This article explains why leadership-as-practice development (LAPD) is a preferred leadership development approach in the contemporary digital era. Rather than dwelling on generic leader competencies that may not apply to the setting, learning is brought into “lived” (not simulated)...

Fearing that our over-reliance on an individual, heroic model of leadership will only continue to dampen the energy and creativity of people in our organizations and communities, this essay proposes a practice perspective of leadership based on a collaborative agency mobilized through engaged...

Leadership has been widely studied worldwide, emphasizing changes that individuals with particular qualities achieve from the transformational and transactional. The objective is to evaluate the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership styles taking into account the...

We propose that individual differences in assertiveness play a critical role in perceptions of leaders. In contrast to prior work focused on linear effects, we argue that individuals seen as either markedly low or high in assertiveness are generally appraised as less effective leaders. Moreover,...

Leaders behaving like villains or anti-hero are most appalling in social as well as organizational contexts. On large number of occasions, high-handed behaviour of leaders remains unreported thus reinforcing dysfunctional leadership patterns at the cost of organizational success and employee...

Global leading and leadership are two of the most relevant topics in contemporary management literature, as shown by the scientific interest and the number of papers that reflect this topic from several different points of view. This paper's purpose was to review the current research and papers...