Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style

Hierarchical Level and Leadership Style

This research investigates the relationship between the hierarchical level of managerial personnel and individual differences in their leadership styles, specifically the degree to which they are disposed to the use of participative versus autocratic decision-making strategies. Analysis of self-report data collected from four different levels of managers suggests a greater propensity for use of...

Leader complexity and leadership style.

It was found that Fiedler's esteem for one's least preferred co-worker (LPC) scale was positively correlated with an individual's cognitive complexity. This hypothesis was supported in a variety of waya. The LPC score was correlated with a measure of cognitive complexity, similar to the scale used by Scott (1967). High LPC subjects also showed 1 more complex cognitions in making judgments about...

Coaching as a leadership style.

Robert F. Hicks is a licenced psychologist holding an appointment as Clinical Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas, Dallas (TX, USA). This book arose from his experience over three decades of teaching leadership and coaching skills to doctors and senior executives in health systems. The basic premise of this guide is that leadership an...

Leadership style of Nurse Managers

Leadership style is phenomenon which affects the productivity and quality nursing care. There is a lack of research studies in this area in Sri Lanka. The aim of this study was to examine the nurses’ perception about their nurse managers’ leadership style. The study sample comprised 160 nurses using simple random sampling. The research instruments were Demographic Data Recording Form and the Pe...

Gender and Leadership Style: A Meta-Analysis