{"title":"How Instrumental Leadership Promotes Affective Commitment: Social Skills as Mediator","authors":"El Mustapha Ait Sidi Mhamed, Ronald E. Riggio","doi":"10.1002/jls.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Employee-organization linkages have been the subject of considerable scholarly and managerial attention. The findings of this research study provide empirical evidence that instrumental leadership attributes predict affective commitment among employees in their organizations. More specifically, based on their expertise and environmental knowledge, instrumental leaders endorse attributes that help followers adhere to the organization's vision through providing timely feedback and facilitating tasks. Instrumental leadership thus promotes a positive workplace in which affective commitment is encouraged. The sample included 226 followers from a major telecom company in Morocco. Employees reported their levels of affective commitment, completed the Social Skills Inventory, and rated their supervisor's instrumental leadership. Results suggest that instrumental leadership may play a role in building employees’ affective commitment and that more socially skilled employees may be more likely to develop healthy leader-follower relationships, resulting in affective commitment to the organization as a whole.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ralph A. Gigliotti, Morit Blank Shavelsky, Christine Goldthwaite, Sara E. Spear, Vidhi Waran
{"title":"Retrospective Review of Leadership Development Programs: Alumni Perceptions of Value, Influence, and Organizational Outcomes","authors":"Ralph A. Gigliotti, Morit Blank Shavelsky, Christine Goldthwaite, Sara E. Spear, Vidhi Waran","doi":"10.1002/jls.21917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21917","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As formal leadership development programs grow in scale and scope, there is a need for further research that extends beyond the focus on short-term outcomes for individual program participants. This study explored alumni perceptions of the longer-term outcomes associated with participation in leadership development programs, focusing specifically on their retrospective analysis of organizational-level outcomes and perceptions of program value and influence. This qualitative study consisted of semi-structured interviews with alumni who participated in an academic leadership development program at Rutgers University within the last five years. The findings from this study highlight alumni perceptions of the value and influence of program participation, including an emphasis on organizational outcomes related to bridging social capital, translating theory to practice, enabling systems thinking, and promoting strategic alignment that were all made possible as a result of their participation in these leadership development programs. The article concludes with a call to action for additional research on the relationship between leadership development program participation and organizational outcomes, focusing specifically on the value of retrospective sensemaking and considerations of influence across multiple levels of analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 4","pages":"18-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.21917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Training for Department Chairs: Integrating Formal Training, Experiential Learning, and Mentorship","authors":"Leda Stawnychko","doi":"10.1002/jls.21916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21916","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study explores the link between formal training, experiential learning, mentorship, and the leadership development of department chairs at a Canadian university. Employing a framework analysis approach grounded in transformative learning theory, data from 17 semi-structured interviews revealed that formal training imparted essential knowledge and skills to new chairs. However, the training's influence on the chairs' development varied, depending on individual career stages and previous leadership experiences. Participants identified experiential learning as a vital element of their leadership development, with prior leadership roles providing a solid base for a successful transition. Mentorship emerged as a transformative instrument, offering timely developmental opportunities through exchanges with experienced leaders. The study concludes that strategically combining learning approaches can enhance institutional leadership capacity and facilitate faculty members' transition into department chair roles, particularly in the context of the post-COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing leadership crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 4","pages":"6-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.21916","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practice Opportunities in Peace Leadership Education","authors":"Trisha Gott","doi":"10.1002/jls.21907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21907","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The complexities in leadership challenges have evolved as have human conceptions of leadership. Advancing from a deepened understanding of human systems, leadership work pushes beyond a leader-centric model and to a new horizon that disrupts the leader–follower-dyad to focus on practice. A practice orientation—fully adopted by educators—can impact leadership work on peace, a pervasive, ongoing human challenge. Educators may lean on pedagogy from the scholarship of teaching and learning to pull from established practices for learning. Peace Leadership and Leadership-As-Practice (L-A-P) direct leadership educators toward practice work, offering practice as an approach to leadership work in the classroom.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"69-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143249540","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":"The Mutuality of Adaptive Leadership and Integral Peace Leadership","authors":"Tara Widner, Rod Smith","doi":"10.1002/jls.21906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21906","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peace leadership is an adaptive challenge, thus the authors demonstrate the mutuality that exists between Peace Leadership and Adaptive Leadership. The authors also argue that peace leaders would be more effective in mobilizing groups by utilizing both theories, and also demonstrate how it can be done in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"76-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252960","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":"Symposium on leadership competencies for peace leadership: An overview and invitation","authors":"Whitney McIntyre Miller","doi":"10.1002/jls.21913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"48-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252959","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":"Systems Thinking as a Critical Competency for Peace Leadership","authors":"Kate Sheridan, Rian Satterwhite","doi":"10.1002/jls.21911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21911","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Systems thinking is an essential leadership capacity, particularly in complex contexts like peacebuilding, which involves interdependent and evolving systems of communities, cultures, and political structures. This article explores the intersection of systems thinking with the Integral Peace Leadership Model (IPLM), examining how systems thinking can enhance peace leadership. Systems thinking, which focuses on the interrelationships and patterns within systems, provides a valuable framework for identifying leverage points and addressing complex, wicked problems in peacebuilding. By examining the four key domains of IPLM—Innerwork, Knowledge, Community, and Environment—the article demonstrates how systems thinking skills, including mindset, content, structure, and behavior, can deepen leaders’ understanding of peace processes and foster more effective, collective approaches to peacebuilding. The integration of systems thinking into peace leadership promotes a shift from command-and-control models to collaborative, community-driven strategies that reflect the dynamic, multifaceted nature of peace efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"105-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252825","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":"Social Network Competence for Peace Leadership","authors":"Caton Weinberger, Dorothy R. Carter","doi":"10.1002/jls.21914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21914","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social network approaches have been widely applied to understanding leadership, emphasizing the relational processes that influence group dynamics and effectiveness. Despite this extensive application, research integrating social network approaches with peace leadership remains limited. Social network approaches emphasize that individuals are embedded in webs of relationships that influence access to resources and shape individual and collective outcomes. The current article explores how social network concepts, theories, and methods can advance peace leadership by enabling a deeper understanding of conflict, informing targeted interventions, and promoting long-term social stability. We discuss how network analysis can diagnose conflict patterns and identify leverage points for intervention. We conclude with practical recommendations and future research directions for integrating social network approaches and peace leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"98-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.21914","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Peace Leadership","authors":"Vivechkanand Chunoo, Erich Schellhammer","doi":"10.1002/jls.21908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21908","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the integration of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) principles with peace leadership to address societal divisions and foster sustainable harmony. By defining DEIB concepts and their interconnectedness with social justice, the authors highlight their critical role in shaping inclusive leadership practices. Diversity is presented as the acknowledgment of social differences; equity as the provision of fair opportunities tailored to individual needs; inclusion as the transcending of barriers to build coalitions; and belonging as a reciprocal sense of community and purpose. Rooted in Johan Galtung's distinction between negative and positive peace, peace leadership is positioned as essential for addressing structural violence and envisioning equitable societies. Through historical examples such as Nelson Mandela's leadership in post-apartheid South Africa and the Northern Ireland peace process, the study underscores how DEIB-driven frameworks advance mutual respect, reduce systemic inequities, and promote reconciliation. The paper argues for a peace leadership model that addresses root causes of conflict by intertwining social justice and moral imperatives, aligning with ethical traditions and sustainable development goals. The authors propose peace leadership as a transformative force capable of uniting diverse communities under shared principles of justice and inclusivity. By adopting DEIB principles, peace leaders can navigate contemporary societal challenges and catalyze progress toward a more harmonious global society.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":"91-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252638","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}