Behoefte aan leiderschap in organisaties: wie heeft het en waarom?

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout E. de Vries ◽  
Robert A. Roe ◽  
Tharsi C.B. Taillieu ◽  
Nico J.M. Nelissen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
De Vries ◽  
Relative Prevalence

Who needs leadership in organizations and why? Who needs leadership in organizations and why? Reinout E. de Vries, Robert A. Roe, Tharsi C.B. Taillieu & Nico J.M. Nelissen, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 17, June 2004, nr. 3, pp. 204-226. Leadership literature most often deals with the leader and his/her effects on the performance and attitudes of employees. In contrast with these so-called leader-centred models, the follower-centred 'need for leadership' model focuses on the employee and his/her needs and wishes towards the leadership role. The model proposes that leadership effects are dependent on an employee's actual need for leadership. This article reviews the research on the effects of need for leadership on various individual and organizational leadership outcomes. Additionally, results of studies on the relative prevalence of various leadership needs – leadership functions that employees do and do not need – and predictors of need for leadership are presented. In particular, the article addresses the extent to which need for leadership is based on situational context or personal characteristics of the employee. Based on the findings presented here, the following is concluded: a) employees most strongly need a leader's 'connecting' function (to arrange things with higher management and to pass on information), b) leaders may have a different perception of employees' need for leadership than employees themselves, and c) need for leadership is mainly predicted by personal characteristics of employees, such as age, education, expertise and personality, and by the perceived style of the leader him-/herself.

scholarly journals Sexual Orientation and the Canadian Labour Movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Canadian Labour Congress

The response of the Canadian labour movement to sexual orientation discrimination has been mixed and uneven. The Canadian Labour Congress, along with several provincial federations and a grouping number of unions, have taken a leadership role in promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians, while other labour organizations have done nothing at all. Public sector and Canadian based unions are much more likely to have been active than have American-based unions, even though there are important exceptions to these trends. These developments are partially explained by regional dynamics, membership demographics, degree of activism, the presence of women's committees, and organizational leadership.

Leadership Role as a Deterrent Within International Conflict Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-155
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
International Security ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Epistemological Understanding ◽  
Over Time

Over time, political and social theorists have struggled to understand the constructive pathways of preventing, mediating, and transitioning societies away from conflict toward sustainable peace. The thread linking leadership with transitional justice instruments is the ontological and epistemological understanding of how to direct judicial strategies toward deterring interstate and intrastate violent activities. In today's environment, the emerging study of transitional justice is recognized as a staple for nation-building, democratic reform, and peacebuilding. This chapter addresses leadership and its role in the transitional justice system. Moreover, this presentation provides a leadership model for transitional justice practitioners as a means to influence deterrence measures and as a potential resolution of today's global judicial challenges with long-term international security implications.

Organizational leadership role in the delivery of sustainable construction projects in UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Opoku ◽  
Heather Cruickshank ◽  
Vian Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
Sustainability Practices

Purpose – Sustainable construction project delivery should be supported by committed and inspirational leadership, with a clear understanding of the sustainability challenge. Construction organizations need intra-organizational leadership that provides the collective vision, strategy and direction towards the shared common goal of a sustainable future. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of intra-organizational leadership within UK construction organizations charged with the promotion of sustainability practices. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a mixed method approach with qualitative data collected through semi-structured interview with 15 leaders, followed by an industry-wide survey of 200 intra-organizational leaders in contractor and consultant organizations in the UK construction industry. Findings – The analysis of the data revealed that, the most important role of intra-organizational leadership in promoting sustainable construction practices is to formulate policies, implement procedures and disseminate best practices throughout the organization . Originality/value – Nothing has been written on intra-organizational leadership role in promoting sustainability practices in the construction industry. Although leadership and sustainability has been widely covered as separate issues this study provides the empirical evidence of the link between leadership and sustainability in construction.

