Purpose – The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between perceived leadership styles and telecommuter … relationship between perceived leadership styles and telecommuter intent to leave an organization. In all, three leadership styles … <0.001) suggesting the more a leader demonstrates a transformational leadership style, the more a telecommuter wants to …

Purpose – Although leaders and followers are both essential elements within the leadership process, there has been … research in the studies of followership, leadership, and the follower/leader relationship through the examination of the … relationship between followers’ perception of quality of relationship with their leaders and followers’ preferred leadership style …

This special issue of The Leadership &Organizational Development Journal adoptsas its theme, ''Public sector leadership … organizationshighlights a need, more than ever before, foreffective leadership …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the construct of confidence in top leadership and to develop a brief … assessing the confidence of organizational members in their top leadership. Originality/value – This study supports a concept …, confidence in top leadership, that as a followership variable, can be used to identify if top leadership has the support of its …

Australian managers’ preferences for situational leadership styles and perceived effectiveness were compared, using … both “self” and “other” ratings on Blanchard’s latest model. Overall, supervisors and senior/middle managers preferred … their managers’ focus on supportive preferences effective (using Blanchard’s definition of effectiveness). Comparison of …

Leaders and managers often are asked to take positions on various issues that reflect the needs or particular agendas … differing perspectives on and differing expectations of the leader’s or manager’s decisions or actions. The latter, in turn … conundrums leaders and managers face when beset by conflicting needs or purposes of others who have realistic or unrealistic …

theories of leadership served as a primary basis on this direction. The choice of a specific version of his/her supervisory …

effective command, leadership and management in the Royal Navy. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire study was … questionnaire (OPQ) and the relatively new leadership dimensions questionnaire (LDQ). Findings – The results provide support for the … RN's current integrated approach to command, leadership and management by identifying four “supra‐competency” clusters …

implications for the ways in which managers are selected and trained to provide leadership in organizations. Orginality/value – The …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a positive and functional attributional model of leadership, using … both leadership perceptions and leadership effectiveness as criteria. Drawing from cognitive complexity theory, and …

excellence in leadership. Findings – From the three ethnic groups, 512 managers participated in the research. The findings … suggest that Malaysian managers maintain distinctive leadership behaviour along ethnic lines and a Malaysian leadership …. This paper sets out to explore the contribution of the three main ethnic groups to leadership in Malaysia. Design …