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Self-leadership is a normative or prescriptive model of empowering employees. There is no single psychological theory … self-leadership research. They are filled with propositions that should encourage researchers to pursue this topic in more …
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Purpose – The papers published in this special issue demonstrate that the field of management can make important contributions to the knowledge about Hispanics and Latin Americans (HLAs) in the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative yet complementary perspective that...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use and misuse of swearing in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative methodology, the authors interviewed 52 lawyers, medical doctors and business executives in the UK, France and the USA. Findings In contrast to much of...
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Purpose – In light of increasing globalization of workforces, the purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating effect of country on the relationship between job resources and employee engagement. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire responses from 19,260 employees of a large...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between country of birth or ethnicity (cultural proxies) and career and parental role commitment, and whether or not that relationship is mediated by two psychological dimensions known to differ across Mexican and USA cultures....
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This article investigates the potential mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationships of leadership … leadership behavior with organizational commitment, job satisfaction and job performance in such a setting. Results suggest (in … support of many western studies) that those who perceive their superiors as adopting consultative or participative leadership …
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leadership behaviour have been extensively investigated in other fields, studies of these variables in the fire service …, particularly in Australia, are almost absent. This article examines links between job satisfaction and leadership behaviour in … aviation fire fighters. Fifty‐six fire fighters responded to the Job Descriptive Index and the Leadership Behaviour …
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boards. The paper investigates the fundamental difference between the exercise of leadership, management and political power …
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This article describes the importance of fitness (chiefly exercise) for top ranking executive leaders and for their respective organizations. The authors discuss how fitness can contribute to stamina, mental clarity, ability to cope with stress and a variety of other factors that can affect an...
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A framework is developed, and validated, that provides an insight into the role of leadership in transforming a loose … the team. Four distinct leadership “key roles” are identified: legitimate, social, task, and macro, which lead to the … identification of critical leadership issues that limit the speed with which loose groups transform into effective teams. This in …
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