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Observations ‐ Fit to lead: is fitness the key to effective executive leadership?

Neck, Christopher P.; Mitchell, T.L.; Manz, Charles C.; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 15 (2000) 8, pp. 833-841

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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Key roles of the leadership landscape

Sheard, A.G.; Kakabadse, A.P. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 2, pp. 129-144

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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Spirituality and leadership praxis

Korac‐Kakabadse, Nada; Kouzmin, Alexander; Kakabadse, … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 3, pp. 165-182

Spirituality is a long‐neglected dimension in the leadership issue as it is in the psychological contract implicit in … upon and a burgeoning literature on personal meaning and transformative leadership. This paper reviews leadership praxis …

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Fitness and leadership: is there a relationship?

McDowell‐Larsen, Sharon L.; Kearney, Leigh; Campbell, … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 4, pp. 316-324

The purpose of this research was to determine how regular exercise impacted leadership scores on two multi …‐rater leadership assessment instruments – the Executive Success Profile® (ESP), and the Campbell Leadership Index TM (CLI). Since 1997 …, data have been collected from over 600 senior‐level executives attending Leadership at the Peak, a five‐day course at the …

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The effects of managerial influence behavior on the transition to self‐directed work teams (SDWTs)

Douglas, Ceasar - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 7, pp. 628-635

A growing number of organizations are adopting self‐directed work teams (SDWTs), but many firms experience trouble with the transition – the time needed for SDWT development. The addition of a SDWT represents a change in the organization and requires that managers adjust their use of...

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The revised self‐leadership questionnaire

Houghton, Jeffery D.; Neck, Christopher P. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 8, pp. 672-691

Despite the popularity and potential of self‐leadership strategies in modern organizations, no acceptably valid and … reliable self‐leadership assessment scale has heretofore been developed. The present study tests the reliability and construct … validity of a revised self‐leadership measurement scale created on the basis of existing measures of self‐leadership. Results …

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An exploration of the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership potential

Higgs, Malcolm; Aitken, Paul - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 18 (2003) 8, pp. 814-823

of leadership potential are borne out. The paper reports the results of an exploratory study of a leadership development … the relationships between EI and leadership potential asserted from both a theoretical standpoint and from other studies … of leadership performance. The limitations of sample size are clearly identified. The results do however, indicate that …

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Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring out Leadership in Everyone

Chilton, Scott - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 19 (2004) 2, pp. 188-191

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The oxymoron of control in an era of globalisation

Bijlsma‐Frankema, Katinka; Koopman, Paul - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 19 (2004) 3, pp. 204-217

In response to developments around as well as within organisations, managers are faced with a control‐commitment dilemma. A new rationality of governance has emerged besides the well‐known rationality of bureaucratic control. This new set of governance strategies, which is presented under...

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The relationship between self‐leadership and personality

Houghton, Jeffery D.; Bonham, T.W.; Neck, Christopher P.; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 19 (2004) 4, pp. 427-441

This study examined the relationship between self‐leadership and personality through an analysis and comparison of … hierarchical factor structures of self‐leadership and personality. Model fit increased significantly through a progression of … models that reflected increasingly greater distinction between self‐leadership skill dimensions and key personality traits …

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