inferences about the true impact of these programs. They also cannot help answer the question of whether ELPs are actually prompting pollution reductions or improving regulatory relationships. These general data weaknesses are significant, even surprising, given the aspirations for ELPs to facilitate policy learning and advocates' claims that these programs are delivering important environmental benefits.Posted paper, uploaded January 2010, is the published version of the working paper originally posted November 2008.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133060808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) Happen","authors":"Michel Schlosser, Sherwood C. Frey, R. Brownlee","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1262785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1262785","url":null,"abstract":"The time has come for global companies to pursue aggressively their environmental and social responsibilities. This paper poses and discusses six key questions that CEOs and senior leadership teams need to be asking themselves as they begin the long and challenging journey that lies ahead. The necessary commitments to environmental and social change must be rooted in ethical considerations, be springboards for innovation, and be built upon a solid base of corporate responsibility. These commitments must acknowledge the capabilities that will be required to fulfill them, the potential barriers that may arise, and the possibility of a dramatic change in the purpose and nature of the global corporations. There is an urgent need for corporate change and this paper provides a framework for discussions leading to making that change happen.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131833872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership by Confidence in Teams","authors":"Hajime Kobayashi, H. Suehiro","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1272691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1272691","url":null,"abstract":"We study endogenous signaling by analyzing a team production problem with endogenous timing. Each agent of the team is privately endowed with some level of confidence about team productivity. Each of them must then commit a level of effort in one of two periods. At the end of each period, each agent observes his partner' s move in this period. Both agents are rewarded by a team output determined by team productivity and total invested effort. Each agent must personally incur the cost of effort that he invested. We show a set of sufficient conditions under which an agent chooses to become a leader or a follower depending on his confidence about reward from the team in a stable equilibrium. This means that a player endogenously becomes a signal sender or a signal receiver depending only on the cost-benefits from becoming a sender or a receiver.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125572874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership, Collective Decision-Making, and Pension Fund Governance","authors":"G. Clark, R. Urwin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1133015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1133015","url":null,"abstract":"For pension funds and other institutional investors, governance refers to the resources and processes used in decision-taking. Recognising that risk and uncertainty are the life-blood of investment strategy, in this paper we develop a resource-based framework to better understand the structure and management of financial decision-making in these organisations. It is suggested that these types of institutions have three types of scarce resources: time, expertise, and collective commitment (or how groups work together to a common purpose). We explain the nature of such decisions including their sensitivity to global financial markets; we explain the resource-based framework, and; we show how and why leadership in the decision-making process is essential to best-practice pension fund governance. To sustain the argument, we rely upon our best-practice governance framework and recent research on pension fund trustees' expressed opinions regarding their preferred styles of decision-making. Lessons are drawn for the process of collective deliberation and especially the role of board leadership and its distinctive qualities in best-practice organisations.","PeriodicalId":176783,"journal":{"name":"Models of Leadership eJournal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126091742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}