This paper seeks to find complementarities and make contributions to the field of organization development (OD) from the new field of leadership-as-practice (L-A-P), and in so doing, enhance the development of OD in practice. Rather than looking for leadership in people, especially in their...

The field of leadership-as-practice (L-A-P) is beginning to mature as a theory of leadership in direct opposition to standard leadership, which views the individual as the mainstay of leadership experience. Nor does it focus on the dyadic relationship between leaders and followers, which...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the case, firstly, that democratic leadership, referred to as “leaderful practice,” should be the fundamental form of leadership that characterizes participatory organizational change. The parties affected by change are those engaged who seek to...

Many applicants want a job with the possibility of telework. However, the literature is unclear on whether being explicit about this wish and the reason for it leads to negative consequences on hiring intentions. In this paper we therefore investigate how expressing a desire for telework, for...

Executives are increasingly facing various challenges associated with digitalisation, especially the simultaneous handling of many topics, loads of information flushing in via digital channels, rapid changes, and finding the right balance between the old and the new. Building on a growing body...

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to two employees. The manager has superior information about the employees' abilities. We show that besides an equilibrium where the manager does not discriminate, equilibria...

Am Beispiel deutschsprachiger BWL-Professoren wird untersucht, ob Führungspersonen, konkret Dekane, Prodekane und Vorsitzende von wissenschaftlichen Kommissionen des VHB, in der operativen Arbeit, hier der Forschung gemessen über Veröffentlichungen und Zitationen bei Google Scholar,...

Personalbeurteilungen sind ein wichtiges Führungsinstrument in Unternehmen. Da die Personalbeurteilungen von Personen durchgeführt werden, unterliegen die Beurteilungen auch subjektiven Einschätzungen. Bei der Durchführung von Personalbeurteilungen treten Verzerrungen auf, die teils...

Eine Auswertung der 16ten Welle des IW-Personalpanels aus dem Jahr 2017 dokumentiert die Verbreitung von internen Karriereleitern. In fast jedem zweiten Unternehmen wurden die zuletzt vakanten Führungspositionen ausschließlich aus den eigenen Reihen besetzt. In weiteren drei von zehn Betrieben...