Employee Responses to Empowering Leadership: A Meta-Analysis

Empowering Leadership, Uncertainty Avoidance, Trust, and Employee Creativity

This study was conducted in 2016 aimed to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity with regard to interaction effects and mediating mechanism. The population consists of 205 employees from the Nomadic affairs of Fars Province. In accordance with the Cochran formula, the sample size of 134 was calculated that were participa...

Gender and Leadership Style: A Meta-Analysis

Meta-Analysis of the Consequences of Ethical Leadership

Background: Ethical leadership has emerged as a new approach in the field of leadership and it has provided the foundation for creating and enhancing individual and organizational effectiveness by prioritizing ethics in the organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify the consequences of ethical leadership using a meta-analysis approach. Method: The present study is desc...

Ambidextrous leadership, ambidextrous employee, and the interaction between ambidextrous leadership and employee innovative performance

Leader opening and closing behaviors are assumed to foster high levels of employee exploration and exploitation behaviors, hence motivating employee innovative performance. Applying the ambidexterity theory of leadership for innovation, results revealed that leader opening and closing behaviors positively predicted employee exploration and exploitation behaviors, respectively, above and beyond ...

Facilitative Leadership: One Approach to Empowering Staff and Other Stakeholders

This article defines facilitative leadership as advocated by Roger Schwarz and describes the use of this relatively new leadership approach in a public library system. It lists and defines the four core values followed in Schwarz’s approach: valid information, free and informed choice, internal commitment, and compassion. It further describes the use of left-hand column cases as developed by Ch...