Matching leadership to circumstances? A vignette study of leadership behavior adaptation in an ambiguous context

Tweeting Authentic Leadership: social Media in a Leadership Context

Twitter, as a specific social media platform, is a means of communication that is easy to track, requires simple language, short and clear messages, and is constantly occurring, thereby making it an excellent means to communicate leadership and track its effect. Authentic leadership in its most essential form requires communication of values, establishing connected relationships, and demonstrat...

Implicit Leadership Theories: A Qualitative Study in an Iranian Organization

This research aims at discovering the traits and abilities which characterize ideal leaders in the minds of employees in an Iranian context. After employing the strategy of phenomenology to reach the components of ideal leadership, 15 tenured middle managers and employees possessing decent management knowledge in the context were interviewed and after theme analysis, global, basic, and organizi...

Exploring Leadership Influence Behaviors in the Context of Behavior Settings

This paper discusses the concept of the behavior setting as applied to questions of structure and agency in coming to terms with the influence aspects of leadership. It suggests that the relationship between leader– follower behavior and the organizations in which they are embedded is similar to the paradoxical relationship of agency and structure in social theory. A brief discussion of agency/...

A Study of Effective Leadership in the Chinese Context

Leadership and Innovation: Relating to Circumstances and Change

Innovation is one of those words that we all use, agree is a positive thing and for the most part want more of. However, the term “innovation” like “leadership” seems to defy a commonly accepted definition. There is no shared interpretation of what we mean or what we are observing when we use the terms. Moreover, we lack practices for deliberately and consistently producing “leadership” and “in...