Organizational Leadership: Motives and Behaviors of Leaders in Current Organizations

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Martí ◽  
Francisco Gil ◽  
Angel Barrasa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Organizational leadership is fundamental for the working and development of current organizations. It helps members of an organization to face transcendental challenges. One of the fundamental aspects of leaders is their personal characteristics and behaviour as perceived by their co-workers. Although research has established a relationship between these components, findings have failed to come up with any congruent evidence and further to this the organizations and contexts used are from several decades ago.This article, which forms part of the international GLOBE project, analyses the relationship between motives and behaviour as perceived by co-workers in organizations, using quantitative and qualitative methods and including technological innovations. Using samples from 40 corporate directors and 84 of their co-workers, from different companies, it confirms how the main motives of leaders (power, affiliation and achievement) are related to different behavioral patterns (power to authoritarian, non-dependent and non-social-skill behaviours; affiliation to relationship and dependent behaviors, and achievement to proactive behaviors). It discusses the results with relation to traditional research and suggests practical measures and proposals for future investigations in this area.

Cross cultural consensus: development of the universal leadership model

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Paul Jones ◽  
Jewon Lyu ◽  
Rodney Runyan ◽  
Ann Fairhurst ◽  
Youn-Kyung Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Leadership Success ◽  
Expatriate Management ◽  
Expatriate Managers

Purpose – Retailers have demonstrated mixed results during international expansions. However, home market saturation and the economic climate are forcing more and more retailers to look beyond their borders for revenue. A critical participant in the internationalizing effort is the expatriate manager. Unfortunately the literature is unclear and at times conflicted over how to select and prepare expatriate management for their leadership role. Therefore, this study was designed with the purpose of uncovering various factors which may lead to expatriate retail management success. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the lack of unanimity in the literature this study adopted a qualitative research methodology in order to develop some consensus regarding successful expatriate leadership attributes. Grounded theory was employed utilizing extensive in-depth interviews as the primary data gathering and analysis tools. Findings – A multi-dimensional construct emerged from the data requiring all dimensions to be utilized for a successful retail expatriate assignment. The construct of “Universal Leadership”, is proposed as formative, comprised of reflective sub-dimensions; Ability, Adaptability, Ambassadorship, and Awareness (Self), which we refer to as the Four A's, for successful expatriate management assignments. Several propositions are put forward as suggestions for future research in the use of the universal leadership model for both selection and training of retail expatriate managers. Originality/value – The study develops a theoretical platform for expatriate leadership success allowing for cultural and business variation. Awareness is introduced as a critical attribute in achieving success as an expatriate success. The universal leadership model proposes attributes beneficial for training and also selection which is critically under examined in the literature.

scholarly journals Lederskapets kirkelighet. En integrert modell for verdibevisst kirkelig ledelse

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Harald Askeland
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Church Management ◽  
Managerial Leadership ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Management And Leadership

The chapter argues that in order to develop an understanding of the specific nature of church management and leadership, there is a need for reconceptualizing the relationship of these terms. Through an elaboration of research on managerial work and institutional leadership work, and empirically grounded research on the mundane work of leaders, the chapter describes an integrated model of church management and leadership. The model bridges and integrates functional managerial leadership role models and institutional leadership. What distinguishes a church management and leadership model, compared to general models, lies partly in a relational instead of a competitive relation to community as context and partly in the values and faith it conveys. Thus, one important managerial leadership role is that of mediator between organization and community context; another is the role of institutional leadership relating to purpose, values and identity.

scholarly journals LEADERSHIP PSYCHOSEMANTIC CONSTRUCTS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUTH: GENDER DIMENSION

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-101
Author(s):  
L. Zahrai ◽  
O. Fedoruk
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Transformation Model ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Model Formation

