Purpose – This research has the purpose of examining whether personality preferences and type from the Myers … of field research, using 6,124 managers undergoing leadership development processes. Survey methodology was used to … psychometrics may be viewed as a limitation, and other personality theories like “The Big Five” could be used. Limitations of the …

Purpose – Organizations often fail to utilize managerial personnel effectively for leadership development and … responsibility for leadership development away from line managers. The purpose of this article is to present a best practices model … for optimal development of the leadership pipeline and a series of practical recommendations for organizations. Design …

Purpose – This paper aims to argues that effective and well‐designed leadership development can help successful …‐designed leadership development initiatives and how those relate to the ethical issues and problems posed as “successful” managers move … qualitative analysis of data on learning and goals set and achieved as part of an international leadership development programme …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a meta leadership style, awakened leadership (AL), as the most … chooses as its subject organizational leadership. The study presents results form verbal interviews carried out on the topic …. It also presents: a literature review on existing leadership theories; an explanation and definition of AL; the elements …

Purpose – Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership (SL) model is widely utilised, but it has limited empirical … validity of aspects of the SL model, principally that successful leadership interactions would vary systematically according to …

Purpose – In this paper, the authors act as leadership development coaches who show that how a story is constructed … turn, these relationships create leadership development opportunities. The authors also explain why some people need to … leadership development. The purpose of the paper is to describe further the origins of storytelling and storyselling and their …

/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a two‐step design process. First, modern day leadership archetypes characterizing Maoist and … three practical implications for management and leadership development: the importance of integrating the concept of paradox … into management and leadership development curricula; the provision of illustrative alternatives to western world …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to place the growing body of research on leadership self‐efficacy in context for … leadership self‐efficacy for leaders who seek to improve their effectiveness. It uses a case study to illustrate how a leader can … skills. Practical implications – The paper seeks to provide practitioners with useful strategies to improve their leadership …