The paper focuses on the problem of leadership. The gender’s specificity issue of leadership is being analyzed. The transformational leadership model of the justification is presented. The purpose of the article is to perceive the «leader» students concept in the picture of the world in gender’s context. Different leadership theories are analyzed. Three key approaches to leadership interpretation are particularly described: personality features, situation interaction, behavior. The modern leadership theories are analyzed. These theories are methodological basis for transformational leadership model formation. Indicators of the transformation model are being differentiated: interaction with the followers, but not the subordinates; the followers goals transformation; stimulation of their self-development and their result achievements. The research methodology for the students leadership concept is described. The methods applied: uncompleted sentences; psychosemantic differential. While considering the picture of the world, the «leadership» concept content among most students is masculine. Leadership concept includes characteristics such as: dominance, power, success and the ability to be the first and to lead. Personal characteristics in particular emotional and voluntary self-regulation, organizational, mental abilities, moral and communicative features are not important. Gender specificity in the students «leadership» concept content is differentiated. The psychosemantic constructions of power-dominated relations, competition and domination are dominated in the men. The key characteristics of the psychosemantic content of women’s leadership models are the ability to lead, success and dominance. The stereotyped level of the leadership model formation is typical for most students.  

scholarly journals Leadership pathways for local women: Case studies of three communes in Cambodia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tem Ly
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Local Work ◽  
Local Leaders

<p>Women in leadership are necessary for the development of Cambodia. Their involvement in leadership roles in the public sphere and politics is crucial and has been shown to impact positively on poverty reduction. Governments, NGOs and international organizations have been increasingly aware that development is significantly linked to gender. It is noted that sustainable development should focus on gender equality and that women’s empowerment is a key factor in ending extreme poverty. Thus, a developing country like Cambodia should aim to empower women at the grassroots level. This study aims to facilitate how this may be achieved.  The lack of representation of women in local politics in Cambodia has recently been considered as a problem which can slow the progress of local development. This study uses case studies to understand the complexity of some women’s real-life situations (life experience, behaviours, and emotions) and to explore the patterns of women becoming leaders at local levels. Three communes in the North-Eastern provinces, Kampong Cham, Kratie and Steung Treng provide the empirical base of the study. The study poses three main research questions: firstly, what type of work, personal characteristics and resources influence women to become local leaders? Secondly, what experiences do female local leaders have? Lastly, what can be learned from women’s backgrounds and experiences to assist in the formation of a practical leadership model to help guide other women aspiring to be local leaders? In answering this last research question, the study concludes by offering a practical leadership model that is intended to help increase women’s participation in local politics.  This study found that to achieve leadership, women need to build up their local work experience. Secondly, certain personal characteristics need to be developed, including a minimum education level, personal drive, confidence, gentleness, softness, integrity and friendliness. These internal factors gain people’s trust, acknowledgement and support. Lastly, women need the continuing support of government, NGOs, family, villagers and others, including political parties. Greater opportunities for women to get involved in local politics will enable them to have access to local work experience, so they can build their own capacity, and enrich their education. The findings will assist organisations and women to plan for leadership and to create and make the most of opportunities.</p>

Chief Executive Success in the Legislative Arena

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Robertson Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Executive Leadership ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Leadership Success

American chief executives are popularly believed to play a crucial leadership role in the legislative process, but this role is not well understood by scholars. This article develops a model of executive leadership success in the legislative arena based on personal, institutional, political, and economic factors and tests that model with data on the legislative priorities of the 50 state governors in 1993–94. Institutional features of the executive, which have been the focus of much scholarship, are found to have little effect on a governor's legislative success. On the other hand, the nature of the legislature is quite important here, with more professional legislatures actually encouraging executive leadership. A governor's personal characteristics, political party, and a state's economy also influence a governor's legislative success. These findings point to the importance of examining chief executives in the context in which they work if we are to understand their role as legislative leader.

Learning Leadership and Decision-making from Literature

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sampat P Singh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Great Breadth ◽  
Passionate Commitment ◽  
Role Demands

To provide the 21st century world with leaders of great breadth and versatility and understanding is a big challenge. Leadership role demands perspectives, worldviews, and beliefs; a passionate commitment to some values, ends, or, ultimate purposes balanced by a sense of responsibility and proportion that depends on listening to others, maintaining humility, and a sense of humour. One can dig into classical literature and obtain significant insights into content and process of leadership and decision-making. The available material is vast. How do we select relevant pieces of literature, interpret them, and relate them to problems of organizational leadership and decision-making? These are questions which have no simple heuristic answers. They involve a continuous life-long process somewhat like the case method. The approach has to be illustrative. This paper attempts to explain this new trend in business education.

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